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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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
The Addis Wedding Set, 1985
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Capitalism. (1912)
“Religion Is the Opiate of the Masses”
“In the past this man owned Russia by himself. Now the owner of the fields and waters is the Soviet working people!”, (1970’s)
“These women will die for Rhodesia” (1976)
A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .
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