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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.
Learn to walk on the street, USSR, 1933
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Waffen-SS panzergrenadiers awaiting orders to initiate Operation Spring Awakening against superior Soviet forces – Hungary, March ’45
My beautiful mother when she was a young woman.
“The USSR is the shock brigade of the world proletariat!” USSR, 1930
Kind of like champagne. Champale Sparkling Malt Liquor. 1976
Italian prisoners captured during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943
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