Death Collection (page 21)

Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka, India
Gol Gumbaz (Gumbadh, Gombadh), Bijapur, Karnataka, India. It is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur, completed in the 17th century. The name means rose dome. Date: circa 1890s

Wood for cremations, Benares (Varanasi), India
Wood piled up in preparation for cremations at Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1890s

Tower of Silence, Bombay (Mumbai), India
Tower of Silence (Dakhmeh), Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1890s

Mausoleum of Akbar, Sikandara, Agra, India
Mausoleum of Akbar the Great, Sikandara, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1890s

Tomb of Sheikh Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri, India
The 16th century tomb of Sheikh Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1890s

Tomb of Lazarus, Holy Land. Date: circa 1870

Tomb of Rachel, Holy Land. Date: circa 1870

Tombs of the Caliphs, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Three mummies, Egypt, with a living man sitting alongside. Date: circa 1870

Chivalry of the air by G. H. Davis
The chivalry of the air: the courtesy of foe to foe. Showing a British pilot dropping a wreath for a comrade's grave in the German lines during the First World War

Ming Tombs, Nanjing, China. Date: circa 1890

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

Spanish Civil War. Poster for Maria Fortuny's death anniversaire. Maria Fortuny was a Catalan painter (1838-1874). Drawing. SPAIN. Barcelona

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Depiction of a battle. Islamic art. Miniature Painting

British soldier tending grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tending the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. A row of plants can be seen. Date: circa 1916

Ww1 Wwi World War One First Great 1st Wartime
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Funeral of Anzac soldier, Western Front, WW1
Funeral of an Anzac soldier on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier tidying grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tidying the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Funeral of Manfred von Richthofen, WW1
Funeral of the German air ace, Manfred von Richthofen, towards the end of World War One, on the Western Front in France. Men firing a volley over the graveside. Date: April 1918

Grave in a shell hole, Western Front, WW1
A soldier's grave in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Lloyd George and Lord Reading, Western Front, WW1
Lloyd George and Lord Reading visiting soldiers graves on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British graveyard on Western Front, WW1
A British graveyard on the Western Front in France during World War One. A smashed railway track can be seen, as well as German ammunition left after a retreat

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

Sir John Tenniel, artist, illustrator and cartoonist
Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914), British artist, illustrator and political cartoonist, who had just died. Seen here with two of his most famous Punch cartoons

Band and Pipers at Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover, Kent
The Scottish-style pipe band at the Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover. The boys pose with their instruments. The home was founded by local philanthropist Thomas Blackman

Webb Orphanage, Crewe, Cheshire
A view of the Webb (or Webb's) Orphanage at Crewe. It was founded through a legacy of railway engineer Francis William Webb following his death in 1906. Date: 1912

Allied bombing compared with the Somme by G. H. Davis
Big damage at low cost: the Allied bombing offensive during the Second World War compared with one day's casualties on the Somme during the First World War

Princess Elizabeth & Margaret in snow at Sandringham
Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her younger sister, Princess Margaret Rose pictured in the grounds of Sandringham House, Norfolk having fun in the snow, innocent

Highlander's grave
On a hill outside La Fert鬠in France, the grave of a Private in the Highland regiment. The rudimentary cross is made from strips of an ammunition box

Victorian Birds Eye View Burial Death Customs
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Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, WW1
Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, with a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the words Louvain and Rheims (Reims) on his shoulders

Cartoon, Important Surrender of Copyright, WW1
Cartoon, Important Surrender of Copyright. Showing Bloody Mary (Queen Mary I of England) handing over her title to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Cartoon, The Harvest of War, WW1
Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements

Memorial Day, Soldiers Home Cemetery, California, USA
Memorial Day at the Soldiers Home Cemetery, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Man in tight stays 1788
Tight lacing 1788. A painfully fashionable young man wearing corsets to achieve a fashionable figure, bowing, perhaps in a dance. "These tight stays will be death of me, " he says

Cartoon, Close Formation, WW1
Cartoon, Close Formation, commenting on harsh German tactics on the battlefield during the First World War. Before the war, Kaiser Wilhelm defended his use of close formation of troops

Corpse Deception World War Two 1943 Operation
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Oswald Boelcke, German aviator, WW1
Oswald Boelcke (1891-1916), German flying ace of the First World War. He is considered to be the father of the German fighter air force, and was the first to formalise rules of air fighting

Italian postcard, The Unknown, WW1
Italian postcard, The Unknown, by R di Massa, First World War. A soldier carries a cross covered in the Italian flag up a sloping battlefield. Date: circa 1915

Burying a body, France
Three grave diggers inter a corpse in a cemetery

Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German army officer
Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945), German Army officer, seen here in later life in full ceremonial uniform, including a death's head on his hat. Date: circa 1930s

German propaganda postcard, Kaiser at grave, WW1
German propaganda postcard, On the Field of Honour, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II standing at the grave of a fallen hero during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Command Death Swan Dance Dancing Dances Dancer
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Grave of Charles James Brenan
The grave and headstone of Colour Sergeant Charles James Brenan of the 27th Inniskillings who departed this life at Tientsin (now Tianjin in China) on 28th December 1909, aged 37 years

Cartoon, first German victory, Moineville, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Their First Victory, showing a dead priest at Moineville, north-eastern France, on the frontier with Germany

German trench, Somme, northern France, WW1
German trench with dead soldiers and burnt tree stumps, in front of the Bois de la Vache, south east of Eclusier, on the Somme, northern France

Dead soldiers after battle of Isonzo, Italy, WW1
Dead Austro-Hungarian soldiers after a battle of the Isonzo, north east Italy, entitled Wie Wir Starben (How We Died). There were twelve battles in total in this area during the First World War

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

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