When were photos first put on wanted posters?

When were photos first put on wanted posters? B.R. Fleenor Springfield, Tennessee In the classic era of the Old West—1870s and 1880s—most reward posters were just handbills or postcards sent to law enforcement officials with printed descriptions of the wanted men. No photos—although an exception was made in the case of the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln. The idea of photos on reward posters came around the turn of the 20th century when photo reproduction technology got be