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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.
column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front – January 1943
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Serbian paramilitary soldier kicks the bodies of Bosnian Muslim civilians he shot earlier. The soldiers were part of a unit named “the Tigers”, who were known to be brutal and never take prisoners. March 1992 (1240×828)
German and Soviet pavilions facing directly opposite each other at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair
WAVES trainees eating a meal, Naval Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, United States, Feb 1943
Bodies of U.S. POWs lined up and murdered by Germans near Wahlhausen, Luxembourg, January 1945
My great-great grandparents on their wedding day, 1907
Ad from Apartheid South Africa encouraging people from the US south to visit. 1979
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