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Background imageVictims Collection: Protective Dress

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Breakdancing

Breakdancing
A breakdancer spins round on his back and stuns his teenage onlookers. Note the profusion of of white clothes and stilettos, slip-on shoes with white socks, perms and mullets

Background imageVictims Collection: Swedish Werewolf

Swedish Werewolf
A werewolf and his victims

Background imageVictims Collection: Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and scientist

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and scientist
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian, seen here at the time he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of

Background imageVictims Collection: Four daughters of Tsar Nicolas II

Four daughters of Tsar Nicolas II
MARIE, TATIANA, ANASTASIA & OLGA Daughters of Nicolas II and Alexandra of Russia

Background imageVictims Collection: Customs / Sacrifice / Human

Customs / Sacrifice / Human
AZTECS OF MEXICO Priests of Tenochtitlan sacrifice victims to the god Huitzilopochtli

Background imageVictims Collection: A Cannibal Feast, Charles E Gordon Frazer

A Cannibal Feast, Charles E Gordon Frazer
A Cannibal Feast on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides, by Charles E Gordon Frazer (1863-1899)

Background imageVictims Collection: Jamaica Earthquake

Jamaica Earthquake
When Jamaica is devastated by an earthquake, the Royal Navy brings food and supplies for the victims

Background imageVictims Collection: Some Titanic officers lost in disaster

Some Titanic officers lost in disaster
Photograph by AJF Bond of Bodmin of six officers of RMS Olympic taken on the bridge of the ship on the ships maiden voyage

Background imageVictims Collection: Titanic - Memorial Service at St. Pauls Cathedral

Titanic - Memorial Service at St. Pauls Cathedral
Page from the Illustrated London News showing crowds gathered outside St. Pauls Cathedral in the City of London after a memorial service for the victims of the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Background imageVictims Collection: Sectional drawing of the Lusitania

Sectional drawing of the Lusitania showing the German U-boat responsible for the torpedo which sunk it in 18 minutes on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

Background imageVictims Collection: Princesse De Lamballe

Princesse De Lamballe
MARIE THERESE LOUISE DE SAVOIE princesse LAMBALLE, friend of Marie Antoinette and one of the most shocking victims of the Revolution not long after this portrait was made

Background imageVictims Collection: LA Peste at Marseille

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Ancient Germanic warrior with heads of his victims

Ancient Germanic warrior with heads of his victims
Ancient Germanic warrior on horseback, in short cape and pants, with severed heads of his victims impaled on his lance and hanging from his waist

Background imageVictims Collection: Ancient Germanic warriors

Ancient Germanic warriors. They are naked except for animal skins with heads and antlers, and carry lances, clubs and wood and wicker shields. After Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua

Background imageVictims Collection: Jain monks arriving in New Delhi after fleeing Western Punja

Jain monks arriving in New Delhi after fleeing Western Punja
Victims of the violence sweeping through India following Partition in 1947 - Jain monks arrive at Willingdon airport, New Delhi from the Gujranwala district north of Lahore in Western Punjab

Background imageVictims Collection: Funeral procession for the victims of BOAC Flight 781

Funeral procession for the victims of BOAC Flight 781 / de Havilland Comet G-ALYP, through the streets of Porto Azuro, Elba, on 14 January 1954. Date: 1954

Background imageVictims Collection: Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, Steenstraat

Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, Steenstraat
This 15 metres high Cross of Reconciliation, commemorates the victims of the first gas attack of the war made by the Germans on 22 April 1915

Background imageVictims Collection: Brazilian cannibals depicted by de Bry

Brazilian cannibals depicted by de Bry
Cannibals reported by Portuguese conquistadores. Here some are shown roasting their victims on a spit. Date: 1530

Background imageVictims Collection: Brazilian cannibals, 1530

Brazilian cannibals, 1530
Cannibals reported by Portuguese conquistadores. Here some are shown roasting their victims on a spit. Date: 1530

Background imageVictims Collection: Medusa

Medusa
A portrait sketch depiction of the Greek mythological gorgon, Medusa, whose gaze famously turned her victims to stone. Her hair comprises of a writhing bundle of snakes

Background imageVictims Collection: RMS Titanic - CS Mackay-Bennett cable-laying ship

RMS Titanic - CS Mackay-Bennett cable-laying ship
RMS Titanic - sepia press photograph of the CS Mackay-Bennett transatlantic cable-laying and cable repair ship which recovered most of the bodies of the victims of the Titanic sinking

Background imageVictims Collection: Shark Fishing in the Caribbean

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Shipwreck

Shipwreck
Drawing of what appears to be shipwreck victims, laid in contorted positions. Date: circa 1929

Background imageVictims Collection: Photographs of Gainsborough shooting party, outdoor sporting portraits and group shot

Photographs of Gainsborough shooting party, outdoor sporting portraits and group shot. Captioned, Those Idle Rich: The Earl of Gainsborough's Birthday shooting party, at Exton Park, Rutland'

Background imageVictims Collection: Posada, The Plague, Mexico

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

Background imageVictims Collection: The Hanged Farmer, Mexico

The Hanged Farmer, Mexico -- he had been hanged by soldiers. circa 1900s

Background imageVictims Collection: Revolution victims during period of anarchy, Russia

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Revolution victims after street fighting, Russia

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Early victims of the Revolution, Russia

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Revolution victims laid out for identification, Russia

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

Background imageVictims Collection: 20th Century 1943 Advertising Baltic Republic

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

Background imageVictims Collection: NUS President Charles Clarke with two students

NUS President Charles Clarke with two students
NUS (National Union of Students) President Charles Clarke (b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister) with two students, Clare Weber and Paul Butler

Background imageVictims Collection: Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary

Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary in 1927, awaiting definitive internment. See 10412369 for an earlier shot of the same location. Date: 1927

Background imageVictims Collection: 88 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School

88 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. Inlaid silver and copper damascene work depicting Rachel sitting

Background imageVictims Collection: Mrs Dubosc Taylor by Madame Yevonde

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Spanish Civil War. Manifestacion de Arte Catalan

Spanish Civil War. Manifestacion de Arte Catalan. Espana-Mexico. Pro victimas del fascismo. (Catalan Art Exhibition. Spain-Mexico. Pro fascism's victims. Poster by Teixidor, 1937. SPAIN)

Background imageVictims Collection: PLAQUE FOR RED VICTIMS

PLAQUE FOR RED VICTIMS
A plaque honouring those who gave their lives for the Bolshevik revolution is placed on the wall of the Kremlin, Moscow. Date: 7 November 1918

Background imageVictims Collection: AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER

AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

Background imageVictims Collection: CEMETERIES/BALAKLAVA

CEMETERIES/BALAKLAVA
The cemetery of Crimea War victims on Cathcart's Hill, Balaklava, is visited by Prince Edward and Alexandra and other visitors Date: 1869

Background imageVictims Collection: DEATH/FUNERALS/TITIAN

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

Background imageVictims Collection: WILL OF THE WISP

WILL OF THE WISP
WILL O THE WISP (feu follet, marsh light &c) depicted as a mischievous spirit, luring victims to an unpleasant death in the marsh circa 1830

Background imageVictims Collection: Victims of the Black Death plague in 1349

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

Background imageVictims Collection: Tupolev Tu-154M 102

Tupolev Tu-154M 102
Polish Air Force - Tupolev Tu-154M 102 (msn 90A862), of the Polish Air Force Presidential Flight. (Sister-ship 101 crashed on approach to Smolensk, killing the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski)

Background imageVictims Collection: Chanakkale (Chanak, formerly Dardanellia ) on the Turkish Dardanelles coast (Gallipoli Peninsula)

Chanakkale (Chanak, formerly Dardanellia ) on the Turkish Dardanelles coast (Gallipoli Peninsula) - building the New Anzac Cemetery Date: circa 1920s

Background imageVictims Collection: The night patrol of the London streets, 1853

The night patrol of the London streets, 1853
The night patrol of the London streets. The figure of Death on horseback rides out of an overcrowded cemetery full of cholera victims

Background imageVictims Collection: Monument Church Company fire, Santiago de Chile

Monument Church Company fire, Santiago de Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: monument to the victims of the the Church of the Company fire, Santiago de Chile. The Church of the Company Fire (8 December 1863)

Background imageVictims Collection: WW1 poster, Le Secours de Guerre (relief agency for war victims), showing a gendarme

WW1 poster, Le Secours de Guerre (relief agency for war victims), showing a gendarme, soldiers and civilians near the Ancien Seminaire St Sulpice, the premises of the agency in Paris. Date: 1916



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