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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.
…you may not be aware that you’re wearing a veritable work of art. Jaymar leisure suits, 1975
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My paternal grandparent’s wedding photo (1936)
Soviet anti-Chinese poster in a military base in Mongolia: “Soldier! Remember! This wild Chinese is 6 kilometers away from you!”, 1980s
Anti-apartheid sign in Karachi, (then British India). Circa 1940s (pre-partition)
Leftist woman handing out anti-shah manifesto. Tehran, iran, 1979. (688×473)
2500-year celebration of the Persian Empire. Persepolis, Iran. October 1971
“The Islamic State Is Remaining, Because it was established on the skulls of crusaders” (Iraq, 2008)
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