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A British officer reading a newspaper while being fanned with a palm frond & getting a pedicure from one of his servants in India, late 1800’s (2001×1252)
My grandmother, Parnese, with the kind of poise you just can’t teach.
“Holocaust on Your Plate,” 2003
A rescue dog named Riley is transported out of the debris of the World Trade Center September 15, 2001
a Palestinian refugee woman and her child cut off from their home by the ‘Green line’, 1948.
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My grandfather in Vietnam, 1968
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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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