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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)
US soldiers play a game of darts during their free time in England, awaiting D-Day, June 1944.
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My grandmother 1933, Pikes Peak, CO.
More of a political cartoon on neocolonialism – 1998
1962 Sears Ad (Pre-Starbucks)
Mao Yichang, (1870-1920) Chinese farmer & grain merchant who fathered communist dictator Mao Zedong, early 1910’s. Ironically, Yichang was a wealthy farmer & landowner by the standards of the environment he grew up in. (260×405)
With no time to change back into their uniforms, following a rehearsal for a Christmas charity performance, British troops scramble to man anti-aircraft guns to deal with the approach of Luftwaffe bombers flying across the Channel to mount raids over southern England (1940)
Swedish soldiers (under UN flag) interrogating a Katangese mercenary sniper they caught hiding in a tree, Congo 1961.
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