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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.
Mom and Dad Upstate NY
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The disarmament of the Argentines after the defeat in the Falklands War, 1982 .
I think I was a pretty cute baby! (1968-6months old)
My great-great grandmother (child) great 3x grandmother and great 4x grandmother. Photo taken circa 1897.
Two Afghan women walk past the huge cavity where one of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, known to locals as the “Father Buddha,” used to stand, Afghanistan, June 17, 2012.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car. On live TV, he declared, “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel’s Minister of National Security, 1995 .
We don’t always march straight, Swedish Armed Forces gay pride poster, 2018
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