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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.
«June 22, 1941.» Russia, 2010.
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I was a fighter pilot in about 1972
I would love to have seen this. Just once would be enough, I bet.
“When I was his age I never ate sand. Just mud pies.” Tampax 1970
Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the woman who was arrested for cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor in 1907.
Susan Spotless says, “Daddy, you forgot…every litter bit hurts!” 1965
Two peasants from the region around Rome. A daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842.
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