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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.
“The Visit of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill To Caen, Normandy, 22 July 1944.” Original color photograph.
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French mountain troops of the 27e Demi-Brigade de Chasseurs Alpins prepare to embark for Norway with their dogs. Brest, April 1940.
“WE WILL BE BACK” Argentine nationalist poster 1984
My Grandmother after moving from Mexico, late 1940’s
Chinese Anti-American Cartoon, 2021
Orphan Boy selling his father’s iron Cross for cigarettes in Berlin, 1945. (526×719)
“bearly on top” cartoon in “the economist” magazine 2014
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