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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.
A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941
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My Grandpa in the late 50s, he was the greatest, miss him
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X at the Capitol listening to the Senate debate on the Civil Rights bill. The two met for only one minute. 1964 ( 1920×2104)
“Russian airstrikes” (Syria, 2015)
Portrait of a young man with facial scars (Africa c1900)
Iranian illustration (1960) satirising the ‘unveiling’ of Iranian women. Published on the cover of Tofigh, a famous satirical magazine.
A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941.
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