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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.
B-17 Flying Fortress crewmembers Gus Palmer, side gunner, and Horace Poolaw, both of the Kiowa Nation stand near their aircraft at MacDill Field, Fla., in about 1944.
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“The Deserter” – Anti-war cartoon depicting Jesus facing a firing squad made up of five different European countries, 1916
My mom and dad’s engagement photo. 1938
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking Panther tanks as seen from the periscope of another Panther, summer 1944, Eastern front.
1969 Carnation Instant Breakfast.
A Soviet cartoon during the Falklands War. Margaret Thatcher holds a cap of “colonialism” over the islands. 1982.
H/Captain Robert Seaborn, chaplain of the 1st Battalion, The Canadian Scottish Regiment giving absolution to a fallen soldier of the 3rd Canadian Division near Caen, Normandy, 15th July 1944
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