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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.
Typhoid Mary (foreground), very annoyed to be quarantined when she isn’t even sick. 1909,
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«Afghanistan bids you bon voyage» A cartoon of Afghanistan as a graveyard of empires, 2021.
British soldier resting during the “Revolution of December ” , Athens 1944
Canadian troops landing in Juno beach, June 1944.
Tough enough to clean a super jet. Tame enough for a baby’s highchair, Janitor-in-a-Drum. 1970
Mural in Tehran, 1990s
A self-portrait photo taken by American paratrooper James Speed Hensinger while serving in Vietnam, 1970.
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