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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)
Bernhard Sindberg posing with Chinese soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937
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I was a fighter pilot in about 1972
I would love to have seen this. Just once would be enough, I bet.
“When I was his age I never ate sand. Just mud pies.” Tampax 1970
Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the woman who was arrested for cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor in 1907.
Susan Spotless says, “Daddy, you forgot…every litter bit hurts!” 1965
Two peasants from the region around Rome. A daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842.
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