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Oscar Wilde release letterLetter from Mr More Adey to Mr Flower, requesting the early release of Queen Victoria for the pardon of Oscar Wilde, p.4 of 5, 12 May 1897 Date: 12th May 1897
Prisoner mug shot 1872-1873Prisoner, 3954, Wandsworth, 1872-1873, 28 year old man Date: 1872-1873
Prisoner mug shotPrisoner Lucy Freeman, Cambridge, 1875-1877 Date: 1875-1877
Prisoner mug shot 1873Prison record for Catherine Reardon, prisoner 2573, aged 48, arrested and convicted by jury for larceny 26th April 1873
Port Arthur prisonMess Room, Penitentiary, Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1898 Date: 1898
Convicts at work, 1836 Date: 1836
Convict railway, Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1830 Date: 1830
Convicts in TasmaniaConvicts rafting pine logs, Grummet Island, Macquarie Harbor, Tasmania, 1830 Date: 1830
Let prison life be pleasant. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of life in prison for Respectable prisoners who play golf, wear fitted prison uniforms, go yachting
Hesper appearing to Columbus in prison. Columbus chained to prison wall, mythological figure with star above head appearing in doorway. Date between ca. 1780-1860
Prison, Portland, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Chillon Castle, interior, Bonivards Prison, Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
The wife of John Bunyan, interceding for his release from prison
Paul I, emperor of all the Russias, condescending to visit Kosciusko in the prison
Prison Pond, Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga. as it appeared August 1st 1864 when it contained 35, 000 prisoners of war. Date 1864 or later
John Bunyan in Bedford Jail, 1667, his blind child leaving him for the night
The Royal Prison and the St. Sophie Church, Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Andersonville Prison as seen by John L. Ransom, author and publisher of Andersonville Diary, Escape and List of the Dead, Washington, D.C. Date c1882 Sept. 29. Andersonville Prison as seen by John L
Bird s-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east. Print showing Andersonville Prison, with the vast prison area surrounded by stockade fences
Libby prison
Stone walls and chains do not make a prison - for HoudiniStone walls and chains do not make a prison - - for Houdini. Date ca. 1898
Damage to houses in Corporation LaneDamaged houses and buildings in Corporation Lane, east London, caused by the explosion at Clerkenwell Prison which was an attempt to free two Fenian prisoners, Burke and Casey. Date: 1867
Peterborough JailThe entrance to Peterborough Gaol (or Jail). The prison, designed by W J Donthorn, opened in 1842 but was closed in 1878. Part of the old building is now used as a restaurant. Date: 1905
The Old Curiosity Shop, Kit behind barsThe Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841
The Padres room, Posen, 1941Padres room in a British prisoner of war camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland, by Lieutenant J F Watton of the 4th Border Regiment who was captured near
Damaged house interior in Corporation LaneDamage to a house interior in Corporation Lane, east London, caused by the gunpowder explosion at Clerkenwell Prison, an attempt to free two Fenian prisoners, Burke and Casey
Newgate Prison - the condemned cellA prisoner, watched over by a warder, reads as he spends his final few hours in the condemned cell at Newgate Prison Date: 1873
Suffragette as a gooseA superb propaganda postcard for Womens Rights, showing a goose in prison plummage, standing atop at bucket and speaking at a meeting of geese
Lt C B Arnold in Freiburg Prison Camp
Vehicles damaged by wartime bombing, Lambeth, LondonA graveyard in Lambeth, south east London, containing vehicles damaged by wartime bombing. There are a few cars, as well as a prison van (right) and the chassis of a 20-seater coach (centre)
Prison at Heidelberg University. As long ago as the 16th Century, citizen complaints about carousing students led the university to open a Studentenkarzer, or Student Prison
Fleet Prison RuinsFleet Prison was notable as a debtors prison after the 17th century until it was demolished in 1845-46, having been rebuilt 3 times in 1381, 1666 and 1780. Date: 1846
Selcuk - Road between the Gymansium and the TheatreSelcuk, Turkey (Ancient Ephesus) - St Pauls Prison Date: circa 1902
Syracuse, Italy - Ear of DionysiusSyracuse, Italy (Siracusa) - This card shows an artificial cave, 65 m long and 23 m high, which was given the name of The Ear of Dionysius by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, when in 1586
Stockholm prisonLangholmen, the Central Prison in Stockholm 1889. Date: 1889
Crypt of San Nicola in Carcere
Prison Boats - Bahr-el-Ghazal, SudanPrison Boats by the " Sudd" - Bahr-el-Ghazal (southern region), Sudan Date: circa 1910s
German Red Cross with wounded French Soldiers - WWIWounded French POWs from German prison camps received at a railwaty station by the German Red Cross. Date: circa 1916
Royals in the TempleThe royal family confined to the Temple prison. Date: autumn 1792
Lostwithiel Gaol
Public Jail at Juarez, Mexico Date: 1906
Dartmoor Prison, DartmoorDartmoor Prison, Princetown, Dartmoor, Devon. Date: circa 1910
Dick Turpins Cell in the Debtors Prison (now a museum), York, Yorkshire, England. Known as Pompeys Parlour, this was the cell of Turpin, Eugene Aram &c Date: 1950s
Idealised German prisoner of war camp, WW1An artists impression of an idealised German prisoner of war camp, Munster II, during the First World War. The French artist was forced to portray a wide range of enjoyable activities
Prisoners consulting room, Newgate PrisonPrisoners consulting room at Newgate Prison, London. Date: 1862
Prison reformer John HowardA portrait of prison reformer John Howard. Date: 1862
George Sontag, American train robber who was imprisoned in 1894, and pardoned in 1908. Date: 19th Century
