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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)
1978 I believe. We also rode our bikes without helmets and drove without seat belts.
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January 1943. Camp interpreter Private Ritter of the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) makes friends with a kangaroo at the No. 13 POW Camp, Murchison, VIC, Australia.
London policemen testing out life jackets by jumping into the river Thames, 1930s (720×510)
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” Völkischer Beobachter, 1940
London sanitation engineers overseeing new sewer construction following the Great Stink of 1858
The Iranian singer and actress Faegheh Atashin (Googoosh) during one of her performances on stage – Tehran, Imperial State of Iran, c. 1975.
Don’t you DARE come between waffles and me! Ipana, 1946.
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