97 Skulls Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Surgical photograph ... prepared under the supervision of ... War Dep...

Photographs show two men displaying amputated leg wounds and two skulls with bullet holes. Upper right: skull of Edward Volk, private, Company D, 55th Ohio Volunteers (Surgical photo 212). Lower left: Eben Smit... More

Skulls and bones of unburied soldiers on south side of Plank Road in 1...

No. 4999. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battle-field of Chancellorsville. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, p. 173. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The bones of tenants whose burial rental was not renewed--Santa Cruz C...

Two men examine a skull from pile of exhumed skulls and bones in cemetery. 79395 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899 by Underwood & Underwood.

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Kominaka dancer

Kwakiutl Indian in costume with skulls. J150218 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3329-10.

The last blow / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy punching German soldiers labeled "Militarism," who are lying upon a pile of skulls as a house burns in the background.

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville H...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 3. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

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

Photograph showing skulls and bones of unburied soldiers. No. 5022. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness". Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Librar... More

William H. Egberts of Museum with skulls, 3/27/[26]

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

Mahakala deity, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Photograph shows a painting of the Mahākāla, a Buddhist deity, Sikkim. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 002 ... More

Samri S. Baldwin, the white mahatma and a superb company

Created by "Calhoun Print, Hartford." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of: McManus-Young collection ... More

Poster - Don't mix 'em - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing whiskey bottle, gas pump, and a skull. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angel... More

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

[Cranial shape of skull of sane man in figure 3 and 4 compared to skul...

Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gray rabbit - Lepus sylvaticus E.K

Print shows a right profile view of a "gray rabbit", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E10749 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left: E.K. Publication date based on copyright statement a... More

[Bookplate of Frederic Remington], engraving, Library of Congress

Print showing a cow skull. Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. On verso: Frederick Remington, 1861-1909, author, artist, sculptor. This plate is scare, very few were printed. Designed by the owner.

The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a ston...

William H. Egberts examining trepanned skulls in the anthropology laboratory at the National Museum. National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: vol. 2, p. 11, no. 39552.

U.S. on war path against wolves. Washington, D.C., April 29. It may be...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created and "copyright 1915 by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 14335. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms ... More

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

"Made in U.S.A." Created by "The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O." No. O-1377. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congres... More

Edward S. Curtis - Offering the buffalo skull--Mandan

H118547 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2828-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Cur... More

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

[Heap of bones in the cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana]

Public domain photograph of Cuba, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Memories - Public domain scenic drawing, Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an elderly Native man standing with his horse on the plains with a buffalo skull on the ground before them. Signed with a monogram. Illus. in: Puck, v. 74, no. 1910 (1913 October 8), centerf... More

Tel Deweir (Lachish). Deposit of skulls on floor of tomb 120 being cle...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created and "copyright 1915 by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 14335. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms ... More

1. & 2. Red bat. Lasiurus noveboracensis 3. & 4. Little brown bat. Ves...

Print shows in figure 1. a "Red bat" with wings extended, full-length, and 2. at repose, and in figure 3. a "Little brown bat" with wings extended, full-length, and 4. at repose; also shows a skull. E14010 U.S.... More

Vizcaya, Santiago Harbor, Cuba, July 3, 1898, Spanish-American War

Photograph shows a heap of human skulls and bones in Cristóbal Colón cemetery, Havana, Cuba. Human skulls and bones taken from Havana harbor after Spanish-American War, 1898.

Kishineff must be paid for - with interest / Keppler.

Illustration shows Nicholas II, emperor of Russia, sitting on a throne, wearing a large skull topped with a cross as a crown; a Japanese man is offering him papers labeled "Peace 'with Honor'" and a Jewish man,... More

Death's laboratory - the patent medicine trust. Palatable poison for t...

Print from Collier's, The National Weekly, shows a skull surrounded by money bags. Inside the nose of the skull a skeleton pours Laudanum and alcohol from barrels in the skull's eyes into bottles labeled with ... More

Calaveras de coyotes y meseras - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Broadside shows a cat, with a skull for a face, standing on its hind legs holding two skulls. Additional skulls are scattered on the ground beside it. People run away in fear in the background. The text, in cal... More

Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Samri S. Baldwin, the white mahatma and a superb company

Created by "Calhoun Print, Hartford." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of: McManus-Young collection ... More

Samri S. Baldwin, the white mahatma and a superb company

Created by "Calhoun Print, Hartford." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of: McManus-Young collection ... More

Poster - Don't mix 'em - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing whiskey bottle, gas pump, and a skull. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angel... More

Domestic pig - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a left profile view of a "domestic pig", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E10752 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Print... More

La calavera del cólera morbo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows a man with the body of a snake in the center of a group of skulls, representing the disease cholera, his arms are outstretched and tongue out. Flying insects surround him. The skulls that surrou... More

From the cradle -- to the grave / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows an infant sitting in an overturned, spike-topped helmet labeled "Militarism"; the illustration is intended to be rotated 180° and show a skull wearing a helmet. Image accompanies text by Benj... More

An available candidate--the one qualification for a Whig president

Political cartoon showing man in military uniform, with epaulets and plumed hat, holding sword and seated on pile of skulls. A scathing attack on Whig principles, as embodied in their selection of a presidentia... More

Officers and soldiers on the battlefield of the second Bull Run, recog...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.155) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

"Made in U.S.A." Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created by "The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O." No. O-656. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic pos... More

Common skunk - Mephitis mephitica E.K

Print shows a left profile view of a common skunk, full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E10750 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right: E.K. Publication date based on copyright statement an... More

Rocky Mountain goat. Aplocerus montanus

Print shows a left side profile view of a "Rocky Mountain goat", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E14021 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on... More

"Bill passed providing for two new military posts" by the generous Dem...

Cartoon showing Indians with skulls of U.S. Army soldiers. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 Aug. 5, p. 632.

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

"Made in U.S.A." Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created by "The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O." No. O-656. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic pos... More

Skulls and bones of unburied soldiers on south side of Plank Road in 1...

No. 4998. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battle-field of Chancellorsville. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 3, p. 21. Photographed by a member of the field staff organized by M. B. B... More

North American porcupine - Erethizon dorsatus E.K

Print shows a left profile view of a "North American porcupine", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E10751 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on trunk of tree: E.K. Publication date based on copyri... More

German army - Über alles during World War I

Poster showing the devil dressed as a German soldier sitting on a mound of skulls; a bloodied sword rests at his feet.

Some specimens of "Secesh" industry - intended for the London Exhibiti...

Images show: Goblet - made from a "Yankee's skull"; paperweight made from a "Yankee jaw bone"; reading desk made from a human skeleton; furs made from scalps and beards; necklace of "Yankee teeth"; head wreath ... More

Cow skull at Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona

Hackberry was founded when prospectors found a rich vein of ore here in the 1870's. A large Hackberry tree grew by the spring and gave the town its name. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. ... More

Woodchuck - Arctomys monax E.K - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Print shows a left profile view of a "Woodchuck", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E10748 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right: E.K. Publication date based on copyright statement and... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Medicine Man (Slow Bull)

Slow Bull, full-length portrait, facing front, holding pipe, buffalo skull at his feet. H104318 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2505-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Publi... More

L'autre prie Emperor Franz Joseph

Postcard shows caricature of Emperor Franz Josef as a skeleton, praying, in lotus position, amid skulls and crosses. Gravure originale. Édition Perlac. Série G.

Die Heimat ist in Gefahr! / V. Arnaud.

Poster shows piles of dead and dying people; behind them looms a skull in a Russian-style hat and coat. Text exclaims that the homeland is in danger from Bolshevism coming across the eastern borders and that la... More

Gray wolf - Canis lupus - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...

Print shows a right side view of a "Gray wolf", full-length, standing, with head turned slightly right; also shows a skull. E10756 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or co... More

[Soldiers displaying skulls after a battle in the Philippines]

Caption on item: Six weeks after the Battle of Ca[?]. Forms part of: John J. Pershing papers, 1882-1971 (bulk 1904-1948) (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Prayer to the mystery

Oglala Sioux man, Picket Pin, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe with mouthpiece pointing skyward, buffalo skull at his feet. H104319 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2506-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Co... More

Edward S. Curtis - Saliva - Public domain portrait photograph

Dakota man with calumet kneeling by altar inside tipi. H104333 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2520-07.

Edward S. Curtis - Picket Pin - Public domain print

Full-length portrait of Dakota man dressed in loin cloth holding buffalo skull. H104337 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2526-07.

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

[Deity and skeleton masks, Gangtok, Sikkim]

Location from information on related slide: LC-KAN-0712. Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN-0090. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress,... More

Alley N/S, parallel to Mariposa east of it, view towards 12th St., Los...

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

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

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

Photograph showing skulls and bones of unburied soldiers. No. 5019. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness". Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Librar... More

[Allegorical image of a king surrounded by skulls, a woman surrounded ...

Reproduction of drawing for book of poems. Illus. in: Schmolze, Karl Heinrich / An artist's poems, Philadelphia, 1864, pl. 4. Reference copy in LOT 4450-H.

Sea lion. Eumetopias stelleri. Male

Print shows a right side profile view of a "Sea lion", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E14011 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Pri... More

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

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

Edward S. Curtis - Prayer to the Great Mystery, (Slow Bull)

Slow Bull, squatting, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe with mouthpiece pointing skyward, buffalo skull at his feet. H104320 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2507-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection... More

[Man examining skulls] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tel Deweir (Lachish). Closer view of skulls in tomb 120. Remains of ov...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

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

Photograph showing skulls and bones of unburied soldiers. No. 5020. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness". Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Librar... More

[Hands holding bloody dagger and coin bag, skulls with bat wings, and ...

Title devised by cataloger. (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 : Cha... More

The Frontier trooper's thanatopsis / from the painting by Frederic Rem...

Frontier soldier, standing by horse, looking at skull on ground, with burial scaffold in background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1889 April 13, p. 277.

Canada--Yukon Territory--Dawson / Wolfe photo, Dawson, Y.T.

Two men standing next to "primeval ox head" and "mastodon tusk" in museum setting with other bones and artifacts.

The Russian crown / Hassman̄. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a crown in the shape of a human skull against a background of blood dripping into the title area at the bottom. Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1504 (1905 December 27), cover. Copyright 1905 by ... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Oath--Apsaroke

Three Apsaroke men gazing skyward, two holding rifles, one with object skewered on arrow pointed skyward, bison skull at their feet. H118535 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2627-08. Men identified by Library ... More

Fossil mastodon skull showing teeth, in diggings

J135094 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4. Copyright by J.Z. Gilbert & F.C. Winter.

An available candidate--the one qualification for a Whig president

Political cartoon showing man in military uniform, with epaulets and plumed hat, holding sword and seated on pile of skulls. A scathing attack on Whig principles, as embodied in their selection of a presidentia... More

An available candidate--the one qualification for a Whig president

Political cartoon showing man in military uniform, with epaulets and plumed hat, holding sword and seated on pile of skulls. A scathing attack on Whig principles, as embodied in their selection of a presidentia... More

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

"Made in U.S.A." Created by "The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O." No. O-1377. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congres... More

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

Photograph showing skulls and bones of unburied soldiers. No. 5021. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness". Forms part of Civil War Photograph Collection (Librar... More

E.H. Sothern and Virginia Harned, special production of Hamlet

Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Management, Daniel Frohman. N.Y. no. 8845. Poster consists mostly of text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... More

Officers and soldiers on the battlefield of the second Bull Run, recog...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.155) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Evil images to be burned at the end of dance ceremony, Sikkim

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 011 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Imaginative skull display within the Tioga Miniature Golf course in Ti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Moose. European elk. Alces malchis

Print shows a left side profile view of a "Moose" or "European elk", full-length, standing; also shows a skull. E14020 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stam... More

Common harbor seal - Phoca vitulina linn

Print shows a right profile view of a common harbor seal, full-length, lying on a rock; also shows a view of its skull. E10746 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyri... More

E.H. Sothern and Virginia Harned, special production of Hamlet

Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Management, Daniel Frohman. N.Y. no. 8845. Poster consists mostly of text. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Offering the buffalo skull--Mandan

H118547 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2828-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Cur... More

Heap of bones in the cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana

Title from jacket. "X 530" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32434. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Use "anchor brand" pure bone fertilizers, manufactured only by ?er mf'...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. A.B. [?], copyright claimant. Category designation... More

Skull, Stewart Beach mini golf, Galveston, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville H...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 3. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

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

Broadside shows 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 in... More

La calavera taurina ya llegó a todo correr, gritando con mucha muina: ...

Broadside shows skull decorated and small skulls and skeletons. The text, in calavera verse (epitaph), conveys a listing of the better known Mexican bullfighters.