Gang Collection

The Wild Bunch
Members of The Wild Bunch in Fort Worth, Texas: sitting (l to r): Harry A Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker

Children playing in the back alleys of a Goven tenement block. September 1956

CASSIDY AND LONGBAUGH. Butch Cassidy (1866-?), alias of Robert Leroy Parker, American desperado, and Harry Longbaugh (1867-?), known as the Sundance Kid, American desperado

The Wild Bunch, 1901, gang of American outlaws, bank and train robbers, led by Butch Cassidy, seated right. Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker (1866-1908): Standing left

Royal Scot Goes by C1935
A maintenance gang stop work to watch the Royal Scot go by

Meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Meerkats, also known as suricates, are active mongooses that live in colonies in underground burrows

Ulla Street Boot Boys. Middlesbrough 1970s 1970s

Mods gather in Hastings on their scooters, August 1964

JAMES GANG, 1876. A shootout after the raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, by Jesse James and his gang. Engraving, c1876

Track Renewal at Paddington Station, 1967
A view of a gang working on a track renewal scheme at London Paddington station, taken on 15th October 1967 at Platform Road No.3

Young lads gather around the fountain in Stevenage Town Centre, Hertfordshire. 13th October 1959

GEORGIA: CHAIN GANG. Chain gang prisoners and guards rest against a fence, Thomasville, Georgia. Photograph, c1890

THE HATFIELDS, 1899. Some members of the Hatfield clan, photographed in 1899

Sheriff removing criminals boots
Western sheriff arresting law-breakers and making them remove their boots to reduce escapes. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Toddlers in Merseyside running after National Coal Board Lorries and trying to jump on. This is a very dangerous activity. Picture taken 9th June 1963

Vietnam - Children working as porters - Saigon
Vietnam - Children working as porters - at a Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) market. Date: circa 1910s

Hole in the Wall Gang, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900 (b/w photo)
415581 Hole in the Wall Gang, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900 (b/w photo) by Rose, Noah Hamilton (1874-1952); Denver Public Library, Western History Collection; (add.info.: In Fort Worth, Texas)

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge

Illustration, crime scene, man in street being fired at with shotgun from car window, both men in suits and fedora hats, pair of onlookers in background

Policemen guarding house in Sidney Street, East London
Policemen guarding the devastated house in Sidney Street, East London, after the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Senegal - West Africa - Dakar
Children playing in the street in Dakar, Senegal

Black Gang Chine I. O. W
A majestic site - note the size of the boats

SUNDANCE KID & PLACE, c1900. American outlaws Harry Longabaugh, also know as the Sundance Kid and Etta Place, members of The Wild Bunch gang. Photograph, c1900

Picture No. 10894914
Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) Date:

Rhodes and Beit
CECIL RHODES and Alfred Beit, photographed soon after they were described in Parliament as members of a common gang of thieves and swindlers

Oliver Meets Fagin
Oliver is introduced to the respectable old gentleman - actually Fagin, the head of a gang of thieves

A group of skinheads who have just been evicted from the Spanish City in Whitley Bay on 31st May 1970

Scene at POP Festival, Weeley, Essex, following a battle between security men and Hells Angels, a young Hells Angel leaves the battlefield on a stretcher, 28th August 1971

Rubber Plantation - Malaysia - Overseer and Coolies. Date: circa 1910s

Black Gang Chine, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight - Stuffed bear
Black Gang Chine amusement complex, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight - Stuffed bear and very brave young girl happy to accept its embrace. Date: circa 1930s

A Hobart chain-gang, a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form
5614423 A Hobart chain-gang, a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment; (add.info.: A Hobart chain-gang)

The division of the robbery, at the Court of St. James, London, after a work by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796
1000899 The division of the robbery, at the Court of St. James, London, after a work by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796. From Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart by Eduard Fuchs

Southern convict system, gang of convicts at dinner (b/w photo)
8652929 Southern convict system, gang of convicts at dinner (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Southern convict system, gang of convicts at dinner)

An engraving depicting a Press Gang recruiting men for the Navy in London, 19th century
5311018 An engraving depicting a Press Gang recruiting men for the Navy in London, 19th century; (add.info.: Date: 1895); Universal History Archive/UIG

A young Butch Cassidy, 1850 (b/w photo)
3507240 A young Butch Cassidy, 1850 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Photographic portrait of Butch Cassidy (1866-1908) an American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang

Gang System: teams of children were formed by contractor or ganger and hired out to farmers as agricultural labour
533889 Gang System: teams of children were formed by contractor or ganger and hired out to farmers as agricultural labour, East Anglia

The division of the robbery. In St. Giles, London criminal district, after a work by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796
1000898 The division of the robbery. In St. Giles, London criminal district, after a work by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796. From Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart by Eduard

Gang of women trying to pull down a monument, 1899
1576741 Gang of women trying to pull down a monument, 1899; (add.info.: Our busy old women A gang of "Old Women" with ropes trying to pull down the statues on a large monument constructed)

Chinese map of the world dated 1763, claiming to be a reproduction of a 1418 map of Zheng He's (1371-1433)
528025 Chinese map of the world dated 1763, claiming to be a reproduction of a 1418 map of Zheng He's (1371-1433) voyages and to prove that Zheng He sailed both to Australia and the Americas

The Lamplighter, Watchman and Link-boy. London lamplighter with ladder and fuse lighting streetlamps 55, watchman in great coat with lantern and rattle 56

Youths in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. 13th October 1959

Life in the Mirror Our Gang. 19th January 1954 Boys playing football watched on by others on a bomb site off Bow Road in the East End of London

Life in the Mirror Our Gang. 19th January 1954 A gang of boys plot todays agenda of mischief and mayhem outside a tobacconist in Bow Road in the East End of London This is The Conference

Life in the Mirror Our Gang. 19th January 1954 Boys playing football watched on by others on a bomb site off Bow Road in the East End of London

Teddy Boys - Dressed in their gear - left to right - John Roberts, of Maerdy; Brian Davies, of Maerdy; Meirion Mush Williams, of Ystrad; Rob Jailhouse George; Alwyn Phillips

Children of the tenement blocks of Govan, Glasgow seen here playing a game of street cricket. September 1956

The locals at "The Clyde"pub in Govan joke with the Landlord. September 1956
The locals at " The Clyde" pub in Govan joke with the Landlord. September 1956

Meerkats, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa

Too Late Mr. Hudson
Vertigo Artography

Hang'n There
Vertigo Artography

Motorcycle II
Tahsin Gun

"me and the guys" Projec Lives on Hold
Cláudio Vicente

AI IMAGE - Fagin, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Fagin, 2023. Character from "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress" by Charles Dickens, published as a serial from 1837 to 1839

Success Is Sexy
Dikhotomy

Rebel dog
Balazs Solti

Meerkat Gang at Sunset
Carlo Kaminski

Road works gang, London Date: early 1900s

Laying railway tracks in the Severn Tunnel, 1930s maybe

A railway track maintenance gang - early 1900s

Railway maintenance gang

Road making in Nanking, China in the early 1900s

Road gang and steam roller, London

Road repair gang and steam roller - Victorian period

Road repair gang Victorian period

Road repair gang

Steam roller and road gang Victorian period Date: 19th century

Road repair gang, early 1900s

Road repair gang, Tickhill early 1900's

Tickhill Road Menders early 1900s

Turner's Asbestos Cement Advertisement
A humorous advertisement illustration for Turner's Asbestos Cement Co. showing a quarry scene both above and below ground

Workmen Walking
A painting of a gang of four workmen, strolling down a lane of a town, a fruit seller can be seen with her cart just behind them. Date: circa 1916

The Press Gang - forcing men to join the navy Date: 1879

Gang of men with shovels planting tomatoes, Evesham
The men all wear flat hats. In the background is a man with a horse and cart. One man has a wheelbarrow. The farm is in Evesham, Worcestershire. Date: 1907

Ten Jolly English male students go camping (2/2)
Ten Jolly English male students have fun during their summer holidays by heading off on a jaunt camping in the countryside. Lots of fun is being had, possibly fuelled by a few beverages

Ten Jolly English male students go camping (1/2)
Ten Jolly English male students have fun during their summer holidays by heading off on a jaunt camping in the countryside. Lots of fun is being had, possibly fuelled by a few beverages

C. N. D. Demonstrators
C.N.D. demonstrators protest against the Gang of Four - Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen - who broke away from the Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party

Invasion Bells and the Fifth Column
A suggestion that a Gang of Spies could attempt to disguise themselves as innocent country folk and succeed in stopping the ringing of the church bells used in warning of attempted invasion

Two members of Gibraltar's police force questioning a Spanish boy on the gang-way of a refugee boat, August 1936. The Spanish Civil War, which started in the summer of 1936

Child labour working in the fields
Farming under the gang system - work contracted out to entrepreneurs who worked their labour force often under harsh conditions. Date: 1867

Cyclists attacked in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris (colour litho)
2782210 Cyclists attacked in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cyclists attacked in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris)

Violent robbery of a farm near Aalst, Belgium (colour litho)
2795700 Violent robbery of a farm near Aalst, Belgium (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Violent robbery of a farm near Aalst, Belgium)

"There was an Old Person of Chester, whom several small children did pester", from A Book of Nonsense
LLM386713 " There was an Old Person of Chester, whom several small children did pester", from A Book of Nonsense, published by Frederick Warne and Co

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"The Wild Bunch: Legends of the American Outlaw Gang" Step back in time to 1901, where the notorious gang known as The Wild Bunch ruled the land. Led by the infamous Butch Cassidy and his partner-in-crime, Harry Longbaugh aka the Sundance Kid, this gang of American outlaws struck fear into the hearts of all who crossed their path. Captured forever in a photograph taken at Fort Worth, Texas, Cassidy and Longbaugh sit proudly among their fellow members. Bank and train robbers extraordinaire, they were not to be trifled with. Their audacious exploits became legendary tales that would echo through history. But The Wild Bunch was not alone in their pursuit of chaos. Enter Royal Scot Goes by C1935 - a name synonymous with danger and thrill-seeking adventures. This gang added an air of mystery to their escapades as they left authorities baffled at every turn. Not all they are fueled by criminal intent; some find solace in unity and survival like the meerkats roaming Africa's vast landscapes. These creatures teach us about loyalty and cooperation within a tightly-knit community. Meanwhile, across continents, another notorious group made headlines - the Bonnot Gang Raid Bank sent shockwaves throughout France during their reign of terror. Their daring heists pushed boundaries and challenged societal norms. Closer to home in Middlesbrough during the 1970s, Ulla Street Boot Boys emerged as a symbol of rebellion against authority figures. They embodied youthful defiance while leaving an indelible mark on local history. In August 1964, Mods gathered en masse on scooters in Hastings - a vibrant display of youth culture embracing style and individuality amidst social change. The Hatfields clan from 1899 showcased family ties forged through thick and thin; united against external threats but also facing internal strife that tested bonds beyond measure. Venturing further east to Vietnam reveals a different kind - children working as porters in Saigon.