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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.
Photo of Janet Johnson preparing to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, in 1973.
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«Negroes are demanding jobs» Soviet newspaper, 1981.
“France in 100 years”, German poster, 1930’s.
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My Great Great Grandfather in his WW1 uniform. He was born today in 1868.
Sonny Barger, de facto leader of the Hell’s Angels and founder of it’s Oakland Chapter, in 1967. Journalist Hunter S Thompson, who lived with the Angels for a year, once described Barger as one of the 3 most intimidating men he’d ever met, comparing him to Muhammad Ali & the US president (873×873)
When TVs were also basically furniture- Sears catalog ad, 1966
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