#detective agency.

[scotianostra]

On July 1st 1884 Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish-born detective, died.

Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow in Scotland in 1819. A cooper by trade he was active in the Chartist movement as a young man. Disillusioned by the failure to win universal suffrage, Pinkerton emigrated to the United States.

Pinkerton settled in Chicago and became a deputy-sheriff. In 1852 he formed the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The first detective agency in the United States, it solved a series of train robberies. In 1861 the agency was given the task of guarding Abraham Lincoln. While in Baltimore, while on the way to the inauguration, Pinkerton foiled a plot to assassinate the president.

In April 1861 Pinkerton, on the suggestion of General George B. McClellan, organised a system of obtaining military information in the Southern states. From this system he developed the US Secret Service, of which he was in charge throughout the war, under the assumed name of Major E. J. Allen.

One of his detectives, James McParlan, in 1873-76 lived among the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania and secured evidence which led to the breaking up of the criminal organisation. In 1869 Pinkerton suffered a partial stroke of paralysis, and thereafter the management of the detective agency devolved chiefly upon his sons, William Allan and Robert.

He published The Molly Maguires and the Detectives, The Spy of the Rebellion, in which he gave his version of President-elect Lincoln’s journey to Washington; and a memoir, Thirty Years a Detective. Pinkerton died in Chicago on the 1st of July 1884.

The second picture shows Allen Pinkerton with Abraham Lincoln and was captured by another Scot, Paisley man Alexander Gardner.

[kwadlayns]

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

[scarlibis]

The number of scarily accurate textpost memes you can make with these mfs is insane

[lady-disdain221b]

The Cat King: I am SUCH a romantic lsnswks☺️

Charles: Hold my beer

[eyepatchcrow]

absolutely enamoured with edwin and niko’s friendship. they are so perfectly on the opposite ends of the same scale that they loop back around to being exactly the same. same weirdness different fonts. true tism4tism bestie rep i adore them

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

the fact that Edwin lived in the early 1900s is a fantastic source of comedic potential. he's just constantly saying things that he doesn't realise are completely batshit insane, and the others are just left utterly floored.

like they're all talking and Crystal mentions she's tried cocaine once on a wild night out, and Edwin, who used to get that shit medically prescribed at the drop of a hat is like ??? okay?? hope you felt better, it always used to help me when I had a cold too :) Charles why are you laughing?

[childofposiden71]

If supernatural can have 15 seasons then Dead boy dectives can have two. So watch. Rewatch tell your friends. Watch it through a thousand times. END THE CANCELLATION STREAK

[leahaart]

They are so mystery gang coded, someone get these kids a dog

[yelsapo]

Loved when Edwin was like "There's nothing we can do, every time I try to run it chases and kills me again" and then Charles goes "Well yeah but now you have me and this BOMB" and promptly chucks a lit molotov at the spider demon

[kermit-coded]

edwin being catnip for a bunch of gayass supernatural entities is fucking hilarious. his victorian sensibilities and autistic mannerisms have bewitched them.

[carebeardean]

do you ever think about how this was the first time Edwin laughed in 70 years. or are you normal

[alexxuun]

Every one adores you, at least I do.

[emeriart]

He's just a dead boy detective

[shininas-ideals]

Glad Fyodor's finally dead, everyone's alive and we can go back to solving cases and flirting fighting with the PM :D

[lovetositinsilence]

a moment for themselves

[samsayswhatever]

I love that their office in Port Townsend was just an ironing board