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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.
Chinese singer Peng Liyuan, wife of current President of China Xi Jinping, singing for martial law troops in Beijing in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre – 1989
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One day they will wake up – Bob Minor 1925
A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967.
Actor Steve Buscemi during his service in the Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan’s Little Italy in the 1980s.
”Ukraine” – political cartoon made by Czech artist Adolf Hoffmeister during his exile in the United States, New York, 1943
1947 when I was kinda cute.
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