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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.
Pe-2 bomber navigator, pilot A. Dyachkov, July 1944. Photo by M. Cache
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German soldiers after a street fight in Novorossiysk, 1943
Allied war correspondents examining the couch in Adolf Hitler’s bunker on which he is thought to have shot himself with his wife, Eva Braun, on April 30, 1945. The blood staining the arm of the couch is likely Hitler’s. (1000×1000)
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Hitler Youth poster (1930s) and American Meat Industry poster (1980s)
Help keep your school All American! 1950
My grandma with her dog! 1939 Germany.
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