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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a portrait of George Henry Williams (deceased child at 18 months), son of Henry C. and Diana T. Williams, and may be the cousi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College. |
| Date: | 09 09 1881 |
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| Description: | Wreck of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad line on the Teegarten farm near Menomonie. Dead cows are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 10 1891 |
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| Description: | The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars... |
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| Description: | An artist's representation of the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth at the Marshall House, the first casualty of the Civil War. Lieutenant Francis Brownell ... |
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| Description: | Tintype (ferrotype) of a dead baby in casket, covered with roses. |
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| Description: | Open coffin, decorated with flowers, and a wreath that reads, "Our Mother" in a funeral salon. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Bringing in two small bucks, dead and loaded on a sled behind a team of horses, Old Camp 2. The third man from the right is Clarence Deitz. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Painting of a group of bison surrounding a prostrate dead Indian warrior with arrows protruding from his chest and half buried in the snow. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Site of the Battle of Antietam. The bloody lane. |
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| Description: | A lithograph titled "Charge of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment at Chickamauga; death of Colonel Heg," showing the death of Hans Christian Heg. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of a man executed by firing squad at the base of a tree. His face is covered with a cloth, and he has a small heart bull's eye on his chest. |
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| Description: | A view of four beheaded men lying on the ground with a group of officers standing behind, posing for the camera. A man to the left in the central group hol... |
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| Description: | A view of men's bodies hanging from poles. People are watching from behind. Caption reads: "Public Hanging in Korea." |
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| Description: | A view of members of the Yaqui tribe after the execution of six men in Guaymas Mexico. Caption reads: "Yaquis after the execution, Guaymas, Mexico." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a funeral ceremony at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. A group of veterans march before a horse-drawn vehicle pulling a coffin on ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis hanging by a noose in a tree with a serpent wrapped around it. The "SOUTHERN EAGLE" is flying in the background. Captions below read: "JEFF... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is standing on the body of a fallen soldier. She has a sword in her right hand and is holding the Union flag in her left hand. The words: "TH... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two Union soldiers and a Zouave raise their weapons and wave a Union flag. They are standing on dead Confederate soldiers and the Confederate flag. A man ... |
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