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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.
“The sky of the motherland is safely protected” Recruitment poster for the Soviet Air Defense Force( 1984 )
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Man the guns, Join the Navy (1942)
Oklahoma, ca. 1930.
Facing the camera from left to right, Robert Trout, Ned Calmer, Major George Fielding Eliot, and William L. Shirer at the New York CBS news headquarters at 485 Madison Avenue on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. The men were exhausted, having been broadcasting all night.
2nd president of the United States John Adams fighting a giant snake, from a Japanese book on the revolutionary war, 1861
NOW! No Federal Tax on Durkee’s Yellow Margarine… already colored yellow at no extra cost. 1950
Cleaning Women Washing A Crucifix, 1938
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