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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.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange on their Soviet counterpart (late 1960s-early 1970s)
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H.A.S.H Jeans, 1978
Truman placed a wreath at the monument of the Los Niños Héroes(1947). 6 Mexican cadets who would rather die than surrender during the Mexican-American war. Asked why he made the visit, Truman said simply, “Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”
My mama in the early or mid 1950s. She turns 91 y. o. this month.
Anti-Western Fashion Soviet Poster, 1970s
1926 photo of Eduard Bloch, Jewish Austrian physician who was the Hitler family’s personal doctor. He treated Adolf Hitler’s mother for breast cancer, reducing or outright eliminating her medical bills. Hitler later declared him an “honorary Aryan” & allowed him to escape to the US. (379×445)
“Threats To Peace,” c. 1970
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