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10 photos and 14 illustrations tagged executions, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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• British Library 14 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
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• New York Public Library 1 photo / illustration

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Executions are no joke!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 11 older comments, and then…
• Suck Diesel said:

  Fake news

• Foxglove said:

  there is a glitch with Flickr today - feeds are hosting "recommended photos" rather than "favoured users"

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Foxglove Yes, spotted weirdinesses alright.

• Niall McAuley said:

  I see a crop of this pic online with the rightmost two prisoners captioned John Charles Keegan (right) with Eamon De Valera from a photo taken in Arbour Hill prison 1924

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Niall McAuley Somewhere reputable? The Long Fellow, certainly. Interested to hear more about John Charles Keegan...

Edith Cavell (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell

• Art Siegel said:

  This looks like an oval matte over this image, which hangs in a church in England (the stained glass window is a reflection on the frame's glass):
  
  
  Some of the villains in the piece, along with more information about Edith Cavell:
  

• Arden said:

  Thank you pennylrichardsca and artolog for the details about British nurse Edith Cavell. We will add more information to our description.

Excution of the Namoa Pirates Which Took Place on the 11th M...

from New York Public Library

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Timothy Takemoto said:

  This is not a photograph of Japan.

• Rob Ketcherside said:

  "Piracy through a Barbarian Lens" is a paper which discusses this incident, this photo, and their treatment by historians and anthropologists. I don't see it published anywhere, but the author could be contacted.

• Timothy Takemoto said:

  I have written to the author.

• fong.laikuen said:

  www.flickr.com/photos/eatsee111/2315076279/ This photograph shows the execution of the Namoa pirates outside the Kowloon Walled City on 17 April 1891 = 這幀照片正是在一八九一年四月十七日「南澳號」海盜在九龍城寨外的海灘上被滿清政府處決後攝得 Police Report of 1890 made by W.M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police, to the Governor, which recorded the Namoa Piracy in details. According to the Report, among the suspects arrested, five were Hakkas who lived in Shaukeiwan, Hong Kong.

• ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER said:

  Timothy Takemoto YOU ARE RIGHT, IT SAYS IT TOOK PLACE IN KOWLOON, CHINA.