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Background imageBones Collection: Native of South Africa holding three spears

Native of South Africa holding three spears, wearing a necklace of bones and a red belt.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Background imageBones Collection: Stickado Wooden Psalter Old Woman Rosary Bones

Stickado Wooden Psalter Old Woman Rosary Bones
stickado, wooden, psalter, old, woman, rosary, bones, handcolored, engraving, Chretien, Mechel, Hans, Holbein, Triumph, Death, original, drawing, Peter, Paul, Rubens, skeleton, history, historical

Background imageBones Collection: Bride Wedding Dress Mirror Brush Hour Glass Necklace

Bride Wedding Dress Mirror Brush Hour Glass Necklace
Bride, wedding, dress, mirror, brush, hour, glass, necklace, bones, handcolored, engraving, Chretien, Mechel, Hans, Holbein, Triumph, Death, original, drawing, Peter, Paul, Rubens, skeleton, history

Background imageBones Collection: Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary

Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary in 1927, awaiting definitive internment. See 10412369 for an earlier shot of the same location. Date: 1927

Background imageBones Collection: POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). La calavera

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (The calavera of popular editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo)

Background imageBones Collection: GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠'Untitled

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠'Untitled
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨1886-1945). Untitled. Expressionism. Oil on canvas

Background imageBones Collection: California Usa America American Death Valley

California Usa America American Death Valley
california, usa, america, american, death, valley, abandoned, cabin, shed, wood, wooden, makeshift, building, buildings, ramshackle, animal, skulls, skull, bone, bones, sand, springs, north, end

Background imageBones Collection: Broken Mass grave at Skiathos, Greece

Broken Mass grave at Skiathos, Greece
An incredible photograph of a large broken stone mortuary monument with the contents (many skeletons) spilling forth Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBones Collection: BATTLE OF SOLFERINO 13

BATTLE OF SOLFERINO 13
Preparing a monument to the dead of Solferino, using their skulls and bones. Date: June 1859

Background imageBones Collection: SKULL AND CROSSBONES

SKULL AND CROSSBONES
The traditional emblem of Death, adopted by pirates and other evil-doers. Date: 1817

Background imageBones Collection: Caricature of Victoriano Huerta, military officer, Mexico

Caricature of Victoriano Huerta, military officer, Mexico
Caricature of Victoriano Huerta (1850-1916), a military officer who became the 35th President of Mexico in 1913, but was overthrown in 1914. Date: 1913-1914

Background imageBones Collection: Zapatista caricature, Mexico

Zapatista caricature, Mexico
Caricature of a Zapatista with a skull face - a supporter of Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). circa 1911

Background imageBones Collection: ELISHA POSTHUMOUSMIRACLE

ELISHA POSTHUMOUSMIRACLE
After Elisha's death, a supposedly dead man's body happens to touch his bones and he is brought back to life and stands up on his feet

Background imageBones Collection: Interior of the new museum, Royal College of Surgeons, located at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London

Interior of the new museum, Royal College of Surgeons, located at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Date: 1854

Background imageBones Collection: The Invisible Man, book cover

The Invisible Man, book cover
The Invisible Man. Cover illustration to an early French edition

Background imageBones Collection: Comic postcard, Plump couple in a restaurant

Comic postcard, Plump couple in a restaurant Date: 20th century

Background imageBones Collection: Historical views of Holland

Historical views of Holland. Dutch man and woman in front of a town 67, woman skating on ice to market with a basket on her head 68, and horse-drawn barges or Treckschutz on the canal 69

Background imageBones Collection: Scenes from the islands of West Africa, 1820

Scenes from the islands of West Africa, 1820
Christopher Columbus in the Azores looking toward America 28, birds in the Canary Islands 29, and Napoleon Bonapartes prison Longwood House on St. Helena 30

Background imageBones Collection: Roman cinerary urn and vase

Roman cinerary urn and vase. Two marble cinerary urns found in ancient tombs in Siena 1, 2, and marble urn with pedestal and figure of lion attacking a bull 3. After Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Background imageBones Collection: A man offers his friend his beautiful slavegirl

A man offers his friend his beautiful slavegirl. Two friends watch a woman sleeping in a four-poster bed. Les deux amis. After Athenaeus

Background imageBones Collection: Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

Background imageBones Collection: Menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore

Menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore
Front cover, menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore, showing a chef and his young assistant in a ramshackle and untidy kitchen. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1930s

Background imageBones Collection: Skeleton of a crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus

Skeleton of a crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus. Copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1801

Background imageBones Collection: Anatomy of the human skeleton

Anatomy of the human skeleton. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1839

Background imageBones Collection: Skeleton of Death adorning a Countess with

Skeleton of Death adorning a Countess with a necklace of bones even as she is preoccupied with a new gown from her maid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of

Background imageBones Collection: Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta

Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta. Vulnerable. Une tortue de mer d Amerique, Caretta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration after nature by

Background imageBones Collection: Fossil bones of an American mastodon and mata mata

Fossil bones of an American mastodon and mata mata
Fossil bones of an extinct American mastodon, Mammut americanum 1, and mata mata, Chelus fimbriata 2. Mastodonte (ossemens fossiles), matamata

Background imageBones Collection: Norfolk Island garden with whale bones, 1939

Norfolk Island garden with whale bones, 1939
A feature of many gardens on Norfolk Island in the Pacific which recalls the time when whales were caught off the coast: a porch formed of whales jaw-bones over a garden gate. 1939

Background imageBones Collection: The Alamo Monument in Austin, Texas

The Alamo Monument in Austin, Texas
A monument to the battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. A small obelisk sits on plinth decorated with a skull and cross bones, with the name Crockett engraved on it. Date: 1836

Background imageBones Collection: Looking down on North Berwick - Whale Bones atop hill

Looking down on North Berwick - Whale Bones atop hill
Looking down on North Berwick from North Berwick Law, Firth of Forth and Craigleith Island, East Lothian, Scotland - Whale Bones atop the hill. In the distance can be seen the lowlands of Fife

Background imageBones Collection: Cartoon, Sanitary and insanitary matters

Cartoon, Sanitary and insanitary matters
Larger figure representing the industries surrounding the River Thames like the soup boiling factory where bones were used and the knackers yard where injured animals were taken to be slaughtered

Background imageBones Collection: Osteological room in College of Surgeons 1880s

Osteological room in College of Surgeons 1880s
Osteological room in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Date: 1880s

Background imageBones Collection: Hardy Patent Pick Co. bone grinder 1890s

Hardy Patent Pick Co. bone grinder 1890s
The Devil, Disintegrator, bone grinder and mixer. This machine will grind to powder, granulate or shed any material, animal and vegetable, wet or dry at one operation. Date: 1890s

Background imageBones Collection: Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens lingerie 1927

Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens lingerie 1927
The New Corslo Corset, in cotton tricot with centre busk and boning either side, all bones removable for washing, four suspenders. Date: 1927

Background imageBones Collection: Sedlec, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - The Sedlec Ossuary

Sedlec, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - The Sedlec Ossuary
The remarkable Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice v Sedlci) - a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints, part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec

Background imageBones Collection: DEUCALION AND PYRRHA

DEUCALION AND PYRRHA
After the Deluge, Deucalion and Pyrrha are instructed by the Oracle of Thetis to repopulate the Earth by throwing the bones of their mother behind them

Background imageBones Collection: FELLOW TRAVELLER (EVB)

FELLOW TRAVELLER (EVB)
The Wicked Princess in her garden. Date: 1872

Background imageBones Collection: THE CATACOMBS / ROME

THE CATACOMBS / ROME
The catacombs under Rome; the burial-places of early Christians. Date: late 19th century

Background imageBones Collection: ELISHAS BONES MIRACLE

ELISHAS BONES MIRACLE
A Person assassinated, being thrown into the Tomb of Elisha, immediately revives, on touching the reliques of the Prophet Date: circa Ist century

Background imageBones Collection: ARTHURS BROTHERS BONES

ARTHURS BROTHERS BONES
He finds the skeletons of his brothers

Background imageBones Collection: Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb

Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb
The low winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb beneath cemetery gates. Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 2009

Background imageBones Collection: Temporary Treatment of Bone Fractures

Temporary Treatment of Bone Fractures, including rifle used as a splint, cricket bat used as a splint, slings, triangular bandages, shawl caps, huntsmans whips used as splint

Background imageBones Collection: Table of the Seven Deadly Sins by Hieronymus Bosch

Table of the Seven Deadly Sins by Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516). Dutch painter. Table of the Seven Deadly Sins. Detail of the Envy. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Background imageBones Collection: Anatomy skeleton

Anatomy skeleton
Diagram of the human skeleton from front and back

Background imageBones Collection: Foot x rays showing damage done by wearing high heels

Foot x rays showing damage done by wearing high heels
A double page spread from The Sketch reporting on the unnatural stresses put on the feet by the wearing of high heels, which had been banned by the French medical profession being bad for the feet

Background imageBones Collection: Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten

Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBones Collection: Three views of a wolf bone excavated at Vestonice

Three views of a wolf bone excavated at Vestonice
Proof that the mammoth-hunters of 30, 000 years ago knew how to count: three views of a wolf bone (the radius) marked with numerical notches

Background imageBones Collection: Greetings card in the shape of a bone

Greetings card in the shape of a bone -- A bone for you to pick. Date: circa 1890s



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