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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.
Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.
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My Grandma at training for her first job. The only woman out of 300 people at the company
28 year old Ray Harryhausen at work on his first industry job, animating the title character in the film “Mighty Joe Young”. 1949
“Look down on the USA! Because it is a paper tiger, it is completely defeatable!”, China, 1951
A soldier with a Panzerfaust from the Panzer Division Hermann Göring smiling to the camera, Russia, 1944.
One of the Sonderkommando photographs: Women on their way to the gas chamber, Auschwitz II, August 1944 (1257 × 814)
My Great Great Great Grandad George
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