Corpses Collection

The Zulu war. Lord Chelmsfords retreat from Isandhlwana the
Lord Chelmsford surveying the damage after the Battle of Isandlwana. The battlefield strewn with corpses is in the foreground, Isandhlawana Hill is in the distance, as are the Zulu impi (warriors)

Crime / Resurrectionists
Robbing graveyards for corpses which will be sold to medical schools for purposes of anatomy

Mariner, Seraph-Band
The angelic spirits leave the dead bodies of the sailors: This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight!

Posada, The Plague, Mexico
The Plague, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Revolution victims during period of anarchy, Russia
Revolution victims during a period of Bolshevik-led anarchy in Russia, with crosses to mark their place of burial. Date: circa 1917

Revolution victims after street fighting, Russia. The dead bodies were collected and placed on trestles in adjacent houses until carts could carry them to the morgues. Date: circa 1917

Eastern front, World War Two, Russia soldiers
Eastern front, December 1941, World War Two. Russian troops in white; the corpses of German soldiers lie in the foreground partially covered in snow. Date: 1941

Corpses of Russian soldiers, Brzostek cemetery, WW1
Corpses of Russian soldiers at Brzostek cemetery, Galicia (now in Poland), on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1917

Bubonic plague in China
Bubonic plague outbreak in China: collecting and carrying the dead in Tientsin (now Tianjin). Date: 1911

MARINER, DEADMEN ON SHIP
The Mariner is forced to confront the accusing eyes of his dead shipmates: Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die Date: First published: 1798

VISITING FRENCH MORGUE
An assortment of visitors to a French morgue: a soldier in uniform and a mother and her son. A caretaker leans against the barrier smoking, unaffected by the corpses. Date: 1816

KRAKATOA/CORPSES 1883
The day after the eruption, a sailing vessel makes its way through a sea of floating corpses Date: 26-8 August 1883

BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES
Bolshevik atrocities in Latvia: corpses litter the street Date: 1919

World War II exhuming Norwegian corpses Trandum Forest
World War II vintage photograph - exhuming Norwegian corpses from mass graves in the Trandum Forest Trandumskogen Norway

MARTYRS AT MONTAUBAN
Martyrs of liberty : corpses litter the street of Montauban when troops of the Garde Nationale, still loyal to the ancien regime, fire on revolutionary demonstrators. Date: 10 May 1790

BELA KUN organises a communist revolution in Hungary - the Germans depict him rising to power on a heap of corpses Date: 1919

LAVANDIERES DE LA NUIT
LES LAVANDIERES DE LA NUIT (= Laundresses of the night) sinister washerwomen of Berry, central France, who launder infant corpses by stagnant pools. Date: 1851

Aftermath of the battle of Neuve Chapelle
Corpses lie scattered in No Mans Land, following the British offensive at Neuve Chapelle, France, March 1915. Date: March 1915

Rope by Patrick Hamilton
Promotional postcard for Rope by Patrick Hamilton. First produced at the Ambassadors Theatre, 25th April 1929 (apart from one performance at the Strand Theatre)

Spain (1814). Move of the corpses of Luis Daoiz and Pedro Velarde (2nd May 1814), dead six years before facing up the napoleonic troops. Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia

Allied Intervention in Vladivostock - Russian Civil War
In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, the port of Vladivostok in far eastern Russia was of great military importance for the Far Eastern Republic, the Provisional Priamurye Government

Mexican Revolution - Dead in the Doorway
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) - Diligence - The brave dead lying in the doorway. Date: circa 1911

Street Fighting 1830
Corpses lie strewn over the rue de Louvain, Paris, as government forces engage with insurgents

Royal Graves Vandalised
Hatred of the ancien regime is carried to extremes when vandals break into the crypt at Saint-Denis, take the royal corpses from their coffins and throw them in a common ditch

SEA-DEVILS
OUT OF THE DEEP come marine monsters, with evil intent, but the sea-devils are destroyed... Trafalgar Square, London, is strewn with their corpses

END OF A DEMO... 1907
At the end of a demonstration, all that is left is a pile of bloody corpses

Lavandieres De LA Nuit
LES LAVANDIERES DE LA NUIT (= Laundresses of the night) sinister washerwomen of Berry, central France, who launder infant corpses by stagnant pools

Crusades / Jerusalem
FIRST CRUSADE The victorious Crusaders process round Jerusalem, after massacring the defenders till the streets were filled with corpses

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