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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
”TOP THAT 10%” – American poster (issued by the United States War Savings Staff) showing a young woman going through her husband’s pants pocket, 1942
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In a protest against censorship, photographer A.L. Schafer staged this iconic photograph in 1934, violating as many rules as possible in one shot.
Maternal grandmother 1940’s
WW2 era political cartoon by Dr Seuss
Original colour photo of two Gerbirgsjäger officers en route to the Murmansk front
German soldiers extract one of their colleagues killed inside his AFV during the Normandy campaign. Summer of 1944
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