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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.
”April 27, 1945” – Swiss cartoon (”Nebelspalter” magazine, artist: Franco Barberis) referencing the Handshake of Torgau between William Robertson and Alexander Silvashko, May 1945
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German soldier from the 10th Regiment of the SS Totenkopf on guard on the roof of the Royal Castle in Krakow. Visible panorama of Krakow. 1940 – 1941
“Vote or he will be your master” Italian anti communist propaganda (ca. 1948-1949)
“The two faces of general Franco” 1950s Mexican caricature of Francisco Franco
My grandma and her sister about 1950. Texas
Steeple of Christ Church Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand under repair following earthquake damage – 1891.
Lenin on the Moon // Soviet Union // 1960
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