Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero
Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More
Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas
Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More
Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra
Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More
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
Plate VII. The husband, in a state of furious drunkenness, kills his w...
Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Manson testifies Mesches '70, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Drawing shows Charles Manson, head-and-shoulders portrati, testifying during a trial for the Sharon Tate and the LaBianca murders. Signed and dated on upper right. Inscribed in pencil on verso: Manson testifies.
Bullet holes in back of stage where Malcom X was shot / World Telegram...
NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph
P13153 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More
Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounc...
Caption of vignette: The murder on Xmas morn. Caption: The mesmerist scene: "What penance can I do to wash my crime away." Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6745. Pieces missin... More
Bishop Patteson. Museum of New Zealand collection
Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato
Broadside shows a Mexican guitarist singing in a doorway, as two soldiers escort Valentín Mancera, an outlaw from the state of Guanajuato. Mancera, murdered by the police in 1880, was famous for his hatred of t... More
Los celos del negro con D. Folias
Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More
Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos her...
Broadside shows a bust portrait, perhaps of Cariño. The text conveys the "Ballad of Cariño" in which two men, Cariño and Moreno, duel with each other, and ends with Moreno being shot dead. On the verso there i... More
Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounc...
Caption of vignette: The murder on Xmas morn. Caption: The mesmerist scene: "What penance can I do to wash my crime away." Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6745. Pieces missin... More
Is this a republican form of government? Is this protecting life, libe...
African American man kneeling by bodies of murdered African American people. In background sign reads, "the White Liners were here." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 Sept. 2, p. 712.
Her atonement an original American play.
M20425 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: The murder: My son, my son, what have you done!; Father you do not know me?; The trial: He is not guilty, I killed Chas. Leroy! Created by "The Courier Lith. Co., Buffalo,... More
Judge Stephen Crane charges the jury; ... Papin
Drawing shows an interior view of the courtroom with Judge Stephen Crane seated at the rear with an American flag behind him and "In God We Trust" on the wall above; he is addressing the jury. An exhibits board... More
Orestes killing Clytemnestra - Wonders of the Ancient World
Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vivan, vivan los Cubanos! Dicen en lo general, porque al fin somos her...
Broadside shows a bust portrait, perhaps of Cariño. The text conveys the "Ballad of Cariño" in which two men, Cariño and Moreno, duel with each other, and ends with Moreno being shot dead. On the verso there i... More
A man lay in the drifts, his rifle beside him
No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0069). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Murder ... in one year 13,070 murders were committed with firearms in ...
Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone...
Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More
[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, pointing his finger, a...
Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More
Francisco Goya - Esto es malo. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain scan of Spanish 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste
Art nouveau poster showing anarchist murdering woman with hatchet. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati.
Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.
C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More
Visit of the Ku-Klux / drawn by Frank Bellew.
African American woman cooking, man seated alongside, and three children, with man from Ku Klux Klan aiming rifle in doorway.
The tragical death of Miss McCrea in the year 1777, near Fort Edward i...
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...
D16484 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The end. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4749. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library... More
The city of New York by Walter Fessler.
C253655 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder near Grant's tomb. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 5685. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: The... More
Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...
Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More
Dispatch, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Print shows a man, holding a large club labeled "Procrastination" over his head, saying "I hate delay"; he is about to strike Father Time who cries "Murder, Murder." Father Time's hourglass and scythe are alrea... More
Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato
Broadside shows a Mexican guitarist singing in a doorway, as two soldiers escort Valentín Mancera, an outlaw from the state of Guanajuato. Mancera, murdered by the police in 1880, was famous for his hatred of t... More
Miniature showing 1. the murder of Rhea Ilia's brother Lausus by her u...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.
C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More
Lieutenant Gascoigne & family before the murder. New Zealand Wars peri...
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Public domain vintage photo from New... More
[The Charleston convention] - A black and white drawing of a building
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 228 (1860 April 14), p. 303 (title page).
Drop ut, idjut, whispered a voice in her ear
(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Study in Values" by Emma Kaufman, Collier's weekly (Aug. 12, 1905), p. 11.
La Réforme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste
Art nouveau poster showing anarchist murdering woman with hatchet. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati.
Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print
Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding ... More
Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...
Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More
Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norbe...
Broadside shows a woman with a knife stabbing her elderly father as her dead mother lies in the background. The text conveys the tale of Norberta Reyes, whose parents could not control her. She runs away with a... More
Irish industries / F.O. - coin, public domain photograph
Four frame cartoon showing: "Infernal machine manufacturing" (two men making bombs), "The Irish vote manufacturers" (men at polls), "The landlord killing industry" (man shooting landlord from behind wall), and ... More
Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera
Broadside shows simple ornamental border dividing the text which, in verse, consists of two ballads. The "Ballad of Reyes Ruiz," by Epigmenio Gonzales, conveys the killing of Ruiz on the eve of a Dieciseis de S... More
An awful tragedy of the Spanish War / Howard Chandler Christy, '98.
Young woman with knife in her chest lying on floor, killed by a drunk Spanish officer who sits sleeping with his head on a table. Illus. in: Leslie's weekly, 1898, Oct. 20, p. 313.
Frank Burt & George H. Nicolai present a pastoral play, The night befo...
D3303 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4341. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Libra... More
[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, gesturing during a pre...
Date from: "Young Hill Staffers Grieve Over Shotgun Murder of Friend, 9 Blocks From Capitol; Vehicle in 'Carjacking' at Weekend Party Found, But Killer and Cohorts Still at Large," Roll Call, June 4, 1992, whi... More
Los celos del negro con D. Folias
Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More
Godanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print
Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding ... More
Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero
Broadside includes portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and spea... More
Miss Sarah Gilfillan. One of the survivors of the Gilfillan Massacre A...
Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Louisiana murders - gathering the dead and wounded The disputed pr...
Top illustration shows Negroes pulling a man on a luge(?), and two men lying in field. Bottom illustration shows jackal and eagle disputing the possession of a dead antelope. 2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly... More
Policeman maintains watch from roof of Unity funeral home where body o...
NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
He was the beginning, Lil Bobby James Hutton, born April 21, 1950, mur...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United ... More
Murder of Jane McCrea Art print
Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
The mammoth spectacular production, Sporting life written by Cecil Ral...
D16484 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The end. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4749. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library... More
Poster - Thomas W. Keene. Hamlet - Public domain lithograph
P13153 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas
Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More
Alexander Anderson and Henry Richards in the act of murdering Mrs. Ann...
Illus. in: The Manheim tragedy / H.A. Rockafield. Pub. by H.A. Rockafied, in trust ... Lancaster Pa. : Printed at the Evening Express office, 1858, back cover.
The murderer's straight route to heaven - bringing religion into disre...
Print shows the spirit of an executed murderer rising to Heaven as a minister wipes clean the "Blackboard of Crime" on which are "Murder, Arson, [and] Robb[ery]" with the "Sponge of Absolution" as "years of sin... More
Who killed Hancock? / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Print shows the ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sitting on a throne in a banquet hall, Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock, Dana makes wild statements while waving a... More
Do you wish me to kill you where you stand?
No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
The red hand Historic map, Library of Congress
Illustration shows a large red hand labeled "Organized Murder" dripping blood over the western states on a map of the United States. Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, no. 1583 (1907 July 3), cover. Copyright 1907 by Kep... More
The magic hat / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows, at center, Samuel Gompers standing on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled "Expulsion", the sign states "To Organized Labor defend you persecuted brethren. Put up, or lose you ... More
The scarlet woman - whom shall she pay? / Gordon Grant '12.
Illustration shows a woman wearing a red dress, holding money, standing between the "Health Department Bureau of Licences and Inspection" and an opening in a wall labeled "Graft". In a cut-away showing the scen... More
The tragedy that lived The fatality of love.
Motion picture poster for "The Tragedy that Lived" shows a man with a gun standing over a man lying on the ground at his feet "By James Oliver Curwood." "Selig drama."
Augusta, he only made page 5 - Drawing. Public domain image.
"New York University Interdepartmental Communication" printed four times on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.
Jean Harris & attorneys and more testimony being read by court reporte...
Drawing shows Nancy Borko, Bronx County Assistant District Attorney, using a doll during questioning of a young child at the trial of Albert Algarin, shown at lower right, for child molestation; also shown is N... More
Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More
Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero, Jose Guadalupe Posada
Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More
The city of New York by Walter Fessler.
Caption: The death of Jack Morgan. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Lower right and left corners missing. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: Theatrica... More
The city of New York by Walter Fessler.
C253655 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The murder near Grant's tomb. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 5685. Portrait of Walter Fessler in upper left corner. Forms part of: The... More
Old John Brown's career illustrated
Print shows five vignettes from the violent life of abolitionist John Brown, three related to "doing his Kansas work" and the fourth "commencing his Virginia work"; the fifth vignette, at center, labeled "The t... More
Bringing Silvia into Union Station
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Probably related to arrest of Joseph Silvia for the 1919 slaying of Emmett E. Wood. Date from negatives in... More
Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra
Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More
Revd. J. Whitely, killed Saturday 13th Feby 1869 at White Cliffs, Tara...
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lt. Col. Wm. Hewett was capt. 14th Regt. 1815. Died Oct 26th1891 aged ...
Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jean Harris breaks down on stand Papin
Drawing shows jjilted mistress Jean Harris sobbing on the witness stand under cross examination by the prosecutor George Bolen on February 6, 1981; includes Harris standing on the right, full-length, seen from ... More
Cain killing Abel, Lucas van Leyden
Public domain photo of European sculpture, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Cain and Abel - the first two sons of Adam and Eve. According to the book of Genesis,... More
Mr J.D. Hewett, murdered by Hauhaus Feby 1865. New Zealand Wars period...
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Public domain vintage photo from New... More
Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norbe...
Broadside shows a woman with a knife stabbing her elderly father as her dead mother lies in the background. The text conveys the tale of Norberta Reyes, whose parents could not control her. She runs away with a... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 5
A bedroom in a brothel where the earl falls dying after being struck with a sword by Silvertongue whom he has surprised with the countess. The lawyer escapes through the window to left as watchmen enter to righ... More
Mort de M. Biscarrat. - A drawing of a group of people in a hut
Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 5
A bedroom in a brothel where the earl falls dying after being struck with a sword by Silvertongue whom he has surprised with the countess. The lawyer escapes through the window to left as watchmen enter to righ... More
Jakob Binck - Sebald Beham - Judith., Barthel Beham, German
Public domain scan of 16th,17th-18th century German print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Louis Haghe - View of the mountain Baba-Naunee, called Kutl-Gahor
Illustration shows two Baluchis preparing to murder an Indian civilian, who traveled with the Army of the Indus en route to Afghanistan, sleeping at Qatal Gah, Pakistan; caravan of soldiers, camp followers, and... More
The Murder of Powell / C.S.R . wood engraving, Library of Congress
Illustration shows a group of Irish immigrant workers with clubs standing over the body of African American laborer Denis Powell during the race riots near Patenburg, Hunterdon County, N.J. Illus. in: Harper'... More
The scene of Ambassador Von Ketteler's murder, Peking, China
Aerial view of unpaved street with pack animals, rickshaws, a few canopies, and some small buildings. H24394 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32. Copyright by C.H. Graves.
Bolen reads 'letter' to jury. Aurnou listens, close-up of Jean Harris ...
Drawing shows prosecutor George Bolen reading to the jury a letter Jean Harris sent to Dr. Herman Tarnower; Jean Harris is shown at lower right and her attorney, Joel Aurnou, sits in the background with his han... More
Kira Yoshinaka - Kudanme Historic map, Library of Congress, Forty Seve...
Print shows two women, possibly Tonase and Konami, and Honzō, looking at a map of Morono's villa, and Rikiya, standing, about to draw his sword. Scene from act nine of the play Chūshingura or revenge of the 47 Rōnin.
Bringing Silvia into Union Station
A group of men standing outside of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description