Police officer Ethel Gittleman Felcher was making her rounds as usual May 4, 1925, when a young woman ran toward her. The woman’s irate husband had been beating her, she told the plain-clothed officer ...

The town of Tuam was ransacked by the police, with buildings looted and set alight, in response to the shooting of two officers. By The International Herald Tribune (By Special Leased Wire.) LONDON, ...

Newsreel: Detroit police smash hundreds of illegal slot machines in the 1920s Detroit police look over hundreds of confiscated slot machines at police headquarters in the 1920s, then an officer ...

Mahjong was a craze sweeping the U.S. in the 1920s. The Canton police chief wasn't keen on the game and wanted to classify it as gambling. The Repository noted at the time that there was "a certain ...

From Coney Island to Harlem, life in New York City was rapidly changing during the 1920s. Take a photographic journey back to how New Yorkers saw the city a century ago. Views of the Brooklyn Bridge ...