Victims Collection

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

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

Swedish Werewolf
A werewolf and his victims

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and scientist
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pompeii, Italy - the inside of the Museum showing the casts of victims of the eruption of Mount Vesusvius in AD 79. Also an impressive collection of amphorae. Date: circa 1910s

Cuba. Havana - burial of the Maine victims
Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). Cuba. Havana

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

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

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

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

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

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

Missionary treating victims of leprosy, Mozambique
Mozambique, Africa - Christian Missionary treating and caring for African victims of leprosy. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

Tupolev Tu-154M 102
Polish Air Force - Tupolev Tu-154M 102 (msn 90A862), of the Polish Air Force Presidential Flight

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

88 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tupolev Tu-154M 102
Polish Air Force - Tupolev Tu-154M 102 (msn 90A862), of the Polish Air Force Presidential Flight

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

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

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

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

Homecoming of martyred Dublin officers: Londons tribute to victims of Sinn Fein murderers. Date: 1920

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

Civilian War Victims Memorial, Doornenburg, Holland
This village remained in German hands until April 1945 when it was liberated on Easter Sunday

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

Operation Mallard Memorials, St Aubin d Auquenay
In the centre of this rather untidy collection of memorials in the centre of the village is one to 1st Special Service Brigade and flanking it are plaques to the Civilian Victims

The Dogger Bank Incident or Russian Outrage
The Dogger Bank Incident (or Russian Outrage ) occured on the 22nd October 1904

Funeral for victims of the First World War

Victims of communal rioting during the Partition of India
Two victims of communal rioting during the period of the partition of India

A temporary sanctuary for Delhis hard pressed Muslims
A scene at the Jami Masjid Mosque where several hundreds of refugees, after fleeing from their burning homes, were accommodated until refugee camps were ready to receive them

First-aid post near the Jami Masjid Mosque in Old Delhi
Wounds being dressed at the post before the people were sent on to refugee camps which have had to be established on the outskirts of the city since the outbreak of communcal massacres

The sculpting of the Titanic Statue designed by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and Mr John Horrigan, representing the last inspiration of a departing soul

FAMINE VICTIMS
Encampment of famine victims at Novorossisk. Date: 1922

RELIEF FOR VICTIMS
The Soviet government organise trains to bring food and provisions to the homeless and hungry. Date: 1922

VIEWING THE VICTIMS
The people of Moscow are invited to see the bodies of those who have given their lives for the Revolution. Later they will be buried by the walls of the Kremlin. Date: November 1917

FEAST OF TRIBUTES
DAHOMEY Victims are slaughtered to please the gods at the Feast of Tributes Date: 1890

SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
At Dahomey, in the annual EK- QUE-NOO-AH-TOH-ME sacrifice of the annual HWAH-NOOEE-WHA festival, victims are seated in little boats and dropped from a height Date: 1876

WICKER MAN (2)
The WICKER MAN in which the ancient Britons are supposed to have placed victims, setting it alight as a burnt offering to their gods Date: BC

WICKER MAN (1)
The WICKER MAN in which the ancient Britons are supposed to have placed victims, setting it alight as a burnt offering to their gods Date: BC

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

Victims of an alleged British gas attack are treated by German medics. Date: 1915

VICTIMS OF HASHISH
Four North African victims of hashish, driven out of their minds by the drug and brought under the care of Dr Auguste Voisin of the Salpetriere, Paris. Date: 1876

REIGN OF TERROR VICTIMS
The reign of terror : a prison warder reads out the names of those who are to be guillotined today. Date: 1793 - 1792

RIDING TO GUILLOTINE
The last wagon-load of victims are transported to the guillotine - despite the objections of the populace. Date: circa 1794

SPAIN GOYA WAR C1808
That Is Not To Be Looked At: innocent victims amongst the Spanish population during the Peninsular War. Date: circa 1808

FIREWORK FACTORY BLAST
The explosion at Madame Cotons Firework Factory, Westminster Road. Date: 1858

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

Weird Hats of 1819
MONSTROSITIES OF 1819 & 1820 A satire on the fashion victims of the day, including various hideous hats. Date: 1819 - 1820

MARTYRS HONOURED
POMPE FUNEBRE Martyrs of the Revolution (victims of the attack on the Tuileries) are honoured in the Jardin des Tuileries, now named the Jardin National Date: 26 August 1792

Front cover, fundraising bazaar catalogue, Istanbul, Turkey
Front cover, fundraising bazaar illustrated catalogue in aid of the wounded and the families of victims in a recent war, under the patronage of the Sultan of Turkey (Abdul Hamid II). Date: circa 1890s

Catalogue illustration, embroidered covers and tobacco set. 1. Yellow silk embroidered cover donated by the Sultan. 2. Blue sofa cover embroidered in gold and silk thread, donated by the Sultan. 3

Catalogue illustration, ornate cupboard, lamp, ornament
Catalogue illustration, ornate cupboard, lamp and ornament. 5. Ornate cupboard in Moorish style, two metres high, donated by the Sultan. 6

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