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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 Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
“This Will Happen To The Fascist Beast” USSR, Aleksei Kokorekin, 1944
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“Off with Communism!” Romania (early 90s)
A daguerreotype of John Brown taken by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846–1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad.
A few helpful hints on what to do when you’re feeling a little dragged out. Vivarin, 1971
A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941
Four Italian guerilla resistance fighters wait in ambush with their rifles levelled in the dirt, on the Apennines, Italy, May 1944
“Thank you Kiwis for defending our man rights.”, Guy Body, cartoon relating to the War in Afghanistan and New Zealand involvement, 2009.
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