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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.
“We have achieved our goals …exactly what the Soviets said” A caricature of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021.
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Lucille Ball for Schaefer Beer (1947)
The crew of the 11th Doolittle Raider “Hari Kari-er on the deck of the USS Hornet whilst transiting the Pacific Ocean, April 1942. The crew of the B-25 bailed out over the border of Anhui and Zheijang provinces and were assisted by Chinese forces.
“This Man May Die If You Talk Too Much”, US Second World War poster, 1943.
British mine employees from the Dolcoath copper and tin mine – Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom – Victorian era, c. 1895.
Gorbachev as the rocket vampire(1988)
“The Nympho Torture Girls of Jap ‘Camp Brutal'”, by Earl Norem for “True Men Stories” magazine (July 1962)
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