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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
Kim Il Sung, Malaysia, 1965
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Experimental camoflauge for US soldiers during WW1.(1917)
Obergefreiter of the Luftwaffe field division in Russia, 1942
Family photo – estate sale find
The imperialists may put a man on the moon, but they’ll never but a man in Havana. 1971
Shell hitting the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, World War I, September 19, 1914
My grandfather(right) and the other two members of his gang 1947
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