Webfrom the museum at the metropolitan police heritage centre uk: “from 1862, copies of photographs of criminals taken by prison governors were sent to. Webbyrne also began assembling his famous “rogues’ gallery”—a collection of photographs, identifying features and modus operandi for the city’s known and. Webthis paper demonstrates, from the field of visual culture and with a historical semantic consideration of the advent of police portraiture in the united states, that. Weba rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used. Webmug shots and daily lineups helped witnesses point out culprits; The famed rogues' gallery allowed police to track repeat offenders;