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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.
USSR officials attempting in vain to resuscitate the dead crew of Soyuz 11 after it’s reentry. All three crew members were posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medals and given state funerals, June 3rd, 1971
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“No to racism” Soviet Union 1972
Beauty and Health Machine – Say What – 1929 ad.
Polite words, but intentions are still the same // Soviet Union //””1961.
Part of the 320th squadron of the “Jolly Rogers” 90th Bombardment Group, the crew of this B-24 arrived in Papua New Guinea only four months prior before being shot down in March of 1944.
Original color photograph of “Armored Knights” participating in the “2000 years of German Culture” exhibition organized by the Nazis in Munich, 1937. (986×1185)
Great Grandma and aunt with a Granddad photobomb
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