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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .
The fast and heavily armed Yugoslavian destroyer ‘Dubrovnik’
An aerial view of the bodies of the victims of the Jonestown mass-suicide, 18/11/1978 (picture by Jose L. Sanchez, 20/11/1978)
Final assembly of Jagdpanzer VI ‘Jagdtiger’ at the Nibelungenwerke tank factory in St. Valentin, Lower Austria, 1944
French marines (21st RIMa) VBLs during night shooting practice on the flight deck of Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre, operation Corymbe, West Africa, October 25.
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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)
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British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
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Anti-Thatcher Labour Party advertisement, 1980s
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
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When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
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‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.
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My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
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100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
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Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
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