Police Collection

James Cagney In "Angels W/Dirty Faces"
(Original Caption) James Cagney in a scene from the 1938 Warner Brothers film, "Angels With Dirty Faces."

Boston Police Grapple with Students
(Original Caption) 4/10/1969-Cambridge, MA- Police officer (r) holds blood-splattered student as officers grapple with another student (l) early 4/10

Peace Demonstrators and Military Police at Protest
Peace protesters taunt a line of soldiers with the military police during an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the Pentagon in Washington DC

Jailor and Two Sexy Women in a Jail Cell

Humour comment The New Police Act 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated November 1st, 1829

Police Take Fugitive Slave To Boat
(Original Caption) Boston, MA- Boston police and night watch conveying the Fugitive Slave Act, Thomas Sims, to the vessel which took him to Savannah, GA. 1851 ORIGINAL CAPTION

New York City Police officers pose in front of the 20th Precinct Station

Horse Drawn Police Wagon
(Original Caption) 1886-Horse drawn police wagon used by the New York City Police Department. 1886

Fire and Police Forces Training for Air Raids
Policemen and firefighters from New Jersey train with gas masks during a practice fire. They are training to fight fires caused by possible Axis air raids

Police In/Around Makeshift Car/Gun Carri
(Original Caption) Boston, MA: Boston Police force in makeshift "motorized" machine gun carrier, supervisors look on. The vehicle was used in Boston during May Day riots

Large Illegal Still Captured
(Original Caption) Prohibition: Washington, DC: One of the lagrest illegal stills discovered in Washington, DC

Line Of Marching Policemen In Village
(Original Caption) Cornwall, England- A posse of police from Cardiff and its district have been drafted into Cornwall to guard the china clay pits in the St

Carlo Gambino
Gangster Carlo Gambino in a mug shot

Roosevelt Children At White House
(Original Caption) Washington, DC: White house children. Archie and Quentin Roosevelt attending roll call of White House Police. Undated Photograph

Policeman Stops Traffic In Street
(Original Caption) London policeman stopping traffic. Undated photo, circa 1900

Charlie Chaplin In Movie Scene
(Original Caption) Charlie Chaplin in "City Lights." United Artists movie still. Made in U.S.A

Blind Man Watches Baseball Game
(Original Caption) A Baseball Miricle: Cartoon showing man wearing "I am blind" signwatching baseball game through hole in the fence

A Old Time Movie Comedy Sketch
(Original Caption) Picture shows a movie gag: A still from a Mack Sennett comedy, a man is caught in the act of stealing a sleeping woman's necklace. Undated photo

Engraving of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago
Haymarket Riot. The anarchist labour troubles in Chicago, Illinois. A police patrol wagon attacked by a mob 12, 000 rioters, May 3, 1886. Engraving

London Police Officers Arresting Suffragist
(Original Caption) Arrest of a London suffragette by two police bobbies. Photograph ca. 1905. BPA2# 5477

Pietri Dorando Olympic Marathon Runner
(Original Caption) 7/24/1908-London, England- Pietri Dorando, marathon runner, is shown surrounded by British officials after he entered the stadium for the finish of the Marathon race

Police Officers with Police Dogs
(Original Caption) Four police officers with dogs on leash. Undated photograph

Registering And Fingerprinting Enemy Aliens During World War I
A police officer fingerprints a European enemy alien visitor to New York during World War I

Police Drive IWW Members from Sidewalk
(Original Caption) 4/14/1914-New York, New York: The police driving the Industrial Workers of the World off of the sidewalk at Union Square

Assassin Arrested
After swallowing a cyanide pill which only made him sick, Gavrilo Princip was dragged from an angry crowd and arrested for shooting Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife

Policemen in Auto Await Riot Call During Strike

Arrest Of German Suspects In World War I
(Original Caption) 1917-New York, NY: World War I arrest of German suspects in New York. They are entering a police van

Suffragists in Custody of Police
(Original Caption) 6/26/1917-Miss Katherine Morey, suffragette of Boston, Massachusetts, on the way to police station with Washington policeman

New York Police Women In Uniform
(Original Caption) 5/10/1918-New York, NY: A couple of New York's newly appointed police women. Left to right: Capt. Ruth Trougolt and Lt. Anna Haughley

Detective Faurot Examining Fingerprints
(Original Caption) 1/9/1919-Inspector Faurot and finger prints

Police Patrol with Machine Gun on Truck
(Original Caption) 5/6/1919-Lawrence, Massachusetts- A machine gun mounted on a police truck that is patrolling the streets of Lawrence, MA

Woman in Police Custody
(Original Caption) 5/13/1919-NJ- Mrs. Cora Hanglin, in custody of detectives on her way to be arrainged for manslaughter in the Second Criminal Court, Newark, NJ

Rioters During a Police Strike
Rioters clash with National Guardsmen called in by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge during a strike by Boston police officers

Policeman Talking to Soldier on Horse
(Original Caption) 9/1919-Boston, Massachusetts: One of the few policemen (only 427 out of 1, 544), who remain on duty during the Boston police strike

Natl Guardsmen In Front/Store/Police Str
(Original Caption) 9/11/1919-Boston, MA- Massachusetts National Guardsmen on duty in front of the Iver Johnson Sporting Goods store in Boston

State Militiamen Direct Street Traffic
(Original Caption) 9/12/1919-Boston, MA- BOSTON POLICE STRIKE... State Militiamen acting as traffic policemen on Tremont Street

Police Arrest a Steel Worker on Strike
(Original Caption) 9/19/1919-Pittsburgh, PA- Arresting steel strikers on Sept. 19, 1919. Here, a policeman is arresting a worker in the street. Filed 9/26/1919

Group of Picketers Confronting Men
(Original Caption) 9/24/1919-Gary, IN- Pickets on duty in the vicinity of the steel mill. The policeman is an interested spectator

Police in Front of Hall During Strikers Meeting
(Original Caption) 9/27/1919-Rankin, PA- Local Police and Special Duputy Shefiffs lined up in front of the Public Hall in Rankin, PA, while a meeting of steel strikers was in progress

Communist Head Quarters Raided By Police
(Original Caption) 11/11/1919-Cambridge, MA: Offices of Communist Headquarters in Cambridge, MA. Raided by police

Police Load Van with Communist Literature
(Original Caption) 11/11/1919-Boston, MA-: Photo shows officers and clerks loading a police ambulance with Red literature seized at Communist headquarters in Cambridge

Police Destroying Barrels Of Beer
Children watch as a prohibitionist destroys a barrel of beer with an ax during Prohibition in the United States

Irish Revolt
Military raid on the Regal Hotel in Dublin, during the Irish War of Independance

Flying Squad Of Police In Auto
(Original Caption) 12/23/1920-Flying Squad of the Chicago POlice in high-powered auto

Policewomen Checking Length Violations
(Original Caption) 1921-Chicago, Illinois- Chicago policewomen checking for violations of the bathing-suit-length laws

Police Confiscate Bootleg Gin Labels
(Original Caption) 1921-Presses and labels confiscated by police

Police and Crowd Watching Men Remove Wine Barrel
(Original Caption) 4/27/1921-New York, NY- Seizure of wine on a court warrant at 38 Cherry Street. Shows officials taking barrels from the cellar

Policewomen With Police Commissioner
(Original Caption) 11/19/23: Dramatic measures have been ordered by Police Commissioner Richard E

Two Women Seated On Bench In Police Stat
(Original Caption) 1924-New York, NY: Photo shows pretty girl aides who police say were used by alleged badit gang to "get the lay of the land" when a big haul was planned

Haarman Handcuffed To Police
(Original Caption) 7/29/1924-Hanover, Germany: Fritz Haarmann, the murdered who craved publicity, well handcuffed as the International Newsreel cameraman grinds out his sensational film

Policewomen Practice Jiu Jitsu
(Original Caption) 3/22/24-New York: Policewomen practice Jiu Jitsu. Photo shows Mrs. Hamilton, who is in charge of the class, giving instructions in how to handle the women annoyers

Fritz Haarmann Walking to Sentencing
(Original Caption) 12/31/1924-Berlin, Germany: Theodore Haarman, arch murderer who was sentanced to death for killing 27 young men is shown here, heavily guarded

Upton Sinclair
Writer and lecturer Upton Sinclair in Los Angeles where he was taken away by police after violating an ordinance prohibiting public gatherings

Arrest Of Murderer; Police Walking W/Him
(Original Caption) 1926-EARL NELSON CASE.... Accompanied by two officers of the Winnipeg Sheriff's office, Earl Nelson leaves the courthouse after his conviction for murder of two Winnipeg women

Armored Car Used by Daily Mirror
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Riot Police Arrest Demonstrator on Street
(Original Caption) 6/18/1926-Shanghai, China- The arrest of one of the May Day rioters

Patrolmen Taking The Oath As Sergeants
(Original Caption) 6/29/26: The biggest number of promotions in local police history was made June 29. Commissioner McLaughlin created one captain, 19 lieutenants and 218 sergeants

Robert M. Woodward Questioning Women
Assistant state attorney Robert Woodward (center) questions Bessie Krzyzak (seated)

Prohibition Agents Inspecting Bootleggers Truck
(Original Caption) 10/23/1926-What appeared to be an innocent truckload of lumber

Police Search Pond For Agatha Christie's Car
After a search in which Scotland Yard was baffled, and folk throughout the countryside turned out to do their bit, Mrs

Armed Police Keeping Rioters At Bay
(Original Caption) 7/26/27-Vienna, Austria: 100 were killed and scores injured when Communist rioting broke out in Vienna, Austria

William Hickman Handcuffed To Police Off
(Original Caption) 12/31/1927-William E. Hickman, murderer

Maryland State Troopers
(Original Caption) 7/16/1929- Washington, DC: Motorcycle cops. Maryland State Police clear road for President

Arabs Questioned by British Police in Palestine
(Original Caption) 9/23/29-Palestine: A group of Arabs being questioned at police headquarters in Palestine, following their arrest for looting and violence

Police Attempt To Disperse Wall St.Crowd
(Original Caption) 10/24/1929-New York, NY- Police attempting to disperse thousands of customers from the brokerage houses in the vicinity who milled about the portals of the N.Y

Police Raid Man's Home For Alcohol
(Original Caption) 1/26/30-New York: In the first of series of promised raids, the new Chief of Police, Morris Grossman, left, started cleaning up Long Beach, Long Island, January 26th. With Capt

Communists Demonstrating On May Day
(Original Caption) 5/1/30-New York: Cheers went up from this mass of communists as they past their headquarters on Fourth Avenue overlooking Union Square today

Canadian Mounted Police Holding Guns
(Original Caption) 9/2/1930-Photo shows Canadian Royal Mounted Police at Camp Perry, Ohio

Referee Declares Primo Carnera the Winner
Referee Hank Lewis raises the arm of boxer Primo Carnera as he declares him the winner in his match against Pat McCarthy

Woman Receiving Food Handout from Police
(Original Caption) 11/14/1930-New York, NY- Poverty hits the old ones too....Interspersed in the ranks of the city poor, who waited in long lines yesterday, were many of advanced age

Texas Rangers
(Original Caption) Clean up Tough Texas town

Bullet-Riddled Cop Car
(Original Caption) 5/9/1931-Evarts, KY- The automobile in which two Deputy Sheriffs of Harlan were slain on May 5th, during a pitched battle with a crowd of about 125 miners

Dutch Schultz At Police Headquarters
(Original Caption) 6/18/1931- Legendary crime figure "Dutch" Schultz, hauled into police headquarters. Schultz is the man sitting to the left

Rookies Shooting At Target
(Original Caption) 9/3/1931-City Island, NY: Police rookies are shown firing on the run during a pistol practice at Camp Mulrooney, summer training camp of the New York Police Department

Police Watch Rioting Unemployed On Line
(Original Caption) 10/28/1931-New York, NY: Thousands of unemployment men in line waiting to register at the Emergency Unemployment Relief Registration offices in New York, rioted on October 28

Police with Tommy Guns
(Original Caption) 1932- Cumberland, Maryland: Members of the local police force are shown armed with rifles and machine guns covering the hunger marchers on their last lap to washington

Veteran Being Pulled From Building
(Original Caption) Veteran being pulled from building during bonus march in Washington, 1932

Chinese Police Arrest Plain Clothed Soldier
(Original Caption) 1/3/1932-Mukden, Manchuria- Plain clothed soldiers of Gen Chang Hsueh-Liangs's army

Police In Patrol Car; Convertible
(Original Caption) 1/11/1932-New York, NY: Team of Police officers in their radio-equipped convertible patrol car

Lineup At Police Headquarters
(Original Caption) 02/01/1932. Lineup at Police headquarters, set up inside of school gym

Mounted Police Charge Marchers
(Original Caption) 2/29/1932-Mexico City, Mexico- Marching for four days from the city of Puebla, Mexico

Estate of Charles Lindbergh Kidnapping
(Original Caption) 3/2/1932-Hopewell, NJ- Every available means have been rushed into service by police of 4 states in their efforts to trace the kidnappers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr

Police Holding Back Bonus Army Veterans
(Original Caption) 7/16/32-Washington, D.C.: Police are shown trying to hold back veterans of the Bonus Army who went to the Capitol to protest the adjournment of the Bonus Bill that was passed

Police Smashing Slot Machines
(Original Caption) 9/12/1932-Brooklyn, NY- NOT A GAMBLING CHANCE... was had by these slot machines, some of the 470 seized and destroyed by police at the foot of 36th St

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