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The murderer’s straight route to heaven – bringing religion into disrepute

The murderer’s straight route to heaven – bringing religion into disrepute

Print shows the spirit of an executed murderer rising to Heaven as a minister wipes clean the “Blackboard of Crime” on which are “Murder, Arson, [and] Robb[ery]” with the “Sponge of Absolution” as “years of sin [are] wiped out in ten minutes.” Meanwhile “the wife of the victim experiences Hell on Earth” at a cemetery in the upper left, and “the ‘unprepared’ victim” descends to the flames of “Purgatory” accompanied by devils.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-06-28

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

A tail they can’t twist

A tail they can’t twist

Print shows Samuel S. Cox, Abram S. Hewitt, and William E. Robinson (waving a paper that states “The demands of 20,000,000 Irish-Americans”) pulling on the tail of the British Lion. The front paws of the lion rest on the body of a man with a handgun in one hand and a paper labeled “Assassin O’Donnell” in the other. A gibbet stands in the background. Patrick O’Donnell was executed by hanging in London on December 17, 1883, for the murder of James Carey. Caption: The little men and their little grip on the British Lion.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-12-19

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896