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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.
German and Soviet pavilions facing directly opposite each other at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair
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Adolf Hitler in a class photo in 1901 (back row, farthest right)
ATF agent John Osburg with a gun and a Nazi flag confiscated from Operation Red Dog conspirators. The conspirators were white supremacists trying to sail to Dominica and stage a paid coup there. April 1981
Granny, probably 1946ish. She was probably about 20 here.
1972 antisemitic USSR poster depicting Jews as capitalists
column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front – January 1943
“DON’T COMMIT A CRIME” A warning poster at a Puregold supermarket in the Philippines, 2020
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