Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

272 c   (FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION) G-men archive of 145 physical and crime scene investigation training photographs. With documentary-style images capturing various methods of combat, such as martial arts and drive-by shooting with automatic weapons; investigative techniques, from bullet and blood analysis to fingerprinting, crime scene examinations, and mugshot filing; and pictures of top guns, including J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau’s first director. Silver prints, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, each with a detailed caption in the negative, and an Official F.B.I. hand stamp on verso. Circa 1939 [1,200/1,800]