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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 man inspects from Japanese shelling in Bondi, Sydney, 1942
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Tom Hurndall, British photography student, being carried unconscious by two local youth after he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by a (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb while attempting to rescue a child who had been pinned down by gunfire on 11 April 2003. (2003)
“Teach a Man To Fish” // USA , 2018 // Artist: Jon McNaughton
Vasily Margelov (27.12.1908 – 04.04.1990), Hero of the Soviet Union who is considered to be the real father of the VDV – Russian Airborne
Jesus will do heroin so you don’t have to – 2018
“Sam! Sam! Can we get you anything” A caricature of the United States and the United Nations after the end of the Cold War, 1992.
Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hares Wildcat fighter, May 1942 and now.
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