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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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
North African Campaign. Egypt. 26 October 1942. An RAAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk arrives back from a dawn patrol. (640 x 515)
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Field group of Operation Tabarin surveying on Wiencke Island, 22 September 1944. The purpose of this British operation was to send 14 mens to Antarctica to prevent Chile and Argentina from exploiting the war in Europe to advance claims to Antarctica.
“Exterminate The Four Pests” China, 1958
South Korean spy chief Kim Jae-Gyu and some of his collaborators reenacting his assassination of President Park Chung Hee, formerly one of his closest friends, as part of an investigation into the slaying, 1979. Kim and his co-conspirators would be executed the following year. (1200×779)
Call home and have a chat with your VCR, 1989
WW1 Australian
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