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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.
The American flag as redisigned in 1901 by Mark Twain // USA // 1968
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A body double of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein reviewing troops at a military event in Baghdad, 1998. (590×433)
Battle weary U.S. Marine during the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
«Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine» USA, 1961.
US and Soviet Soldiers Hug Each Other After Meeting on the Elbe River – 25. April 1945
1961 USSR poster showing India freeing Goa from Portuguese rule
Greetings from East Germany (Cold War era postcard)
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