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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.
Scene from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1930s
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My grandfather. He died way before I was born.
#BRUSSELSSOWHITE 2017 Poster about the lack of racial diversity in the EU parliament
The Ipatiev House, where the Romanovs and their servants were killed in 1928.
A poster by cartoonist Herluf Bidstrup, 1947.
Gerald Ford, jumper on left, plays basketball in the forward elevator well of the aircraft carrier USS Monterey in mid-1944.
US poster on the metric system from 1917
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