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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.
Robert Minor’s “At Last a Perfect Soldier”, 1916.
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The crew of USS Miami (CL-89) cleans up after bombarding the Palau Islands in 1944
The crew of USS Miami (CL-89) cleans up after bombarding the Palau Islands in 1944
My Great-Great-Grandfather (born 1881)
“Israel unlawfully takes the lands of Arab people” by Mark Abramov. Date unknown.
“Don’t believe witch doctor!” by R. Surianinov, 1959
“You must be here to fix the phone!” Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here. Bell, 1974
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