Spaniards hunting Indians. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Soldiers under command of officers of Don Pedro de Avila chasing and killing Indians, 1519.
A Sunday morning dream - time to wake up / Ehrhart.
Illustration shows a man dreaming about enforcing the blue laws by punishing young men for playing baseball, a young woman for playing golf, even a young girl for picking flowers; he imagines them emploring him... More
Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," showing his scarr...
Printed on verso: "From life, taken at Baton Rouge, La., April 2d, 1863." On verso: Facsimile of original medical report to Colonel L.B. Marsh from J.W. Mercer, assistant surgeon with the 47th Massachusetts Vo... More
Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians, at Mankato, Minnesota, De...
Print shows the residents of Mankato, Minnesota, gathered to watch the execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians, who stand on a scaffold with nooses around their necks, separated from the community by rows of s... More
![Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTEvYmFpbmJyaWRnZS1pZS1iYW1icmlkZ2Utb24tdHJpYWwtZm9yLW11cmRlci1ieS1hLWNvbW1pdHRlZS1vZi10aGUtaG91c2Utb2YtYzNmOTEzLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.")
Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
The brighter side of Hell. The anti-tobacco crank jumping through smok...
Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 69:914 (May 24, 1917).
Bucked and gaged - triced up DS monogram
Drawing shows two sailors being punished, the first is seated with a rod beneath his knees and over his elbows, his hands tied together just below his knees, a small rod is placed in his mouth with a cord tied ... More
The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on ...
Print shows a mob pouring tea into the mouth of a Loyalist who has been tarred and feathered. Behind the group, on the right, is the "Liberty Tree" from which hangs a noose and a sign "Stamp Act" written upside... More
![[Leo Frank, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTcvbGVvLWZyYW5rLWhlYWQtYW5kLXNob3VsZGVycy1wb3J0cmFpdC1mYWNpbmctcmlnaHQtNzNhYzg2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/55/webp "[Leo Frank, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]")
[Leo Frank, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
Photo from Bain News Service. Hand-written on verso: 1st pub. eve Aug. 26/13. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "From Haven to... More
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.
![[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvbGFyZ2UtY3Jvd2QtbG9va2luZy1hdC10aGUtYnVybmVkLWJvZHktb2YtamVzc2Utd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi0xOC15ZWFyLW9sZC1hZnJpY2FuLTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916]")
[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-o...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjgvMm5kLXNvdXRoLWNhcm9saW5hLWluZmFudHJ5LXJlZ2ltZW50LXJhaWQtb24tcmljZS1wbGFudGF0aW9uLWNvbWJhaGVlLXNvdXRoLWIyMDlkMy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/56/webp "[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon]")
[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...
Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More
Murder of a Negro at Mrs. Carter's house
White men beating an African American man, Patenburg, New Jersey. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 16, no. 824 (1872 Oct. 12), p. 796. One of three images under title: The Patenburg Massacre: from sketches by The... More
The spirit that goeth with burdens that have not honor
(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 359.
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.
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...
Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More
General Patricks punishment for gamblers
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 717 as : The Army of the Potomac-Gamblers at the Provost Marshal's Headquarters. Gift, J.P. Morgan... More
Bed-stocks for intoxication, &c / drawn on stone by R. Bridgens.
Print shows two African Trinidadians with their feet locked in stocks; one man has his hands bound behind him, the other man is sleeping; a mask is hanging on the wall in the upper left. Published in: Bridgens... More
Vue et description de la ville de Meaco capitale du Japon avec d'autre...
Prints shows views of Meaco (Kyoto) and Saccai (Sakai), scenes of Christians being tortured, a Japanese wedding ceremony, and a temple in Sakai, and a plan of Dejima trading island; also includes descriptions o... More
Married to the gunner's daughter DS monogram
Drawing shows a sailor being punished by having him lie on a cannon barrel with his hands tied at one end and his feet at the other, he is then flogged. Signed with monogram on lower right: DS. Removed from ma... More
The rake's progress at the university. No. 5. Convened for wearing gai...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 549.
Kiralfy Bros "Michael Strogoff"
N16299 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted by Imre & Bolossy Kiralfy, 1882." Created by "Forbes Co., Boston." Larger version of poster: POS - TH - KIR, no. 4a (C size). Forms part of: Theatrical poster collectio... More
Sensible Roosevelt--A whipping-post for wife-beaters
Cover illustration showing man wearing mask whipping another man manacled to whipping post, as a woman with arm in sling looks on. Illus. in: Judge, v. 3 , no. 71 (1883 Mar. 3), p. 1.
Mazeppa: pl. 1 - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows Ivan Mazepa, naked, being bound to the back of a wild horse by several men, as punishment for his affair with Countess Theresa, wife of a count who learns of the affair, shown here as the elderly ma... More
Bock beer - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows "Bock" goats upending Chinese men, to the amusement of several men sitting at tables drinking beer. 8533 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright and lith., 1879, by A.J. Maerz, Brooklyn, E.D. N.Y.
The cigarette / George Bellows. - Lithograph, public domain, Library o...
Man, possibly a soldier, smoking cigarette alongside of nude woman, with breast cut off, and knife through her hand, stuck into door. No. 43. Signed in pencil on stone.
Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews / Flohri.
Print shows an aged man labeled "Russian Jew" carrying a large bundle labeled "Oppression" on his back; hanging from the bundle are weights labeled "Autocracy," "Robbery," "Cruelty," "Assassination," "Deception... More
Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print
Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, ... More
The olive rejectd or the Yankees revenge, British Cartoon Print
Print shows a representative of the British crown in America for peace negotiations (identified in the text as Edmund Burke, though possibly Lord North), he is wearing a crown with olive branch on his head and ... More
La tortura - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows Beatrice Cenci's being tortured in prison in the presence of her mother, religious authorities and police. Title from contents on title page. Printed in upper right corner: 6. (DLC/PP-43735)
The Sing Sing sanatorium / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows prisoners engaged in various recreations while incarcerated at Sing Sing for white collar crime. Caption: For the benefit of our grafting financiers whose health breaks down from exposure. I... More
A reserved seat - Public domain dedication image
"W.H." on crowned throne. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 70:178 (Aug. 2, 1917).
![[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzAvMDEvMDEvYmVsbC1yYWNrLWluLW11c2V1bS1pbi1tb2JpbGUtYWxhLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/49/webp "[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]")
[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Punishment for spitting on the deck - carrying a spittoon for the crew
Drawing shows a sailor carrying container into which another sailor spits. Removed from mat with notation: SE 3300.5 Cat 168. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Cong... More
Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons /...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
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.
"The prisoner" - from the water-color painting by H.F. Farny
Print shows a man stripped to the waist lying on the ground with arms spread, tied to stakes at the hands and feet; a Native, holding a rifle, is seated next to him, in the background is a Native encampment. I... More
The execution of the Inca / A.B. Greene.
Spaniards burning Atahualpa, Inca river at stake with monk holding crucifix to right of Inca. Illus. in: The New World heroes of discovery and conquest / by D.M. Kelsey. Philadelphia, Pa. : National Publishing ... More
Kiralfy Bros.' "Michael Strogoff"
N16296 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "Forbes Co., Boston." Smaller version of poster: POS - TH - KIR, no. 4 (B size). Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
![[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDIvYmVsbC1yYWNrLW9uLW1vZGVsLW11c2V1bS1pbi1tb2JpbGUtYWxhLWMwZTI2MC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.]")
[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.]
10143B. Caption: The bell rack. Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go thro... More
Blessed are the peacemakers, British Cartoon Print
Print shows two men representing Spain and France leading George III by a rope attached to his neck and Lord Shelburne through a gateway formed by spears, from the crossbar of which are tumbling the British lio... More
Justicia. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Justice stands blindfolded as people around her are being tortured. Engraving probably by P. Galle after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel. Inscription: Scopus legis ... securiores vivant. In: The Set of the seven vi... More
The Tory's day of judgment / E. Tisdale, del et sculpt.
Illustration shows colonists preparing to tar and feather a loyalist seated on the ground as another loyalist hangs from a gallows with a rope around his waist . Illus. in: M'Fingal : a modern epic poem, in fo... More
Emancipation Proclamation / del., lith. and print. by L. Lipman, Milwa...
Print shows at center the text of the Emancipation Proclamation with vignettes surrounding it; on the left are scenes related to slavery and on the right are scenes showing the benefits attained through freedom... More
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
Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, Dece...
Print shows the residents of Mankato, Minnesota, gathered to watch the execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians, who stand on a scaffold with nooses around their necks, separated from the community by rows of s... More
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Crowd gathering in street to watch the lynching of Jesse Washington, W...
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
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 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
Virtual representation, 1775. Book illustration from Library of Congre...
Print shows Lord Bute aiming a blunderbuss at a man representing colonial America; a member of Parliament, pointing at the American, tells Bute "I give you that man's money for my use", to which the American re... More
The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human...
Print shows sailor on a slave ship suspending an African girl by her ankle from a rope over a pulley. Captain John Kimber stands on the left with a whip in his hand. Attributed to I. Cruikshank in BM CPPS. Cat... More
![[Portraits of a Chinese beggar, a man being punished with his head in a canque, a woman washing her feet and a toy seller]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDIvcG9ydHJhaXRzLW9mLWEtY2hpbmVzZS1iZWdnYXItYS1tYW4tYmVpbmctcHVuaXNoZWQtd2l0aC1oaXMtaGVhZC1pbi1hLWNhbnF1ZS02OTUwNmItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/46/webp "[Portraits of a Chinese beggar, a man being punished with his head in a canque, a woman washing her feet and a toy seller]")
[Portraits of a Chinese beggar, a man being punished with his head in ...
Captions on front of item: "Beggars" (upper left); "Punishment of the canque" (upper right); "Ablutions" (lower left); and "Toy seller" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Beggars" (upper left); [no capt... More
Caricature, A good beginning / Keppler., public domain cartoon image
Print shows Justice sitting, blindfolded and holding her scales at her side, with the Eiffel Tower in the background; standing at her feet is Puck holding a list of names that includes "Esterhazy, Paty de Clam,... More
In Georgia / O'Neill Latham. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration showing an African American family on a small farm, in the background, a group of men, carrying rifles and a length of rope, are heading into a wooded area. Caption: Pete Am dis much bettah dan d... More
The Lash - Drawing. Public domain image.
Card showing bound African American slave being whipped. No. 5, no. 61. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.
![[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzAvMDEvMDEvYmVsbC1yYWNrLWluLW11c2V1bS1pbi1tb2JpbGUtYWxhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/56/webp "[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]")
[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bed-stocks for intoxication, &c / drawn on stone by R. Bridgens.
Print shows two African Trinidadians with their feet locked in stocks; one man has his hands bound behind him, the other man is sleeping; a mask is hanging on the wall in the upper left. Published in: Bridgens... More
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instrume...
Photograph by Kimball, N.Y.C. Copyright by George H. Hanks. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children of monarchy by the grace of God and the established church
(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 226.
Where they belong! / Keppler. - Public domain portrait engraving
Print shows three men in a small cage hanging outside the "Democratic National Headquarters"; the cage is labeled "Gorman Brice Smith, Jr. - Exposed Here - As a Warning, For All Time - These Traitors to Democra... More
Execution of Silan Lewis, at Wilberton, I.T., Nov. 5th, 1894
Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Delaware pillory and whipping post
Ground level whipping post, above which is a platform for the pillory, presently occupied by two African American men; a ladder leans against the platform, a group of men loiter in the background. Attributed t... More
Kiralfy Bros.' "Michael Strogoff"
N16296 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "Forbes Co., Boston." Smaller version of poster: POS - TH - KIR, no. 4 (B size). Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Edwin Arden's romantic play, Zorah
48671 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Israel put the the torture. The rabbi's punishment for refusing to exert his medical skill in behalf of the Governor General's daughter. Created and "copyright 1899 by The ... More
General Patricks punishment for gamblers
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 717 as : The Army of the Potomac-Gamblers at the Provost Marshal's Headquarters. Gift, J.P. Morgan... More
![[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjgvaXJvbi1tYXNrLWNvbGxhci1sZWctc2hhY2tsZXMtYW5kLXNwdXJzLXVzZWQtdG8tcmVzdHJpY3Qtc2xhdmVzLTllZGNiOC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]")
[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]
Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
A New method of Macarony making as practised at Boston / copied on sto...
Print shows two American revolutionaries tarring and feathering the tax collector. In the background, a gallows.
Sentenza di morte. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Print shows Beatrice Cenci and her mother in prison being informed that they have been sentenced to death.
The Union as it was The lost cause, worse than slavery / / Th. Nast.
Man "White League" shaking hands with Ku Klux Klan member over shield illustrated with African American couple with dead(?) baby. In background, man hanging from tree. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 18, no. 930... More
One of the modes of punishment in China - a Boxer prisoner, Peking, Ch...
Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Close-up of charred corpse of Jesse Washington, laying on ground, afte...
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available. Photo by Gildersleeve.
The Lash - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Card showing bound African American slave being whipped. No. 5, no. 61. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.
General Patricks punishment for gamblers
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 717 as : The Army of the Potomac-Gamblers at the Provost Marshal's Headquarters. Gift, J.P. Morgan... More
By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of puni...
Print shows Britannia drawn and quartered at a crossroad by ropes attached to three horses, one labeled "Tyranny" racing down the road "to America", another labeled "Venality" racing down the road "to Spain", a... More
Massacre of the Protestants in Calabria
Public domain illustrated book page scan, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Suspension of the habeas corpus, British Cartoon Print
Print showing John Bull suspended by his feet between two columns labeled "Lords" and "Commons." Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Ladies whipping girls. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A white woman whipping a slave girl. Illus. in: Picture of slavery in the United States of America / George Bourne. Middletown, Conn. : E. Hunt, 1834, p. 109. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
Burning a Peruvian to make him tell where the gold is / J.W. Orr.
Spanish soldiers, under command of Francisco Pizarro, burning a Peruvian. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T.... More
The riots at New York - The rioters burning and sacking the colored or...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 344 (1863 August 1), p. 493.
Punishment of the canque - Public domain portrait drawing
Photograph shows a Chinese man, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with his head in a canque. Title from front of item. Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez... More
Florence military prison series--"Persuading Dang" / J.E. Taylor.
Prisoner, surrounded by men and dogs, being lifted by rope. 13480 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 46. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor, 1897.
![Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTEvYmFpbmJyaWRnZS1pZS1iYW1icmlkZ2Utb24tdHJpYWwtZm9yLW11cmRlci1ieS1hLWNvbW1pdHRlZS1vZi10aGUtaG91c2Utb2YtZjA1NWYxLTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by William Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray.")
Bainbridge [i.e., Bambridge] on trial for murder by a committee of the...
Print shows several members of the House of Commons, including James Oglethorpe and Archibald Grant, gathered in a room at the Fleet Prison for an investigation of Thomas Bambridge, warden of the prison, for th... More
Les Anglois molestes et chatiees, Political Cartoon
Print shows 1. a beaming sun with fleur-de-lis shining on 2. a man who resembles George Washington, wearing military uniform and hat labeled "Congress" and "Washington," holding a raised lash in his right hand ... More
Bloodhounds tearing an Indian to pieces / J.W. Orr.
Spanish soldiers, under command of Don Pedro De Avila, using bloodhounds to kill an Indian. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. P... More
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
Southern justice and the president's veto of the military government b...
Prints show a statue of a snake-haired man wearing a toga with a CSA belt holding a scale tipping in favor of the south; the unjust results of trials involving southerners and northerners; and depictions of atr... More
King of Uganda and royal drummer with his ears cut off by order of for...
Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Feeding a prisoner in the cangue, China
Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![On the rack / CH [monogram]. - Drawing. Public domain image.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjMvb24tdGhlLXJhY2stY2gtbW9ub2dyYW0tMjNmMTlhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/25/webp "On the rack / CH [monogram]. - Drawing. Public domain image.")
On the rack / CH [monogram]. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration shows an allegorical female figure labeled "San Francisco" being tortured "on the rack" by a cast of medieval-looking executioners labeled "Cement Dealer, Lumber Dealer, Iron Workers' Union, Steel ... More
Quo Vadis G.C.K.monogram, Movie Poster
Motion picture poster for "Quo Vadis" show the character Lygia bound to a bull. In the background is the emperor Nero(?) and spectators in a coliseum. Caption: Lygia bound to the wild bull; George Kleine pres... More
He stooped to pick up the scourge which his constable had refused to w...
Illus. in: A maid of old Virginia ... / William Sage. New York : Fleming H. Revell Company, [c1915], frontispiece.
The brighter side of Hell. The treaty breaker
Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 70:506 (Sept. 27, 1917).
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...
Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More
![[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvbGFyZ2UtY3Jvd2QtbG9va2luZy1hdC10aGUtYnVybmVkLWJvZHktb2YtamVzc2Utd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi0xOC15ZWFyLW9sZC1hZnJpY2FuLTEtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916]")
[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-o...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews / Flohri.
Print shows an aged man labeled "Russian Jew" carrying a large bundle labeled "Oppression" on his back; hanging from the bundle are weights labeled "Autocracy," "Robbery," "Cruelty," "Assassination," "Deception... More
Edwin Arden's romantic play, Zorah
48671 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Israel put the the torture. The rabbi's punishment for refusing to exert his medical skill in behalf of the Governor General's daughter. Created and "copyright 1899 by The ... More
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[Bell rack as displayed in museum - Mobile, Alabama]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mazeppa - pl. 3 - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows Ivan Mazepa, naked, bound to the back of a wild horse as punishment for his affair with Countess Theresa, wife of a count who learns of the affair and settles upon this form of punishment for Mazepa... More
Mazeppa - pl. 4 - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows Ivan Mazepa, naked, bound to the back of a wild horse as punishment for his affair with Countess Theresa, wife of a count who learns of the affair and settles upon this form of punishment for Mazepa... More