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A victim recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912.
Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930’s. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310×900)
My parents’ wedding, 1949
A young girl in a school for Black civil rights activists being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, 1960.
Prussian nobleman’s son Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 7, sits in a chair at his family’s estate (German Empire, 1907) .
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Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Fritz Lang’s ”Metropolis”, 1927.
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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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