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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
Świętokrzyska Street in Warsaw, Poland, 1936. Photo by Henryk Poddębski.
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Ottoman WW1 propaganda
“We Won’t Stand for the Flag, Until the Flag Stands for the People” Counter Culture Poster by Bill Stettner, circa 1970
Japanese propaganda poster used to promote Japanese immigration into Brazil and South America. “Join Your Family, Let’s Go to South America.” 1925
Soldiers of the 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division check out confiscated rifles and other weaponry in Salzuflen, Germany, April 1945.
Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery, 20-March-1945. Probably one of his last pics in the surface before confining himself to the Führerbunker
Indonesian President B.J. Habibie (centre) looks at a model on October 1, 1998 of one of the generals killed during an alleged communist coup attempt in 1965. The coup attempt sparked a wave of reprisal killings in which hundreds of thousands died.
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