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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 mother and aunt. 1935
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March 1940 Woodstock, Vermont. Snowy night by Marion Wolcott
You make new friends at butlin’s. Where you will meet the kind of people you’d like to meet. 1950
My newlywed grandparents, 1953
A great, great uncle: WWI Thought the cigarette was a nice touch
Soviet soldier alongside his comrade in Afghanistan (1980s)
Members of the italian resistance using german equipment, Italy 1944-45
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