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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.
In 1946, soviet children gifted a carved great seal replica to the us ambassador, unknowingly hiding a listening device called ‘the thing.’ It was found in 1952 during a counter-surveillance sweep.
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“THIS IS THE ENEMY” (USA 1943)
Świętokrzyska Street in Warsaw, Poland, 1936. Photo by Henryk Poddębski.
A busy day in the City of Calcutta. July,1945 (653×940)
Abyssinian soldiers, 1936. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War
“Uncle Sam Crucified”, 1941 poster by fascist Newton Jenkins.
1949 Philadelphia automobile show.
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