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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.
A young prisoner trussed up in a Seminole County, Georgia chain gang stockade, punished because he “talked back” to a guard and left under the hot sun until he fainted. 1932.
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Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary, relaxes on the terrace at the Berghof, Hitler’s vacation home on the Obersalzberg, 1943.
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“Not ready for these shoes.” The Montreal Star’s portrayal of the Congolese people, 1960
Brazilian street in Rio de Janeiro, then capital of Brazil, in 1940. (LIFE Magazine)
Poster from 1999 when Serbia shot down the new NATO stealth bomber with outdated anti air tech
German soldiers in Russia 1942 January
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