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How to torture your husband. "Roy, will you condescend to deal?"

How to torture your husband. "Roy, will you condescend to deal?"

Nine-frame comic strip. A wife berates her husband about his bridge playing, until he vows "Never again!" Copyright 1921 by H.T. Webster. Editorial marks in margins. Signed, lower right, ninth frame: WEBSTER. ... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf and sword; and St Agatha with lily, and torture device(?)]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf a...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Torture irons on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Torture irons on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Torture of the prisoner [by nude Indians]

Torture of the prisoner [by nude Indians]

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 85. The same illustration used a second time in Johannes Lerii's account, p. 193. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverifie... More

Torture irons on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Torture irons on SUCCESS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

The Lash - Drawing. Public domain image.

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.

[Houdini and the water torture cell]

[Houdini and the water torture cell]

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

Stop torture in Chile - American Art Poster

Stop torture in Chile - American Art Poster

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. H13. 1975

Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated / By James Akin, no. 18 Prune Street, Philadelphia.

Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated / By J...

An impassioned attack on cruelty in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary. Akin presents a life-size, detailed rendering of an iron gag, "Locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a Convict from Lancaster County, sentenced... More

Via Dolorosa. The Prison of the Antonia. The dungeon showing supposed method of torture.

Via Dolorosa. The Prison of the Antonia. The dungeon showing supposed ...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf and sword; and St Agatha with lily, and torture device(?)]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf a...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves

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

Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated / By James Akin, no. 18 Prune Street, Philadelphia.

Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated / By J...

An impassioned attack on cruelty in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary. Akin presents a life-size, detailed rendering of an iron gag, "Locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a Convict from Lancaster County, sentenced... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf and sword; and St Agatha with lily, and torture device(?)]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf a...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf and sword; and St Agatha with lily, and torture device(?)]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St Lucy with palm leaf a...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Registered letter from Hull, England, regarding water torture cell, 1913

Registered letter from Hull, England, regarding water torture cell, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[The  world-famous self-liberator Houdini will escape from the water torture cell, Cardiff, Wales]

[The world-famous self-liberator Houdini will escape from the water t...

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

Will the American people never cease to oppress and torture and helpless poor? Peterboro, December 12, 1874.

Will the American people never cease to oppress and torture and helple...

Title.; On recto, Copy 1: 83.; On verso, Copy 2: {stamp} Trans. From Manuscript Div. Oct 29, 1945 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile pa... More