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In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) – the results are absolutely exquisite and this one example. (640×800)
‘Brothers, We Are United,’ Russian political cartoon, 2014.
My grandpa in his 20s. My grandma told me he was the most handsome man she has ever met.
Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.
If This Muslim Woman Offends You, You Are A Bigot, Racist, Sexist, Islamphobe (2017)
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My mom (front, right side) and her siblings in the late 60s/early 70s
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Two communions and a confirmation – circa 1927 – My grandfather in the middle
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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)
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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)
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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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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 .
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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.
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‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.
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My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
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100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
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Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
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‘Race mixing is communism! USA 1953’
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GDR Stamp, 1982, “Solidarity with the Palestinian People”
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I visted CPL Doss last week
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The NAACP in New York protesting outside the theater asking for the boycott of “The Birth of a Nation”. 1947
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My great-grandmother and her friend Sherry in 1969. On the back, Sherry wrote: “Brenda, always remember our fun times together, from one crazy thing to another.”
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Portrait of Kaw-u-tz, a Caddo Native American, 1906.
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Osama bin Laden photographed with several Mujahideen fighters during the Soviet Invasion, Afghanistan 1988. .
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The military commissar is the father and soul of his unit. USSR, 1941
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