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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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.
“Kill him! He murdered your loved ones, burned your house, plundered your property!” USSR 1942
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B-17 ball turret gunner Alan Magee, who fell 22,000 feet without a parachute, landing on the glass roof of St. Nazaire train station, breaking it through. He suffered multiple injuries, including a broken leg and a badly cut arm, but he lived. January 3, 1943.
“Putin! Stop! Come back here or I’ll be forced to draft a strongly worded condemnation!”, 2014.
The car used for the 300 Million Yen Robbery. It was a robbery that occurred on 10 December 1968 in Tokyo. A man posing as a police officer stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294m yen. It is the single largest heist in Japanese history. The case remains unsolved (1969)
An unauthorized photo of Stalin, taken after he was informed that the Germans were about to capture Kiev (Kyiv), 1941. Photograph taken by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Gay Bob dolls. 1977
Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey. The cartoon contrasts the sorry state of the masturbator at ages 16 and 50 with the health & vitality of the abstainer at ages 21 and 70.
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