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[Henry Chadwick, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

Portrait used for police identification purposes, Manchester, England. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tenderloin at night / motion picture

A man walks into a bar in the Tenderloin, where he is greeted enthusiastically by the patrons. The bartender brings a round of drinks for everyone. While one of the women distracts the newcomer, one of the men ... More

[Etta Place, three-quarter length portrait]

Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:141). Forms part of: Visual material from the records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.

A double hold-up / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a man labeled "Producer" laden with farm produce stopped on one side and a man labeled "Consumer" stopped on the other, in between them is a masked man labeled "Food Speculator" who is pointi... More

Burning the bodies of dead bandits at Columbus, N.M.

Copyright by W.H. Horne Co., El Paso, Texas. No. 3004. Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Masked criminal at the grave of John Barleycorn

Holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, the criminal shoots at a fleeing pilgrim. He stands next to Barleycorn's tombstone embellished with skull and cross bones. Inscribed on the tombstone: Hic Ja... More

Migrant field worker. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Dickens. The story of Oliver Twist,. Public domain book.

Series title also at head of t.-p. Also available in digital form.

Poster - W.T. Carleton as Claude Duval - Public domain lithograph

N2843 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1882-by WF Morse." Created by "Metropolitan Print., 28 Ann St., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Stagecoach robbery series] What the sheriff found / / Photographed an...

Photograph shows staged hanging of stage coach robber from tree; sheriff observes from horseback. J158584 U.S. Copyright Office No. 1979 (8). Copyright 1911. Copyright deposit ; Tangen (Ed.) Boulder, Colo. ; A... More

[Vignettes of western scenes]. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Includes two scenes of robbers with bird masks robbing stage coach and others, African American and mule, man filling bucket with water from stream, and man standing with umbrella. Created and "copyrighted A.S.... More

[Vignettes of western scenes] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Travestimento e fuga di un complice

Print shows Beatrice Cenci's accomplice in the murder of her father, standing among a group of men with pack horses as he attempts to flee prosecution. Title from contents on title page. Printed in upper right ... More

Thanksgiving / C.J. Taylor. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows a vignette cartoon with young women watching a football game at center, and surrounding vignettes depicting William McKinley as Napoleon I, "New Jersey" cleaning up gambling and horse racing, an uni... More

All a question of the scale we do it on / F. Opper.

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting how the economies of scale of an operation or event determines public opinion, for instance, "no. 9" shows a handful of criminals robbing a citizen on the street, they a... More

Chinese criminals in the viceroy's yamen, now used as a jail, Tien-Tsi...

A38369 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Tingley. No. 12023. Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2169 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 2."

Allies stern government at Tientsin - gruesome warning to law-breakers...

H2167 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Boxer Rebellion, 190... More

The in and the out of our penal system / Arthur Young.

Illustration shows criminals on the left entering a prison labeled "Penitentiary" with a statue of "Justice" and on the right leaving the prison after serving their sentences and given papers labeled "Freedom" ... More

Two train robbers killed near Sanderson Tex., Mar. 13, 1912

Photograph shows the bodies of Ole Hobek and Ben Kilpatrick being held up by others. Numbers 1 & 2 above the men's heads indicate they are the train robbers. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton... More

[Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, standing in court during sentencing] / World...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on verso: Dec 2 1941. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Ishikawa goemon ichidai banashi sawamura gennosuke ichikawa danjūrō

Print shows two actors in the role of Ishikawa Goemon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Dipty... More

A group of hard-labor convicts (common criminals) in Siberia

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More

Sold to shame four act comedy drama

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a script, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The sheriff, two deputies, and Miller

(DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "'Zeki'l" by Matt Crim, Century, 42:728 (Sept. 1891).

"Judge" "Judge" afterward stole Cleveland's stow[?] of whiskey on the ...

Photograph shows man standing in snow in front of buildings at Klondike Gold Rush town of Dyea, Alaska. In album: Alaska, 1897-1901, [leaf 9]. Forms part of: Riggs Family papers (Library of Congress) Accession... More

[Catherine O'Neill, mug shot, facing front and to her left]

Photograph mounted on identification card from Detective Bureau, Police Department, City of New York, giving physical description and other information about O'Neill. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of ... More

Harry K. Thaw with police and immigration officers

Photograph shows group portrait of Thaw and officers probably at the time of Thaw's deportation from Canada after his escape from Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane while serving a sentence for ... More

[The trial of a horse thief] / Jno. Mulvany ; Clay, Cosack & Co. chrom...

Print shows a large group of men gathered in a room in a tavern or general store, conducting the trial of a man, standing at center, suspected of stealing a horse. Includes registration marks and color bars to ... More

Ishikawa goemon ichidai banashi sawamura gennosuke ichikawa danjūrō

[Stagecoach robbery series] What the sheriff found / / Photographed an...

Wercke der Finsternis / D Chodowiecki del & sc 1781.

Print shows publisher Johann Thomas von Trattner as a highway man with two cohorts holding up publisher Friedrich Nicolai; von Trattner has a hold on Nicolai's collar, as his helpers, standing at the opening of... More

La tortura - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows Beatrice Cenci's being tortured in prison in the presence of her mother, religious authorities and police. Title from contents on title page. Printed in upper right corner: 6. (DLC/PP-43735)

There's a new policeman on the beat / Gillam.

Illustration shows two crooks labeled "Robeson" and "Roach" walking down a sidewalk, whistling; they are being trailed by William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, as a policeman. Caption: "Cheese it!" Illus.... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

He lived too soon / Keppler. - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Richard Croker, half-length portrait, facing front, with right hand resting on papers labeled "Certificate of Stock, Consolidate[d] Ice Co., Auto Truck Company, Fireproofin[g], [and] Telephone Co.";... More

[Harry Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid, three-quarter length portrait]

Photograph by De Young Photograph Studio, N.Y.C. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:141). Forms part of: Visual material from the records of Pi... More

[Jesse Linsley, a member of the Wild Bunch gang, head-and-shoulders po...

Photograph mounted on card from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency giving information about Linsley. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:14... More

[Two policemen leading woman off followed by crowd]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece in: "A Study in Values" by Emma Kaufman, Collier's weekly (Aug. 12, ... More

A new fad of the Kearney Sheriff and Chief of Police Trindle: photogr...

summary: Photographer's note: "Walter Samons and Chief Trindle photographing the bad man. Salmons is now serving time in Leavenworth Prison on charge of robbing the Kearney Post Office of $5,000." original size: 6x8

The Sing Sing sanatorium / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows prisoners engaged in various recreations while incarcerated at Sing Sing for white collar crime. Caption: For the benefit of our grafting financiers whose health breaks down from exposure. I... More

The pink hand / L.M. Glackens. - Public domain dedication image

Illustration shows a dastardly figure peering from behind a bush in the background, as a matronly woman pushes a young woman, looking starry-eyed and carrying a suitcase bursting with cash and stocks, out the f... More

The intruder a powerful comedy drama of the East & West : the love and...

"Not a moving picture." Created by "Quigley Litho. Co., K.C." No. 3516. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

It would be worth it / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam in the background handing out pardons to criminals labeled "Gyp the Blood" (Harry Horowitz), "Dago Frank" (Francesco Carofisi), "Lefty Louis" (Louis Rosenberg), and "Whit e Lewis" (... More

I can leave most of the kegful buried in a hollow tree

(DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Hoarded Assets" by Raymond S. Spears, Scribner's, 63:748 (June 1918).

Calaveras de coyotes y meseras - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Broadside shows a cat, with a skull for a face, standing on its hind legs holding two skulls. Additional skulls are scattered on the ground beside it. People run away in fear in the background. The text, in cal... More

[Albert Guarino, aka Thomas Pace, (left), Lottie Coll, and Joseph Vent...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

$5,000 reward - A black and white advertisement for a reward

Wanted poster showing identification portraits of Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter. Date stamped on verso: Aug 7 1939. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Libra... More

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Louis Capone, half-length portrait, seated, not shown is Emanuel "Men...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on verso: Dec 3 1941. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Vincent Alo, alias Jimmy Blue Eyes, head-and-shoulders portrait, faci...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on recto: Feb 4 1950. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Broadway Theatre Opera Co. presenting the DeKoven & Smith's greatest s...

Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The A.S. Seer Print, 242-244 W. 41st St., N.Y." Management, Andrew A. McCormick. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Execution of the conspirators. The arrival on the scaffold. July 7, 1...

Stereograph shows the execution of President Lincoln's assassins. Part of the series, Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 981. Gardner's 1865 copyright line on bottom recto. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2010; (D... More

Poster - The great train robbery - Public domain lithograph

Caption: Sensational and startling "hold up" of the "Gold Express", by famous western outlaws. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 7319. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

Washburne Honorable E.B. Rep. Minister to France.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Puck magazine cover - The official scapegoat / Keppler.

Illustration shows an unidentified man sitting in a chair in a cell at Sing Sing Prison, he has changed out of his prison uniform, into a business suit, and is doling out money by the scoop-ful in return for "B... More

Chinamen arrested after Mock Duck & Tom Lee factions' shooting in Chin...

Photograph shows Chinese-American men arrested for being involved in a war between On Leong Tong and Hip Sing Tong organizations for control of Chinatown standing outside police station with police officers. F... More

The hold-up / Albert Levering. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a group of highwaymen labeled "Trust, Express Company, [and] Protected Monopoly" robbing a stagecoach labeled "The Consumers' Coach"; the driver, labeled "Congress", is throwing them a pouch ... More

[Hophead knew he had to kill Monte Roberts]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Soft Boiled" by Clifford Raymond, Hearst's International magazine, 43:64 (Jan. 1923).

Death masks displayed at identification convention. Sept. 29. Mrs. Cla...

A woman in a hat is holding a piece of bread. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant field worker. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sharply dressed, [gangster/gambler], Meyer Lansky as he left court tod...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Note on verso: Lansky plans return despite ban by Cuba: Jaunty and smiling, gambler Meyer Lansky walked out of Manhattan Arrest Court today and indicated, that despite what Cuba says, h... More

In Ireland, in Turkey, somewhere in Europe, in the underworld, in Belg...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The end of a perfect day," Life, 70:468 (Sept. 20, 1917).

Portrait photo of Runaway Siberian convicts (common criminals)

Three escaped convicts standing in field. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Ishikawa goemon ichidai banashi sawamura gennosuke ichikawa danjūrō

Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding ... More

The great train robbery - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Sure cure - Drawing. Public domain image.

On sign: Old Dr. Singsing free electrical treatment for dynamaniacs. Variant title on verso: The epidemic and the cure. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).... More

The bandits bride vide Herald May 5th 1847

Lith. & pub. by H.R. Robinson 142 Nassau St. N. York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

"Stop Thief!" / Th: Nast. - A drawing of a group of men playing a game...

Illustration shows William "Boss" Tweed and members of his ring, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard B. Connolly (stumbling over the curb), A. Oakey Hall, Tom Fields, James H. Ingersoll, and James Fisk, Jr. joining a crow... More

[Will Roberts, alias Dixon, cowboy train robber, seated on a horse, po...

Photograph mounted on card from Pinkerton's National Detective Agency giving physical description and other information about Roberts. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective A... More

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near W...

Boxer Rebellion. H7968 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Box... More

Jimmy. "'Lo Pinkey. Do you vant to take dot delivery cart of rye bread...

Thirteen-frame comic strip. Pinkey is hired to take a pushcart of food to the hotel. As he is walking he asks his dog Buck if he would like to eat the contents of the wagon, but before Pinkey can misbehave, t... More

Robber Barons Cave / Harvey Patteson.

Photograph shows men impersonating robbers in Robber Baron Cave, Bexar County, Texas. J266639 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 15.

[Louis Capone, left, and Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss holding a copy of the N...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on verso: Dec 3 1941. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Merchant seaman. New York City, New York

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Self-portrait - Public domain portrait drawing

Gift; Brenda Kenneally ; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:093). Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harry Longabaugh, also known as Sundance Kid, and Etta Place Bliss Bro...

Photograph shows studio portrait of Sundance Kid and Etta Place. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency records (Library of Congress).

Wild Bunch gang - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Harry Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place, full-length studio portrait, standing, facing front. From the Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Blind stamp on mount o... More

Siberian convicts taking lunch by the roadside (common criminals)

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Siberian convicts taking lunch by the roadside (common criminals)

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Gokuin sen'emon to okuri no onna

Print shows two actors in a kabuki play, one as a woman with a paper lantern standing next to Gokuin Sen'emon, one of the five chivalrous men.

Es war aber mit jenen Kaufleuten ein frommer Pilger, welcher Clemens h...

Illustration for a story showing one of King Octavian's infant sons lying on the ground; Clement, a pilgrim, traveling with a group of merchants, sees the baby and purchases it from a band of outlaws. Caption ... More

Scientists assert that all diseases can be prevented by inoculation / ...

Illustration shows Puck standing on a stack of bound PUCK volumes between a row of people on the left identified as a "Bank President, Cashier, Teller, Clerk, [and] Janitor" as well as a scrub-woman and an offi... More

[Eddie Guerin, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Written in red ink on photograph: 1049. Stamped on back: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Inc. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:141). F... More

The free silver highwayman at it again / Keppler.

Print shows a highwayman identified as a "Silverite", holding two handguns labeled "Free Coinage" and "McKinleyism", and with papers extending from a pocket labeled "Paternalism" and "Wild Cat Schemes"; he is h... More

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2174 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 7."

[Laura Bullion, member of the Wild Bunch gang, head-and-shoulders port...

Photograph mounted on Pinkerton's National Detective Agency identification card. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:141). Forms part of: Visual... More

The counterfeiters of coin and the counterfeiters of securities / Arth...

Illustration shows, on the left, a scene of counterfeiting money labeled "Low-down and Illegal", and on the right, a scene on "Wall Street" showing capitalists with papers labeled "Watered Stock" and "Dividends... More

I'm bound to say, sir, that the appearances are in favor of you--

People crowded around man in center, who is wearing handcuffs. (DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Smooth Crossing" by Irvin S. Cobb, Saturd... More

"The bold brigand" from our rocky tow'r on high on stone by A. Newsam ...

Print shows a "brigand" standing on rocks in the mountains, firing his gun, possibly to confuse his pursuers as to his whereabouts by the echo. Caption continues: Sung in the opera fra Dìavolo, with unbounded ... More

Win ne ba go, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Winnebago man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Photo from Indian Wigwam, Julius Meyer, Omaha, Nebraska. E.L. Eaton on verso.

Duty, dedicated to the London police

Six vignettes satirizing the London policeman's overzealous sense of duty. The police arrest a card player, a man walking his dog, a child playing with a top and an intoxicated man, but ignore criminals, murde... More

Helping the rascals in - a burglarious scheme that may be suddenly spo...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine wearing a top hat with three plumes, a sack labeled "For the Plunder" hanging from his neck, and a paper tied at his waist that states "20 Years on the Make", attempting to br... More

Caricature, "Next!" / Gillam., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a view inside a "Prison Barber-Shop" with two men labeled "Budensiek" and "J.D. Fish", wearing prison stripes and "Close Crop" haircuts by the prison barber, who is holding a shaving mug labe... More

Puck magazine cover - A senatorial desperado / Dalrymple.

Print shows a silver miner labeled "Stewart" strangling Uncle Sam who is holding a walking stick labeled "Public Opinion", near the entrance to the "Stewart, Jones & Co. Silver Miners (Unlimited)"; he threatens... More

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