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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)
USSR. Ukrainian Nationalists depicted as beggars, 1968
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WW1 photo of German friends in a trench bunker. Photos on the wall and one being a photo of a woman. Exact date unknown
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“Do not desecrate the nature!” Soviet Union, 1960s.
“Red is the First colour of the rainbow”- pro LGTB communist poster by filipina artist Emiliana Kampilan- 2019
Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the future Volkswagen automobile plant, 1938 .
“Don’t know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps track of these things. She begins to work in mill tomorrow. ‘Speks I’ll go to help.” Mom said she is 10; little sister not at work yet. Location: Chester, South Carolina, 1908 (Source National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine)
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