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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)
Actress, Candice Bergen, 1960s.
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Please! Dissent is not a crime! USA 1970
«The feat of the Chernobyl firefighters», USSR, 1987
New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as the epitome of the aging warrior who had finally fallen.
Variety packs. Ahh memories….
Fiat G.50 flying over North Africa in formation with a Messerschmitt Bf 110, 1941.
Thank GOD for The Atomic Bomb! (1950’s Pro-Nuclear Weapon Poster)
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