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  • The Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a female patient (criminal insane?) in a cell with barred windows. Photograph.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The standards and criminal habits used by the Inquisition in the Dominions of Spain & Portugal. Engraving, 1748.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Episodes in the trial of Dr. G. H. Lamson (the Wimbledon poisoner) at the Central Criminal Court in 1882. Wood engraving.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The floor plan with scale of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • The floor plan with scale of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland / [George MacGregor].
  • The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland / [George MacGregor].
  • British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • The expert witness : and the applications of science and of art to human identification, criminal investigation, civil actions & history / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
  • Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria: a grandee riding on horseback with his attendants; the beheading of a criminal; the use of retractable roofs in houses. Engraving, 1777.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Japanese exhibit featuring criminal identification charts based on Alphonse Bertillon's system and framed images relating to Japanese law. Photograph, 1904.
  • An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.
  • A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.
  • Four figures: the Great Emir of the Arabs of the desert; a criminal manacled at the neck in Persia; an itinerant dervish; a monk of the order of Edemites. Engraving by J. Folkema, 17--.
  • Four figures: the Great Emir of the Arabs of the desert; a criminal manacled at the neck in Persia; an itinerant dervish; a monk of the order of Edemites. Engraving by J. Folkema, 17--.
  • The Franco-British Exhibition, 1908: diploma, showing figures in classical dress representing France and Britain, awarded to the Paris Prefecture of Police for Alphonse Bertillon's work on criminal identification. Photograph, 19--, of a lithograph by G. W. Eve, 1908.