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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.
Times Square, NYC, unlit during The Northeast blackout of 2003 (August 14, 2003) (photo ROBERT ROSAMILIO)
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“Yomudka”, A young girl of the Yomut of the Bayramshali branch, of the Okuz family. Takhtinsky district, Turkmenistan. G.A. Argyropulo 1962, from the Archive of the IEA RAS.
1978 soviet poster “drink water where indicated”
Xi Jinping, aged 9, with his younger brother and their father in 1962. .
SS Feldgendarmerie soldiers finish off a wounded Soviet partisan on the Eastern Front, July 1941
Iranian Advertising Before The Islamic Revolution, 1979.
“Let’s face it! A world without Jews and blacks would be like a world without rats and cockroaches” 1996 comic by Nick Bougas (alias “A. Wyatt Man”) which is the origin of the Happy Merchant antisemitic meme.
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