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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.
Gay Bob dolls. 1977
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A British soldier looks down at the burnt corpse of a German Fallschirmjäger killed during the first stages of Operation Mercury. 20 May 1941, Crete.
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Painting depicting the failed assassination of Lenin, 1969 by Viktor Karpovich Kovalenko.
A rice cake seller. Japan, 1914
After the Battle of Saipan, Marines found the body of Japanese Lt. General Yoshige Saito in a cave and gave him a funeral with full military honors. Here they prepare to lower his flag-draped coffin into its resting place. 13 July, 1944 (Official USMC Archives photo)
“Have a nice holiday, clean people! And the degenerates who litter will burn in hell when they die painfully from a terrible disease, cursed by the villagers” Anti-littering propagana, Russia, 2010s
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