20 Photos of the History of the FBI, Part 1: The Birth of the Organization

Union Square Socialist Convention for the Unemployed crowds 1908. ephemeralnewyork

Model T assembly line in the Ford Factory In 1908. The Model T forever changed crime and police work. Pinterest

Charles Bonaparte, founder of the FBI. Fonderia USA

Stanley Finch, the first Director of the FBI, July 26, 1908- April 30, 1912. FBI

One of the first special agents credentials, dated November 22, 1909. FBI

The Bureau’s first home, the Department of Justice building at 1435 K Street in N.W. Washington, D.C. FBI

James Robert Mann 1909. The Mann Act, passed in 1910, made t a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose. The Mann Act investigations were the first official FBI investigations. Wikimedia

George Woodward Wickersham. Finch’s successor as FBI director. dingeengoete

Born in Ohio in 1868, Alaska P. Davidson was 54 years old when she became a the FBI’s first female Special Agent. In the 1920s, she was one of three women, including Jessie Duckstein and Lenore Houston, who served as FBI agents. Pinterest