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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
“Nuclear war”, Soviet Perestroika Poster, 1985-1991
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Bernhard Sindberg posing with Chinese soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937
“Every Canadian Must Fight” 1940
WW2 Nakajima Kikka in late 1945, 1st Japanese turbojet aircraft. Interestingly it was a IJN plane, although for pure metropolitan defense, the IJN had no operational carriers and barely experienced pilots. Still envisioned foldable wings (to hide in caves) and only 1 prototype flew on 7-Aug-1945
«June 22, 1941.» Russia, 2010.
Injured Auxiliary Fire Service firefighters at a casualty clearing station in Westminster Hospital, c. 1940.
“In Germany…” 1942
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