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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.
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A tank repair workshop in combat conditions at the front line. Major Cherkushevich’s tank unit. On the right is a T-34-76 tank with an open engine compartment. 1941
“Energy Vampires.” Russian caricature on the war in Libya, 2011.
The Trickle-down theory. 1984
In a televised address from the Oval Office, President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek re-election, 31 March 1968
“He came from Spain… he stayed with us for two gay, topsy-turvy weeks…” The Valentino Touch. Batchelors, 1952.
A young Luftwaffe soldier named Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, later known as Pope Benedict XVI, Germany 1943
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