L Aw Collection (#31)

Policeman Uses Telephone
A policeman using a telephone pillar

Policeman (Petherick)
London characters: the POLICEMAN, friend to the well- behaved, foe to the miscreant, protector of the peaceful, upholder of law and order

Loitering Boy / Policeman
A policeman approaches a young man in the street and asks him why he is loitering. He claims he is waiting for " the young gal wot I pays my attention to"

Zealous Policeman / C1830
A zealous policeman physically apprehends a suspect right outside the police station

Loitering Woman / Police
A policeman approaches a loitering woman in a pink dress and green bonnet, who declares she is waiting for her fiance

Police / Friendly Copper
A kindly policeman takes care of two young street children. He carries the youngest in his arms

Mother in Law / Moloch
A French bell-mere (mother-in- law) depicted as a knife- wielding old misery surrounded by cactuses

Guides / Guide Law C1918
A demure girl guide sits reading a book

Oakum Shed / Prison / 1874
Inmates are supervised as they pick oakum

Policemen W / Suitcases
A large group of uniformed policemen walk along an unidentified street carrying suitcases, perhaps before a training session

Parrot Lays down Law
The parrot lays down the law to a mixed group of animals

Chaucer, Man of Law
The Man of Law gesturing

Policewomen 1940S
A woman asks two policewomen for assistance

Edward VII and Family
EDWARD VII with his wife, Alexandra, his son George (later George V) and his daughter-in-law Mary. All wear their very best clothes for some state occasion

French Agent De Police
A French agent de police politely encourages a member of the public to move along, there !

Stray Taken in Custody
A stray mongrel is taken into custody by a policeman

Stray Dog on Course
A policeman rescues a dog running loose on a race-course during a racing meeting

French Muzzles
You have a chien whos liable to bite ? eh bien, a museliere is what he must wear by day and by night

Sawing a Tree
A pair of fellers saw into the base of a tree. The law states they must cut not more than 6 inches from the ground so as to get as much timber as possible from each tree

Phrenology / Spurzheim
Dr J C Spurzheim, depicted with a diversity of human types (Bruyeres was Spurzheims son-in-law)

Nightingale & Verney
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE - in later years with her brother-in-law, Lord Verney

Law / Judges / Assize Judges
Assize Judges in Procession in Lincoln Cathedral on Assize Sunday

Charity / Workhouse / Shoes
Shoemaking instruction at a Poor Law Institution

Naval Court Martial
A COURT MARTIAL Captain Thrupp and his officers of the Megaera are exonerated from blame after a court martial on board the Duke of Wellington

Comic Policeman / 6 Am
Till six o clock in the morning - a popular song featuring late-night revellers and a tolerant guardian of the law

Roman Censor
A Roman CENSOR - a public magistrate - adjudicates in a dispute

Roman Lictor
A Roman LICTOR : the fasces - an axe within a bundle of sticks - is the symbol of his authority

Law / Trial by Ordeal / Emma
Emma ( - 1052) aka Aelfgifu, widow of Cnut, proves her innocence by walking over red-hot plow- shares. Tried by Ordeal at Winchester

Samaritans, Book of Law
Samaritans of Nablouse reading the Book of the Law

Prisons / Fleet
Debtors grate

Night Watchman
DER NACHTWACHTER A German night-watch patrols the streets, armed with a pike and carrying a horn with which to summon help if required (his dog is already helping)

Wandsworth Prison / Mayhew
Prisoners turning out after dinner in the Surrey house of correction, part of Wandsworth Prison. Note that the prisoners are wearing masks

Fleet Prison Courtyard
Prisoners in the courtyard exercising and playing racquets

Moses and Tablets
He returns from Mount Sinai, carrying the tables of the law which God has just given him, to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf

A Debtors Prison
The Primrose family join their father when he is thrown into a debtors prison by the evil Squire Thornhill

No Match for a Gun
An unequal match The truncheon is no match for the gun. A brave policeman attempts to disarm a burgler who threatens him with a gun

Policeman in Ambush
A policeman waits behind a wall ready to ambush with his truncheon

London Policeman / Traffic
A London policeman directs traffic

Police / Watchmen / Cries
The night watchman on his rounds. At the time, the night watchmen were the only public policing body in London

Norman Curfew Check
The Curfew law traditionally thought to have been initiated by William I; after the curfew bell is rung at 8 o clock, guards make sure that all fires have been put out

Arrested while Pawning
A man is grabbed by a policeman while pawning

Prison Hulk, Woolwich
Convicts from the hulks anchored in the Thames off Woolwich, at work on the river-bank handling timber with the aid of a huge lifting device

Kings Bench (Microcosm)
Located in St Georges Fields, south of the Thames : a debtors prison notorious for the laxness of its rules - it housed 30 gin shops, as well as facilities for dining

Vigilantes / San Francisco
A meeting of the Vigilance Committee on Portsmouth Square, 1856

Dresden Prison 1930S
The interior of a prison in Dresden, Germany, which in its day was one of the most up-to- date in Europe. The central tower was built so that one person could watch 800 inmates

Newgate Chapel 1809
The Chapel of Newgate Prison, where prisoners were exhorted to repent of their evil ways

Bridewell, London
Women prisoners, many with children, doss down in the Pass-Room at Bridewell, for the reception of short-term female offenders. It is located near Blackfriars

Holding up the Law
The Jewish manner of HOLDING UP the LAW in the Sight of the People, before it is read to them

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