The Museum will virtually bring to your homes a selection of photographs coming from our archive. Every week you will discover new images.
Mugshots of Chilean women prisoners, late 19th early 20th century.
Unidentified photographer, silver gelatin prints on cardboard, pasted into an accordion photo album.
Gallery of nine photographs of Chilean women convicted of murder, part of a series of 108 images of Chilean men and women detainees pasted into two accordion-type albums.
These photographs testify for the diffusion of Lombroso’s theories in South America. Although Lombroso never went to the American continent, his daughter Gina with her husband Guglielmo Ferrero and the criminologist Enrico Ferri visited South America in different occasions where they promoted Lombroso’s theories through public meetings and conferences.