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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.
President Nelson Mandela congratulates Springboks captain Francios Pienaar upon winning the Rugby World Cup, Johannesburg, 24 June 1995.
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An M4 Sherman tank equipped with flame-thrower in the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
My great great great great, so on for a few thousand more greats grandmother. She would be 3.2 million years old today.
“The Labor Movement” (2006)
“Once again, Europe defends its Culture against the Onslaught of the East”. Waffen-SS poster from June,1941
Turkish woman ! give your vote to those who give you the right to vote | 1946 Turkish General Election
“New. Lipstick with lipliner built right in!” (Tussy Two-Tone ad from McCall’s magazine 1965)
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