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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.
Joan Jett backstage, 1977. .
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“Next time! We’ll learn our lesson next time!!!” A cartoon of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021.
If you could see their national sport, you might be less keen to see their cricket. (UK 1970)
My grandma & grandpa, taken around 1940
True Muslims (Believers) Pray to Allah (in the Direction of the Kaaba), and Not to Money (the West) | Afghanistan | 1980s
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Renowned psychotherapist and Auschwitz survivor Dr Viktor Frankl in 1947, a few years after losing his wife, unborn child, parents, and brother in the Nazi camps
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