Courtroom Scenes from History

Depictions of high-profile legal meetings and courtroom events, illustrating 19th-century legal proceedings and public meetings.

The Queen and her ministers in council Date: 1846

A scene at Gt. Marlborough st Court. Date: 1847

PUBLIC MEETING AT THE PRINCES' HALL, PICCADILLY, TO PROTEST AGAINST THE EGYPTIAN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT

Examination at Bow Street, London, of Franz Muller, The English Railway Murder, recently arrested on his arrival in New York and taken back to England, 1864

Interrgoation or Trial of Abolutionist Doctor. John Doy and his son Charles Doy in Missouri. Unites States of America, drawing by Janet Lange (1815-1872)Adventures of a Kansas Abolitionist in Missouri, 1855. Story by Doctor John Doy (1812-1869) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Tobacconist's shop, London Date: 1857

Andrew Johnson taking the oath of office in the small parlour of the Kirkwood House Hotel, Washington, 1865

Pickwick Papers, -Mr. Bob Sawyerês boy peeped through the glass door, and thus listened and looked on at the same time

The Queen and her ministers in council Date: 1846

The project to introduce a new Code Civile leads to wrangling from all parties, and will not produce tangible results until 1804. Date: July 1800

Charing Cross Hospital: the Prince of Wales opening some new wards. Wood engraving.

Peter Zenger, a colonial New York printer of the NEW YORK JOURNAL, in the dock (at right), was successfully defended by Andrew Hamilton, one of the best American lawyers, at his trial for seditious libel in 1735.

Lord Elgin signing the Treaty of Tainjin ending the Second Opium War, June 16, 1858, Contemporary Woodcut

BALLOTING FOR PRESIDENT

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN FRANCE, 1889: BOULEVARDS IN THE EVENING, THE VOTE, THE EVE OF THE ELECTIONS, A POLITICAL MEETING, THE BILLSTICKERS PREPARING FOR THE DAY'S WORK.

Lord Elgin signing the Treaty of Tainjin to end the Second Opium War, 1858. Artist: Unknown

SKETCHES IN NEW YORK DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Charles Dickens, American notes, 1842, IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Inauguration of Washington

Auction room. London. England. Engraving, 1888 "La Ilustracion Iberica".

Samuel Morse, tapping out a message on a battery powered device in the Supreme Court Chamber, Washington, DC, on May 24, 1844. 44 miles away in Baltimore, Maryland, the message, 'What has God Wrought', was instantly received (BSLOC_2019_7_80)

House of Representatives delegate, engraving

Mr Disraeli, Prime Minister, Telling the House of Commons his Story about "Dry Champagne" 1875

Photo collection Government information service. Cabinet of Zuylen van Nijevelt / van Heemstra (1861-1862). Mr. S. Baron van Heemstra, Minister of the Interior, from 2 March 1860 to January 31, 1862. 1862

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were transported to the New World, many on the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, were West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent sold by western Africans to western European slave traders, or by direct European capture to the Americas. The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous Old World immigrants in both North and South America before the late 18th century. Far more slaves were taken to South America than to the north. The South Atlantic economic system centered on producing commodity crops, and making goods and clothing to sell in Europe, and increasing the numbers of African slaves brought to the New World.

Graf Arnim, The reading of the indictment in the PROCESS Arnim from Neue Illustrirte Zeitung, Frédéric Lix -, Artist, Amédée Daudenarde, Xylographer

Andrew Johnson taking the oath of office in the Small parlor of Kirkwood House, Washington, April 15, 1865, Illustration, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 6, 1866

A PETITION TO PARLIAMENT

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary 1875

Police arrive to disperse a ladies Land League meeting in Ireland. On such occasions, the ladies were often able to evade punishment by claiming the purpose of the meeting was to act as a political prisoners aid society. The only action able to be taken by the police was to take a note of the names of those present and report them to his superiors. Date: 1881

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN addresses a Liberal Unionist meeting in the Music Hall, Edinburgh. Date: 1836 - 1914

The Slidell and Mason Case argued at the American Bar - from a sketch by our special artist,1862. 'When the first intelligence reached here of the capture of Slidell and Mason, with their secretaries, the public excitement was greater than anything I have witnessed throughout my experience of the campaign. The arguments at the American Bar (rooms) went fast and furious; the pros and cons (few of the latter) were bandied from one stump orator to another, and most of the discussions ended in any amount of smashes (brandy-smashes, I mean), while numerous skins (whisky skins) were roughly handled

THE BANQUET OF THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK AT THE FIRST AVENUE HOTEL, INTRODUCING SOME OF THE PRIZEWINNERS

The declaration of war in the Senate in Paris on the 15th of July 1870, France / Die Kriegserklärung im Senat in Paris am 15. Juli 1870, Frankreich, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

mail post post office imperial pneumatic post office interior view wood engraving after drawing by E. Hinkefu_ Berlin 1877,

The King accepts and swears to the constitution.14 September 1791.Louis XVI 1754-1793. King of France 1774-1792. Engraved by Meyer-Heine after De La Charlerie. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.

James McParlan, being initiated into the Irish secret society, the Molly Maguires. McParlan, an Irish immigrant was hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, to infiltrate the Mollies Maguires. The 1970 film, THE MOLLY MAGUIRES, stared Richard Harris and Sean Connery.

AFRICAN EXPLORATION : LIEUT. CAMERON READING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS ADVENTURES IN CENTRAL AFRICA BEFORE THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, AT ST. JAMES'S HALL, ON TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH., LONDON, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Ireland, Dublin. Proceedings against the heads of the "Irish Land League" (1879-1882), organisation formed during the agrarian depression to demand tenant rights and the reform of country's landlord system under British rule, founded in October 1879 by Michael Davitt. First hearing in court. The "attorney" reading the indictment. Presiding over the court, judges Mr. Fitzgerald (president) and Mr. Barry. The defendants in the second row of seats. On the right, the jury. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.

'The Police and the Public', 1874. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene

SKETCHES IN THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE: AN INTERESTING TRIAL. 1883. MR. RUSSELL, Q.C.; MR. BIGGAR, M.P.; MR. CLARKE, Q.C.; MISS HYLAND; LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COLERIDGE; MISS HYLAND EXAMINED.

National Education: deputation to the Prime Minister, London, 1870. 'The Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone...received two deputations last week...representing the two rival associations, called the National Education League and the National Education Union...The deputation of the National Education League numbered about 400 persons ie men, and the rooms were densely crowded. A second deputation, of Welsh Dissenting ministers from a conference held in Wales followed on the same day; and on Saturday Mr. Forster, at the Privy Council Office, received one from the Congregational Union

Carl J. Becker, The Supreme Court of the United States, 1888, wood engraving on paper.

London conference on Egypt, United Kingdom

Following Abraham Lincoln's May 1860 nomination, the governor offered use of his State House office. After winning the election, President-elect Lincoln receiving visitors, 1860

After retiring from the Free-Masons with some hostiliry, Mr and Mrs Emiliani and Mr Lazzoneschi were assassinated by Brother Gaviol. Date: 1890s

Pickwick Papers, 'The kitchen door opened, and in walked Mr. Job Trotter'

Nihilismus in Russland, Prozess gegen die sechs am Mord an dem verstorbenen Zaren Alexander II. Von Russland beteiligten Personen, Historisch, digital...

Whig Prime Minister Lord Palmerston makes a statement to the House about the conference on the Schleswig- Holstein question. Date: 27 June 1864

BOSTON

A meeting of the Royal Society in Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 18th century, (c1880). Creator: Unknown.

Little Dorrit, The Third Volume of the Registers

The ballad of the jury, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

John Bright (1811-1889) English radical statesman, born in Rochdale, Lancashire. Anti-Corn Law League. Reform Act 1867. Bright speaking at an election meeting at Birmingham. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' (London, 14 November 1885).

Humble Pie, 1872. Artist: Joseph Swain

espionage messages projection of telegraphic dispatches on microfilm during the Siege of Paris 1870/1871 wood engraving 19th century,

Territorial elections (IT)

Broadmoor opened as an asylum in 1863 to female patients and to male patients the following year. The building was designed by military engineer, Major General Joshua Jebb. Prisoners at this time included Edward Oxford, who shot at Queen Victoria, Captain Johnson, master of the ship, Tory, who slaughtered some of his crew and the young artist Dadds, who cut off his father's head. A report by Dr John Meyer, in 1867, stated that the accommodation was not satisfactory. Alterations were made t

Schulpause, der Lehrer beobachtet versteckt wie in der Schulklasse gerauft wird, 1880, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem...

'Meeting of the Arbitrators on the 'Alabama' claims at Geneva', 1871 (late 19th century). Artist: Unknown

THE APPROACHING TRIAL OF ARABI, THE FINDING OF THE IMPORTANT PAPERS

EXAMINING PASSPORTS, DIEPPE, 1871, FRANCE

Man placing an advert in the personal section of a newspaper 1882

Illustration depicting a man getting a ticket of admission for a London night shelter. Dated 19th Century

Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886) was elected the 21st President of the United States and served from 1881-1885. He succeeded to the president after Garfield's assassination. Arthur had an honest, efficient, dignified administration. Arthur took the oath of office twice. This illustration shows the second: in the Capitol on September 22 by the Chief Justice of the United States Morrison Waite to make sure all was proper and legal.

The prosecution table during the Fenayrou trial, Court of Assizes in Versailles, France, engraving by Henri Thiriat after a sketch by Gaildrau, from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 2060, Volume LXXX, August 19, 1882.

Amsterdam, Buffa and Sons, Frans, Brussels, Dewasme, Antwerp, Fourmois, Théodore, Six Views of the Ruins of the Citadelle of Antwerp, Casemate of General Chassé, Bunker of General Chassé, 1832, verso - stamped, View of the bunker or casemate of General Chassé during the siege, 1832. The general is sitting at a table, surrounded by members of his general staff. Part of a series of six plates from 1833 of the ruins of the citadel after the siege by the French army in November and December 1832., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 235 mm, width 305 mm, 1814 - 1871-10-16, print maker, printmaker, 1833 - 1833, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Belgian, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

Experiment with a phonetic stenotype machine (Michela method) being carried out in Bourbon palace, Paris, France, illustration by Semeghini from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1985, Volume LXXVII, March 12, 1881.

Regulars' table at Berlin, historical illustration, 1880, Germany, Europe

The Last speech on impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Thaddeus Stevens closing the debate in the House, March 2 1868

In a pawnshop; Roux, George (1854-1929); 1880-1900 (1880-00-00-1900-00-00);

Episodes in the trial of Dr. G. H. Lamson (the Wimbledon poisoner) at the Central Criminal Court in 1882. Wood engraving.

The Civil Service Appointing System , Ulysses S, Grant, The system for establishing civil service, how it was, how it is and how it will be after the next election from Frank Leslies Illustrated New Paper , New York, Matt Morgan -, Caricaturist

Lord Lyons communicating Earl Russell's despatch to Mr.Secretary Seward. An international diplomatic crisis erupted for President Lincoln when two Confederate officials sailing towards England were seized by the US navy. Lincoln released the men in December 1861. Date: 1862

People put money into the contribution box as they pass by. Wood engraving.

Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.

The Bazaine process, the reading of the death of death from Allgemeine Familien-Zeitung , Smeeton , Tilly, Xylographer

Francia. Taller de imprenta. Fundidores de tipos gráficos. Grabado de 1834.

"See here, and here, and here," continued Lobster, in excellent tone and temper..., 1880. Illustration to a short story. '"You amaze me!" answered Mr. Crabbe, with a look of genuine surprise. "Your name is on every stamp in my possession. See here, and here, and here," continued Lobster, in excellent tone and temper, turning over the leaves of a packet of oblong papers lying near him. "There is your signature, 'Benedict,' on every one but the last, that is signed 'Lovibond,' your present title. It has been renewed five times; on each occasion for three months

THE DIVORCE COURT, London Date: 1870

Reformed ministers Gilly and Courdil read out a declaration at the synod at Sorges that they are going over to the Catholic Church, 3 June 1683, print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: Pieter van der Aa (I), print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: Leiden, 1698, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 109 mm × w 156 mm

Trial of Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, Black and White Illustration;

THE GENEVA ARBITRATION

California News William Sydney Hunt

Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1866

Book auction at Sotheby's in London, Williamson, After Henry Marriott Paget, 1888 print Interior of the auction hall with the auctioneer on an increase, E.G. Hodge. Next to him, G. Snowdon, his clerk, is writing. Those present listen to the auctioneer interested or watch some books. Various attendees have been identified in the margin. Text on Verso. paper art sale, auction. bookshelves. book-shop, bookseller. book

'Mr. Rhodes Before the South Africa Committee', c1897, (c1900). British imperialist, businessman and politician who played a dominant role in southern Africa, driving the annexation of vast swathes of land. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne

'Stand Back.' A uniformed President Ulysses Grant obstructs politicians who protest his veto of the Ferry Bill (aka The Inflation Bill) in April 1874. The bill would infuse the national money supply with fiat currency during the 'Great Depression of 1873-79. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Thomas Ferry, Republican Senator from Michigan, holds a banner with slogans: Down With National Honor. Death to Honest Trade. We Forgive Our Creditor. INFLATION! (BSLOC_2018_10_122)

Mr Bradlaugh seen in the House of Commons taking the oath of allegiance. In 1881 Mr Gladstone introduced a bill that allowed non-believers to affirm their allegiance to the Crown. Mr Bradlaugh was an announced atheist and had been removed from the House of Commons on several previous occasions. Date: 1880

John Adams, Morris, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leaders of the Continental Congress, Augustus Tholey, 1896

THE CARLTON CLUB BANQUET TO LORD BEACONSFIELD, JULY 27, 1878

Proclamation of the President of the Republic by the National Assembly, December 20, 1848 (IT)

Joseph Arch (1826-1919) English trade unionist, politician and agricultural worker. Founder of National Union of Farm Labourers. Arch greeting the Bishop of Manchester who supported the Union in a letter to 'The Times'. John Tenniel cartoon from 'Punch' London 18 April 1874. Wood engraving

THE EASTERN QUESTION

Drinking companions paying off their debts, historical illustration, circa 1886

President Abraham Lincoln does the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864 with his cabinet.

Paris. - the triage of the tickets to the Banque de France.

Reconstruction Committee. The Joint Committee of fifteen appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the so-called confederate States who finally adopted, April 28, 1866, a series of resolutions embodying a recommendation which afterward took form as the Fourteenth amendment. Senators W P Fessenden, Maine, Chairman; F W Grimes, Iowa; Ira Harris, New York; F M Howard, Michigan; George H Williams, Oregon. Representatives: Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania; E B Washburn, Illinois; Justin S Morrill, Vermont; J A Bingham, Ohio; G S Boutwell, Massachusetts; Roscoe Conkling, New York; H T Blow, Missouri; H M Grider, Kentucky; A J Rodgers, New Jersey; Senator Reverdy Johnson, Maryland. The last three were against the resolutions.

Inter-urban telephone exchange Berlin. Dated 1904

The copperhead plan for subjugating the South / F.B.. Title from item, Caption: War and Argument - Cold Steel and Cool Reason - having failed to restore the Union, it is supposed that the South may be bored into coming back, Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 8, no. 408 (1864 October 22), p. 688. Boredom, 1860-1870, Copperhead movement, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peace.

Das Studierzimmer eines Astrologen im Jahre 1881 in England, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

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