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    What evidence are you looking for? (There seems to be a lot of evidence that the images are genuine, but not so much evidence for whether the silhouette is based off the mugshot, other than what you might assume by looking at them.)
    – Laurel
    Commented Sep 25, 2020 at 14:00
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    Did the police in 1977 use color photography for mugshots?
    – fraxinus
    Commented Sep 26, 2020 at 6:42
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    +1 for having something on this site that's not pouring gas on a conspiracy theory linked to hate movements
    – R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE
    Commented Sep 28, 2020 at 13:25
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    @fraxinus Why would they not? Kodak had been selling colour film for 20 years by that point. But if you doubt the authenticity of that extremely famous photo, that would be worthy of a separate question.
    – IMSoP
    Commented Sep 28, 2020 at 14:42
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    @fraxinus ... Kodak had been the subject of an antitrust action in the 1950s, after which color photography became much less expensive in the US. Certainly for consumer snapshot photography black and white film was uncommon by the mid seventies. It's not surprising that some departments switched to color before 1977.
    – phoog
    Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 5:51