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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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, and goes with him to Allied captivity. Walcheren, November 1944
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Look how men flock around the girl with the clear, bright, Nadinola-light complexion. Nadinola Bleaching Cream, 1960.
“American policies remain the same, only their faces change” – Iran, 2018. (845×1162)
On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.
My grandfather in 1957
My grandparents at their wedding
B-17 “Tiger Girl” of the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group, 560th BS, England, 1944
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