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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.
Freeing Turkish from Arabic alphabet – 1933
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“Palestine calls, jews are not tolerated in Norway” – Norway 1940
Actor Kyle MacLachlan gets a piggyback ride from “Dune” author, Frank Herbert. 1984
The Burning Monk, 1963
A Japanese magazine shows soldiers handing out candy to Chinese children. The magazine is from 1939.
Caricature of different political rights of the world unknown date
A child soldier being captured by American forces in Austria (1945)
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