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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.
“Let Chinese-Soviet Friendship Live Forever!” poster, 1959
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‘Kill all the British who are sucking Indian blood’ — Japanese leaflet, issued in 1944, depicting a British couple indulging in a lavish meal while emaciated Indians starve: a reference to the Bengal Famine.
Warsaw Insurgents at the barricade on Żelazna Street, August 1944. Photo by Sylwester “Kris” Braun.
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SHOP and COMPARE! You can’t beat these PRICES ANYWHERE! Robert Gaspard Co. Vestments, 1964
A couple on their seventieth wedding anniversary in Florida in 1930.
‘TWILL CURE YOUR COLD! Green’s Warranted SYRUP of TAR, c1913.
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