Victim Collection (page 2)

RMS Titanic - Mansion House Relief Fund
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman, letter from the Mansion House Relief Fund regarding assistance to Mr Herman's family, together with a newspaper cutting. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - compensation claim of Mrs Herman
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman (1862-1912). Letter dated 7 May 1913 from the Public Trustee Office, Strand, London

RMS Titanic - Charles Frederick Morgan, storekeeper, fine studio portrait of him in army uniform, possibly around the time of the Boer War. 6ins. x 9ins

RMS Titanic - letter from passenger Francis D Millet
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger and victim Francis Davis Millet (1848-1912), American artist and writer, handwritten over four sides, dated 7 February on letterhead Rue de l'Orient

RMS Titanic - The Loss of the Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley
RMS Titanic - book cover, The Loss of the Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley, 1912 first edition, signed N. Partner, 7 August 1912

Shark Fishing in the Caribbean
A group of men gather around the carcass of a large shark they have caught on the coast of a caribbean island. Shark fishing is still legal in much of the world, including the Caribbean, to this day

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

The Hanged Farmer, Mexico -- he had been hanged by soldiers. 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

Early victims of the Revolution, Russia, March 1917, shot in the street by police. Date: 1917

Revolution victims laid out for identification, Russia
Revolution victims laid out in a street for identification, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Some of them have slips of paper giving their names. Date: 1917

20th Century 1943 Advertising Baltic Republic
20th, century, 1943, advertising, Baltic, republic, republics, states, civil, people, communist, denounce, first, year, of, Soviet, Occupation, Latvia, latvian, mass, graves, Nazis, occupation

Death leads the Old Man to the grave, beguiling him with the music of a dulcimer.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Mrs Dubosc Taylor by Madame Yevonde
The late Mrs Dubosc Taylor who died from influenza caught while on nursing duty in France at the end of the First World War

Spain. Civil War (1936-1939). The street San Jeronimo in Madrid under the effects of the bombing

Spain Barcelona Spanish Civil War Gran Via De
spain, barcelona, spanish, civil, war, gran, via, de, les, corts, catalanes, after, a, bombardment, march, image, from, the, propaganda, department, of, generalitat, catalonia, monistrol, montserrat

Spain Tarragona Spanish Civil War Bombardment
spain, tarragona, spanish, civil, war, bombardment, in, monistrol, de, montserrat, library, of, abbey, horizontal, black, and, white, b, w, outdoor, daylight, exterior, outside, daytime, sunlight

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

African orphan behind weapons
A Mozambiquan orphan boy stands behind a rack of g-3 machine pistols belonging to Portuguese colonial soldiers who murdered his parents in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War (19611974)

Satirical cartoon, Evacuation of Holland and Brabant. Showing General Charles-Francois Dumouriez retreating with the French army (in blue)

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

VISION OF DEATH
A sick man sees the figure of Death standing behind his doctor : a few days later he dies, a victim of his imaginary terrors Date: circa 1890

RELIGION/INDIA/KALI
KALI, the fearsome Hindu goddess of death, watches while a sacrifical victim is put painfully to death

BRIZIO'S DELUSION
Chronic invalid Giuseppe Brizio of Intra, Italy, sees the figure of Death in a mirror, beckoning him ; he collapses and dies, a victim of auto-suggestion Date: 1931

Louis XVII, titular King of France, son of Louis XVI
Louis XVII (1785 - 1795), titular King of France (1793 - 1795), son of Louis XVI. Imprisoned during the French Revolution from August 1792 until his death in 1795, he never ruled

Comic postcard, Hungry lions - For what we are about to receive... Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, dog attack on golf course - Nonplussed! Date: 20th century

A victim of an Air Attack. Date: circa 1941

Heavy Rescue Workers saving a victim. Date: circa 1941

HMS Pinafore, Josephine Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter
HMS Pinafore. Pretty lady smelling a rose is admired by an older gentlemen who peers at her through a monocle. Sir Joseph Porter was one of the many people who had fallen a victim to the beauty of

The Princes in the Tower - Prince Edward (King Edward V) and his younger brother, Prince Richard, Duke of York, who disappeared from the Tower of London during the reign of their uncle

Prince Arthur leaping from the tower. Prince Arthur, Duke of Brittany, was imprisoned and then disappeared - the story of his fall from a tower probably originates in Shakespeares play, King John

Cartoon, Its your turn now, old man
Cartoon, small victim to bigger ditto - Its your turn now, old man! A dog wearing a muzzle speaks to a man in naval uniform, also wearing a muzzle

Vase, altar and utensil
Vase from the Museum Giustiniani 1, altar with sacrificial victim from the Vatican Museum 2, and metal utensil from Naples 3

Religious caps and instruments
Priests cap called the Apex from a basrelief on the Capitol 1, cap of a high priest of Jupiter from the Temple of Jupiter the Thunderer 2, religious cap used by Flamen priests of Bacchus 3

Merveilleuses playing the game of La Main Chaude
La main chaude or Paumele. Merveilleuses in flimsy muslin dresses play the game of hot hands. One girl buries her head in anothers lap, and has to guess which friend slaps her arm

Human sacrifice in a sacred marae, Tahiti
Human sacrifice in a sacred marae (Morai) or cemetery, Tahiti. Drummers at left, a hog-tied victim and two grave diggers digging a grave before a pile of human skulls and quivers of arrows

An Aztec priest removes a mans heart in a human sacrifice
An Aztec priest removes a mans heart in a ritual with an obsidian knife on a sacrificial stone and offers it to the god Huitzilopochtli. Several young acolytes hold down the victim

Tomb of a Guinean king, guarded by warriors, and decorated with severed heads on spears, offerings, plates and urns. Men sacrificing more victims in the background

Flood victims, Grosvenor Road area, Pimlico, London
Flood victim residents of the Grosvenor Road area, Pimlico, London, sorting out their ruined belongings

Foxs adventures with verses inside a Christmas card
Foxs adventures with a crow, geese and a rabbit inside a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

A Royal Chase - their Majesties stag hunting. 1780

Funeral for victims of the First World War

VICTIM OF CHOLERA / 1883
Victim of cholera Date: 1883

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

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

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

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