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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.
Michael Ancher, another of Skagen painters, known primarily for his depiction of the Danish fishing community, fishermen, the straits, and the North Sea, ca. 1910-1920
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Anti-imperialist, Anti-American cartoon by Russian Communists (possibly 2019)
Italian bersagliere with a Breda 30 in action in Ukraine in the winter of 1941-42
A girl sorting pearls. Japan, 1949
‘Shame!’ – American Catholic anti-pornography cartoon (1956)
Lo Manh Hung a child photo journalist of the Vietnam War, 1968,
Hilarious mistake in Delhi election poster, no wonder BJP never won here (2013-INDIA)
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