Prisoners Collection (page 3)

AZTEC SACRIFICE
Aztec priests of Mexico sacrifice prisoners to their gods, extracting their hearts and throwing the rest down the temple steps

Russian convict in Siberia. Official inspecting new convicts at the Perasilny, Krasnoiarsk. Date: 1891

German private soldier accepts his situation as a prisoner with calmness and equanimity, but that the officer does not seem able to realise the sitution

The Women of Versailles; Paris Commune 1871
French prisoners guarded, with women looking for loved ones, during the Paris Commune. Date: 1871

Convict Ship at Woolwich 1846
Convict Ship, docked at Woolwich in London and capable of holding 600 men. Date: 1846

Onboard the prison ship The Warrior
Interior of the convict ship The Warrior in Woolwich, London. Date: 1846

PORTSMOUTH PRISONERS
The reception of new prisoners at Portsmouth Prison. Date: 1873

PROTESTANT PRISONERS
The Tour de Constance which served as a prison for protestants during the Cevennes Insurrection. Date: 1702

BRIXTON WASH-HOUSE
A scene in the wash-house in Brixton Prison Date: 1860

CONCERT IN BERLIN PRISON
Prisoners listening to a concert in a Berlin prison

BRUSSELS PRISON
Prisoners wearing white hoods sit in cubicles in the chapel of the New Model prison in Brussels Date: 1887

THE TOMBS PRISON
THE TOMBS, NEW YORK a prison mainly reserved for prisoners awaiting trial Date: circa 1830

Prison: Dores dante
Prisoners in a dungeon

Convict chain, France
A chain of convicts welcome a new arrival at La Tournelle: Jean-Francois Gruet, a tax collector condemned to the galleys for life for appropriating public money. Date: December 1716

Women prisoners transported to Cayenne
At Toulon, young female prisoners embark for Cayenne, having chosen marriage in the colonies rather than a prison sentence. Date: 1866

Concert for prisoners, France
At La Petite Roquette prison, Paris, a concert is performed for the prisoners. Date: 1885

Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields 1862
Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields house of Correction. Date: 1862

Following the Boer War, the British transferred many of their prisoners to various countries and colonies under their domain in South and South East Asia

Burrs Mill, Bury - Italian internees, WWII - Matania
Interior view of Burrs Mill, Bury, Lancashire, a former mill and bleaching factory, which was used to intern Italian prisoners during the Second World War

Malmedy Massacre, 1944
The bodies of two American soldiers (with a medics hat between them) lie semi-buried in the snow, two of the eighty-four victims of the Malmedy Massacre

Suffragette Cat and Mouse Act McKenna. Shows Reginald McKenna, Home Secretary in Asquiths government, sitting on a pedestal, labelled, Fiat Justitia (let justice be done)

Suffragette Constance Lytton Jane Wharton. Lady Constance Lytton who disguised herself as Jane Wharton a seamstress, to expose class differences in the treatment of suffragette prisoners

Aboriginal initiation ceremony involving tooth-avulsion called Yoo-lahng erah-ba-diahng in New South Wales. From: An account of the English colony in New South Wales Date: 1798

Senegal - Thies Rebellion, Dieye & Fall complain about food
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Senegal - Rebellion at Thies - Sarithia Dieye captured
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Zanzibar, Tanzania - Convicts
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Shackled convicts Date: circa 1910s

Effects of Scurvy
Barrosa convict ship, illustrations of the effects of scurvy, by Dr Mahon, 1841-1842 p1 of 3 Date: 1841-1842

WW1 silhouettes, The Tide of Victory

British soldiers after surrender of Singapore, 1942
Survivors of the 2nd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, leaving their fighting positions on Singapore Island, the day after the British surrender to the Japanese in World War Two

German prisoners of war at Abbeville, France, WW1
German prisoners of war at a clearing depot in Abbeville, northern France, after the Battle of the St Quentin Canal (29 September to 10 October 1918) during the First World War. Date: October 1918

Battle of Bizani - Surrender of Ottoman Garrison at Ioannina
The surrender of the Ottoman garrison of Ioannina (Jannina) after the Battle of Bizani fought between the Greek and the Ottoman forces during the last stages of the First Balkan War. Date: 1912

Force feeding a suffragette (cartoon)
A cartoon depicting a suffragette being force fed in a prison cell. Two men, a prison warder and a doctor, hold the woman down with the help of a large weight (one hundredweight)

Padded cell, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
A padded cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, used to hold mentally disturbed or violent prisoners. Some kind of calendar is scratched on the door. The inmate sits, head in hands

Presidio Modelo Prison, Isla de Pinos, Cuba
General view of the Presidio Modelo Prison on the Isla de Pinos (Isle of Pines), Cuba, now renamed Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth)

Borstal Prison, Chatham - Prisoners Dinner Time
Prisoners going in to dinner at Borstal Prison, near Chatham, Kent. Date: circa 1900

Hobart convict barracks, Tasmania
Convict barracks at Hobart, Tasmania (formerly Van Diemens Land) Date: 1830s

German soldiers surrender at Thiepval, 1916
Victors and vanquished: British infantry advancing on Thiepval, Somme region, in September 1916 allow surrendering Germans to pass through their ranks unregarded

Battle of the Bulge, 1944
An American half-track vehicle carrying troops passes German prisoners of war being marched along the road near Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Date: 27 December 1944

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Mashonaland Prisoners
Black and white lantern Slide of Mashonaland Prisoners - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Suffragette Play An Allegory Vera Wentworth. A one-act play, An Allegory was published in 1913, by the Actresses Franchise League

French cartoon, German prisoners, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled German prisoners, showing French soldiers escorting German prisoners away from Colmar, a town on the border between France and Germany. Date: 1915

Santiago de Chile (1854). Casa de la Moneda and prisoners. Litography

Spain (1930). Republican military uprising of Jaca (12th December 1930). Revolted soldiers made prisoners by loyal soldiers in the surroundings of Cillas

Preston Prison 1905
Tread wheel at Preston prison, 1905 Date: 1905

Wormwood Scrubs 1895
Wormwood Scrubs prison, whipping post, 1895 Date: 1895

Schneidemuhl Prisoner of War Camp
Pila - a town in northwestern Poland (known as Schneidemuhl in German). During the First World War, Schneidemuhl had a prisoner of war camp

Bulgarian soldiers captured, Monastir, WW1
Bulgarian soldiers captured at Monastir (now Bitola), Macedonia, during the First World War. circa 1916

German prisoners at St Eloi, Flanders, WW1
German prisoners of war captured by the Northumberland Fusiliers and the Royal Fusiliers on 27 March 1916 at St Eloi crater, near Ypres, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

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