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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.
Temperance and Prohibition era propaganda followed nearly a century later, in the 1910s
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One of the propaganda poster from the Turkish War of Independence. The occupied territories are delineated by borders, Turkish woman is thinking sadly in front of the Istanbul skyline. 1920
Distant cousin fixing the wheel on the car. Early 1920s. One hundred years ago!
Wilhelm Dorr, formerly an SS warden in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen, is forced to make an announcement for a British newsreel while standing in front of a truck filled with prisoners’ corpses. 1945 (1251 x 1200)
‘Everyone has only one earth’ Soviet poster, unknown date
1979 ad by a Pakistani airline about flying to New York.
‘The Greens in the European Parliament!’ (German poster by unknown artist for the German green party campaign (die Grünen) in the 1984 European Parliament election. Federal Republic of Germany, 1984).
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