Keywords: Maison d'Arrét et de Correction - Intérieur.jpg Photograph Creator Hippolyte-Auguste Collard en City Police Préfecture Paris en Maison d'Arrét et de Correction Saint-Lazare Interior view of room with rows of sewing machines elevated desk in front with statues of the Blessed Virgin and St Joseph and the Child Jesus on either side depicted people depicted place between 1876 1880 albumen silver 66 5 x 57 cm accession number H87 208/16 SLVIC-digitalimage 273521 H87 208/16 Album with leather covered cardboard covers 148 cardboard leaves holding 69 albumen silver print photographs on one side of leaf only Individual titles and official photographer stamped below image Title embossed on front cover with seal of the City of Paris in gilt ink ; title also on spine Label inside front cover reads Presented to the Public Library c Victoria on the eighth day of April 1881 by the Government of France Hand inscribed note on first page of album upper left Presented April 8th 1881 illegible Photographs various sizes 38 x 27 cm and smaller <br> Album was designed to show the use of photography in the solving of crimes and disasters Gift of the French Government possibly following the International Exhibition of 1880 <br> Official photographer's stamp on each page lower left some images dated 1876 and 1880 One photographer identified Hippolyte-Auguste Collard Institution State Library of Victoria object history exhibition history credit line Gift; Government of France; 1881 Information field Author Préfecture de police de Paris Service Photographique PD-100 Prison Saint-Lazare Ville de Paris Préfecture de police Images of Paris from the State Library of Victoria |