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Portraict de l'amas des os humains, mis en comparaison de l'anatomie de ceux des oyseaux ...

Portraict de l'amas des os humains, mis en comparaison de l'anatomie d...

Human skeleton with bones lettered for comparison with a bird skeleton. Illus. in: L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux / Pierre Belon. Paris: G. Cauellat, 1555, p. 40. Published in: The tradition of science / L... More

The American juggernaut Everything noble, patriotic, and progressive is crushed beneath the remorseless tread of that mammoth monster of corruption, cruelty, and fraud, the vampire rings of capital / / Matt Morgan.

The American juggernaut Everything noble, patriotic, and progressive i...

Financiers and politicians, on large train, crushing American working men; skeleton hovering above. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's budget of fun, 1873 April, no. 181, pp. 8-9.

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

"Copyright by Joseph B. Hallworth." Created by "The National Ptg. & Eng., New York, Chicago, St. Louis." No. 06437. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspe... More

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas y artesanos

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas...

Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the... More

Collecting remains of the dead - 19th century Virginia.

Collecting remains of the dead - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing skeletal remains of Union soldiers and their clothing piled on a stretcher. Two men in the distance collect remains of the dead on a battlefield months after the battle near Cold Harbor, Vir... More

Poster - Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a skeleton, wrapped in a black cloak, with a bloody knife held in its teeth. In the background a hill of crosses on top of which is a gallows. Text: The danger of Bolshevism. Exhibited in: "Nazi P... More

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Devil watering tree of sins and skeleton about to chop it down. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983

La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato - Manuel Manilla

La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows a large skull with several small skulls and skeletons on the recto and verso. The smaller images of skulls and skeletons are shown with corresponding objects conveying some attribute to a type o... More

Skelet shirokorogago oleni︠a︡ v muzei︠e︡ g. Ekaterinburga

Skelet shirokorogago oleni︠a︡ v muzei︠e︡ g. Ekaterinburga

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These died, that our Nation might live. We were driven from this field (Wilderness) before we could gather our wounded or bury our dead. This is the way we found the field covered when we returned some months later

These died, that our Nation might live. We were driven from this field...

Stereograph showing skeletal remains and soldiers' uniforms on the battlefield of Gaines' Mill near Cold Harbor, Virginia, in April,1865. No. 916. Copyright 1904 by John C. Taylor. Attributed to John Reekie in... More

Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground

Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements... More

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse trotting. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movement... More

Bicycling, Gobi desert. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Bicycling, Gobi desert. Book illustration from Library of Congress

"Eric Pape, after photo." Title on shelflist card: In the Gobi desert. Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Across Asia on a ... More

Calavera comercial. Estas son las calaveras de todos los comerciantes, les llegó la de deveras por tramposos y farsantes

Calavera comercial. Estas son las calaveras de todos los comerciantes,...

Broadside shows skeletons patronizing a merchant skeleton selling such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. The text, a calavera in verse, conveys how "la flaca" (death) is mak... More

Aquí la calavera está, señores, de toditos los buenos valedores

Aquí la calavera está, señores, de toditos los buenos valedores

Broadside shows man, arms folded, as a protector or bodyguard, standing before a pile of skulls. Four other skeletons appear lower left and right of the broadside. The text in verse conveys the grand life which... More

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

Facsimile of poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Faustus" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 109 West 39th Street, showing Death as a skeleton beating a drum; an hourglass at his feet. Work Projects A... More

A magical musical comedy, Bimbo of Bombay

A magical musical comedy, Bimbo of Bombay

C253652 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: The spirit quartette. The skeleton song and dance. Pink Venus. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction of Ed. M. Graves. No. 5530. For... More

The old "homesteads" lesson to bread winners

The old "homesteads" lesson to bread winners

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Devil watering tree of sins and skeleton about to chop it down. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983

A skeleton of his own / Keppler.

A skeleton of his own / Keppler.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam holding a paper labeled "Protest against Russian Outrage"; he is standing with his back to a slightly open door revealing a skeleton labeled "Lynchings" and holding a handgun and ro... More

Calavera tapatia - Print, Library of Congress collection - Manuel Manilla

Calavera tapatia - Print, Library of Congress collection - Manuel Mani...

Broadside shows a male skeleton having a drink of tequila and smoking a cigar. On a table before him lie various objects. A child skeleton looks over his shoulder. Six small decorative skulls break up the text.... More

Two hundred thousand skeletons - Cemetery Colon, Havana, Cuba

Two hundred thousand skeletons - Cemetery Colon, Havana, Cuba

Stereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Death Mass burial.

In Ireland, in Turkey, somewhere in Europe, in the underworld, in Belgium

In Ireland, in Turkey, somewhere in Europe, in the underworld, in Belg...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The end of a perfect day," Life, 70:468 (Sept. 20, 1917).

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Faustus" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 109 West 39th Street, showing Death as a skeleton beating a drum; an hourglass at his feet. Work Projects Administration... More

Calaveras de confianza que les dara su pitanza

Calaveras de confianza que les dara su pitanza

Broadside shows skeletons and skulls from different walks of life--the barber, mailman, poltician, policeman, musician, bullfighter--all have a verse and a small calevera assigned to them. Imprenta de Antonio V... More

Gran mole de calaveras. Aquí está el sabroso mole, el mole más bien guisado; métanle recio toditos que sólo vale un centavo

Gran mole de calaveras. Aquí está el sabroso mole, el mole más bien gu...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons having a picnic in a graveyard, embellished with decorative elements of small skulls and two grim reapers. Verso shows five skeleton images, with four of them as food vendor... More

Calaveras del montón, número 1, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Calaveras del montón, número 1, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete in a graveyard, apparently in the process of creating more skeletons--a crowd of skeletons surround him and skulls lie at his feet. ... More

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas y artesanos

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas...

Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the... More

La calavera Oaxaqueña / Posada.

La calavera Oaxaqueña / Posada.

Print shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete among skulls and skeletons. Includes song lyrics and cartoon skeleton figures.

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

Views in the woods in the Federal lines on north side of Orange Plank Road

Views in the woods in the Federal lines on north side of Orange Plank ...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán ca...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each oth... More

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán ca...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each oth... More

The last ditch / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain  engraving

The last ditch / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain engraving

Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy pushing a German soldier labeled "Militarism" into a ditch in which a skeleton awaits him with open arms. Title from Life magazine. Published in: Life, 1917 March 22, pp... More

Mrs. Tooler-Monde, President of the Fortieth Century club, takes her husband to see the newly restored Prehistoric Monster

Mrs. Tooler-Monde, President of the Fortieth Century club, takes her h...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 72:187 (Aug. 8, 1918).

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas y artesanos

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas...

Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the... More

A fool of fortune by Martha Morton : presented by William H. Crane and his admirable company.

A fool of fortune by Martha Morton : presented by William H. Crane and...

"An emphatic success N.Y. herald." "An honest play, well played N.Y. press." Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin.-N.Y." No. 7515. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Gran bola de garbanceras--que por ser muy pretenciosas, se volveran calaveras repodridas y apestosas

Gran bola de garbanceras--que por ser muy pretenciosas, se volveran ca...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each oth... More

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Public domain photograph of death, macabre, skeleton, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Views in the woods in the Federal lines on north side of Orange Plank Road

Views in the woods in the Federal lines on north side of Orange Plank ...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Skeleton of horse. Running. Leaving the ground

Skeleton of horse. Running. Leaving the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements... More

La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio, Jose Guadalupe Posada - Manuel Manilla

La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio, Jose Guadalupe Posada - Manuel Manill...

Broadside shows a graveyard in which two skeletons are fencing each other, while another lies on the ground dead, and a fourth peeks from behind a tombstone. There are two small skulls, a small bird creature, a... More

Poster - Kohle ist Brot - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Kohle ist Brot - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a skeleton holding a sheaf of wheat looming over buildings at a port; three men are in lower right corner. Text: Coal is bread. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Signe... More

Calaveras, revelación de ultra tumba del espíritu de Francisco Villa

Calaveras, revelación de ultra tumba del espíritu de Francisco Villa

Broadside shows bust portrait of Francisco Villa and two small skulls. It also shows two skeletons in Asian dress. The borders on this broadside include ivy, roses, holly, and on the four corners each has a dev... More

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, ghosts from the dead.

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slat...

"Warning! This is a "scare" show. Not recommended for children under 12." At head of title: Oriel Theatre, Glencoe, Tues., May 14, 1 midnite show, only 11:15 p.m." Created by "Triangle Poster & Printing Co., Ch... More

P.T. Barnum & Co.'s greatest show on earth & the great London circus combined with Sanger's Royal British menagerie & grand international shows

P.T. Barnum & Co.'s greatest show on earth & the great London circus c...

Circus poster showing the "Great Jumbo's Skeleton" on a pedestal with several spectators; includes a cameo portrait of P.T. Barnum. Caption continues: The colossal and prodigious frame of the largest and noble... More

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera

Broadside depicting a calavera of Don Quixote riding an equally skeletal horse. He charges other skeletons with his lance. They are trampled, flee in fear and fly into the air. A second image below that of Don ... 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

La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato - Manuel Manilla

La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows a large skull with several small skulls and skeletons on the recto and verso. The smaller images of skulls and skeletons are shown with corresponding objects conveying some attribute to a type o... More

Skelet shirokorogago oleni︠a︡ v muzei︠e︡ g. Ekaterinburga

Skelet shirokorogago oleni︠a︡ v muzei︠e︡ g. Ekaterinburga

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whi... More

Skeleton of horse. Running. Off the ground

Skeleton of horse. Running. Off the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements... More

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Contact with the ground

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Contact with the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements... More

La Calavera Sevillana, esta hermosa calavera que fue de un grande torero, viene a presidir las fiestas que nos va a dar Cuatro Dedos

La Calavera Sevillana, esta hermosa calavera que fue de un grande tore...

Broadside shows a skull decorated with the implements and costume of bullfighting. Small skulls and skeletons decorate the borders. The text in calavera verse conveys a listing of the better known bullfighters ... More

Caricature, The "living" issue / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, The "living" issue / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan pulling on strings attached to a skeleton labeled "16 to 1" trying to make it jump like a wooden toy. Caption: Bryan They say it's dead! Can't you see it move? Illus.... More

A sermon without words - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

A sermon without words - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congres...

Burning cigarette with skeleton rising from the smoke. F47895 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Samuel E. Creasey(?). Reproduction of color lithograph.

[Soldier drinking ice water offered by skeleton]

[Soldier drinking ice water offered by skeleton]

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Norman Ross of the division of Paleontology, National Museum, preparing the skeleton of a baby dinosaur some seven or eight million years old for exhibition

Norman Ross of the division of Paleontology, National Museum, preparin...

Fossil found in Montana. No. 5955. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

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

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspe... More

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes, fraud mediums exposed.

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : ma...

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budape... More

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries

"Printed in U.S.A. by Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, KY." No. 5786. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part... More

Poster - Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a skeleton, wrapped in a black cloak, with a bloody knife held in its teeth. In the background a hill of crosses on top of which is a gallows. Text: The danger of Bolshevism. Exhibited in: "Nazi P... More

Ōya tarō mitsukuni - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Ōya tarō mitsukuni - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Ōya Tarō Mitsukuni watching a battle scene between armies of skeletons.

Revunvio de calaveras de catrines y borrachos, de viejos y de muchachos, de gatos y garbanceras

Revunvio de calaveras de catrines y borrachos, de viejos y de muchacho...

Broadside shows a calavera instructing people to go into the graveyard. The text conveys how the time will come for everyone to end up there. A second calavera in verse (epitaph) is titled "Calavera widows, cal... More

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado cual espina, hoy lo viene a torear la estudiantina

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado...

Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general. México. Imp... More

Skeleton of horse. Standing - Public domain book illustration

Skeleton of horse. Standing - Public domain book illustration

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse standing. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movement... 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

Skeleton of a whale, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Skeleton of a whale, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Mars, dieu des armées : 6 images anti-guerrières, dessinées et gravées en bois par Louis Moreau L. Moreau

Mars, dieu des armées : 6 images anti-guerrières, dessinées et gravées...

Portfolio cover print shows skeleton dressed in armor. Edition of 30. Signed and dated on block: "M15." Signed with chop. Library has "3/30." Straight no. 1038. In portfolio: Moreau, Louis. Mars, dieu des armé... More

[What death takes from those who fall enters into those who are left standing]

[What death takes from those who fall enters into those who are left s...

Drawing shows only the right half of a two page spread with Death on horseback and as a skeleton carrying a scythe (the blade of which appears in the missing left half) racing to the right over bodies and the w... More

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera

Broadside depicting a calavera of Don Quixote riding an equally skeletal horse. He charges other skeletons with his lance. They are trampled, flee in fear and fly into the air. A second image below that of Don ... More

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries

"Printed in U.S.A. by Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, KY." No. 5786. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part... More

The old "homesteads" lesson to bread winners

The old "homesteads" lesson to bread winners

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The war in Virginia - Officers and men of Meade's army discovering unburied Union dead on the old battlefield of Bull Run / from a sketch by our special artist, Edwin Forbes.

The war in Virginia - Officers and men of Meade's army discovering unb...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 17, no. 424 (1863 Nov. 14), p. 120.

Death at the polls, and free from "federal interference" / Th. Nast.

Death at the polls, and free from "federal interference" / Th. Nast.

Skeleton "solid Southern shot gun" holding shotgun at polls, to prevent African Americans from voting. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 23, no. 1190 (1879 Oct. 18), p. 821.

[Robinson Crusoe and dog looking at skeleton in sand]

[Robinson Crusoe and dog looking at skeleton in sand]

Title devised by cataloger. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.39). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Robinson Crusoe, Chapt. XXIII, p. 236.

[Whale skeleton and bird exhibits, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, Massachusetts.]

[Whale skeleton and bird exhibits, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Mus...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Poster - A toast to Kultur - Public domain lithograph

Poster - A toast to Kultur - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows a skeleton drinking a goblet of blood. Poster drawn by Raemaekers for Century Magazine and is part of Barron Collier Series of Patriotic Cartoons.

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes, fraud mediums exposed.

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : ma...

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budape... More

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista. La muerte inexorable no respeta ni a los que veis aquí en bicicleta

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista...

Broadside, on the front, shows calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, "Voz de México," "Patria," "Universal," "Tiempo," "Partido Liberal," "Gil Blas," names of popular newspapers, and "Siglo XIX," and "S... More

Collecting remains of the dead - 19th century Virginia.

Collecting remains of the dead - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing skeletal remains of Union soldiers and their clothing piled on a stretcher. Two men in the distance collect remains of the dead on a battlefield months after the battle near Cold Harbor, Vir... More

Soldier's skeletons City Point, Virginia / / Original photographs taken by the Government photographer during the war.

Soldier's skeletons City Point, Virginia / / Original photographs take...

Photographs show (on recto) decomposing skeletons on a stretcher with men disinterring remains from battlefield graves at Cold Harbor, Virginia, to be moved to national cemeteries and (on verso) a Union supply ... More

McIntyre & Heath's Comedians the epitome of vaudeville.

McIntyre & Heath's Comedians the epitome of vaudeville.

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ōya tarō mitsukuni - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Ōya tarō mitsukuni - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Ōya Tarō Mitsukuni watching a battle scene between armies of skeletons.

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements... More

Skeleton of horse. Trotting.  Leaving the ground

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse trotting. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movement... More

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries

Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The New York Sunday World Sunday Dec. 29th great new year's number, 1895-6

The New York Sunday World Sunday Dec. 29th great new year's number, 18...

Poster shows a black cat and two skeletons dressed in white robes and sleep caps. Artist not identified. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41 1895 Gift... More

The skeleton at the feast / J.S. Pughe.

The skeleton at the feast / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows several Republican politicians wearing Roman togas, seated around a banquet table with a skeleton that is holding a standard labeled "McKinley's Shaky Financial Record"; gathered around the table ar... More

El Puente del Cuervo - Drawing. Public domain image.

El Puente del Cuervo - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title translated: the bridge of the crow. (DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Legends of the City of Mexico" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's ... More

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

W.P.A. Federal Theatre Presents "Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Faustus" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 109 West 39th Street, showing Death as a skeleton beating a drum; an hourglass at his feet. Work Projects Administration... More

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes, fraud mediums exposed.

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : ma...

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budape... More

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Devil watering tree of sins and skeleton about to chop it down. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

X-Ray photo, gelatin silver print

X-Ray photo, gelatin silver print

Photograph shows two views of a woman: one, a lithograph, shows her clothed, basking in the glow of the x-rays, the other shows an x-ray photograph of her skeleton in a similar pose. Inscription: "Ein neues Lic... More

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry mishaps of Nid and the weird, wonderful wanderings of Nod

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry ...

D5955 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Delight bewilders and all sorrows fly 'tis a jolly world with "The evil eye." Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New ... More

El Puente del Clerigo - Drawing. Public domain image.

El Puente del Clerigo - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title translated: Clerigo bridge. (DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Legends of the City of Mexico" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's magazine... More

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