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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 evolution of the fighting man» between 1914 and 1918.
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Rally on the occasion of the III All-Ukrainian Military Congress (Kyiv, 1917)
1958: US troops get the hell out of the Taiwan region immediately
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the war crime committed by the HVO (Croatian Defense Council) in the village of Ahmići. The event that led to the signing of the Washington Treaty. The photo shows the entry of the UNPROFOR convoy after the withdrawal of the HVO. (16.04.1993)(770×513)
Preach Jesus，Reform China (1927 Chinese Christian poster published by National Christian Council of China)
‘The Katyn massacre of 1940 – Extermination of the Polish elite’ – 2020
Current U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley campaigning for office, Iowa, 1961
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