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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
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
The British actress Audrey Kathleen Hepburn – as she was reviewing a script before recording a program for the United Nations Children’s Fund – on the United Nations Radio, c. 1953
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Kamikaze pilots posing for a signed group photo to immortalise them before their final suicide flights as guided flying missiles in the Pacific War against the American Fleet (1944)
My husband’s great-great aunt (far left) during the mid-70’s.
My Great-Grandmother Who Died of Typhoid in 1914 at Age 23
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