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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.
Georgi Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and other Soviet officers greeting Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jul 1945
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The last image taken of British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as they were about to leave Camp IV on the morning of June 6, 1924, for their ill-fated attempt to summit Mount Everest. Mallory’s body was found in 1999, Irvine’s body has yet to be found .
Choplets… meatlike nourishment. 1948
German and Soviet officers shaking hands following the conclusion of the invasion of Poland – 1939
1940s-1980s not sure date please translate google leans seems to not do so well
‘Murica 1940’s
May 21st, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flies into Le Bourget Field, Paris, France aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, becoming the first person to fly Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean.
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