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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.
The Addis Wedding Set, 1985
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Adolf Hitler meets a group of Hitlerjugend in the chancellery garden during his last public appearance on camera. He would kill himself a little more than a month later (20 March 1945)
My late grandmother. Photo from the 40s. Boy do I miss her laugh. 🥹
A Frenchwoman, believed to have been a prostitute, has her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her for reportedly collaborating with the Nazis (August 29, 1944)
A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.
Anti-American propaganda, Vietnam.(2020)
My very stylish Grandmother, I called her Bama – Ohio, likely in the 1950s
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