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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.
“We Won’t Stand for the Flag, Until the Flag Stands for the People” Counter Culture Poster by Bill Stettner, circa 1970
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Jack Nicholson, Vladimir Putin, Peta Wilson (Australian actress) and Nikita Mikhalkov (Russian filmmaker) at a meeting with participants and guests of the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, 2001 .
“Notice To All White Citizens: Stop Buying Ford Cars And Trucks” USA, 1960s
Franklin Roosevelt chilling on a Gulf of Mexico fishing trip, 1937.
My Gg-grandfather with daughter, pic taken 1901 in Western Montana.
”Turkish secularist propaganda poster” From 1930’s to 1940’s
”Spoiled youth: you better get married soon!” Soviet Union, 1979
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