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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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
Anti National-Socislism Poster, 1940s
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Anti-American propaganda, North Korea. 1950s
Every time you twist a nut, think of HITLER! USA, (1942)
‘Death – to the murderous Jewish Bolshevik plague!’ (Ukrainian anti-Semitic/ anti-Soviet poster by unknown artist. Nazi occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ca. 1941).
Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses awaiting the scrap heap, 1946.
My Great Grandfather had what the youths would call “rizz”
Finland and Stalin’s USSR in boxing ring (1939-1940)
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