Man with Skulls
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.,
LL/63910
1 of 84
Portrait of an Unknown Man with a Skull, in a Mascher Stereo Daguerreotype Viewer
1857-1858
Daguerreotype, stereo
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F14427-B
LL/78984
2 of 84
Professor James Miller
1846 (ca)
Salted paper print
11.9 x 14.0 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1981.2396.0087
LL/74623
3 of 84
St. Jerome writing
1850s (ca)
Abumenised salt print, from a paper negative
9.5 x 9 cm
Chiswick Auctions
19th & 20th Century Photographs, 1 December, 2021, Lot: 136
LL/115736
4 of 84
Painting Monk with Vanitas and Crucifix
1864 (ca)
Carte de visite
Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts
LL/99794 [Further details available]
5 of 84
Praying Monk, Carthusian Monastery of the Certosa of Pavia
1865 (ca, taken) 1868 (album)
Albumen print
6 /4 x 8 in.
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2022.383ag
LL/121157 [Further details available]
6 of 84
Mohamed-ben-Nessib, arabe né dans le désert en 1816. Crâne donné par le Dr Guyon, ancien 1633.
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Musée du quai Branly
No de gestion: PF0119040.1, for daguerreotype see: PM000051
LL/57220 [Further details available]
7 of 84
Ancient Burial Place of Téa-Kaou (Panga´-Motou), Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Polynesia
1841-1842
Daguerreotype
16.2 x 12.1 cm (6 3/8 x 4 3/4 ins)
Musée de l'Homme
LL/39782 [Further details available]
8 of 84
Tête humaine désarticulee. Préparée par Phillippe Pottau, Prép.r du Muséum. (du Cabinet de Mr. A. Devéria. mars 1853) [Dissected human skull]
1853
Salted paper print, from wet collodion on glass negative
Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht
R-FOL-280[5]
LL/48898 [Further details available]
9 of 84
Skulls from the Philippines and Mariannes (detail)
n.d.
Lithograph, detail
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs - Auction (Skylight Gallery Catalog 28,April 30, 2009, #9)
LL/32284 [Further details available]
10 of 84
Tête humaine face, 2. idem occiput
1883
Photolithograph
7.5 x 9.5 ins
Archive Farms
LL/64935 [Further details available]
11 of 84
Two views of the skull of P.J. Janssens
1871-1881 (ca)
Photogravure
24 x 15.5 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2001-7-1248-3
LL/78987 [Further details available]
12 of 84
Two views of the skull of A.J. Saroléa
1871-1881 (ca)
Photogravure
24 x 15.5 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2001-7-1248-4
LL/78989 [Further details available]
13 of 84
Four Photographs of a Samic Male Skull
1880
Albumen prints (4)
10.6 x 7.7 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2001-7-1125-38
LL/78990 [Further details available]
14 of 84
Four views of the skull of Phineas Gage
1868 (ca)
Albumen print
16.7 x 10.2 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2012-81-1
LL/78995 [Further details available]
15 of 84
"Compliments of Studebaker-Photographer Kansas City, Missouri"
n.d.
Advertising card
Private collection of Erin Waters
LL/119551
16 of 84
The skull of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, front view
1900 (ca)
Platinum print
15.5 x 10 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Photography 19th-21st Century (1 June 2011) Lot: 4130
LL/43725
17 of 84
n.d.
National Museum of Health and Medicine
LL/31923 [Further details available]
18 of 84
X-Ray of Skull
1910 (ca)
X-ray
29.8 x 24.7 cm
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
HRC
LL/6121
19 of 84
[Grenade embedded in forehead. Vietnam war]
1966
X-ray
National Museum of Health and Medicine
LL/31933
20 of 84
An x-ray demonstration of the new Westinghouse electric razor
1941
X-ray
Internet - Original source ill-defined
National Geographic Archives
LL/69389
21 of 84
1870, 30 Sept (after)
Albumen print
National Museum of Health and Medicine
LL/31921 [Further details available]
22 of 84
Skull of the "Eoanthropus Dawsoni" (Piltdown Man)
n.d.
Photograph
Wellcome Collection
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
LL/114453
23 of 84
Extensive Fractures of a Skull --- Supposed to be by a Pistol Ball
n.d.
Stereocard, half, detail
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
LL/79891 [Further details available]
24 of 84
Extensive Fractures of a Skull --- Supposed to be by a Pistol Ball
n.d.
Stereocard
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
LL/113303 [Further details available]
25 of 84
n.d.
Private collection of Nigel Maister
LL/15105
26 of 84
Image of a skull, letter C painted on forehead. [Cyprus (uncrtain)]
1913 (ca)
Glass negative
10 x 12.6 cm
Pitt Rivers Museum
Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton ? - Found unentered, April 2004, 2004.135.1.540
LL/113207
27 of 84
Vanité
1925
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
LL/7034
28 of 84
1880-1900 (ca)
Photogravure
17.5 x 15.3 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: PH.957-1902
LL/36279 [Further details available]
29 of 84
Skull no. 2, photograph B [Mrs. Ruxton Photograph B]
[The Buck Ruxton "Jigsaw Murders" case]
1935
Photographic print
University of Glasgow, Library
LL/45752 [Further details available]
30 of 84
Arab medicine & surgery: a study of the healing art in Algeria / by M.W. Hilton-Simpson.
1922
Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
LL/125761
31 of 84
Neolithic methods of trephining by T. Wilson Parry
n.d.
Slide
Wellcome Collection
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), Slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3977
LL/125767
32 of 84
In Voluptate Mors,
1951 (ca) 1972 (print)
Gelatin silver print
h: 37 x w: 49 in / h: 94 x w: 124.5 cm
Etherton Gallery
LL/22164 [Further details available]
33 of 84
Ospedale
1980 (taken) 1981 (print)
Platinum-palladium print
19 1/4x11 3/8 ins (48.9x28.9 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, Feb 25, 2016, Sale 2406, Lot: 186
LL/65499
34 of 84
Anatomical study
1915 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Fawn Weir
LL/66636
35 of 84
The bones of Joost van den Vondel. Exhumed in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
1870, February
Albumen print
12.4 x 17 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-00-924
LL/78985 [Further details available]
36 of 84
C18: Male, 36 Years Old, Colorado Springs, CO
[Human Being]
2000
Edwynn Houk Gallery
LL/5154
37 of 84
#20: Male, 61 Years Old, Colorado Springs, CO
[Human Being]
2000
Edwynn Houk Gallery
LL/5155
38 of 84
Crâne humain
1930 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
23.6 x 29.5 cm
Neret-Minet Tessier
Auction - Photographies, 10 November 2011, Lot: 95
LL/44512
39 of 84
Stilleben
[Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #3)]
1898
Photogravure-Chine-collé, multiple colors
11.3 x 18.0 cm
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
LL/16432 [Further details available]
40 of 84
Il medesimo teschio di Raffaelle veduto di profilo (Raphael's True Skull, Seen in Profile)
1880 (ca)
Carbon print
16.3 x 23 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.) (image) 32 x 46.5 cm (12 5/8 x 18 5/16 in.) (mount)
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Achenbach Foundation, Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund, Accession Number: 1998.131
LL/104781
41 of 84
A French scientist surrounded by bones
1890s
Albumen print
6.9 x 8.8 in (177 mm x 223 mm)
Paul Frecker
LL/12164 [Further details available]
42 of 84
Skeletons
1915 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Fawn Weir
LL/67388
43 of 84
Skulls of three Cliff Dwellers
n.d.
Albumen print
4 x 6 1/2 in
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (50 / 40)
LL/22356 [Further details available]
44 of 84
Decorated head trophy. [Nagaland, India]
1922-1923
Glass negative
7.3 x 9.9 cm
Pitt Rivers Museum
Tom Meinhard - Purchased 1997, 2004.136.132
LL/113206
45 of 84
Mortality
n.d.
Daguerreotype, stereo
Brian May Collection
LL/98898
46 of 84
Untitled (Memento Mori Still Life)
1859
Daguerreotype, stereo
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.710
LL/114485
47 of 84
A Still Life Arrangement with a Skull
1850s
Daguerreotype, stereo
Museum of the History of Science
Inventory No: 18382
LL/105370 [Further details available]
48 of 84
The bones of Tenants whose burial rental was not renewed - Santa Cruz Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
1899 (copyright)
Stereoview
Private collection of Michael Pecosky
LL/98900
49 of 84
The "Bone Pile," Spanish Cemetery, San Juan, P. R.
n.d.
Stereoview
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
LL/99952
50 of 84
Relics of the Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Colorado, U.S.A.
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Sunshine Paciaffi
LL/99953
51 of 84
12360-Famous Flint Jack Skull, 40,000-50,000 years old, found 1906, Cheddar Caves, England.
1906
Stereoview
Private collection of Michael Pecosky
LL/98901
52 of 84
12122, Monk praying in the Catacombs, Rome.
1897
Stereoview
Private collection of Michael Pecosky
LL/98902
53 of 84
V18837 Human Wreckage in No Man's Land, Chemic des Dames, France
1923
Stereoview
Private collection of Ralph Reiley
LL/98903 [Further details available]
54 of 84
14346- On the path of the German advance May 1918; photographed May 1919.
1919, May
Stereoview
Private collection of Michael Pecosky
LL/98904
55 of 84
[Skulls found in the Willamette Valley in Oregon]
1908 (or earlier)
Stereoview
Gustafson Photo Archives
LL/98930 [Further details available]
56 of 84
[Skulls found in the Willamette Valley in Oregon]
1908 (or earlier)
Stereoview, half
Gustafson Photo Archives
LL/98931 [Further details available]
57 of 84
Archaeological finds, Willamette, Valley in Oregon
1900s (early)
Photograph
Gustafson Photo Archives
LL/98933 [Further details available]
58 of 84
Unknown
1880 (Questionable)
Albumen print, hand-coloured
NYPL - New York Public Library
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, Image Id: 2009164, Shelf locator: Slav. Reserve (Photo) 07-6534, NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16756924
LL/104473 [Further details available]
59 of 84
Sleep Faster
n.d.
21st Editions
LL/853
60 of 84
Yama, Front
[Yama camera]
n.d.
Color image
Provided by the artist - Wayne Martin Belger
LL/44810 [Further details available]
61 of 84
Untitled (Human skull)
2002
Daguerreotype
14 x 11 ins (35.6 x 27.9 cm) (plate)
Swann Galleries - New York
Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks, April 20, 2017, #2443, Lot: 227
LL/74180
62 of 84
Catacombes, Paris
1861
Albumen print, mounted
Location and source information requested
LL/47752 [Further details available]
63 of 84
Momento mori
1900 (ca)
Gelatin silver print, sepia-toned
20.5 x 28.5 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction, 8 June 2022, Photography from the 19th – 21st centuries, Lot: 4234
LL/120282
64 of 84
Nude with skull
1913 (ca)
Bromoil print
9 1/4 x 11 1/2 ins (23.5 x 29.2 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 8-10, 2014, #2370, Lot 310)
LL/56992
65 of 84
South Nigeria, study of group of Obolo religious/ritual objects from a shrine shrine.
1904-1905
Gelatin silver print
British Museum
Museum number: Af,A60.104
LL/89793 [Further details available]
66 of 84
Two men sitting in parlor with skull
1909, 28 August (postmark)
Real photo postcard
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
LL/98916
67 of 84
[Having a smoker round for a glass of wine]
1940
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 118533, Donor: Mihály Gál
LL/83016
68 of 84
The Presence and the Future,
1870 (ca)
Carte de visite
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-2015-97
LL/78997
69 of 84
War - a skull with a helmet
1945
Photograph
FOTO:Fortepan
www.fortepan.hu (Accessed: May 2018), Id: 115931, Donor: Ungváry Krisztián
LL/83075
70 of 84
Alonzo
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Paula Fleming
LL/98892
71 of 84
{A man praying with a skull on the table in front of him]
1850s (later)
Stereoview
Private collection of Paula Fleming
LL/98893
72 of 84
[A landscape of broken crates with skulls and bones]
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Rick Edge
LL/98896
73 of 84
Skeleton's Carouse
1858
Stereoview, half, detail
Private collection of Paula Fleming
LL/98894 [Further details available]
74 of 84
A skull with portraits photomontaged into the eye sockets
n.d.
Cabinet card
Private collection of Drew Johnson
LL/98887
75 of 84
Anatomy study, McGill medical students, Montreal, QC
1884
Photograph
8 x 10 ins
McCord Stewart Museum
LL/98884
76 of 84
Herbert Sayer with skulls, Montreal, QC
1862
Carte de visite
McCord Stewart Museum
LL/98885
77 of 84
Young man from Shanghai Jiao Tong University posing with a dumpy level and a skull from his archeological field work.
1934
Photograph
Private collection of Yunlinghao He
LL/100769 [Further details available]
78 of 84
Frontal Sinus No. 9
[Imperial Stereoscopic Anatomy of the Head and Neck]
n.d.
Stereoview, on descriptive card
Private collection of Nathan Moore
LL/98880 [Further details available]
79 of 84
[Human bones, including a skull, exposed by the elements]
n.d.
Glass negative
Private collection of John S. Rochon
LL/99197
80 of 84
Basilica of St. Ursula, Cologne
n.d.
Albumen print
Richard T. Rosenthal
LL/102210 [Further details available]
81 of 84
Interior of a photographic studio
n.d.
Albumen print
Private collection of Thomas Molocea
LL/102882
82 of 84
The Crypt, Hythe Church
1881, August
Albumen print
Private collection of Richard W. Gadd
LL/102220
83 of 84
The Crypt, Hythe Church
1881, August
Albumen print
Private collection of Richard W. Gadd
LL/102221
84 of 84
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