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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.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy with his children, 1925 ca
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The rule of Law (Hong Kong Post National Security Law poster, 2020)
Pilots of the American 8th Bomber Command wearing high altitude clothes, oxygen masks and flight goggles, 1942
Election poster from US, 1867
My Great Grand Mother, Scholastica (Stella) 1927
Robert Minor’s “At Last a Perfect Soldier”, 1916.
”The Thinker” Auguste Rodin in his studio in 1905, photo by Albert Harlingue.
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