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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.
‘I believe’ — Canadian poster from the Second World War (ca. 1942) showing the cross defeating the swastika.
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“Taliban the Nullifiers of Islam which they have committed” – ISIS-K (2021)
My Great Grandfather Tom and Great nan on their wedding day.
The outlaw John Shaw removed from his coffin and propped up against a picket fence for one last drink of whiskey with his buddies. The photo was taken on April 8th, 1905.
Annette Kellerman promoting a woman’s right to wear a fitted, one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency.
Man experiences irony 1966.
The Four Branches of the U.S. Military” // the Soviet Union // in the 1960s
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