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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.
June 1941 by an American publication
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My mother and aunt. 1935
Noseart of P-47 Thunderbolt “I’ve Had It” ca 1944
A foggy day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands photographed by Berbard Eilers near the Royal Palace in 1910.
1st May demonstration “Stalin Bierut Peace”, Polish People’s Republic, 1951
My beautiful grandparents in the 60’s
Barbarity vs Civilisation, by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1899
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