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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)
French soldiers with a capture Mg42, the alpine front 1944
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Recruitment Cartoon for Māori soldiers, December 1915 New Zealand.
British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940.
Ayatollah Khomeini is escorted off of his Air France flight during the Islamic Revolution, returning to Iran after living in the West while in exile. When asked by journalists about what he felt after finally returning to his homeland after so long, he responded, “Nothing.” Iran, 1979
Ku Klux Klan poster from 1930s warning about communists in Alabama.
Great-Great Grandfather and his children
Sears (70’s) Fashionable ——Clothes….
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