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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.
Joseph Stalin on the covers of Time as Man of the Year— 1939 and 1942
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Swedish weightlifter rejoices after successfully lifting weights at the Olympic Games in Montreal, 1976 .
A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941. The victim is sitting on the edge of an excavation with many dead bodies inside. This image is titled “The last Jew in Vinnitsa”. Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor an American born in Pennsylvania who travelled to Afghanistan with the intention of making himself a king. He failed. (1838-1845)
Capitalism: I’m sorry, but I don’t see poverty in our free world. // Soviet Union // 1960s
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.
“The Republican is the Platform of the Negro”-1861
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