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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)
German officer interrogates a Russian POW with the help of an interpreter. 1941 near Leningrad
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“Alexamenos worships his god” – ancient Roman graffiti mocking a Christian named Alexamenos (1st-3rd century A.D.)
Question about this famous photo from the invasion of Algeria
The children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a formal photo, 1906
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John Adams, a shoemaker from New England who was born in 1745, making him the earliest born person to be photographed whose age has been verified, 1845
Freeing Turkish from Arabic alphabet – 1933
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