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Source: The Wellcome Library

These are a collection of 9 pictures from 1665 which depict the plague. For example,

  • the middle picture (5) shows a plague victim in the foreground, with men carrying adult size coffins, and a woman carrying a child's coffin behind;
  • the picture in the middle on the right (6) shows men leading horses pulling carts which would have carried the dead;
  • the bottom left picture (7) shows grave diggers digging plague pits in a church yard with shrouded bodies waiting to be buried;
  • and the picture int he middle on the bottom (8) shows a funeral prosession although these were outlawed to try and prevent the spread of the plague.
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