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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 .
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.
‘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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
1975 Southwestern Bell
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British M3 Gun Motor Carriages from the Royal Dragoons used for indirect fire in Northern Italy, 18-Feb-1945
Various Ads from the back of Teen Magazine, 1960
Dad playing Vietnam blues away
75-year-old Mary Parish lights a cigarette for her 101-year-old mother, Mary Ann Parish. Walworth, London, 14 February 1946
“NO!” ‘USSR Anti-Drinking Propaganda’ ARTIST: Viktor Govorkov 1954
Young Ho-Chi-Minh, 1921
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