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Men dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers exit a cab on the way to a bicentennial exhibit in New York, February 1976. Photo by Dave Pickoff, Associated Press .
A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome. Italy – Rome, late June 1944 (WW2)
My Great Grandfather Heinz, November 1942 (Served In The Wehrmacht And Was Captured in 1945 And Sent To A POW Camp In Nebraska
Bonde Gaza, a Hungarian musician who survived the Gardelegen massacre where over 1,000 slave laborers were burnt alive, demonstrates to American soldiers how he managed to escape from the barn which the SS had set on fire. Germany, April 14–18, 1945, .
Family Values, 1996, Art by Rob Rogers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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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.
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.
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 .
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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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