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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
Soviet Union // 1958
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The first Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk on his horse in the head of a morale-boosting military parade on the Wenceslas Square, Prague, held as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the country’s creation, 28th October 1933.
‘Enjoy life now – There is no afterlife’ (American billboard poster by Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). United States of America, ca. 2019).
An American cartoon of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, 2021.
One of the oldest known photographs of Red Square. Moscow, 1856.
“Stop the militarization of space” soviet poster, 1984.
Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen Restaurants – 1963 – Disneyland
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