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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.
A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967.
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My great grandfather with his tank he served with panzer rgt 9 and fought at Kursk and Normandy.
Sociologically, economically and anthropologically, it’s so much fun to take the bus… Greyhound, 1960
Political propagandists with signs for their respective parties at the entrance of a polling station in Berlin during the Reichstag election day Germany 31 July 1932.
“Corn, go full speed!”, 1964
Driving along what eventually became the Trans-Canada Highway. Saskatchewan, 1926.
Madam, I recommend you swap your hat for ours! Soviet anti-NATO propaganda, 1950
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