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  • [Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • [Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble - James Patrick Tolly" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble - James Patrick Tolly" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • A man has been knocked to the ground and is being beaten by a man wearing a long gown and a turban, the police nearby seem reluctant to intervene. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry.
  • Charles Bradlaugh being arrested by the police in 1881 for refusing to take the oath as a Member of Parliament, and subsequently rejoicing at the passage of his Oaths Bill in 1888. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1888.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth, reads in a newspaper that he is being sought by the police for his part in the mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Médicamens composés et dragées confisqués : sentence du siege de la police du baillage de Rouen, qui condamne le nommé Le Marié, marchand mercier & parfumeur en cette ville, en dix livres d'amende envers le roi, et aux dépens, & les marchandises sur lui saisies déclarées confisquées au profit de l'Hôtel-Dieu, pour la contravention par lui commise aux statuts et réglemens des marchands apothicaires-epiciers-grossiers-ciriers-droguistes & confiseurs de la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieuë de Rouen : fait défenses audit le Marié & à tous autres de récidiver, sous plus grandes peines : du huitième jour de mai mil sept cent cinquante-six ... / signés, Varnier & Mathez.
  • Ordonnantie : De behoudenisse an de gesontheyt van't volck van alle tyden synde geweest het voornaemste ooghwit van alle goede ende wel geschickte policie ... / onderteeckent P. Lion.
  • Rev. Pat Robertson converses with Vice-President Dan Quayle with numerous speech bubbles; a protest against their policies including those relating to AIDS. Lithograph.
  • The American flag with skulls and crossbones replacing the stars; a protest against President George H.W. Bush's policies on AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1992.
  • A.J. Balfour as Prime Minister asks John Bull to pay for increasingly costly policies, but eventually John Bull refuses. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • The face of Peter Barton Wilson, Governor of California (1991-1999) with the message "Pete Wilson wants to kill you"; protest poster about U.S. government policies on health care. Photocopy.
  • President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush represented as members of "the Rich White Penis Club", with speech bubbles; anti-government protest about US AIDS policies by Enema Productions. Photocopy.
  • "AIDS Prevention: everyone's business", a list of policies about AIDS prevention endorsed by the SIDA Info Service; one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph by L M Communiquer.
  • A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
  • Policemen entering the study of a medical student in search of thieves shoot at a pair of skeletons by mistake Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.
  • Man standing in a courtroom dock putting his case forward to the magistrate. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1904.
  • A boy dressed in checked trousers and a top hat is leaning against a lamp post as a policeman speaks to him. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • Death, as a policeman, approaches a ragged woman and her baby in a London park. Colour wood engraving by M. Morgan, 1867.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Mr. Lambkin behaving in a drunken and disorderly manner resulting in being restrained and arrested by a policeman. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Hi! You can't afford to lose any sunlight this weather / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Hi! You can't afford to lose any sunlight this weather / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A laundry-maid is interrogated by two officials and an ecclesiastic about the death of Count Cenci. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 1]