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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)
Dead USN sailor, Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941
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Indian soldiers scouting Pakistani positions in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War
“We do not recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization.” 1971.
Thinking Americans Today…Are Not Too Free With Speech. Budweiser, 1944
Shag door knob, scale and tissue covers. Sears, 1970s
Dead Italian soldier holding a photograph of his child, north Africa, 1940, WWII
Israeli poster from the Yom Kippur War. 1973
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