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Swedish Navy corvette HSwMS Karlstad (K35), 5th ship of the Visby-class (2427×1053)
Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They’d changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .
Smoking banned in Italy (Chappatte, 2005)
n May of 1945, Private Terry Moore of the 7th Infantry Division takes cover with his BAR as incoming Japanese artillery explodes nearby in the fight to take Okinawa
Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947
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Portrait of Mormon polygamists in the Utah Penitentiary, 1889
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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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