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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.
Tail Wreckage of B-17G 42-31367 Nicknamed “Chow hound” found by a American engineer who discovered.
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USN escort carrier USS Gambier Bay bracketed by shells from the Japanese fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944. A Japanese cruiser is seen on the right horizon
“Women who don’t wait!” The soviet sailors’ board of shame whose women left them, USSR, 1980s.
Anti war poster of a Unknown date
My great great grandmother, Susan Martin
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