Human Collection (page 10)

CHILDREN SACRIFICED
MOLOCH the Phoenician deity to whom live children were sacrificed by fire Date: 7th century BC

MEXICAN SACRIFICE
A Mexican priest displays the beating heart which he has just extracted from the body of a sacrifical victim Date: 16th century

AZTEC SACRIFICE
Aztec priests of Mexico sacrifice prisoners to their gods, extracting their hearts and throwing the rest down the temple steps

SUTTEE IN 1951
When police at Rajadhar, India, try to prevent a widow from joining her husband on his funeral pyre, they provoke a riot Date: 1951

BIG BOSS
Democracy - Depicting a vulture over looking workers while sitting upon a human skull 1941

CAPTAIN COOK IN TAHITI
At Tahiti, Cook and his companions watch a human sacrifice Date: 1769

Human sacrifice
Priests and others watch as a victim burns in ancient Scandinavia. Date: 1555

Priests of Tenochtitlan Sacrifice Victims to their Gods
Aztecs of Mexico- Priests of Tenochtitlan sacrifice victims to their gods Date: circa 1500

Human Sacrifices Thrown from Platform by Priests
Aztecs of Mexico- Priests at Tenochtitlan cut the heart from a still- living victim then fling the carcase from the platform Date: circa 1500

Anatomy of human musculature.. Anatomy of human musculature from the back showing inner muscles. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Flint hand axe
Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400, 000 years old

Unfolding female anatomy
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Great Exhibition - mechanical figure 1851
Count Dunins mechanical figure. The external part of the figure consists of a series of steel and copper plates sliding upon each other and kept in contact by screws

CHINESE PROPAGANDA
Chinese propaganda against the French depicting them making fat from human bodies and then using the fat to make soap Date: 1892

ALCINOUS HANDMILL / C17TH
Alcinous handmill in operation. Date: 17th century

DEANES FLOUR MILL
Deanes Patent Economic Flour Mill, operated by hand. Date: 1851

Human hair market in Alsace 1871
Human hair market in Alsace, France. Date: 1871

Singers (Grandville)
A chorus of singers - but they are animals in human dress, as also the monkey conductor and the bovine accompanist... Date: 1828

SCOTTISH HAND-MILL C18
A Scottish handmill (2-part Quern) used for grinding up small quantities of corn. Date: 1769

THUMB PLAY BILL
A theatrical announcement for the final European performance at Ryde Town Hall of General Tom Thumb (aged 14) before he returns to America

MADAME DELAIT BERNARD
This St Bernard can be proud that he is owned by Madame Delait, of Thaon-les-Vosges, who is described as the best- known bearded lady of France Date: 1907

1918 / RUSSIA / RED GUARD
The Red Guard is triumphant. Date: 1918

MAORIS FIND REMAINS
The trade in human heads - Maoris find the heads of their relatives among the dealers wares on board his ship. Date: 1830

WATCHING DAHOMEY SACRIF
DAHOMEY Europeans watch the sacrifice of captives and criminals, thankful they are not themselves the stars of the show Date: 1835

HUMAN SACRIIFICE, TAHITI
Human sacrifice at a temple at Tahiti, Pacific Date: 1806

BASKET SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
In the Basket Sacrifice of Dahomey, captives from other tribes are tied in a basket and thrown down from a tower to the eager crowd below... Date: circa 1860

INDIAN INFANTICIDE
A child is sacrificed in the Temple of Ganesh, Benares, India Date: circa 1850

NOLLET EXPERIMENT 7
The Abbe Nollet demonstrates the electrical conductivity of the human body to a fashionable Paris audience Date: circa 1750

FOLKLORE / CYNOCEPHALIES
Dog-headed creatures, reported by travellers in India; they are depicted fighting the monsters of the forest, using weapons, so they are evidently more-or-less human Date: medieval

LONDON / CRIES / DEFORMED
The deformed beggar often sells pens as begging is not sanctioned in England. Date: 1823

MAN SHOT FROM GUN
A human shell is seemingly shot from a cannon. In truth, he is propelled by a spring, and the explosion occurs a fraction of a second later... Date: 1884

APES, MONKEYS & BABY APES, MONKEYS & BABY
The advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871)

Evolution - Baby - Monkeys
The advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871)

EVENTS / PACIFIC / COOK
While at Tahiti he and his companions watch a human sacrifice Date: 1769

Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927

Animals and homo sapiens at the time of the Flood. Date: BCE

The White and White, Exentric-Act, creator of the step-dance on the human pedestal. 20th century

The Span of Life, a drama by Sutton Vane, William Calders Company. circa 1890s

Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France, Le Monument aux Morts (Monument to the Dead of Pere-Lachaise) - designed by Albert Bartholome (18481928) and finished in 1895 Date: 1907

Curtiss America Biplane Flying-Boat Date: 1910s

WW2 Irish Fighter Air Ace Brendon E Finucane, Known As Paddy Date: 1940s

Junkers J-1 monoplane
A Junkers J-1 Monoplane Parked with Chocks in Place Date: 1910s

Junkers J-4 / J-1 biplane
A Junkers J-4 / J-1 Biplane Parked on Stony Ground with a Man Standing By Date: 1910s

The American Crewmen of the British Airship Zr-2

Tommy Rose, Winner of the 1936 Kings Cup Air Races Bein?
Tommy Rose, Winner of the 1936 Kings Cup Air Races Being Carried on the Shoulders of a Crowd of People after He Had Won. Date: 1936

A Picture of Jean Batten with a Hand-Gun Date: 1930s

Colonel Samuel Franklin Cody, the Pioneer Pilot Who Made?
Colonel Samuel Franklin Cody, the Pioneer Pilot Who Made His First Powered Flight in His British Army Aeroplane No 1 on October 16, 1908

Heinkel He-177A-5 / R-6
A Luftwaffe Heinkel He-177A-5/R-6 of Ii/Kg 40 at Bordeaux-Merignac in the Spring of 1944, after the Gruppe Reverted to an Atlantic Reconnaissance Role Date: 1940s

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