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Harper's Ferry insurrection - burying the dead insurgents

Harper's Ferry insurrection - burying the dead insurgents

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1859 Nov. 5, p. 351.

Head of a man framed by foliage, probably a post-mortem portrait

Head of a man framed by foliage, probably a post-mortem portrait

Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of a photographic print imprinted "J. Forster & Son, 178 & 180 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich"; possibly John Forster & Son. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Histori... More

[In besieged Port Arthur - Russians praying over dead comrades brought back from the front]

[In besieged Port Arthur - Russians praying over dead comrades brought...

H63449 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7730.

Calavera del drenaje. El mérito día de finados todos los que se restiraron por causa del drenaje

Calavera del drenaje. El mérito día de finados todos los que se restir...

Broadside shows a large skull and crossbones; several small skeletons and small skulls in between the text and also used as borders. The text includes 16 calaveras in verse on the recto and on the verso. The ve... More

The bucktail's last shot - Public domain  drawing

The bucktail's last shot - Public domain drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.237) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rocks could not save him at the Battle of Gettysburg / Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan.

Rocks could not save him at the Battle of Gettysburg / Negative by T.H...

On recto: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. On verso: Photographic incidents of the war. No. 251. F... More

Excelsior, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Excelsior, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

P2170 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1883, by Imre & Bolossy Kiralfy." Caption: The past The present. Created by "Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Raising of Lazarus] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Raising of Lazarus] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1935:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). The Raising of Lazarus is a story from the New Testament, reco... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Die Leiche eines ca. 50 jähr ... Jn demselben Eisenbahnzug aufgefundene Leiche einer ca. 50 jähr ....

Die Leiche eines ca. 50 jähr ... Jn demselben Eisenbahnzug aufgefunden...

Photographs show the corpses in a room of civilians executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deuts... More

A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor negative by J. Reekie ; positive by A. Gardner

A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor negative by J. Reeki...

Photograph showing an African American soldier seated next to a stretcher containing the remains of his comrades who perished in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbor. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic s... More

[Russian soldiers looking down at a trench filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers, Port Arthur]

[Russian soldiers looking down at a trench filled with corpses of Japa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Gettysburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Gettysburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Rocky landscape with slain soldier in foreground. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below image: Hill where Genl. Weed was killed, called by the soldiers the Slaughter Pen./ and... More

[Corpse of Tomás Mejía, full-length, in a chair]

[Corpse of Tomás Mejía, full-length, in a chair]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 19, lower right. On recto: A. Peraire.

Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows]

Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows]

After a photograph by Major Calhoun and Dr. Bell. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 July 27, p. 468.

Close-up of charred corpse of Jesse Washington hanging from tree after lynching, Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916

Close-up of charred corpse of Jesse Washington hanging from tree after...

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available. Photo by Gildersleeve.

German dead, scene near Belleau Wood

German dead, scene near Belleau Wood

J269617 U.S. Copyright Office. Dead soldier outstretched in open field. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American soldiers look at the long rows of bodies at Lagar Nordhausen concentration camp where the prisoners died from malnutrition, cruelty and disease in bestial conditions Elliott

American soldiers look at the long rows of bodies at Lagar Nordhausen ...

United States Army Signal Corps photograph. No. 5080-C-A2-13 April 45.

Nahaufnahme der Frau. Die Kleider sind hochgeschoben, ... Aufnahme von dem Sprengtrichter in der Poststrasse mit Leichen und Leichenteilen ....

Nahaufnahme der Frau. Die Kleider sind hochgeschoben, ... Aufnahme von...

Photographs show the corpse in a bed of a woman executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945; and a view of a section of the town with several corpses after bombardment. In album... More

[The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metre Hill, Port Arthur]

[The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metr...

H63420 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7728.

[A dead millionaire at Kiakhta showing the method of laying out a corpse]

[A dead millionaire at Kiakhta showing the method of laying out a corp...

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Rocks could not save him at the Battle of Gettysburg / Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan.

Rocks could not save him at the Battle of Gettysburg / Negative by T.H...

On recto: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. On verso: Photographic incidents of the war. No. 251. F... More

Gathered together for burial after the Battle of Antietam

Gathered together for burial after the Battle of Antietam

Photograph shows dead bodies on the ground. Photographic Incidents of the War. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, Washington, D.C. No. 557. Negative by Alex. Gardner. Entered according to Act... More

Field where General Reynolds fell, Gettysburg / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A. Gardner.

Field where General Reynolds fell, Gettysburg / negative by T.H. O'Sul...

Photograph showing dead soldiers on the battlefield. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 37. Copyright by A. Ga... More

A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor

A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor

Page of text describing the scene pictured in the accompanying plate. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 2, [94]. ... More

Dead confederate soldier, Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Dead confederate soldier, Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate States of ...

Dead Confederate soldier lying in trench. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington :... More

The Lord's prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

The Lord's prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Buttre, J. C. Croome, W. Category designation on o... More

Andre Vesale, portrait print - Public domain portrait drawing

Andre Vesale, portrait print - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows Andreas Vesalius, three-quarter length, standing, facing slightly left; he appears to be looking at a crucifix hanging on the wall on the left as he reaches for a scalpel or other surgical instrumen... More

His Liberty Bond, paid for in full / W. A. Rogers.

His Liberty Bond, paid for in full / W. A. Rogers.

Poster showing a dead soldier on the field. Text continues: This boy has made his last great sacrifice. Are we, as Americans, doing our part? In buying Liberty Bonds we can provide the money necessary to sustai... More

Dieselbe Aufnahme von näher gesehen. Im Trichter und am Rand desselben Leichen and Leichenteile Eine weitere Aufnahme aus entgegengesetzter Richtung.

Dieselbe Aufnahme von näher gesehen. Im Trichter und am Rand desselben...

Photographs show a view of a section of the town with several corpses after the bombardment and assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermorde... More

Two U.S. soldiers looking at dead prisoners on railroad train at unidentified concentration camp in Germany

Two U.S. soldiers looking at dead prisoners on railroad train at unide...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Starved Frenchman sitting among the dead in prison camp, Nordhausen, Germany Roberts

Starved Frenchman sitting among the dead in prison camp, Nordhausen, G...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. No. 4947-K-B5-11. Public domain photograph of quarry workers, mining, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a giant, representing Germany, crushing bodies. Text: German peace.

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More

[Pistol and fallen body on beach with shipmast on horizon]

[Pistol and fallen body on beach with shipmast on horizon]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0175). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpiece for: "The Sea-Robbers of New York" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's ma... More

[Bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial, Port Arthur]

[Bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial, Port Arthur]

H63712 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

[A sentinel over the dead -- guarding comrades who died defending Russian forts -- Port Arthur]

[A sentinel over the dead -- guarding comrades who died defending Russ...

H63419 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7729.

[Bodies of dead men loaded on a cart in a Mexican town]

[Bodies of dead men loaded on a cart in a Mexican town]

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The stench of dead Japs was nauseating - Inf. on the road to Kokumbona - Guadalcanal - sketched between air alarms

The stench of dead Japs was nauseating - Inf. on the road to Kokumbona...

Drawing shows five soldiers marching with packs and rifles, most not wearing shirts, past abandoned field artillery and a dead Japanese soldier during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Signed lower right... More

[A man with a shovel burying a child in a shallow grave in a rural area in the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province in China]

[A man with a shovel burying a child in a shallow grave in a rural are...

Gift; John Portogallo; 1972 (DLC/PP-1972:209). Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodies from Washington Place fire, Mar 1911

Bodies from Washington Place fire, Mar 1911

Photograph shows police or fire officials placing Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire victims in coffins. Bain News Service photograph. Copyright by Bain News Service. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collecti... More

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a giant, representing Germany, crushing bodies. Text: German peace.

[Dead man, killed by bomb at Anarchist riot, Union Square, New York City]

[Dead man, killed by bomb at Anarchist riot, Union Square, New York Ci...

No. 49-9. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera."

[Dead man, killed by bomb at Anarchist riot, Union Square, New York City]

[Dead man, killed by bomb at Anarchist riot, Union Square, New York Ci...

No. 49-9. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera."

Completely silenced! Dead Confederate artillery men, as they lay around their battery after the Battle of Antietam.

Completely silenced! Dead Confederate artillery men, as they lay aroun...

Photograph shows the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers, a dead horse with wagon, and the Dunker Church in the background after the Battle of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 552. Entered according to Act ... More

Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 / H.D.

Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 / H.D.

The bodies of three adults and one infant lie on the floor in a bedroom; murdered in their residence by soldiers during the suppression of an uprising. Illus. in: L'Association mensuelle.

After the battle - The Rebels in p[ossession] of the field / Th. Nast.

After the battle - The Rebels in p[ossession] of the field / Th. Nast.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 304 (1862 Oct. 25), pp. 680-681.

John Heith, lynched on Feb. 22, 1884, by infuriated citizens in Arizona / N.H. Rose, San Antonio, Texas, photographer.

John Heith, lynched on Feb. 22, 1884, by infuriated citizens in Arizon...

The body of John Heith hanging from telephone pole. Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man dresses as Roman with raised arm standing on steps above body of another man in Roman dress]

[Man dresses as Roman with raised arm standing on steps above body of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial on a hill, Port Arthur]

[Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting ...

H63732 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

The wolf aplay of the Canadian woods by Eugene Walter.

The wolf aplay of the Canadian woods by Eugene Walter.

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two train robbers killed near Sanderson Tex., Mar. 13, 1912

Two train robbers killed near Sanderson Tex., Mar. 13, 1912

Photograph shows the bodies of Ole Hobek and Ben Kilpatrick being held up by others. Numbers 1 & 2 above the men's heads indicate they are the train robbers. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton... More

[Bodies of dead men piled on a Mexican street]

[Bodies of dead men piled on a Mexican street]

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kultur has passed here / Raemaekers.

Kultur has passed here / Raemaekers.

Poster shows a dead woman and child lying on ground. Poster drawn by Raemaekers for Century Magazine and is part of Barron Collier Series of Patriotic Cartoons.

Jn der Siedlung nördl. des Bahnhofs M. in einer Grube aufgefundenen Leichen einer ca 35 jähr. Frau mit 2 Knaben im Alter von 10 und 5 Jahren ... Die Leiche einer ca. 35 jähr ....

Jn der Siedlung nördl. des Bahnhofs M. in einer Grube aufgefundenen Le...

Photographs show corpses in the snow in a wooded area of civilians executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und ge... More

Union dead ready for burial in Fredericksburg, Virginia Brady, Washington

Union dead ready for burial in Fredericksburg, Virginia Brady, Washing...

Photograph shows soldiers and African American workers standing near caskets and dead bodies covered with cloths during Grant's Overland Campaign. Indecipherable notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 20... More

[In besieged Port Arthur - Russians praying over dead comrades brought back from the front]

[In besieged Port Arthur - Russians praying over dead comrades brought...

H63449 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7730.

The bucktail's last shot - Public domain  drawing

The bucktail's last shot - Public domain drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.237) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

John Burns, the hero of Gettysburg Slaughter pen at Gettysburg / / Original photographs taken by the Government photographer during the war.

John Burns, the hero of Gettysburg Slaughter pen at Gettysburg / / Ori...

Photographs show (on recto) wounded 69-year old war hero John Burns seated in a rocking chair with his crutches and his rifle and (on verso) dead bodies at the foot of Little Round Top. Printed on recto: "No. ... More

Skinned and stuffed man. Moscow, engraving, Library of Congress

Skinned and stuffed man. Moscow, engraving, Library of Congress

Drawing shows a dead man standing in an exhibition case in Moscow. Bayard Taylor served as charg d'affaires of the Russian legation from 1862 to 1863. Gift; Charles F. Heartman; 1922; (DLC/PP-46411a).

Big Foot, chief of the Bules [sic] taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D.

Big Foot, chief of the Bules [sic] taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee...

Body of Spotted Elk, chief of the Miniconjou, Lakota Sioux, lying in snow, after the Massacre at Wounded Knee, S.D., Dec. 29, 1890. Copyright by Northwestern Photo Co., Chadron, Nebraska. Title transcribed from... More

Lone cadaver, Main Street, Morne Rouge, Martinique, F.W.I., after eruption of Aug. 30th, '02

Lone cadaver, Main Street, Morne Rouge, Martinique, F.W.I., after erup...

Men, women and children gathered in street. H27284 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14361.

[After a fierce assault -- every man killed -- looking from Russian fort, Port Arthur]

[After a fierce assault -- every man killed -- looking from Russian fo...

H63417 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7724.

The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metre Hill, Port Arthur

The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metre...

Two soldiers survey the carnage of battle. 42813 U.S. Copyright Office. U82374. No. 7728. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Bodies of a few of those killed in Wall Street bomb outrage ... a bomb is said to have been exploded in the office of J.P. Morgan & Co. at Broad and Wall Streets killing at least 15 and injuring hundreds ... / / Underwood & Underwood.

Bodies of a few of those killed in Wall Street bomb outrage ... a bomb...

Photograph shows covered corpses lying on the street. No. S-289208-11. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

American soldiers with cameras making pictures of a row of dead inmates, Lager Nordhausen Concentration Camp Myers

American soldiers with cameras making pictures of a row of dead inmate...

No. 5083-H-B10-12. Public domain photograph of Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dead bodies, Monroe St. fire, New York City

Dead bodies, Monroe St. fire, New York City

Photograph shows bodies, in a narrow alley, of the victims of a fire on Monroe Street, New York City, N.Y.

[Russian dead strewn over the ground awaiting burial in one common grave - siege of Port Arthur]

[Russian dead strewn over the ground awaiting burial in one common gra...

H63713 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7762.

Home of a Rebel sharpshooter, Confederate States of America.

Home of a Rebel sharpshooter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows a Rebel sharpshooter lying on the ground behind a wall of stones and between two large rocks; his rifle leans against the wall of stones. Title and descriptive statement inscribed in ink on ve... More

[A group photograph of the students and the teachers of the Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-yi Mülkiye (Civil Medical School)] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[A group photograph of the students and the teachers of the Mekteb-i T...

Group photograph of medical students, their teachers, skeletons, and a cadaver that has been opened. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 30. In album: Schools, libr... More

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a giant, representing Germany, crushing bodies. Text: German peace.

Gettysburg - Public domain  drawing

Gettysburg - Public domain drawing

Rocky landscape with slain soldier in foreground. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below image: Hill where Genl. Weed was killed, called by the soldiers the Slaughter Pen./ and... More

Scalped on the plains incidents in Mormon history.

Scalped on the plains incidents in Mormon history.

Photograph shows two men, one wearing military uniform and holding reins of horse, kneeling next to a dead man's body. On card: Ralph Morrison, a hunter, photographed within an hour of being killed and scalped ... More

Lyric poetry; Adonis, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, Washington DC

Lyric poetry; Adonis, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, ...

Reproduction of a mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building showing Adonis lying on rock after being killed by wild boar.

Missed!--A deaf looter at Galveston escapes temporarily a deserved fate

Missed!--A deaf looter at Galveston escapes temporarily a deserved fat...

A "deaf" thief removing a ring from the hand of a dead victim of a hurricane and flood, Galveston, Texas. D21852 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 627-C.

[The fearful price of war -- Russian bodies awaiting burial -- near a fort at Port Arthur]

[The fearful price of war -- Russian bodies awaiting burial -- near a ...

H63448 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7763.

Removing bodies after Wall St. explosion Volunteers removing the bodies of the dead following the explosion in Wall Street yesterday. Photo taken in front of the U.S. Assay Office / / Underwood & Underwood.

Removing bodies after Wall St. explosion Volunteers removing the bodie...

Photograph shows men carrying covered corpse on a stretcher surrounded by a crowd after an explosion in front of the offices of J.P. Morgan. No. 233856NF. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

[The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead -- in a Russian fort, Port Arthur]

[The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead -- in a...

H63451 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7725.

Carrying out bodies just removed from the wreckage, Galveston

Carrying out bodies just removed from the wreckage, Galveston

Men carrying bodies on stretcher, surrounded by wreckage of the hurricane and flood, Galveston, Texas. D21854 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 617-C. Copyright by C.L. Wasson.

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster - La Pace Tedesca - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a giant, representing Germany, crushing bodies. Text: German peace.

Gettysburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Gettysburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Rocky landscape with slain soldier in foreground. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below image: Hill where Genl. Weed was killed, called by the soldiers the Slaughter Pen./ and... More

[Priest and soldiers standing near bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial on a hill, Port Arthur]

[Priest and soldiers standing near bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting...

H63730 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

A harvest of death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A Gardner.

A harvest of death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / negative by T.H. O'Sull...

Photograph showing dead soldiers on the battlefield. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 36. Copyright by A. G... More

Portrait photo of [Unidentified deceased child], Tinytype

Portrait photo of [Unidentified deceased child], Tinytype

Case: Leather; oval and scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tint... More

Farm house used as a hospital by the rebels; their dead and wounded lying on the ground

Farm house used as a hospital by the rebels; their dead and wounded ly...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.40) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia / / from a sketch by our special artist. The last scene. John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne. The blot on the Ruthermayne escutcheon

Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia /...

Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).

Galveston disaster, carrying dead body to fire to be burned

Galveston disaster, carrying dead body to fire to be burned

African American men carrying body on stretcher, surrounded by wreckage of the hurricane and flood, Galveston, Texas. D19989 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.

[Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial on a hill, Port Arthur]

[Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting ...

H63731 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

[Hasty funeral rites - last honors to the dead Russian heroes - in besieged Port Arthur]

[Hasty funeral rites - last honors to the dead Russian heroes - in bes...

H63450 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7731.

Charred corpse of a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire

Charred corpse of a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spectators looking at charred corpse of Jesse Washington hanging from tree after lynching, Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916

Spectators looking at charred corpse of Jesse Washington hanging from ...

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available. Photo by Gildersleeve.

Burning the bodies of dead bandits at Columbus, N.M.

Burning the bodies of dead bandits at Columbus, N.M.

Copyright by W.H. Horne Co., El Paso, Texas. No. 3004. Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three civilians were killed in this shrapnel-riddled car by a bomb dropped from a Jap plane eight miles from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941

Three civilians were killed in this shrapnel-riddled car by a bomb dro...

Car with dead driver at wheel. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of I... More

One of the 4-men German patrol who didn't get back / Victor A. Lundy.

One of the 4-men German patrol who didn't get back / Victor A. Lundy.

Sketch showing German soldier lying dead on the ground in France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p. 9] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Unter diesem Schneehaufen im Garten derselben Siedlung lagen gen mit Abfall und Tannenzweigen bedeckt, die Leichen einer ca 30. jähr. Frau eines ca. 35 jähr. beinamputierten Soldaten und eines ca. 5 jähr ... Die drei Leichen nach Entfernung von Schnee und Abfall.

Unter diesem Schneehaufen im Garten derselben Siedlung lagen gen mit A...

Photographs show corpses in the snow in a wooded area of civilians executed during the assault on, Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und g... More

Unidentified concentration camp(s), Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army: Three U.S. Army (?) soldiers looking at bodies in oven

Unidentified concentration camp(s), Germany, at time of liberation by ...

Public domain photograph related to World War Two, National Socialism, The Third Reich, Europe under Nazi occupation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Metgethen, Eichenweg 3/5. Vor dem Hause eine etwa 75 Jahre alte weibliche Leiche ... Nahaufnahme der Leiche ....

Metgethen, Eichenweg 3/5. Vor dem Hause eine etwa 75 Jahre alte weibli...

Photographs show a corpse in the snow of a woman executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deutsche... More

[The corpse of a rich Russian man laid out for burial]

[The corpse of a rich Russian man laid out for burial]

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

[Russian soldiers looking down at a trench filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers, Port Arthur]

[Russian soldiers looking down at a trench filled with corpses of Japa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Cogida de Rodolfo Gaona en la plaza de toros de Puebla, el 13 de Diciembre de 1908

Cogida de Rodolfo Gaona en la plaza de toros de Puebla, el 13 de Dicie...

Broadside shows bust portrait of matador Rodolfo Gaona. The text conveys the lamentable death of this famous Mexican matador on a Sunday the 13th, which is deemed bad luck in the accompanying verse. Mexico. Imp... More

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