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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.
Taiwanese military police officer in front of an American flag on Kinmen Island, 1958. Photo by John Dominis
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German officer interrogates a Russian POW with the help of an interpreter. 1941 near Leningrad
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Survivors searching for relatives massacred by roving Nazi murder squads. Kerch, Crimea. January 1942.
Office Personnel Service, Chicago, 1963
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