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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.
Germany’s 1936 Olympic boxing team.
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“They Crucify”, 1917 WW1 anti-German poster by M. Hoyle
The emblem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1941-1956)
Two members of the Polish resistance during the Warsaw uprising, 1944
A black U.S. soldier reads a message left by the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War: “Black U.S. soldiers, you are committing the same ignominious crimes in South Vietnam that the KKK is perpetrating against your families at home,” 1970.
My Dad and Grandmother. 1941.
Barricades on the Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, “Before the Attack” – 25th June 1848.
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