J. Edgar Hoover Signed Letter FBI Director 1930s - Instructional Booklet For Sale

Included in this lot: • The Hoover-signed FBI letter, professionally double-matted and framed • Original companion booklet: \"How to Take Fingerprints — Also Article Concerning the Civil Identification Section,\" Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice • Original loose FBI notice dated February 12, 1936, superseding text on page 8 of the booklet regarding acknowledgment of personal identification fingerprintsThis grouping documents the FBI\'s Depression-era Civil Identification Section, the voluntary personal-fingerprinting program the Bureau ran for civilians in the 1930s. Hoover material from this early period, tied directly to a specific Bureau program and paired with the original supporting literature, is scarcer than his later-era signed items.