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This is a small selection of our inventory of antique True Crime & Punishment prints for sale. Additional inventory is available. Contact us with your request. 1-800-879-6277
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001crime: Prayer-Meeting in the "Wickedest Man's" Dance-House. Scene in Front of the "Wickedest Man's" Dance House. 1868 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $40 002crime: The Riot in New York - The Clothing Store of Messrs Brooks Bros, Catharine Street, Pillaged by the mob. Escaping rioters surprised by the Police. 1863 Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper. Wood engraving. 10 7/8 x 16 in. $40 003crime: The Attempted Assassination of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, on Chambers Street, February 2nd. The Scene Immediately after the shooting. 1885 Frank Leslies. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 004crime: The Attempted Assassination of Capt. Thomas Phelan - The Scene and Author of the Tragedy. Showing the wife reading to her husband. 1885 Frank Leslies. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 005crime: Fac-Simile of Mrs. Daniel Sickles's confession of infidelity. 1859 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $30 006crime: Fac-Simile of the Anonymous Letter informing Hon. Daniel E. Sickles of the infidelity of his wife. 1859 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $40 007crime: Hon. Daniel E. Sickles in prison at Washington. 1859 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 008crime: The Mysterious Murder in Second Avenue, New York, on the evening of the 7th of March. - Finding the body. 1866 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 009crime: Assassination of Colonel James Fisk, Jr., by Edward S. Stokes, at the Grand Central Hotel - The Scene of the Tragedy. 1872 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 x 15 in. $40 010crime: Horrible Assassination of John Walton, A Wealthy Distiller, in Eighteenth Street, New York, on the night of 30th of June. 1860 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. $40 |
011crime: Trial of President Garfield's Assassin - Guiteau being escorted from the court-room to the prison-van. Washington D.C. 1881 Frank Leslies. Wood engraving. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. $40 012crime: Utilizing Convict labor in the construction of the New Orleans Pacific Railroad, in Natchitoches Parish. 1877 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. $40 013crime: The doom of anarchy - suicide of Lingg, one of the condemned, by means of a dynamite cap. Illinois. 1887 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 1/2 x 15 in. $40 014crime: Vigilantes hunting down an organized band of outlaws - The last plea for life. West Virginia. 1887 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 015crime: The arrest of Joe Coburn by Detectives Woods and Quinton, while approaching the ring, near Cold Springs Station, Indiana. Part of story describing and condemning bare-knuckles boxing. 1868 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. $40 016crime: Alfred Hicks (Alias WM. Johnson) supposed to have murdered Capt. Lurr, Oliver Watts and Smith Watts on board the Sloop E.A. Johnson. - Jackalow , the Chinese sailor, supposed to have murdered Capt. Leete and brother on board the Sloop Spray. 1860 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 4/8 x 16 in. $40 017crime: Body-Snatching in Philadelphia - Arrest of the depredators by Newspaper reporters - From sketches by a corresponding artist. 1882 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 8 1/4 x 11 in. $30 018crime: The Attack on Lady Florance Dixie near Windsor. 5 vignette's showing the residence, dog, Windsor road, and Lady Florence Dixie. 1883 The Graphic. Includes full article. **Stapled 11 1/2 x 16 in. $60 019crime: The Pantain Tragedy - The discovery of the six corpses of the Knick' Family in Langloi's field. 1869 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $40 020crime: The Oberlin Slave kidnapping case - Portraits of the Wellington Rescuers. 1859 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $40 |
021crime: The Mysterious Duer-Hearn tragedy at Pokomoke City - Maryland. 10 vignette's showing the portraits, Market street, scene of the crimes, etc. 1879 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 022crime: The Solution of the mysterious murder of Mrs. Dr. Hull - Incidents of the arrival of the self-confessed murderer. New York City. 1879 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 10 7/8 x 16 in. $40 023crime: Private Detective at work – “Spotting His Game.” Police Gazette 1883,rare. Female “Fly Cop” makes love and works her point – Shadows which betray secrets and people who live by betraying them. 11 1/4 x 16 in. $60 024crime: Jury Complaints “The Reason So Many Criminals Escape” on the left“incompetent citizens always ready to serve” on the right “reputable citizens excused.” Chromolithograph. 10 x 13 3/8 in. $90 025crime: Counter fitters and Secret Service “Manufacturing Worthless MetallicCurrency” 1872 dramatic hand colored, wood engraving from Frank Leslies’. 10 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. $80 026crime: RARE: Old Text: Electric Chair Execution Death. Fascinating one-page article, with engraved illustrations, from the June 30, 1888 issue of Scientific American. Title of the article is "Execution by Electricity." Electricity had not yet been used for capital punishment, but the article describes in detail how it could be most effective. It also describes some of the experiments that had been tried on animals such as dogs. According to the article, the state of New York was about to begin using the electric chair as its primary means of execution. This item is in very good condition. There is a light water stain on the paper, but it is not visually distracting. 11 x 16 in. $40 027crime: Mrs. Surratt, with the conspirators and assassins, hooded and ironed, proceeding to the penitentiary at Washington D.C. 1865 Frank Leslies'. Wood engraving. 11 x 16 in. $40 028crime: "Terrible Tragedy in New York" Detailing the story and pictures of Francis A. Gouldy who murdered his family and family's servants. 1858 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving. **Small holes down center fold. 16 x 22 1/2 in. $60 029crime: "Washington, D.C.--The Closing Act in the Tragedy of President Garfield's Assassination Guiteau's Last Look from the Scaffold, The Moment Before the Execution." Double page engraving from 1882 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper German Edition. Double page wood engraving showing Charles Julius Guiteau;, convicted assassin of President James A. Garfield about to ben "hooded" for execution. 16 x 21 1/2 in. $60 030crime: Double page 1859 Harper's Weekly detailing the Sickles Tragedy at Washington. Portraits, location, homicide scene shown. Wood engraving. **Small holes down center fold. 16 x 22 1/2 in. $60 031crime: Legal Barbarities at New Castle, Delaware. 1867 Frank Leslies Illustrated News. Wood engraving. **Has been archivally reinforced along verso borders. Foxing/water stain middle right quadrent. 11 x 15 1/2 in. $60 |
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