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  • Sarawak: a ornamented house constructed for the body of a dead tribal chief. Photograph.
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
  • Ostia, Rome: columbaria for holding urns containing the ashes of the dead. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari, 192-.
  • A cart for transporting the dead in London during the great plague. Watercolour painting by or after G. Cruikshank.
  • A dog searching in the undergrowth for a dead fowl hidden by large leaves. Etching by W.S. Howitt.
  • Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.
  • A red and pink ribbon against a rainbow of colours and a quotation from Mother Jones to pray for the dead and fight for the living; with an advertisement by the Syracuse Cultural Workers. Colour lithograph by Amy E. Bartell, 1995.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin): she receives the prayers of the Swiss who ask for her help in ending the Sonderbund War (?). Engraving by La Richardière after Bader.
  • Philippines: the dead body of a wealthy man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 24 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • Philippines: the body of a wealthy dead man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 15 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • Two prayers to the three magi for protection from disease; with pictures of the adoration of the magi and the magi with the holy family in heaven. Engraving on red silk.
  • A man shielding his eyes from the body of a dead AIDS victim; advertisement a mourning procession for AIDS patients in Berlin Colour lithograph.
  • The good Samaritan bringing the half-dead traveller to the inn and providing money for his recovery. Line engraving by J. Taylor after a painting attributed to G. Dou.
  • The huntsman is sitting down for a rest next to his dog while the gamekeeper is packing the dead stag on his horse. Engraving by W. Backshell after A. Cooper.
  • A sick child sitting on her father's knee while her mother prepares some soup for her, a dead rabbit is lying on the floor. Chromolithograph after J. Clark.
  • There is something coming to Wonderland (Whitechapel Road), adjoining St. Mary's Station) ... on Saturday, July 18th, 1896 ... : The world renowned Man in a Trance asleep for 8 days & 7 nights. Mistaken for dead (Alfred Wootten, from the Royal Aquarium) unconscious the whole time ... / Wonderland.
  • A healthy and a dead goldfish representing safe and unsafe lubricants; an advertisement for water-based lubricants. Colour lithograph by Chris Bal and Wilberto van den Bogaard for The AIDS Team in Antwerp, ca. 1995.
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • A physical dissertation on drowning: in which submersion, commonly call'd drowning, is shewn to be a long time consistent with the continuance of life ... To which is subjoined, the proper measures for recovery and relief ... With an appendix, containing some methods for the recovery of those who hang themselves, and of children supposed to be born dead / By a physician [i.e. Rowland Jackson].