Plague Collection

Schistocerca gregaria, desert locust
A desert locust perching on a branch. Locusts sometimes swarm to form groups of up to 80 million and can migrate over large distances

Alexandre Yersin
ALEXANDRE EMILE JOHN YERSIN Swiss medical, associated with Roux, discovered plague virus, directed Pasteur Institute in Vietnam

Protective Dress
Protective dress worn by French doctors attending plague victims in Marseille and elsewhere

A Plague of Locusts

Hippocrates Saves Athens
By his sensible precautions, the Greek physician Hippocrates saves the people of Athens from the worst effects of the plague which threatens them

Pandora and Hope
When Pandora first opens her box, she lets loose all the evils that can plague mankind; but when she and Epimethus open it a second time, Hope appears

Myth / Tibet / Country / Mice
THE COUNTRY OF THE MICE The mice cross the river on cakes of dried yaks dung

Sicily - Palermo Monte Pellegrino Saint Rosalies Chapel
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Chapel of Saint Rosalie. Saint Rosalie lived a hermit life in the caves of Mount Pallegrino

LA Peste at Marseille
Scene showing the streets of Marseille strewn with plague victims, some being carted away in carts : drawing made on the spot in 1720

Plague of Hailstorm - Egypt

Plague of Locusts - Egypt

Plague of Frogs - Egypt

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

14th Century 1350 Black Death Blood Continent
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The Black Death. 14th century. Figure of a woman hit by
The Black Death. 14th century. Epidemic that ravaged the European continent. Figure of a woman hit by plague. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

ZANCHI, Antonio (1631-1722). Death in Venice. 1666. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History)

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

Cholera in St. Petersburg, Russian, a procession of priests going to the Spassky Church to pray for the cessation of the plague. Date: September 1892

LAURA DE NOVES or DE SADE beloved by the Italian poet Petrarch : an unfortunate victim of the Black Death (bubonic plague). Date: 1308 - 1348

PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665
Bodies are brought out of the city in carts and buried in pits dug for the purpose during the Great Plague of London Date: 1665

PLAGUE CHILD SAVED 1665
A child is saved from a plague-stricken house in London. Date: 1665

Hampstead, the plague-ground of Londoners where the shades of smallpox and fever threaten the innocent holidaymakers
Hampstead, the plague-ground of Londoners... where the shades of smallpox and fever threaten the innocent holidaymakers... Date: 1875

PESTILENCE/BIBLICAL ERA
Illustration showing those afflicted with pestilence of biblical era, Israel

Sennacherib Plague Religion Bible Events Old
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BEFORE LEAVING EGYPT
Following the last plague - the death of the first-born - the Hebrews eat their last meal standing, dressed for travel, staff in hand... ready to leave Egypt

EIGHTH CRUSADE Louis IX lands at Carthage, whence he will advance to Tunis where he will die of the plague Date: 1270

DEATH/FUNERALS/TITIAN
Titian dies of plague in Venice, but the authorities allow him to be buried in the church of the Frari though other plague victims are denied church burial Date: 1576

BIBLE/PLAGUE/FIRST BORN
Death of the first born. Date: OT

Victims of the Black Death plague in 1349
Victims of the Black Death Date: 1349

Dance of Death, Great Plague of London
A Dance of Death depiction at St Paul's Cathedral, during the Great Plague of London. Date: 1665

Great Plague of London of 1665
Blaize, an apothecary, tests medicines to try and cure the plague Date: 1665

Precautions taken against the plague in Japan, 1908
An example to India: exterminating the microbe-carrying rat. Remarkable precautions taken against the plague in Japan. Photographs include sorting

The Five Houses
These -Five Houses - were built in, what was then, the rural Tuttle Fields (now Tothill Fields) as pest-houses for victims of the plague of 1665. Date: 1875

Napoleon Bonaparte ordering the poisoning of plague-ridden French troops after the Siege of Jaffa, Egyptian Campaign, 1799

Graben in Vienna
View to the Graben, towards the northwest, showing the plague column. Date: 1834

The Great Plague of London
Two men holding handkerchiefs over their noses in an attempt to avoid catching the plague as they hurry through the London Streets

Professor Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915), Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physician and scientistand Dr. Sahachiro Hata (1873 - 1938) prominent Japanese bacteriologist, working in Frankfort laboratory

Ashes of burnt bodies during Chinese plague outbreak
Mounds of ashes of cremated bodies and coffins during the plague outbreak in China around 1911. Officials with their faces covered by masks or cloths stand by the ash heaps. Date: C.1911

ROMAN CATTLE STRICKEN
Roman farmers dismayed when their cattle are stricken with the plague Date: 29 BC

LUTHER & PLAGUE VICTIMS LUTHER & PLAGUE VICTIMS
He tends victims of the Plague Date: 1535

BUBONIC PLAGUE
Desgenettes, chief medical officer with Napoleons Egyptian expedition, inoculates himself with bubonic plague to prove it can be successfully treated Date: 1799

VISIT TO JAFFA HOSPITAL
During his Egyptian campaign, he visits a plague hospital at Jaffa, in Palestine Date: 1799

Copenhagen House was a famous tavern & tea-garden which stood in what is now Copenhagen Park, N7, from early 17th century until 1855

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

A Witch Doctor and his bride
The Witch Doctor pictured is from the Mashlangan tribe, inhabiting the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal Republic. He had claimed to have used his power to rid the plague of locusts that devastated

Archangel Michael
SAINT MICHAEL, who combines the roles of angel and saint, overcomes Satan in single combat - but not permanently, as the Devil continues to plague mankind

The Murrain of Beast. The Fifth Plague: Livestock Disease. Exod 9. Engraving by Gustave Dore. 19th C

GALLAIT, Louis (1810-1887). The Plague of Tournai
" GALLAIT, Louis (1810-1887). The Plague of Tournai in 1095. 1881. It symbolizes " La Grande Procession". Virgin Marys processions across the city

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