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Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)
Thanks to the low crime rate, i feel so free here in Singapore (1996)
My lovely granny passed away this week aged 92. Here she is when she graduated as a nurse in the 1950’s. I love her uniform!
‘The If-Hitler-Loses-We’re-Sunk Corporation’—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941
‘The Budget League, The Tax Payer, The Tax Dodger’ – Liberal Party UK 1909
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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)
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British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
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Anti-Thatcher Labour Party advertisement, 1980s
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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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