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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.
Flight Sergeant Georges Nadon of No. 122 Squadron, in his Spitfire at Hornchurch, May 1942.
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When you don’t have a mask handy, use ScotTissue. 1945
Reinhard Heydrich, the newly appointed Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, viewing the Bohemian crown jewels, whose curse allegedly caused his death, alongside the president Emil Hacha, November 19th, 1941.
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“Practice makes perfect!” Cartoon by Ollie Harrington // East Germany // 1980
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Queen Elizabeth examines the skeleton of 7 ft 7 in Charles Byrne, “The Irish Giant”. Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1967
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