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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)
My grandmother 1933, Pikes Peak, CO.
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DEATH TO WORMS …Bumsteads Worm Syrup, 1893
German fighting position
A WWI US Navy veteran of Japanese descent arrives at a Japanese internment camp, April 1942 (1280×998)
“Well fought and well done” Japanese Empire, distributed in the Phillipines, 1942
A young married couple by the name of Cluster and Cinderella Rogers. Indiana, 1922.
A german supply convoy makes his way trough a snowstorm-Russia, Winter 1941
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