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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.
My twin great grand aunts and their friend being cheeky in 1940s
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Mob during the Farhud pogrom against Jews in Iraq. June, 1941
German fighter pilot Alfred Michel overlooks his damaged BF-109G with members of the American 90th infantry division and members of the 455th anti aircraft battery who had shot him down by hitting his engine with two rounds of .50 Cal, while on his first mission. Germany, January 1945
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Harry Halvorsen, a diver in the Eastland disaster rescue efforts. Chicago, July 1915. Photo by Jun Fujita.
Photograph of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who became well-known for living in an airport for 18 years. 2004.
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