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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.
“You’re Glamorous” & “You’re Somebody Special” by Sears, 1957
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Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl accidentally witnessing German soldiers shooting Jews in the Polish town of Końskie. 12 September 1939.
The Only Good Nazi is a Dead Nazi 1945
KFC ad from the 70s… WE USED TO BE A COUNTRY
Anti IRA poster 1980’s.
The ruins of a Russian post used to defend Sevastopol during the Crimean War. Circa 1854-1856.
WWII cartoon about conserving natural resources by Dr. Seuss, c. 1942
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