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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.
Friendship wins!, USSR, 1990
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A young German Soldier, recently taken prisoner, stares ahead while sitting on a church pew with his helmet in Normandy, late July 1944
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Russian linguist and decipher of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov holding his cat Asya. He always listed Asya as his co-author, but the editors always removed her. He also always used this photo taken around 1980 as the author photo, and was annoyed when the editors cropped her out.
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