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Crime and Punishment: Photographic evidence
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Moses Chapin, 1849 (or later), Frederick Warren, Worcester City Marshall, with handcuffed prisoner, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, American Antiquarian Society, LL/32376
C.M. Couch, n.d., Pembroke Tragedy. Spot where the body of Jose A. Langmaid was found near the post (Back), Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11789
C.M. Couch, n.d., Pembroke Tragedy. Spot where the body of Jose A. Langmaid was found near the post, Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11788
C.M. Couch, n.d., Pembroke Tragedy. Spot where the body of Jose A. Langmaid was found near the post (Detail), Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11790
News Service Photo, 1921, 15 April, Workmen Digging Ditch Half Moon Pond Murder, Gelatin silver print, Past to Present: Vintage Photo Gallery, LL/30643
Unidentified photographer, 1938, Murder in Barroom (Royal Bar & Restaurant)à Manhattan, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34052
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40518
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40521
Unidentified photographer, 1963, 22 November, Kennedy Assassination, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34056
Yasuki Nagoa, 1960 (taken) 1969 (possibly printed), Assassination of Socialist Leader Inejiro Asanuma, Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/33446
Acme Newspictures, 1938, Al Capone's Wife, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34050
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Booth and his associates, Carte de visite, Private collection of Stuart Schneider, LL/14939
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1861-1864, [Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate spy, during her imprisonment in the Old Capitol]., Silver gelatin print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/6974
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Female brigand [Italian], Carte de visite, hand-painted, Collezione della Fondazione Carispo di Spoleto, LL/42270
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1903 (ca), Hardy. hung 1903, Nome Alaska, Private collection of Nigel Maister, LL/28563
Unidentified photographer, 1932 (ca), Mme Jeanne Lacour, Press photo, with crop markings, Private collection of Nigel Maister, LL/28565
Weegee, 1941, 16 January, Cop Killer, Gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/5978
Unknown Artist (American School), 1865, 20 April, [Broadside for Capture of Booth, Surratt, and Herold, April 20, 1865], Printed sheet with three albumen silver prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40586
Unidentified photographer, 1872, Prisoner 4100, Albumen print, National Archives, LL/39601
Aldolarius Humphrey Boyd, 1884, John Williams, per Ld. [i.e. Lady] Montagu F.S., P.O. Latrobe, 13.3.84, larceny, 12 months, age 59, [Convict portraits, Port Arthur], Carte de visite, National Library of Australia, LL/39407
Aldolarius Humphrey Boyd, 1884, George Ormiston, [per] F.C. Monqund, 3 years, 5.2.84, horse stealing and uttering, [Convict portraits, Port Arthur], Carte de visite, National Library of Australia, LL/39408
Alphonse Bertillon, 1889, Criminal Jean Greniche Killer of 'La Fille Wilhem, said La Chinoise', Carte de visite, Past to Present: Vintage Photo Gallery, LL/30846
News Service (unspecified), 1930 (ca), Young man with his two wives, Silver print, Past to Present: Vintage Photo Gallery, LL/30845
Alphonse Bertillon, 1889, Criminal Jean Greniche Killer of 'La Fille Wilhem, said La Chinoise', Carte de visite, back, Past to Present: Vintage Photo Gallery, LL/30847
Unidentified photographer, 1899, 6 September (before), Frederick Max Brockhaus, [Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912], Photograph album page, Ebay, LL/45802
Unidentified photographer, 1897, 17 December (before), Nicodemo Impisino, [Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912], Photograph album page, Ebay, LL/45810
Unidentified photographer, 1904, 17 November (before), Joseph Watson, [Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912], Photograph album page, Ebay, LL/45805
Unidentified photographer, 1904, 17 November (before), Joseph Watson, [Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912], Photograph album page, Ebay, LL/45806
Unidentified photographer, 1907, 1 October, A mugshot showing Patrick Lewis, a twenty-six-year-old "1/2 breed Indian" sailor from Snohomish, Washington, being held indefinitely for Grand Larceny, Mugshot, Paul Frecker, LL/18602
Unidentified photographer, 1900, Bertillon Type Mugshot, USA, Gelatin silver print, carte de visite format, Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, LL/18145
Unidentified photographer, 1898, "Wanted" Photo for Criminal Wm. L. Walsh, Carte de visite, Charles Schwartz Ltd, LL/14295
Unidentified photographer, 1898, "Wanted" Photo for Criminal Wm. L. Walsh (Reverse), Carte de visite, Charles Schwartz Ltd, LL/14296
Unidentified photographer, 1897, 26 September, Police identification photographs, Chicago, Mugshot, Vintage-Photos, LL/35729
Unidentified Russian police photographer(s), 1890 (ca), Twenty Wanted Anarchist Women [Moscow], Albumen prints, each hand cut, retouched and annotated in Russian on 2-sided mount, CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux, LL/41107
Unidentified Russian police photographer(s), 1890 (ca), Twenty Wanted Anarchist Women [Moscow] (detail), Albumen prints, each hand cut, retouched and annotated in Russian on 2-sided mount, CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux, LL/41108
Unidentified photographer, 1907, 22 August, Police identification photographs, Chicago, Gelatin silver print, mugshot, Vintage-Photos, LL/35728
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1886, Six professional criminals, Book plate, Google Books, LL/35047
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1886, Six professional criminals, Book plate, Google Books, LL/35049
Unknown (American), 1918, Workhouse identity card for time served, Identity card, Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, LL/20428
Unknown (American), n.d., Mug shot - Escapee wanted for murder, Gelatin silver print, Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, LL/20621
Unknown (India), n.d., Prisoner, Albumen print, Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, LL/20467
William Saunders, 1870-1880, Three women in a cangue [Shanghai], Albumen print, Dennis George Crow, LL/10060
Unidentified photographer, 1880 (ca), Chinese Prisoners in Cangues, Albumen print, Antiq-Photo, LL/14979
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Chinese criminals in cangues, Private collection of Nigel Maister, LL/28562
John Thomson, 1873-1874 (Published), The Convict, Book illustration, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, LL/40155
John Thomson, 1873-1874 (Published), The Cage, Book illustration, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, LL/40156
Unidentified photographer, 1880 (ca), Death by Strangulation, Canton, China, Albumen print, Antiq-Photo, LL/14982
John Thomson, 1871, An unfortunate thief, Amoy 1871, with thumbs amputated., Glass plate, Wellcome Collection, LL/36739
Walker Evans, 1935 (ca), Three Members of a Prison Work Gang, possibly Louisiana, Gelatin silver print, Lee Gallery, LL/12688
Walker Evans, 1935 (ca), Two Members of a Prison Work Gang, possibly Louisiana, Gelatin silver print, Lee Gallery, LL/14193
Danny Lyon, 1968, Texas (Men Hoeing), Barry Singer Gallery, LL/2909
Danny Lyon, 1969, Hoe Sharpener and the Line, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/33319
Jack Delano, 1941, May, In the Convict Camp in Greene County, Georgia, Gelatin silver print, Howard Greenberg Gallery, LL/37937
O.P. Annex, n.d., O.P. Annex Souvenir. Photos made from Life. Price 25 Cents., Cabinet card, Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, LL/12988
Tom Howard, 1928, Execution of Ruth Synder, Silver contact print, warm-toned, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/33436
Roy Dickens, 1960, Execution of Caryl Chessman, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34053
Eddie Adams, 1968, Execution of a Viet Cong Officer, Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/33447
Alexander Gardner, 1865, 7 July (taken), Hanging, Carte de visite, Private collection of Stuart Schneider, LL/14946
Waller Overton Bullock, 1908, Russellville Mob [Lynching, Kentucky, USA], Kentucky Virtual Library, LL/7958
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Grave marker of Frank Parish ("Hanged Jan 14 1864"), Private collection of Nigel Maister, LL/28564
Unidentified photographer, 2003, Abu Ghraib Prison, Digital image, Source requested, LL/33297
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, 1850s (ca), Suppliciés (Louis Napoleon Album, Heads of Executed Men), Carte de visite, George Eastman Museum, LL/33136
Felice Beato, 1869 (published), Executioner and criminal, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/40650
Felice Beato, 1869 (published), Head of Matsudaira, one of the Kamakura Assassins, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/40651
Keystone View Company, n.d., 9956. Execution by the Garrote in the Yard of the City Prison, Havana, Cuba, Stereoview, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/37842
Keystone View Company, n.d., 9956. Execution by the Garrote in the Yard of the City Prison, Havana, Cuba, Stereoview, detail, Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, LL/37843
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., The Dungeon in the Old Spanish Fort, from which Wild Cat, a Celebrated Seminole Indian, made his escape, [Florida, Land of Flowers and Tropical Scenery], Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11765
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., The Dungeon in the Old Spanish Fort, from which Wild Cat, a Celebrated Seminole Indian, made his escape (Detail), [Florida, Land of Flowers and Tropical Scenery], Stereocard, Jefferson Stereoptics, LL/11764
Lockwood (Ripon, Wis), n.d., Untitled view of prison interior, [Wisconsin Scenery], Stereocard, Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs, LL/11662
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1905-1915, Zindan (prison), with inmates looking out through the bars and a guard with Russian rifle, uniform, and boots, Central Asia, Digital Color composite from digital file from glass neg, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/1623
Charles Nègre, 1865, Prison of the Iron Mask, Albumen print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/27095
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1881 (after), Clifton, Arizona, jail, National Archives and Records Administration, LL/35243
Weegee, 1942 (ca), A Night in the Cells, Gelatin silver print, Barry Singer Gallery, LL/3085
United Press, 1935, Angelo Herndon, Black Communist Leader, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34054
Unidentified photographer, 1963, The Last Prisoners at Alcatraz, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/34057
Unidentified photographer, 1955, African American boy in prison, State Training and Agricultural School for Colored Boys Pikeville, Tennessee, Gelatin silver print, La Bonne Vivante, LL/34248
C. Allen, 1856, 2 June, For a fortnight - Photographic Portraits, Book page, Google Books, LL/35304
1934, Wanted poster for John Dillinger. On 22 July 1934 the homicidal criminal John Dillinger was killed in the street by FBI agents after coming out of the Biograph Theater in Chicago., Poster, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, LL/3003
Unknown Artist (American School), 1934, [John Dillinger's Feet, Chicago Morgue], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40601
2002, This poster depicts Felicien Kabuga, who is wanted for genocide in Rwanda, Poster, U.S. Department of State, LL/3001
   
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