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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.
Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen photographed by Steve Emberton, 1978. .
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Robert Ariail (2012)
Anti-Nazi Poster (ca.1942)
A “personal taxi” in 1904, New York
Diana Spencer, in 1972, with pet guinea pig.
BONES are still needed, WW2-era poster reminding the British to save bones for the war effort
‘Saint Benito’ — German cartoon (1929) depicting Benito Mussolini as a saint in stained glass with dagger and fasces.
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