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LL/35578
ThumbnailBrown Brothers 
Triangle Fire Victims Awaiting Identification 
1911 
Gelatin silver print 
6 x 7 3/4 in (15.2 x 19.7 cm) 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Sale 2208 Lot 22 
  

  
LL/9511
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus 
[Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] 
1868 
Albumen print 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) 
  

  
LL/9513
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Assassins of Sir Henry Parkes 
[Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] 
1868 
Albumen print 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) 
  

  
LL/9512
ThumbnailFrederik William Sutton 
Assassins of Sir Henry Parkes 
[Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] 
1868 
Albumen print 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) 
  

  
LL/18530
ThumbnailSumner & Son, Northfield 
Styles, Miller James Gang, killed 
1876 
Gelatin silver print 
3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (49 / 45) 
  

  
LL/34052
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Murder in Barroom (Royal Bar & Restaurant)à Manhattan 
1938 
Gelatin silver print 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 48) 
  

  
LL/36767
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. 
1860 
Albumen print 
Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library 
Wellcome Library, London (V0037622) 
  

  
LL/36768
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. 
1860 
Albumen print 
Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library 
Wellcome Library, London (V0037624) 
  

  
LL/40646
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Interior of the North Fort, Takoo, at the angle where the British Forces entered 
1861 (published) 
Lithograph 
Google Books 
10 
  
LL/46100
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Interior of Fort McKee 
1871, 11 June (ca) 
Albumen print 
9 5/16 x 11 5/8 ins 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography, 2007.26.108 
  
11 
  
LL/25208
ThumbnailFelice Beato 
Execution of the Servant Sokichi 
1865-1868 
Albumen print, hand-colored 
28,9 x 23 cm 
Bassenge Photography Auctions 
Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4020, Dec 5, 2007) 
  
12 
  
LL/41580
ThumbnailEugène Sevaistre 
La batteria Conca [Gaeta, Italy] 
1860-1861 (ca) 
Albumen print 
Comune di Gaeta 
13 
  
LL/36208
ThumbnailE. & H.T. Anthony & Co. 
A dead Confederate soldier as he lay in the trenches of F[ort Mahone] called by the soldiers "Fort [Damnation]" 
[The War of the Union. Photographic History.] 
1865, 2 April (taken) 1870-1874 (ca, published) 
Negative, safety film 
Stereocard 
Library of Virginia - State Library and Archive 
Record number: 000005124, Stereograph Virginia Petersburg CW002 
  
14 
  
LL/22160
ThumbnailAlexander Gardner 
Dead Confederate Soldier / Home of A Rebel Sharpshooter 
[Incidents of the War] 
1863 (taken) 1865 (published) 
Albumen print 
h: 7 x w: 8.9 in / h: 17.8 x w: 22.6 cm 
Etherton Gallery 
15 
  
LL/14027
ThumbnailTimothy H. O'Sullivan 
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 
[GardnerÆs Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 36] 
1863, July 
Albumen print 
7 x 9 in 
Lee Gallery 
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (Z1365) 
  
16 
  
LL/9991
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
C.S. soldier killed in the trenches, at the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April The marks and spots on his face, are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell. 
1865 (ca) 
Stereocard 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 
LC-USZC4-1850 
  
17 
  
LL/42468
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Dead soldier at Tel-el-Kebir [Egypt] 
1882, 6 December 
Albumen print 
National Media Museum 
Ref Number: 1995-5001/7/10 
  
18 
  
LL/31924
ThumbnailNorthwestern Photo Co (Chadron, Nebraska) 
Burial of the dead at the battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. [South Dakota]. 
1890, 29 December (after) 
 
National Museum of Health and Medicine 
19 
  
LL/15909
ThumbnailStroh&Wy/U&U 
A sacrifice to Aguinaldo's ambition, Behind the Filipino Trenches after the Battle of Malabon, P.I. 
n.d. 
Stereocard, detail 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tue, Dec 12, 2006 & Thu, Dec 14, 2006, # 06-4, Lot 728) 
  
20 
  
LL/6573
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Killed British soldiers lying in trenches after the Battle of Spioenkop, near Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa. 
1900, January 
Photograph 
Location and source information requested 
Courtesy of the Transvaal Archive 
  
21 
  
LL/6109
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
[Loading dead on cart] 
1910 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
8.8 x 8.8 cm 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin 
HRC (973:0006:0001-0175) 
  
22 
  
LL/37245
ThumbnailUnderwood & Underwood 
The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead in a Russian fort Port Arthur 
1904-1905 
Stereocard 
Private collection of John Hannavy 
© John Hannavy Picture Collection 
  
23 
  
LL/37246
ThumbnailUnderwood & Underwood 
The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead in a Russian fort Port Arthur 
1904-1905 
Stereocard, detail 
Private collection of John Hannavy 
© John Hannavy Picture Collection 
  
24 
  
LL/38133
ThumbnailManuel Ramos 
More dead in the plaza, Mexico City 
[Album, Mexican Revolution] 
1913 
Gelatin silver print 
DeGolyer Library 
Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call Number: Ag1996.1039, p.4 
  
25 
  
LL/38140
ThumbnailWalter H. Horne 
Untitled [Dead bodies on a Mexican battlefield] 
1913 
Postcard 
DeGolyer Library 
Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call number: Ag1993.0873 
  
26 
  
LL/6574
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
[Before the execution] 
n.d. 
Postcard 
Location and source information requested 
Information sought 
  
27 
  
LL/6575
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
[After the execution] 
n.d. 
Postcard 
Location and source information requested 
Information sought 
  
28 
  
LL/31114
ThumbnailKeystone View Company 
11904 - the Dead Soldier 
n.d. 
Stereocard 
Private collection of Kevin Yee 
29 
  
LL/31115
ThumbnailKeystone View Company 
11904 - the Dead Soldier 
n.d. 
Stereocard, half 
Private collection of Kevin Yee 
30 
  
LL/36233
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Homecoming 
1919 
Photographic print 
Ordinary Light 
31 
  
LL/36234
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Homecoming 
1919 
Photographic print 
Ordinary Light 
32 
  
LL/40482
ThumbnailMinor B. Wade (American, 1874-1932) 
[Lynching, Russellville, Kentucky] 
1908 
Gelatin silver print 
11.8 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 ins) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.126 
  
33 
  
LL/34051
ThumbnailAcme Newspictures and United Press 
Body of John Dillinger, Desparardoà Last Ride to Morgue 
1934 
Gelatin silver print 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 46) 
  
34 
  
LL/440
ThumbnailRobert Capa 
Death of a Republican Soldier, Spain, near Cerro Muriano, about September 5, 1936 
1936 
Gelatin silver print 
Peter Fetterman Gallery 
35 
  
LL/31054
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Spanish Civil War - press photograph 
1936-1938 
Gelatin silver print 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 89) 
  
36 
  
LL/31055
ThumbnailSpanish Civil War - press photograph 
1936-1938 
Newspaper clipping 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 89) 
  
37 
  
LL/48097
ThumbnailOleg Knorring (1907-1968) 
Bodies of inhabitants of a Villare Chvarov (Moscow Region) hunged by Germans 
1942 
Gelatin silver print 
20 x 27.5 cm 
Soler y LLach 
Photographs and Photobooks Auction, 7 June 2012, Lot: 134 
  
38 
  
LL/6869
ThumbnailGeorge Strock 
[Dead marines on Buna Beach, Papua New Guinea] 
1942 
Photograph 
Location and source information requested 
© George Strock / Life 
  
39 
  
LL/27748
ThumbnailArt Green 
WWII press photo. "Battle Stations" shows the body of a gunner slumped over his wrecked shipboard station 
n.d. 
Gelatin silver print 
9 + x 7 + in 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 99) 
  
40 
  
LL/33286
ThumbnailLee Miller 
Buchenwald, Germany: Dead Prisoners 
1945, 30 April 
Gelatin silver print 
Lee Miller Archive 
41 
  
LL/41571
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer (French) 
11/27/1945 - Stabbed by wife during an argument and a scuffle 
[French morgue] 
1945, 27 November 
Gelatin silver print 
Northern Light Gallery 
42 
  
LL/32228
ThumbnailMargaret Bourke-White 
Decapitated North Korean Communist 
1952, 17 November 
Gelatin silver print 
LIFE 
Margaret Bourke-White./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 3108907 
  
43 
  
LL/31062
ThumbnailPhilip Jones Griffiths 
Vietnamese Children file past a Dead Child 
n.d. 
Gelatin silver print 
7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 114) 
  
44 
  
LL/33447
ThumbnailEddie Adams 
Execution of a Viet Cong Officer 
1968 
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 
7 x 8 1/2 in (17.8 x 21.6 cm) 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 22, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2191 Lot 256) 
  
45 
  
LL/37183
ThumbnailSergeant Ronald Haeberle 
Bodies of women and children are shown on a road leading from the village of My Lai massacre, South Vietnam 
1968 (taken) 1969 (print) 
Silver print, ferrotyped 
6 1/4 x 8 3/4 in (15.9 x 22.2 cm) 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction May 20, 2010, Sale 2215 Lot 397 
  
46 
  
LL/34058
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Ritual Suicide, Saigon 
1963 
Gelatin silver print 
10 x 8 ins 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 109 
  
47 
  
LL/33288
ThumbnailDon McCullin 
Tet Offensive, Hue (Fallen North Vietnamese soldier, his personal effects scattered by bodyplundering soldiers) 
1968 
Gelatin silver print 
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 ins 
Contact Press Images 
© Don McCullin/Contact Press Images 
  
48 
  
LL/33448
ThumbnailJohn Filo 
Kent State Shooting (Mary Ann Vecchio leaning over the body of Jeffrey Miller) 
1970 
Gelatin silver print 
7 x 8 1/4 in (17.8 x 21 cm) 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 22, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2191 Lot 260) 
  
49 
  
LL/22227
ThumbnailJoel-Peter Witkin 
Head of a Dead Man, Mexico City 
1990 
Gelatin silver print, toned 
h: 10.8 x w: 13 in / h: 27.4 x w: 33 cm 
Etherton Gallery 
50 
  
LL/34245
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Photomontage of an African American funeral 
1940s (ca) 
Photomontage 
8 x 10 ins 
La Bonne Vivante 
51 
  
LL/36783
ThumbnailGreen 'Pearson' wallet with 4 photographs. From Sir Henry's pocket, 12.40 am 25 July 1936 (at death). 
1936, 25 July - 12:40 am (death) 
Wallet with 4 photos 
Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library 
Wellcome Library, London (L0044071, Library reference no.: Archives and Manuscripts WA/HSW/OB/B.27) 
  
52 
  
LL/44341
ThumbnailDmitri Baltermants 
On the road to war 
1941 (taken) 1980s (print) 
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 
6 3/4 x 10 1/2 ins (17.1 x 26.7 cm) 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Sale 2257 Lot 130 
  
53 
  
LL/30407
ThumbnailBill Eppridge 
The burned master vintage print that was used for reproduction in LIFE magazine of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 1968 
1968, 5 June 
Gelatin silver print 
16 x 20 in 
Monroe Gallery Of Photography 
54 
  
LL/15904
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
A drowned boy at Coney Island 
n.d. 
Stereocard, detail 
Jefferson Stereoptics 
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tue, Dec 12, 2006 & Thu, Dec 14, 2006, # 06-4, Lot 535) 
  
55 
  
LL/47180
ThumbnailStanley Wolfson (New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photographer) 
Bullet holes in back of stage where Malcolm X was shot 
1965, February 
Photographic print 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-136553 (b&w film copy neg.) 
  
56 
  
LL/22476
ThumbnailMargaret Bourke-White 
Nazi Suicides 
1944 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 
8 x 10 in 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (50 / 80) 
  
57 
  
LL/6885
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Personne décédée non identifiée - Valais, Cette femme a été heurtée par un train, à Sierre (Regrouillon), vendredi 22.03.2002, à 03h52. 
n.d. 
Color print 
Police Cantonale Vaudoise 
© Police cantonale vaudoise 
  
58 
  
LL/41561
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer (Iranian) 
Neda Salehi murdered by Basiji Sniper in Tehran on 20th June 2009 
2009, 20 June 
Video still, from cellphone 
YouTube 
59 
  
LL/2244
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Dover Airforce Base - Returning American casualities from the Second Gulf War 
n.d. 
Digital photograph 
U.S. Army 
 
  
 
  
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