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The Majority is Not Silent. The Administration is Deaf. 1969, Anti-Nixon
‘What atrocities the Muscovites commit’. Propaganda leaflet about the Livonian War, Holy Roman Empire, 1561
My great-great grandmother with some of her children and stepchildren. Not sure of date but believe around 1900. Philadelphia, PA
Egyptian-born Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was publicly executed after his true allegiance was uncovered by Syrian intelligence. Damascus, 1965
From the 1930s, when Nepal’s king Juddha Shumsher went on a hunting expedition.
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Leona Randolph Dalton, younger sister of the famous Dalton brothers from the Wild West gang, celebrates her 82nd birthday with her friends in 1957. She died 7 years later as the last of her siblings.
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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.
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.
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 .
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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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