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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.
U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa, in May, 1945.
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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid
The first two women to become lawyers in the state of Nebraska. My mother and her mentor, Margaret Fischer, 1970s
SHELL Research shrinks inappropriate traffic boners. 1938
I am 10 years old like our Republic! GDR Propaganda 1959.
The joy of San Antonio farmer Sam Smith’s face as he celebrates rain on Easter Sunday after a severe drought in 1951. Taken by Harvey Belgin and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
There’s no such thing as a Nintendo, 1990, Nintendo of America inc.
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