{"id":9862,"date":"2018-02-06T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2018-02-06T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:56:33","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-fingerprints\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives &amp; Special Collections: Fingerprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/Jan31_archives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9863\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/Jan31_archives.jpg\" alt=\"Jan31_archives\" width=\"226\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Looking to learn a little bit about fingerprinting between your classes or errands? Ron Thom has got you covered! President Emeritus Ron Thomas donated a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/president-ronald-r-thomas-collection\/\">collection of his favorite books<\/a> to the Archives &amp; Special Collections upon his retirement, and one of the books is <em>Practical Fingerprinting <\/em>by B.C. Bridges. In this book you can discover a little more about the history of the fingerprint identification process. You can learn terms like \u201cRadial Loop\u201d or my personal favorite, the \u201cExceptional Arch\u201d to describe attributes of fingerprints. President Emeritus Thomas was specifically interested in the history of criminology in the Victorian Era. At this time the modern police force was emerging, identification technology was becoming more advanced, and detective stories were booming. President Emeritus Thomas wrote in his essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/files\/resources\/ronthomas-presidential-collection.pdf\">Literature is Everything<\/a>\u201d,that these phenomena were all \u201cforms of storytelling, too, about the very nature of individuals during a time of dramatic social change\u201d<em>. <\/em>The book collection also contains many other criminology books such as <em>Crime: It\u2019s Causes and Remedies <\/em>by Cesare Lombroso and <em>Criminal Sociology <\/em>by Enrico Ferri. Come to the Archives and Special Collections and explore a bit of the history of criminology!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/archives\/\">Archives &amp; Special Collections<\/a> is open on Monday &#8211; Thursday from 10:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Laure Mounts<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to learn a little bit about fingerprinting between your classes or errands? Ron Thom has got you covered! President Emeritus Ron Thomas donated a collection of his favorite books to the Archives &amp; Special Collections upon his retirement, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-fingerprints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}