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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.
Anti-semitic anti-immigrant cartoon, 1890, United States.
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Support the Civilized Man, Support Israel (2012)
She says that she’s 37 years old.
Soldiers of the Polish 10th mounted riflemen regiment dressed as winged hussars for regiment holiday. Łańcut, Poland, April 1934
My Grandfather in New Guinea during late WW2 (he would be 109 today 🇺🇸🥳)
Old Nazis living in the West: “but it was a long time ago and it’s not true!” // Soviet Union // 1989
The kind who carries his porn out in the open (Ad from 1970 MTSU yearbook)
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