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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.
Waffen-SS panzergrenadiers awaiting orders to initiate Operation Spring Awakening against superior Soviet forces – Hungary, March ’45
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Before. Now. In future Soviet Russia, (1922)
This is from about 1966 or 67, I was born in 62 & I’m the short blond kid. My dad & our neighbor’s dad built us a tree fort which of course we called The Bat Cave.
Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an airfield in England to replace squadron losses for the US Eighth Air Force – 1943/44 (Original Color Photograph Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
Soviet Russian invasion of Finland (British Cartoon, 1939)
“Referendum: YES, Crimea is Russian or NO, Crimea is NOT Ukrainian” – Cartoon mocking the official Crimean status referendum as a sham (2014)
My mom and dad on their wedding day (with a close family friend) August 1964.
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