Bureaucracy Collection

Government House, Peshawar, Pakistan
Government House (British) at Peshawar, Pakistan Date: 1924

Statement of Poor Relief in St Lukes Parish, 1854
A printed summary statement of the poor relief statistics for the London parish of St Luke for the week ending 5 August 1854

Eagle and American Flag Date: 1915

Turkey, Constantinople (Istanbul). Public office
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Public office. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Branche. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). War correspondent card of the Popular Army (1938) and identity card issued by the Generalitat of Catalonia (1937). SPAIN. Monistrol de Montserrat

America - The Stamp Act - Celebrating the repeal of the Act of March 22, 1765 in May 1766 with The Liberty-Pole Festival. The Liberty Pole was known to be a symbol of dissent against Great Britain

Horace Mann Date: 1950

President Ronald Reagan Date: 1980

Chief Justice John Jay 1794 Date: 1794

Mastaba of Kagemni. Saqqara. Egypt
Mastaba of Kagemni (2350 BC). Chief Justice and vizier of the Pharaoh Teti. Relief at the entrance depicting Kagemni with the baton and scepter. Old Kingdom. Saqqara. Egypt

Satirical cartoon on German army recruitment, WW1
A satirical cartoon by the German artist George Grosz on German army recruitment, showing a doctor examining a decaying skeleton to see if it is fit for military service

Will he strangle them? Can the new Duma strangle despotism and bureaucracy? Date: 1906

Bureaucratic staff in ministries in 1919
A diagram showing the inflation in temporary and female personnel in various Ministries in Westminster and Whitehall necessitated by the First World War

Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, WW1
Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, illustrating an attempt on the part of the journalist " Jingle" and the artist Norman Morrow to obtain passports in order to visit Antwerp at their

London County Council welfare staff
Staff in an office at a London County Council welfare establishment interview a homeless man

Vagrants Food Ticket, Hinckley Union, Leicestershire
Ticket issued to a vagrant following his departure from the Hinckley Union workhouse, Leicestershire. When he presented it to the specified person (en route to his next destination)

MAB Headquarters, Carmelite Street, London
Headquarters of the Metropolitan Asylums Board at the corner of Carmelite Street on the Victoria Embankment, Central London

Local Government Board Offices, Whitehall, London
A view of the Local Government Boards headquarters, at the junction of Great George Street and Parliament Street, Central London

Week-end Leave and How to Obtain It
The bureaucracy facing a young officer simply wanting weekend leave while serving at the Front during World War I. Frustratingly, he manages to miss his train

Checking Papers
Members of the Red Guard check peoples identification papers in the streets of Petrograd : revolutions come and go, but bureaucracy is for ever

Clerks / Russia / 1917
Three Russian office clerks take a break and have a smoke

Peoples Militia / Russia
Volunteers sign up for the Peoples Militia in the Tauride Palace

Wilhelm Voigt
WILHELM VOIGT German shoemaker who in 1906 successfully passed himself off as the Captain von Kopenick, making fools of Prussian bureaucracy

French customs officers and passengers
Passengers suffer the ordeal of having their luggage searched at Customs

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