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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.
The Saga of Brick Mason Male Adventurer. 1966
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Inhabitants of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The islands had been inhabited since antiquity, but would be evacuated in 1930. Big image, zoom in for detail.
Danish resistance fighters stealthily confront German occupiers, 1945
Israeli Plan | USSR | 1980s
The new LADY KENMORE washer and dryer, 1958.
(Date unknown, ww2 era) Stalin as a lion tamer whipping the nazi leadership
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first woman to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States, 1965.
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