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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.
1980s Chinese billboard promoting Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms.
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“It’s Enough” (Libya, 2011)
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972
My twin great grand aunts and their friend being cheeky in 1940s
“The Zionist Crocodile to Palestine Arabs: Don’t be afraid!!! I will swallow you peacefully…” — caricature featured on Palestinian Christian newspaper Falastin, 18 June 1936
Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)
The chin turret of a Boeing B-17G bomber with the cowling removed, revealing its six .50 caliber machine guns, June 17, 1944
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