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Hostages in the Kikinda prison, 1941
’10 years of NATO’ — Swiss cartoon (May 1959, Nebelspatler magazine) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty
This photo ‘Happiest Man in China’ was taken in 1901. The man didn’t know you’re supposed to be serious when posing for a photo
USS Salem (CA-139) on the evening of March 9, 2026
‘Endurance’ stuck in the ice 1915, Trapped and crushed by Antarctic pack ice, the crew of the Endurance survived nearly 500 days, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica
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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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