Protective DressProtective dress worn by French doctors attending plague victims in Marseille and elsewhere
BreakdancingA 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
Swedish WerewolfA werewolf and his victims
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and scientistFridtjof 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
Four daughters of Tsar Nicolas IIMARIE, TATIANA, ANASTASIA & OLGA Daughters of Nicolas II and Alexandra of Russia
Customs / Sacrifice / HumanAZTECS OF MEXICO Priests of Tenochtitlan sacrifice victims to the god Huitzilopochtli
A Cannibal Feast, Charles E Gordon FrazerA Cannibal Feast on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides, by Charles E Gordon Frazer (1863-1899)
Some Titanic officers lost in disasterPhotograph by AJF Bond of Bodmin of six officers of RMS Olympic taken on the bridge of the ship on the ships maiden voyage
Jamaica EarthquakeWhen Jamaica is devastated by an earthquake, the Royal Navy brings food and supplies for the victims
Titanic - Memorial Service at St. Pauls CathedralPage 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
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
Princesse De LamballeMARIE 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
LA Peste at MarseilleScene showing the streets of Marseille strewn with plague victims, some being carted away in carts : drawing made on the spot in 1720
Ancient Germanic warrior with heads of his victimsAncient 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 PunjaVictims 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
MedusaA 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 shipRMS 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 CaribbeanA 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
ShipwreckDrawing 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, MexicoThe Plague, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s
The Hanged Farmer, Mexico -- he had been hanged by soldiers. circa 1900s
Revolution victims during period of anarchy, RussiaRevolution 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, RussiaRevolution 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 Republic20th, 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 studentsNUS (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 School77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. Inlaid silver and copper damascene work depicting Rachel sitting
Mrs Dubosc Taylor by Madame YevondeThe 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 VICTIMSA 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 GROWERAn 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/BALAKLAVAThe cemetery of Crimea War victims on Cathcart's Hill, Balaklava, is visited by Prince Edward and Alexandra and other visitors Date: 1869
DEATH/FUNERALS/TITIANTitian 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 WISPWILL 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 1349Victims of the Black Death Date: 1349
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, SteenstraatThis 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
Tupolev Tu-154M 102Polish 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)
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, 1853The 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 ChileVintage 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)
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 HousesThese -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
