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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.
US soldiers play a game of darts during their free time in England, awaiting D-Day, June 1944.
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A Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops to encourage their surrender, 1942
Toronto Maple Leafs player Börje Salming in 1986 with his kitten following an incident in a game on November 26, 1986 where his face was accidentally stepped on and cut by the skate blade of Detroit Red Wing, Gerard Gallant. He required over 200 stitches.
“Black is beautiful – Communism is not” – Yuri Bezmenov’s 1985 book cover. He was formerly a correspondent for the Soviet Novosti Press Agency, specializing in disinformation for foreign media.
“We have achieved our goals …exactly what the Soviets said” A caricature of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021.
Fundamentalist Christian Propaganda targeted at the Modernists movement during the schism in the “1920s-1930s” in the Presbyterian Church in America
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