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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.
Soldiers at a firearms demonstration. China, 1972. Photo by Horst Faas
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DEA agent Steve Murphy sitting over the body of drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar after the final rooftop showdown, this would go on to decrease world cocaine import and export by 80%. December 2 1993
“Untie!”, “Learn (the state) language – it is worth it!” Estonia 2002
‘Let’s Have A Prune Party’ ad from the California Prune Advisory Board in 1958.
One of the many selfies that Emperor Nicholas II took throughout his life, (1868-1918).
USA under communism (1961)
Siege (battle) of Leningrad: German sentinel next to a sign post ‘Where the german soldier stands is germany’ 01.dec.1941
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