Members being searched by the police in Berlin, c1920-1933. The paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, the SA were often involved in violence at...
Member of the German wireless police picks up signals on the radio equipment he carries on his back, while his colleague takes notes.
Esther Ralston is arrested by a policeman in a scene from Paramount's 'The Case Of Lena Smith', directed by Josef von Sternberg.
German police sitting in the back of a truck in Munich, in preparation for a political demonstration.
Female British Metropolitan Police officer points as she gives directions to a family of visitors from out of town, London, 1920s.
Men in Bolshevik uniform fighting police in the street, Germany, c1918-c1933 . From Germany: The Olympic Year, published by Volk und Reich Verlag. ....
Policeman holding a baseball bat with a horseshoe attached to the end. It is one of the exhibits in the crime museum at New York's Police College.
'Smokey' Buchanan from the West Palm Beach police force, measuring the bathing suit of Betty Fringle on Palm Beach, to ensure that it conforms with...
Black and Tans 'beginning a drive at Dundrum', from the town of Drombane in Tipperary. They are Copley, Blake, Frost, Tanburn, Canfles and Bromfield....
Jewish immigrants flood the docks of a wharf in Haifa during the fifth Zionist immigration to Israel.
Security tightens in Dublin with the increased activity of the Republican movement and the armed struggle against British troops, the police and the...
The house of commons debated on the employment of women police when Sir Nevil Macready spoke in their favour. Our picture shows three police women on...
Members of the Black and Tans, an armed auxiliary force of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and British Army privates watching fighting during the siege...
Circa 1920: Miss 1928 on motorcycle wearing divided skirt, asking for her way to a policeman circa 1920 in London, United Kingdom.
The London Stone in the wall of St Swithin's, Cannon Street, London, 1926-1927. This ancient oolite stone was set into the wall of St Swithin's...
At the opening of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, Henry Annals, flanked by police, takes the King's message to the Empire after it had been...
Edward J Cornan from the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Newry with S W Kennedy from RUC Derry, John Johnston from RUC Mountpottinger in Belfast, James...
Police officer with British rower, Harcourt Gilbey Gold, by the Thames at Putney, 8th March 1920. Gold is coaching the Oxford crew for the Boat Race...
Members of the Irish Civic Guard wounded in the Irish Civil War. The Civic Guard replaced the Royal Irish Constabulary after Partition.
Police officers passing the review stand during the annual police parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, circa 1925.
Police officers passing the review stand during the annual police parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, circa 1925.
Taxi driver Sidney George Spicer was shot and killed by Percy Toplis on Thruxton Down on 24th April 1920. Picture shows: Private Harry Fallows who...
Circa 1920: A policeman is teaching road safety to young schoolchildren, circa 1920 in Southend, United Kingdom.
Irish Civic Guards on duty in Dublin during the 1922 elections and just before the outbreak of the Irish Civil War.
Strikers on a march during the General Strike which was organized by the Trade Union Congress in support of the miners strike to resist wage cuts.
Auxiliaries wearing Tam o' Shanter bonnets talk to a postman with a GPO mail cart in Dublin. The Auxiliaries are further reinforcements for the Royal...
New Jersey prohibition director Colonel Ira Reeves inspects a group of dry agents in their new uniforms, circa 1927. The men Earl McManys, Harry L....
Little girl hands a posy of lily-of-the-valley to officer Leclerc, who is on duty at the Porte Saint-Denis in Paris, circa 1920. It is the custom to...
The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions...
Crowborough Farm Murder Case Trial of the accused John Norman Holmes Thorne in Lewes, East Sussex Mr Cameron, father of the victim Elsie Cameron,...
Policeman Hans Offerdahl, with an appropriately attired young sidekick, operates a hand-controlled traffic signal at an intersection.
American aviator Amelia Earhart is surrounded by police and well-wishers as she and her pilot, Wilmer Stultz, and mechanic, Louis Gordon, arrive in...
En 1928, annee de la creation officelle de la brigade motocycliste, les motards policiers posent pour les photographes, sur des motos Dresch a Paris,...
Two guards perform an execution in China, one holding the gun, the other holding a mask over the victim's face.
The scene of a shooting during the Shangahi riot. This is the entrance to Lousa police station where nine rioting Chinese students were killed by the...
Sir George Royle, president of the New Tabernacle Sick and Provident Society, dressed as Native American Iroquois Indian Chief Sunshine, receives the...