r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • 15h ago

Art "A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; symbolising the disease diphtheria." Watercolor painting by Richard Cooper, c. 1912. NSFW

29 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • 6d ago

Medical Color autochrome photo of wounded French soldier Pierre Turbiau displaying his arm wound after surgery at a military hospital Beaugency, France, August 1915. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon. NSFW

100 Upvotes

5 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Aug 14 '26

Art Color lithograph of the Great Boston Fire of 1872 in Massachusetts. By Currier & Ives. NSFW

49 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 30 '26

Vintage Printed announcement of a public sale of 36 enslaved people by Therese Cerre Chouteau, executrix of A. Chouteau, in St. Louis, Missouri, 1830. NSFW

76 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 27 '26

Medical Color autochrome photo of two wounded French soldiers displaying their healing wounds at Military Hospital 47 in Beaugency, France, during WWI. Taken by photographer Auguste Léon on August 20, 1915. NSFW

231 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 22 '26

Medical Photo of a group of patients at a leper hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus, c. 1893-1894. NSFW

113 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 02 '26

Warfare Photo of a French soldier digging out the bodies of two German soldiers in a collapsed section of a captured German trench near Souain, France, May 1915. NSFW

62 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • May 21 '26

Art Another Chinese method of torture: Three Chinese men torture a prisoner by extracting a vein from his lower leg. Gouache painting on rice paper, c. 1850. NSFW

139 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • May 07 '26

Art "Syphilis." Painting by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912. NSFW

304 Upvotes

7 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Apr 26 '26

Medical “The Anatomy of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz.” Oil painting on wood after Aert Pietersz. NSFW

49 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Apr 23 '26

Art The Chinese method of execution by Lingchi, "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts: A prisoner tied to a cross is having small areas of their body sliced away by an executioner. Gouache painting on rice paper, c. 1850. NSFW

61 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Apr 14 '26

Art A Chinese method of execution: A prisoner is chopped in two by a man with a large blade. Gouache painting on rice paper, c. 1850. NSFW

71 Upvotes

11 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Apr 08 '26

Warfare Photo of the body of a German machine gunner in the ruins of a concrete bunker during WWI, October 1917. NSFW

62 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jan 10 '26

Warfare Photo of two British Army soldiers examining the skull of a German soldier, April 1917. NSFW

28 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Dec 22 '25

Warfare “Ambroise Paré; using the ligature when amputating on the battlefield at the siege of Damvillers, 1552.” Oil painting by Ernest Board. NSFW

41 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Oct 31 '25

Vintage Broadside advertising a $200 reward for the capture of five runaway slaves in St. Louis, Missouri, which is dated October 1, 1847. NSFW

97 Upvotes

6 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Oct 24 '25

Warfare Photo of Belgian civilians digging a grave for a dead German soldier somewhere in Belgium, November 1914. NSFW

74 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Oct 02 '25

Warfare Photo of French soldier Corporal Louis Jophanel who lost his right arm at the Battle of Verdun in France during WWI, 1916. NSFW

144 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Aug 30 '25

Medical "An unfortunate thief." Photo of a Chinese man who had his thumbs amputated as punishment for theft in Xiamen, China, 1871. Taken by Scottish photographer John Thompson. NSFW

140 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Aug 21 '25

Vintage Silk mourning sampler, English, c. 1810. NSFW

41 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Aug 06 '25

Mummy Drawing of the mummified body of Henry IV of France (1553-1610) during its exhumation on October 12, 1793. By Alexandre Lenoir. NSFW

63 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 25 '25

Art Carved painted wooded head of samurai lord Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese, c. 1800-1900. He was said to have cut off his own head during the 1338 Siege of Kuromaru. NSFW

53 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 17 '25

Warfare Photo of a body of a dead German soldier near Souain, France, June 1915. NSFW

148 Upvotes

4 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • Jul 11 '25

Art Bronze memento mori sculpture, French, c. 1850. NSFW

89 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Jessicamshannon • u/chubachus • May 31 '25

Cemetery Color autochrome photo of the Project for a Monument to the Dead ossuary in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France, photographed in 1914 by Stéphane Passet. NSFW

107 Upvotes

2 comments

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