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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.
Hunter with polar bear slain with bow and arrow in Alaska, 1924. Photo by Frank E. Kleinschmidt
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My great grandfather and grandmother. This was taken some time in the 1800’s
A New York iron worker walks along a girder high above the city streets 1950.
“A study in Empires”. A nazi Germany poster from 1940.
“One child is good, two is better!” USSR, 1968
1925 photo of Adolf Josef Langz, Austrian monk and occult white supremacist who was one of the earliest figures in the history of Aryan fascism. He founded the first white supremacist group to use the Swastika as a symbol and eventually described Hitler as being of “inferior racial stock.” (620×620)
“Some Still Call Him Pig”, US, 1960-70s
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