Skip to content
Latest :
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.
75-year-old Mary Parish lights a cigarette for her 101-year-old mother, Mary Ann Parish. Walworth, London, 14 February 1946
Love This Image? You Can Post It!
you might also like
Soviet cartoon (1986) showing an American, German, Frenchman, Israeli and Brit marching under the banner of ‘racism’. The text on the characters reads: ‘Kill a black’, ‘Kill a Turk’, ‘Kill an Algerian’, ‘Kill an Arab’, ‘England for whites’. Artist: Boris Efimov.
Soviet antizionist pro Palestine propaganda, 1970 s
Texas Department of Health (1986)
Grand Central Station – New York (1941) (758×582)
German troops assaulting soviet positions in Stalingrad, 1942
More Lights 100s Cigarettes – 1981
Previous
269
270
271
Next
Load More Posts
Page load link
Go to Top
