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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
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
Lockheed Martin employee Sally Wadsworth working on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning, California, 1944
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A wounded Panzer Grenadier Großdeutschland Division officer getting a ride in a BMW R75 motorbike sidecar is talking to a soldier carrying a Mauser K98 sniper rifle during the Kursk Offensive in the summer of 1943.
My grandma showing off her car (not sure what year)
‘In a tram’, by P. Kostiukov, 1954
Grandma kept saying sternly: “without God you cannot cross any threshold!” but the bright light of science has proved that god doesn’t exist! (Soviet poster, 1965)
These are the organic consequences of the eternal “Heil Hitler!””, Anti-Nazi propaganda by John Heartfield, 1940s
Object: Matrimony. No dancers, flirts or street-walkers need answer. The Pittsburgh Press, 1921.
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