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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
The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939
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Jell-O Went Hard In 1952
SS-Hauptsturmführer of the SS-Brigade “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” hands out sontoquin tablets (a drug for the prevention and treatment of malaria) to soldiers. The photo was presumably taken in Greece 1941
The “Arithmetic of an Alternative Plan: 2 + 2 plus the Enthusiasm of the Workers = 5” exhorts the workers of the Soviet Union to realise five years of production in four years’ time (Iakov Guminer, 1931)
All In Favor Of “Gun Control” Raise Your Right Hand (1991)
Ruth Baucom, a Texas toddler, age one year. This may be the last photo ever taken of her as she died age one year and three months. 1909.
Mexican Propaganda Poster about US from 2017
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