Prison Collection (page 8)

Prison reformer John Howard visiting a prison
An engraving of Francis Wheatleys 1787 painting of John Howard Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison. Howard (third from right) (1726-1790)

Chaplains visit, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The prison chaplain, jocularly referred to as the sky pilot, visits a cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The prison was originally built as a House of Correction in 1594

Midday mealtime, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs prison, west London, return to their individual cells for their midday dinner. Uniformed prison warders watch as prisoners climb the metal staircases to the galleries

The Old Gaol, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghams castle-like town prison was erected in 1748. It was closed following the nationalisation of the prison system in 1877

Courthouse and prison, Knutsford, Cheshire
A view of the courthouse and prison at Knutsford, Cheshire

Dreyfuss Prison
Dreyfuss prison on the Ile du Diable (Devils Island) : he is confined to the small building in the foreground

Russia / 1918 / Cheka Prison
Prisoners held by the Cheka, a secret police force established in December 1917 to investigate counter- revolutionary crimes

Paul and Silas in prison at Philippi are saved by a providential earthquake

Life in a Womens Prison, 1903
Female convicts at work in Aylesbury Gaol. Date: 1903

Parkhurst Prison - Refreshment Break
Inmates of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, take a rest from their labour for refreshment. Date: circa 1900

At War With Women, by Frank Bateman, first produced at the Metropolitan Theatre, Manchester, July 1902, then at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, June 1903

Operation being carried out by a Field Surgery Unit
Photograph: an operation being carried out by a Field Surgery Unit, Royal Army Medical Corps, in an Italian prison still under enemy fire

In the Dog House -- stray dogs taken from the streets of London, now in a dogs home. 19th century

Suffragette Jessie Kenney WSPU
Jessie Kenney models the DX2 replica Holloway Prison badge and prison bonnet. Other women are seen sewing more badges and bonnets before the demonstration by the W.S.P.U. Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Elsie Howley
Elsie Howey on horseback at the head of the procession celebrating the release of Emmeline Pethick Lawrence from prison, April 1909. Date: 1909

Suffragette in prison Votes for Women
A suffragette is seated inside a prison cell. Note the graffiti on the walls. The rhyme, addressed to the inmate reads, While you remain a suffragetteA velentine you ll never getWhat man would ever

Suffragette Hunger Strike
Depicts a bound suffragette being forcibly fed in prison. Captioned, For what you are about to receive Date: 1913 Oct

St Peter delivered out of prison - Acts 12. circa 1688

Joseph cast into prison
Joseph after being falsely accused by Potiphars wife cast into prison - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 39.20. 1787

Mutiny at Dartmoor Prison, 1932
Dartmoor Prison on the day of the convicts mutiny on 24th January 1932, with the office block of buildings ablaze after it had been fired by the rioters. 24th January 1932

Prison at Heidelberg University, Germany - Decorated Walls
Prison at Heidelberg University, Germany. As long ago as the 16th Century, citizen complaints about carousing students led the university to open a Studentenkarzer, or Student Prison

Newgate Prison (entrance) - Brick building - arched doorway. Part of Box 318 Boswell Collection - Dickens. Date: circa 1900

USA - City Prison, New York. Referred to as The Tombs - The Tombs, New York. The Tombs is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex (formerly the Bernard B)

Conciergerie, former prison, Paris, France
Conciergerie building, a former prison, on the banks of the River Seine in Paris near the Pont au Change bridge. Date: circa 1912

Louis XVI (1754-1793) taking leave of his family. Engraving
Louis XVI (1754-1793). King of France. The monarch taking leave of his family. Engraving. Colored

The Regents of the Spinhuis and Nieuwe Werkhuis, Amsterdam
Karel Dujardin (1626-1678). Dutch painter. The Regents of the Spinhuis and Nieuwe Werkhuis, Amsterdam, 1669. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Spanish literature. Diego de San Pedro (ca. 1437-ca. 1498). Spanish writer. The Prison of Love, 1492. Engraving. Edition in Barcelona in 1493. Catalan translation. Spain

Myanmar - Yangon - Rangoon Jail - Prisoners at breakfast
Myanmar - Yangon - Rangoon Jail - Prisoners pictured lined up with their breakfast. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Yangon - Rangoon Jail. Date: circa 1910s

Convoy of prisoners on foot
A convoy of prisoners on foot across a snow covered landscape Date: 1913

Lady Paela Fitzgerald
Lady PAMELA FITZGERALD widow of the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald, with her weeping children, after learning that he has died in Newgate prison. Date: 1776 - 1831

Louis Fauche-Borel
LOUIS FAUCHE-BOREL Swiss political agent in the Prussian service, whose activities on behalf of the French royals earned him 33 months in a Paris prison. Date: 1762 - 1829

Michel Descazeaux
MICHEL DESCAZEAUX DU HALLY French adventurer in London, at one time imprisoned in the Fleet Prison. Date: 1710 - 1775

DUCHESSE BERRY PRISON
Here in the citadelle de Blaye la duchesse de Berry was incarcerated after the 1830 revolution, when she sought to obtain the succession for her son Henri, comte de Chambord. Date: 1830 - 1832

William Baly, Doctor and Physician
WILLIAM BALY (1814 - 1861) - Medical, studied in France and Germany, practised in London, studied cholera and prison health, one of Victorias physicians, crushed in railway accident. Date: circa 1850

Sir Nathaniel Barnadiston
SIR NATHANIEL BARNARDISTON (1588 - 1653) Fervent puritan, who consist- -ently opposed Charles I, even so far as going to prison for refusing to pay a forced loan. Much respected, very popular

Babeuf in Prison
FRANCOIS EMILE BABEUF French revolutionary depicted in prison for conspiring to overthrow the Directoire. But he will stab himself before they get him to the scaffold. Date: 1760 - 1797

Fulham Female Prison
Women taking exercise in the yard at this female prison. Date: 1875

Cartoon, passport control in the old days
Cartoon depicting passport control in the old days, showing soldiers examining the passports of coach passengers at the entry to a French town

Italy / Viareggio Basin
Viareggio: crowded shipping in the basin, with the prison tower visible through the masts Date: 1905

Jean Bussy-Leclerc
JEAN BUSSY-LECLERC French governor of the Bastille prison, Paris Date: flourished 1589

Andre Chenier (Johannot)
ANDRE CHENIER French writer and revolutionary who protested against the excesses of the Revolution and now sits in prison awaiting the guillotine Date: 1762 - 1794

Gay Beggars Benefit
Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Lucy and Polly in Macheaths prison cell: a Covent Garden performance for the benefit of Mr Walker

John Howard (Blanchard)
JOHN HOWARD Prison reformer Date: 1726 - 1790

Prison / Amsterdam C17
Prisoners being flogged and sawing under supervision in the courtyard of Rasphuis prison in Amsterdam. Date: 1611

Edmund Du Cane / Downey
EDMUND FREDERICK DU CANE Military, and prison reformer; inspector-general of military prisons and chairman of directors of convict prisons Date: 1830 - 1903

Edward Morel in Prison
French-born E.D. Morel, Congo activist against colonial exploitation, in Pentonville prison for anti- war activities, is visited by the ghost of Jaures Date: 1917

Jeanne D arc in Prison
JOAN OF ARC in prison visited by antipathetic clergyman and scribe. Date: 1412? 1431

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