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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.
Give The Bosses The Rise They Deserve, Class War newspaper Summer 1991
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NAZI -> NATO (Christian Hans Herluf Bidstrup, 1958)
She’s got rice, and she’s ready for anything. Rice Council of America, 1969
Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words ‘I will destroy the Church’. USA, March 1953.
11-12-year-old Isaac Allal, the only survivor of the plane crash in Hurum, Norway. On 20 November 1949, a Douglas DC-3 carrying 28 Jewish children from Tunisia to Israel crashed into a mountainside during fog.
“Long live the great Soviet friendship!” / Poster dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Reunification of the Ukraine and Russia / USSR, 1954
Great Great Aunt Mable had Resting Bitch Face.
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