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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.
Capitalism: I’m sorry, but I don’t see poverty in our free world. // Soviet Union // 1960s
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Apple Computer ad 1996
Grover’s Mill resident William Dock ready to defend against martians after listening to the War of the Worlds, a radio drama about an alien invasion. 1938 (986×796)
A Chinese woman and child in the UK, 1920s
Two Soviet Bryansk partisans, one of them a child, pictured in 1943.
When we needed reminding that the telephone was a thing – Australian Post Office (1970)
Temperance and Prohibition era propaganda followed nearly a century later, in the 1910s
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