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Rogues gallery
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Rogues gallery is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes.
In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton devised the Rogues’ Gallery[citation needed] — a compilation of descriptions, methods of operation, hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates.
Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the late 19th century New York City Police Department popularized the term with his collection of photographs of known criminals, which was used for witness identification. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886).
Rogues Gallery was the name of an old-time radio program that aired in the 1940s.[1]
An album was released in 2006 as a tie-in with the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl under the name of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys.
Rogues gallery is also a term in comics referring to a specific hero or superhero's recurring and most notable enemies, as opposed to nameless thugs and goons.
Rogues' Gallery is also the name of a weekly podcast hosted by Frans Keylard that features new progressive rock music on The Dividing Line. The Rogues' Gallery has been broadcasting since May of 2003 and has become of the most popular progressive rock podcasts on the Internet. [1]