Unidentified photographer / artist 1882 555. During the year but little has been done in photographing criminals - Lower Provinces of the Bengal Residency
Book page Google Books Published in "Report of the state of Police in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency For the year 1881" by J. Monro (Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1882), p.112, paragraph 555.
555. During the year but little has been done in photographing criminals. I had reserved the major part of my grant for the special purpose of having all Burwars in their villages photographed. I offered to share the expense of having this done with the North-Western police; but when I discovered that the experiment was to be undertaken solely at my expense, no portion of the cost being defrayed by the North-Western police, I withdrew from the arrangement. I am now in correspondence with New York photographers regarding an inexpensive method of taking likenesses, which I hope to put in force during the present year. The stock of photographs ending 31st December 1881 is as follows:
