branding: Media
property marking
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A Holstein-Friesian dairy cow with an identification number freeze-branded on her...
Wayne Hutchinson/Alamy
James Nayler, engraving, 17th century; he is depicted with the letter B, for blasphemy,...
The Print Collector—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The branding punishment of French Huguenot John Leclerc in 1525, 19th-century illustration.
From: History of the Great Reformation in Europe, in the Times of Luther and Calvin by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné, 1870
Abolitionist Jonathan Walker being branded with an “SS” (“slave stealer”) on his...
Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker by Jonathan Walker, 1846
Jonathan Walker's hand, branded “SS” (“slave stealer”) for his role in the attempted...
Image supplied by the Internet Archive (at archive.org) in association with The John Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Birney Anti-Slavery Collection.
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