Before it's too late

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I wonder if Abberline's dossier is in there.

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Pinkerton's goes back to 1850 and as far as 1843 if you count Allan's brother Robert's railroad detective company.

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I would also assume that the papers are already in some sort of order.

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I would assume that it's a pretty substantial mass of paper.

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G'Day Stan

I really don't know but I imagine eventually they will.

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I hope all that has been indexed or at least will be.

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G'Day Stan

I do know that in about 2000 or 2001 Pinkerton's donated a lot of paperwork to the Library (Either National Library or Library of Congress). It was about the time they were taken over.

GUT

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I expect it was before the 1890s.

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I don't even know when Pinkerton's went international.

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I wonder when Abberline first came into contact with Pinkerton's.

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Well back then, private detectives were more glamorous. Now, I think of them mostly sitting in vans trying to get pictures of cheating wives or husbands.

Or, sifting the internet for dirt.

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I think 1965 is sort of seen as the beginning the modern era too. It was the year modern rock totally replaced all that came before and the year that the sexual revolution replaced the baby boom because the pill first became generally available as well as the end of the death penalty ending in Britain. The early 60s were a lot more like the late 50s than they were like the late 60s. Apparently WWII threw everything off by half a decade.

The decades got back in sync in 1980. Thankfully, the Disco-Jimmy Carter "decade" could only last for 5 years.

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I think 1965 is sort of seen as the beginning the modern era too. It was the year modern rock totally replaced all that came before and the year that the sexual revolution replaced the baby boom because the pill first became generally available as well as the end of the death penalty ending in Britain.

Also, the legal end to racial segregation here in the U.S.

[Fisherman]

Yes, even Jack the Ripper started one. On The Strand apparently.

... and a grand agency that was!

Fisherman

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I think 1965 is sort of seen as the beginning the modern era too. It was the year modern rock totally replaced all that came before and the year that the sexual revolution replaced the baby boom because the pill first became generally available as well as the end of the death penalty ending in Britain. The early 60s were a lot more like the late 50s than they were like the late 60s. Apparently WWII threw everything off by half a decade.