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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.
She’s got rice, and she’s ready for anything. Rice Council of America, 1969
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‘In the classrooms of China, the map has a new name for Australia’ — American anti-communist cartoon (1975) showing a Chinese teacher pointing to an Australia conquered and renamed ‘New China’. Published in ‘Kings of the East’ by evangelist Jack Chick.
Bomber über England (Bombers over England) – A pinball style game where German kids would score points by destroying British towns, cities and shipping. 1940.
1972 Ad for Special K with Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz of “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, former Prime Minister of South Vietnam, working at a liquor store in Los Angeles, after settling in the United States following the fall of South Vietnam – 1977
Jewish woman chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, 1941, Ukraine
Propaganda piece made by the DRG “rusich”. Made in circa 2015.
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