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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.
Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the future Volkswagen automobile plant, 1938 .
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During the Battle of the Bulge, GIs of the 486th Armored Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, pause for a meal near Trou-Du-Bois, Belgium, December 1944.
Settela Steinbach, a Romani girl from the Netherlands, transported from Camp Westerbork to extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. 19 May 1944
Statue of Liberty , USSR, 1960
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My Somali/Indian great aunts circa 1950
A wounded German soldier is moved off the line in Crimea, exactly 1 year on from Operation Barbarossa, 22nd June 1942
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