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Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot

Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot

2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly, 1866 May 26, p. 321. Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manson testifies Mesches '70, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Manson testifies Mesches '70, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Drawing shows Charles Manson, head-and-shoulders portrati, testifying during a trial for the Sharon Tate and the LaBianca murders. Signed and dated on upper right. Inscribed in pencil on verso: Manson testifies.

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More

Bullet holes in back of stage where Malcom X was shot / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson .

Bullet holes in back of stage where Malcom X was shot / World Telegram...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

P13153 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 / G.W. Fasel pinxit ; on stone by C.G. Crehen ; print. by Nagel & Weingaertner, N.Y.

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More

Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounce a murderer.

Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounc...

Caption of vignette: The murder on Xmas morn. Caption: The mesmerist scene: "What penance can I do to wash my crime away." Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6745. Pieces missin... More

Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato

Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato

Broadside shows a Mexican guitarist singing in a doorway, as two soldiers escort Valentín Mancera, an outlaw from the state of Guanajuato. Mancera, murdered by the police in 1880, was famous for his hatred of t... More

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More

Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos hermanos y amamos la libertad

Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos her...

Broadside shows a bust portrait, perhaps of Cariño. The text conveys the "Ballad of Cariño" in which two men, Cariño and Moreno, duel with each other, and ends with Moreno being shot dead. On the verso there i... More

Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounce a murderer.

Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounc...

Caption of vignette: The murder on Xmas morn. Caption: The mesmerist scene: "What penance can I do to wash my crime away." Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6745. Pieces missin... More

A man lay in the drifts, his rifle beside him

A man lay in the drifts, his rifle beside him

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0069). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Murder ... in one year 13,070 murders were committed with firearms in the United States. Support handgun control

Murder ... in one year 13,070 murders were committed with firearms in ...

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

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone, at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone...

Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, pointing his finger, at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, pointing his finger, a...

Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More

La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste

La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste

Art nouveau poster showing anarchist murdering woman with hatchet. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati.

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More

Is this a republican form of government? Is this protecting life, liberty, or property? Is this the equal protection of the laws? / Th. Nast.

Is this a republican form of government? Is this protecting life, libe...

African American man kneeling by bodies of murdered African American people. In background sign reads, "the White Liners were here." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 Sept. 2, p. 712.

Her atonement an original American play.

Her atonement an original American play.

M20425 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: The murder: My son, my son, what have you done!; Father you do not know me?; The trial: He is not guilty, I killed Chas. Leroy! Created by "The Courier Lith. Co., Buffalo,... More

Judge Stephen Crane charges the jury; ... Papin

Judge Stephen Crane charges the jury; ... Papin

Drawing shows an interior view of the courtroom with Judge Stephen Crane seated at the rear with an American flag behind him and "In God We Trust" on the wall above; he is addressing the jury. An exhibits board... More

Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos hermanos y amamos la libertad

Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos her...

Broadside shows a bust portrait, perhaps of Cariño. The text conveys the "Ballad of Cariño" in which two men, Cariño and Moreno, duel with each other, and ends with Moreno being shot dead. On the verso there i... More

Visit of the Ku-Klux / drawn by Frank Bellew.

Visit of the Ku-Klux / drawn by Frank Bellew.

African American woman cooking, man seated alongside, and three children, with man from Ku Klux Klan aiming rifle in doorway.

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...

D16484 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The end. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4749. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library... More

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

C253655 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder near Grant's tomb. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 5685. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: The... More

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter.

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...

Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More

Dispatch, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Dispatch, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Print shows a man, holding a large club labeled "Procrastination" over his head, saying "I hate delay"; he is about to strike Father Time who cries "Murder, Murder." Father Time's hourglass and scythe are alrea... More

Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato

Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato

Broadside shows a Mexican guitarist singing in a doorway, as two soldiers escort Valentín Mancera, an outlaw from the state of Guanajuato. Mancera, murdered by the police in 1880, was famous for his hatred of t... More

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More

Irish industries / F.O. - coin, public domain photograph

Irish industries / F.O. - coin, public domain photograph

Four frame cartoon showing: "Infernal machine manufacturing" (two men making bombs), "The Irish vote manufacturers" (men at polls), "The landlord killing industry" (man shooting landlord from behind wall), and ... More

Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera

Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera

Broadside shows simple ornamental border dividing the text which, in verse, consists of two ballads. The "Ballad of Reyes Ruiz," by Epigmenio Gonzales, conveys the killing of Ruiz on the eve of a Dieciseis de S... More

An awful tragedy of the Spanish War / Howard Chandler Christy, '98.

An awful tragedy of the Spanish War / Howard Chandler Christy, '98.

Young woman with knife in her chest lying on floor, killed by a drunk Spanish officer who sits sleeping with his head on a table. Illus. in: Leslie's weekly, 1898, Oct. 20, p. 313.

Frank Burt & George H. Nicolai present a pastoral play, The night before Christmas by Hal Reid.

Frank Burt & George H. Nicolai present a pastoral play, The night befo...

D3303 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4341. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Libra... More

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, gesturing during a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, gesturing during a pre...

Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More

Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding ... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside includes portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and spea... More

[The Charleston convention] - A black and white drawing of a building

[The Charleston convention] - A black and white drawing of a building

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 228 (1860 April 14), p. 303 (title page).

Drop ut, idjut, whispered a voice in her ear

Drop ut, idjut, whispered a voice in her ear

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Study in Values" by Emma Kaufman, Collier's weekly (Aug. 12, 1905), p. 11.

La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste

La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste

Art nouveau poster showing anarchist murdering woman with hatchet. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati.

Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding ... More

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter.

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...

Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More

Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norberta Reyes, que cerca de la ciudad de Zamora

Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norbe...

Broadside shows a woman with a knife stabbing her elderly father as her dead mother lies in the background. The text conveys the tale of Norberta Reyes, whose parents could not control her. She runs away with a... More

The Louisiana murders - gathering the dead and wounded The disputed prize / / C.H. Weigall.

The Louisiana murders - gathering the dead and wounded The disputed pr...

Top illustration shows Negroes pulling a man on a luge(?), and two men lying in field. Bottom illustration shows jackal and eagle disputing the possession of a dead antelope. 2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly... More

Policeman maintains watch from roof of Unity funeral home where body of Malcolm X is reposing / World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez.

Policeman maintains watch from roof of Unity funeral home where body o...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

He was the beginning, Lil Bobby James Hutton, born April 21, 1950, murdered by Oakland Pig Dept., April 6, 1968

He was the beginning, Lil Bobby James Hutton, born April 21, 1950, mur...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United ... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions society / J.S. Pughe.

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions society / J.S. Pughe.

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...

D16484 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The end. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4749. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library... More

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

P13153 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More

Alexander Anderson and Henry Richards in the act of murdering Mrs. Anna Garber and Mrs. Elizabeth Ream, on the 15th of December, 1857

Alexander Anderson and Henry Richards in the act of murdering Mrs. Ann...

Illus. in: The Manheim tragedy / H.A. Rockafield. Pub. by H.A. Rockafied, in trust ... Lancaster Pa. : Printed at the Evening Express office, 1858, back cover.

The murderer's straight route to heaven - bringing religion into disrepute / J. Keppler.

The murderer's straight route to heaven - bringing religion into disre...

Print shows the spirit of an executed murderer rising to Heaven as a minister wipes clean the "Blackboard of Crime" on which are "Murder, Arson, [and] Robb[ery]" with the "Sponge of Absolution" as "years of sin... More

Who killed Hancock? / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Who killed Hancock? / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows the ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sitting on a throne in a banquet hall, Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock, Dana makes wild statements while waving a... More

Do you wish me to kill you where you stand?

Do you wish me to kill you where you stand?

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The red hand Historic map, Library of Congress

The red hand Historic map, Library of Congress

Illustration shows a large red hand labeled "Organized Murder" dripping blood over the western states on a map of the United States. Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, no. 1583 (1907 July 3), cover. Copyright 1907 by Kep... More

The magic hat / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

The magic hat / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows, at center, Samuel Gompers standing on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled "Expulsion", the sign states "To Organized Labor defend you persecuted brethren. Put up, or lose you ... More

The scarlet woman - whom shall she pay? / Gordon Grant '12.

The scarlet woman - whom shall she pay? / Gordon Grant '12.

Illustration shows a woman wearing a red dress, holding money, standing between the "Health Department Bureau of Licences and Inspection" and an opening in a wall labeled "Graft". In a cut-away showing the scen... More

The tragedy that lived The fatality of love.

The tragedy that lived The fatality of love.

Motion picture poster for "The Tragedy that Lived" shows a man with a gun standing over a man lying on the ground at his feet "By James Oliver Curwood." "Selig drama."

Augusta, he only made page 5 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Augusta, he only made page 5 - Drawing. Public domain image.

"New York University Interdepartmental Communication" printed four times on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.

Jean Harris & attorneys and more testimony being read by court reporter Papin

Jean Harris & attorneys and more testimony being read by court reporte...

Drawing shows Nancy Borko, Bronx County Assistant District Attorney, using a doll during questioning of a young child at the trial of Albert Algarin, shown at lower right, for child molestation; also shown is N... More

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 / G.W. Fasel pinxit ; on stone by C.G. Crehen ; print. by Nagel & Weingaertner, N.Y.

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

Caption: The death of Jack Morgan. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Lower right and left corners missing. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

C253655 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder near Grant's tomb. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 5685. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: The... More

Bringing Silvia into Union Station

Bringing Silvia into Union Station

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Probably related to arrest of Joseph Silvia for the 1919 slaying of Emmett E. Wood. Date from negatives in... More

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More

Old John Brown's career illustrated

Old John Brown's career illustrated

Print shows five vignettes from the violent life of abolitionist John Brown, three related to "doing his Kansas work" and the fourth "commencing his Virginia work"; the fifth vignette, at center, labeled "The t... More

Jean Harris breaks down on stand Papin

Jean Harris breaks down on stand Papin

Drawing shows jjilted mistress Jean Harris sobbing on the witness stand under cross examination by the prosecutor George Bolen on February 6, 1981; includes Harris standing on the right, full-length, seen from ... More

Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norberta Reyes, que cerca de la ciudad de Zamora

Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norbe...

Broadside shows a woman with a knife stabbing her elderly father as her dead mother lies in the background. The text conveys the tale of Norberta Reyes, whose parents could not control her. She runs away with a... More

Louis Haghe - View of the mountain Baba-Naunee, called Kutl-Gahor

Louis Haghe - View of the mountain Baba-Naunee, called Kutl-Gahor

Illustration shows two Baluchis preparing to murder an Indian civilian, who traveled with the Army of the Indus en route to Afghanistan, sleeping at Qatal Gah, Pakistan; caravan of soldiers, camp followers, and... More

The Murder of Powell / C.S.R . wood engraving, Library of Congress

The Murder of Powell / C.S.R . wood engraving, Library of Congress

Illustration shows a group of Irish immigrant workers with clubs standing over the body of African American laborer Denis Powell during the race riots near Patenburg, Hunterdon County, N.J. Illus. in: Harper'... More

The scene of Ambassador Von Ketteler's murder, Peking, China

The scene of Ambassador Von Ketteler's murder, Peking, China

Aerial view of unpaved street with pack animals, rickshaws, a few canopies, and some small buildings. H24394 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32. Copyright by C.H. Graves.

Bolen reads 'letter' to jury. Aurnou listens, close-up of Jean Harris Papin

Bolen reads 'letter' to jury. Aurnou listens, close-up of Jean Harris ...

Drawing shows prosecutor George Bolen reading to the jury a letter Jean Harris sent to Dr. Herman Tarnower; Jean Harris is shown at lower right and her attorney, Joel Aurnou, sits in the background with his han... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Kudanme Historic map, Library of Congress, Forty Seven Rōnin

Kira Yoshinaka - Kudanme Historic map, Library of Congress, Forty Seve...

Print shows two women, possibly Tonase and Konami, and Honzō, looking at a map of Morono's villa, and Rikiya, standing, about to draw his sword. Scene from act nine of the play Chūshingura or revenge of the 47 Rōnin.

Bringing Silvia into Union Station

Bringing Silvia into Union Station

A group of men standing outside of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 / G.W. Fasel pinxit ; on stone by C.G. Crehen ; print. by Nagel & Weingaertner, N.Y.

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside includes portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and spea... More

The first trial by jury painted by C.W. Cope ; engraved by H.S. Sadd

The first trial by jury painted by C.W. Cope ; engraved by H.S. Sadd

Print shows a jury trial in process, the jury sits on the right, the body of a dead man lies on a stretcher with a young woman weeping over him and a young man pointing toward the accused who is in the custody ... More

Manson full court girls in front Mesches '70

Manson full court girls in front Mesches '70

Drawing shows three women talking amongst themselves, possibly Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten, while seated behind Charles Manson during a trial for the Sharon Tate and the LaBianca mu... More

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph

P13153 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Damian Garcia, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, murdered Tuesday, April 22, 1980 by police agents in Los Angeles

Damian Garcia, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, murde...

Picture caption: Raising the red flag over the Alamo, Thursday, March 20, 1980. Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

The city of New York by Walter Fessler.

Caption: The death of Jack Morgan. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Lower right and left corners missing. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, looking down, at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, looking down, at a pre...

Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More

Godanme, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Godanme, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows Yoichibei, an old man, returning home after selling his daughter, Okaru, to a brothel to raise money so that his son-in-law, Kampei, can redeem himself. Yochibei is being robbed and murdered by Sada... More

Godanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Godanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a man (possibly the outlaw Sadakurô) holding an umbrella, glaring at a man (probably Yoichibei) holding a lantern, cowering in the rain; Sadakurô will rob and kill Yoichibei. Title and other descrip... More

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside, on recto, shows a banderillero (person who wounds bull with decorated spiked rods during a bullfight) challenging a bull. Image of spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death ... More

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone...

Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More