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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.
“Dad, Mom, Corn and Me”, Soviet Poster, 1962
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange on their Soviet counterpart (late 1960s-early 1970s)
My parent’s wedding photo.
“Portugal is not a small country” made in 1934
June 13th, 1944 — Private Red Skelton arrives at Camp Sibert in Alabama. Red was forced to give up his top-rated radio show and not allowed to to join the Special Services branch for entertainers. He later had a nervous breakdown. More info below
Jews being airlifted to Israel after being expelled from their home in Yemen, 1949.
Rightwing Anti-Obama Poster, 2010
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