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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
Italian supply convoy sailing to North Africa, 1941
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American Anti-Communist propaganda. (1961)
My grandmother at age 6 in 1945, shortly after the end of WWII, Czechoslovakia.
2016 era alt right poster in the USA
Soldiers at a firearms demonstration. China, 1972. Photo by Horst Faas
Sailors from the Ottoman Navy, gathered on the Brandenburg class pre-dreadnought battleship, Barbaros Hayreddin – on the Aegean Sea, in the First Balkan War, c. 1913.
“Have some chips – they’re scrumptious.” Cellophane, 1953
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