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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)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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 .
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.
1909 High School Graduation Photograph
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The astonishing Mrs. Highfield for Rinso’s soap. Australia, 1953.
Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.
“We will finish off the Nazi invaders in their den!” USSR, 1944
Caricature on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 2014
Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943
No race, creed, or religion should endure the ridicule faced by the Native Americans today…. (2001) National Congress of American Indians
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