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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.
1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
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Jesus Christ spits on Archbishop Makarios (Makarios III) after violence against Turkish Cypriots in the Christmas of 1963, also known as Bloody Christmas. Turkey, January 1964.
From the Cape to Cairo, Civilization vs Barbarism”, Puck Magazine, 1902
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Abortion will deprive you of happiness. USSR 1966
4 North Vietnamese soldiers walking among numerous ARVN military vehicle and equipment abandoned or destroyed on the road of Huế, the Vietnam War 1975
The Secret’s out… Gerber isn’t just for babies! Teen Magazine, March 1981.
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