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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.
Siniristi (Blue Cross) was a Finnish Nazi magazine published between 1931 & 1939
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«The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid)», Spain, 1814.
A child points a toy gun at a painting of a U.S. soldier during a game for children in Pyongyang, North Korea (2012)
Paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division being briefed for the next day’s jump across the Rhine, Arras, France, March 23, 1945
My grandmother did magazine modeling in the 1940s. Here’s one of the old photos I’ve found.
Long live the unity of the peaceful, democratic, socialist camp! (1958)
French 340mm railway gun firing, Spring 1940.
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