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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 first day with Stayfree. 1970s
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My great-great-grandparents’ wedding photo 1901.
Flotilla of ships and boats sails into New York for the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (1976)
Pizza Hut 1990
A dead German soldier lies on a corner in Stavelot, Belgium, on 2 January 1945.
Descent of the Modernists (USA, 1922)
My great uncle with his girlfriend before he went to war and died in 1941.
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