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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)
Sturmgeschütz III assault guns hold the line as artillery rains down in north Ukraine early 1944
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My sweet little great grandparents in 1986
Scottish sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, the Netherlands, 14 February 1945
Grandparents after the War
“There’s no way like the American Way” by Margaret Bourke-White, 1937
1929 – Boarding of British Airship R101 – This would likely be the Airships last voyage as it crashed shortly after in France. (1170 x 847)
“Profilo Continuo” — 360 degrees profile of Mussolini; futurist sculpture by Renato Bertelli, 1933
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