Dead Collection (page 11)

Two dead soldiers in a trench, Somme, France, WW1
Two dead soldiers in a trench on the Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Snow has recently fallen. Date: circa 1916-1918

Opening of Julia's Bureau, with W T Stead and staff
Group photo at the opening of Julia's Bureau, a seance circle, with W T Stead (far right) and staff. The Bureau was based in Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, London

Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Shepherds at North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with horses and carts, two live sheep, and what appears to be a pile of four dead sheep

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

Dead Russian soldiers at Augustowo, WW1
The bodies of dead Russian soldiers caught in barbed wire at Augustowo (Augustow, Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: September-October 1914

Dead soldiers on battlefield, Romanian Front, WW1
Dead soldiers on a battlefield on the Romanian Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

British plane crash with dead pilot, WW1
A crashed British plane with the dead pilot lying on the ground during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Crashed Allied plane at Fournes, France, WW1
A crashed Allied plane at Fournes, on the Western Front in northern France, during the First World War, with German troops and others gathered round. Date: 1914-1918

Dead soldiers on a battlefield, WW1
Dead soldiers with their faces covered up, lying on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German battery destroyed by British artillery, WW1
German battery destroyed by British artillery, based on aeroplane observation conveyed to ground forces by wireless, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Faked American Civil War photograph
Early photography: a soldier lies dead between two boulders with his gun resting on the rocks. Supposedly taken at the Battle of Gettysburg, but later found to be posed for propaganda. Date: 1863

Montague Colliery rescue workers
At the Montague Colliery, Scotswood, near Newcastle on Tyne, members of the rescue brigade check their apparatus before descending the flooded mine

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

Explorer Sealife Giant Fish Corpse Pregnant Saw
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Cremation on the bnaks of the Ganges - Benares
Benares, India - Cremation area on banks of the Ganges. Bodies wrapped in cloth await the ceremonial burning at the waters edge. circa 1920s

The Funeral of Edward VII - the horse-drawn bier parades slowly through the streets of London as vast crowds gather to pay their respects to their departed monarch. Date: circa 1910s

Italy Palermo Corso Calatafimi Street Road Dead
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Cenotaph Unveiled - 1920
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London - In Memory of The Glorious Dead. King George V unveiling the permanent memorial on 11th November 1920 - the anniversary of Armistice Day Date: 1920

Cape Reinga lighthouse, North Island, New Zealand
View of the lighthouse at Cape Reinga, at the far northern end of the North Island, New Zealand. The lighthouse was built in 1941

People of the Andaman Islands, pictures with a European Anthropologist. The natives photographed used to speak a language that was called Bo

Morocco - Chemist with his stall
A Native traditional practitioner of ritual medicine with a variety of dead animals, used to cure all manner of ills and ailments Date: circa 1930s

The Island of the Dead was the destination for all who died inside the prison camps at former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Westminster Abbey
The Unknown Warrior's grave in Westminster Abbey, London. Decorated with wreaths and tributes and also the American Congressional Medal

Mrs Sloper and her Children
The original painting was long regarded as showing Mrs Goddard and her children, with the dead mother in the sky looking down at her daughters on earth

Sudanese Dinka Village
Sudanese Dinka tribesmen of the Upper Nile and their elaborate layered reed houses. A holy man stands to the right next to a dead tree adorned with the horns of hunted beasts. Date: 1930s

Dead Religious Fanatic Loosewala
This card dates from the conclusion of the third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919. The body of a dead Loosewala, shot near West Ridge Barracks, Rawalpindi, Punjab. Date: 1921

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Valley of the Kings, tomb of Rameses VI, 1186 - 1085 BC, wall painting showing contents of the Book of the Dead. Photograph by Lionel Coates Date: circa 1970

Sami People - Early Photograph
The Sami people, (also known as Lapps, although this term is considered derogatory) are the indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden

Dead shark and window-shopping holidaymakers
Holidaymakers window shopping for souvenirs, Devon right next to the dramatic form of a dead (and very real!) hanging shark. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd Date: 1957

Battle of Pente Pigadia, 1912
The Battle of Pente Pigadia - fought during the First Balkan War between the Ottomans and the Kingdom of Greece. Ottoman Commander Esat Pasha, having set up his headquarters at Pente Pigadia

A Driver Climbing in to his Cab
A train driver climbs in to the cabin of a British Rail diesel locomotive. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

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

Bumeliana Well Walls Defending Defenders Oasis
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Turkish Hearse - Dead soldier
Dead Turkish soldier (very rare to see the face exposed like this) - on a horse-drawn hearse, returning his body from the battlefield. A number of his comrades in arms stand behind

Dead Pope Pius IX Lying in state
Pope Pius IX dies on 7th February 1878. Whilst lying in state inside the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, St Peter's, mourners reach out to kiss the late Pope's feet. Date: 1878

The Finish of the Mile Race- A Dead Heat
A number of exhausted young male runners battle it out as they near the finishing line. A largely male crowd watch on with enthusiasm

Farmer with fox
A farmer, gamekeeper or farm worker with a dead fox he has shot. Date: c.1935

Tomb Ornamentation - Southern Russia
An elaborate marble mortuary monument of a large dog faithfully standing over his dead mistress. Date: 1920s

Woman and dead pigeon
A woman in shorts and beanie hat hoists a dead pigeon onto a cane in an attempt to attract birds on the Norfolk Broads during the 1930s. Why, I'm not sure! Date: c.1933

Spirit head and shoulders sketch of D. D. Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume') (March 20, 1833 June 21, 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights

Ceremony in a Megalithic burial mound
A reconstruction drawing by Alan Sorrell designed to give an impression of the ceremonies associated with the holiest part of a Megalithic burial mound - the right-hand recess of the cruciform

Keeping Green the Memory of the Glorious Dead
Crowds come to pay their respects to the dead as they walk past the cenotaph memorial in Whitehall. A temporary construction in 1919, it was completed the following year in Portland stone

Abyssinian War: King Theodore, as he lay dead at Magdala
The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a punitive expedition against King Theodore, after he had imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British

Your Majesty by Mary L. Gow
An impression by Mary L. Gow (1851-1929) of the young Victoria receiving the news that her uncle, King William IV is dead, and she is queen, on the morning of 20 June 1837

Edward VII on his deathbed
King Edward VII (1841-1910) on his death bed in May 1910. Death-bed photographs were common on the Continent but almost unknown in this country

Waxwork Effigies in Westminster Abbey, 1872
A verger of Westminster Abbey guiding visitors to the waxwork funeral effigies of the Ragged Regiment or Play of Dead Folks, 1872

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