Police

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Photograph of a Khond policeman in uniform standing in front of a thatched roof building with men and women behind him in [Orissa?], India in the early/mid 20th century.

Scope and Contents Autograph document about "the Police Establishment of Edinburgh" written by Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe, at the attention of Arthur West, of Bath. Dated 11 April 1838.Text is neatly written out in two columns. The first is headed "In the Watching department", and contains twelve entries from "1 Superintendent" to "2 Female [Turnkeys]", including "30 Night Patrole men" and "166 night watchmen". The second column is headed "In the cleaning department", and...

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Photograph of the B[ritish] S[outh] A[frica] police on parade at a show with people watching in the early 20th century.

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Printed volume "Edinburgh. Police. Instructions...for Edinburgh".

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Photograph of four members of the London Mounted Police leaping a fence in Kensington Palace Gardens in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that the horses taking part in the horsemanship display 'did their bit' during World War I.

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Letter from the Commissioners of Police, Leith to Joseph Black, dated 29 October 1784. The letter is about asking advice from Black and Robison about the Leith water supply.

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Photograph of an African policeman with his bicycle standing next to an electrified fence in the early/mid 20th century.

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Photograph of a police ambulance inspanned [harnessed] to six [horses?] in the grasslands of South Africa in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Family; neighbours.Family: INTVEE talks of the effect of alcohol on her family and how it has got her children into trouble with the police. She also discusses her own anxiety, in particular her irrational fears about her youngest child not living to grow up. She herself does not drink "I don't like drink, but even if I did I could never take it; even if I let a drop of sherry pass my lips at New Year, I get all excited and trembly". One of her sons has...

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Illustration from the Graphic of July 16 1884 and handwritten text describing the items found in the Criminal Museum at Scotland Yard in London.