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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.
Tail Wreckage of B-17G 42-31367 Nicknamed “Chow hound” found by a American engineer who discovered.
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Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.
“ONE DAY SHE WILL WAKE UP” by American artist Robert Berkeley in 1925 stating that one day the balance of forces will change.
My grandma a beautiful teenager 1940s
Dutch troops in a camouflaged trench near Westervoort, close to Arnhem, during the mobilization of 1939-40
Matt Wuerker (2011)
Great Grandma and Grandpa 1971
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