Skip to content
Latest :
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.
Harry Hudec: A 508th HQ Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who was a Regimental Boxing Champion during WW2. This photo was most likely taken in April 1945
Love This Image? You Can Post It!
you might also like
The rule of Law (Hong Kong Post National Security Law poster, 2020)
Pilots of the American 8th Bomber Command wearing high altitude clothes, oxygen masks and flight goggles, 1942
Election poster from US, 1867
My Great Grand Mother, Scholastica (Stella) 1927
Robert Minor’s “At Last a Perfect Soldier”, 1916.
”The Thinker” Auguste Rodin in his studio in 1905, photo by Albert Harlingue.
Previous
159
160
161
Next
Load More Posts
Page load link
Go to Top
