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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.
“This could be your daughter,” 1960s USA
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The uniting power of the dollar // Soviet Union // 1980s
Female guards pictured after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Many Holocaust perpetrators showed no remorse.
Full female acrobat/aerealist cast of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1935.
West German policemen: thankfully we live in a free country… // Soviet Union // 1987
A battle-hardened German soldier in Stalingrad, 27 November 1942
1958 ad for Tunies Tuna Hot Dogs!
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