Policeman in the 19th century

Policeman in the 19th century

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In the nineteenth-century United States, police forces were…oriented more toward service than toward crime control.…Policemen aided children hurt in accidents involving wagons, trains, and public transportation….In large and impersonal late-nineteenth-century cities, families could easily lose track of young children….Every year, urban police departments recovered and returned home hundreds of children, generally under age ten."

First photo - Time
Second - Unknown

First photo - 1903
Second photo - unknown

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Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Medium: Illustration.

English

Artwork

Police, Law Enforcement, Children, Public Service, Accidents

United States