The potential of the «police» photo as a historical source and a museum piece (through the example of the revealed complex of profiles of the polish exiled in the Turukhansk territory)

The article presents the analysis of «a photo collection of the Polish exiled of the Turukhansk Territory in 1908-1912» which accompanied the stateyny lists of political criminals. The collection contains 68 pictures taken at the time of the departure of the criminals to the exile. For the beginning of the XX century the photo is a unique source, which allows imagining the appearance of a criminal (hairstyle, clothes) and correlating it to their social status. As a result some «Problematic points» are revealed, for example, the issue of the representativeness and «scales» of the collection, which need further studying.