Images Dated 22nd November 2011

Fingerprint types, 17th century

Fingerprint types. 19th-century artwork showing three of the fingerprint types (arch, loop and whorl) identified by British scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911), who wrote on the subject from 1888. This artwork is from Mysteries of Police and Crime (1898) by the British crime historian Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908), Inspector of Her Majesty's Prisons and deputy governor of Millbank and Wormwood Scrubs

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Battalion Ballads from 17th Bat. Highland Light Infantry

Book entitled Battalion Ballads from THE OUTPOST 17th (S) Battalion Highland Light Infantry. This book belonged to 15959 Sergeant W. F. Ritchie. Annotated inside giving details of his time in France. Collection includes two photographs of him - one in his blue serge uniform and another with his daughter and dog; a banda programme entitled Very Lights on the opening of First Corps. Headquarters Recreation Hut; together with the very first copy of The Outpost dated February 1915. This copy was auctioned on the Parade Ground on February 18th 1915 in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund. Major Paul was the highest bidder at 4.10. He handed it back to the magazine staff to be raffled. Contains signatures. Collection

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

On the Summit, 1932 (oil on masonite)

651159 On the Summit, 1932 (oil on masonite) by Curran, Charles Courtney (1861-1942); 76x63.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: On the Summit. Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942). Oil on masonite. Signed and dated 1932. 76 x63.5cm. A portrait of Dorothea Story, a friend of the artist's wife.); Photo A© Christie's Images; American, out of copyright

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