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  My mother in the early 1930s. She would be 100 yrs old today.

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  A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows.

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  “The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590×1200)

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  1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624×4242)

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  My grandmother and father (late 1940s)

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  My mom (front, right side) and her siblings in the late 60s/early 70s

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  Two communions and a confirmation – circa 1927 – My grandfather in the middle

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  Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)

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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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  Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation

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  ‘Race mixing is communism! USA 1953’

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  GDR Stamp, 1982, “Solidarity with the Palestinian People”

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  I visted CPL Doss last week

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