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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
Jell-O with recipes, 1944
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Grandma is 93 and just started hospice. She raised me from childhood and is beautiful inside and out. Send good vibes that I make it through this!
Hunter with polar bear slain with bow and arrow in Alaska, 1924. Photo by Frank E. Kleinschmidt
Presumably one of the first photographs of intersex genitalia. Photograph by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar), 1860.
«Defense of Sevastopol» by Alexander Deineka (USSR), 1942.
Too Much Alcohol Leads You to (Unprotected) Sex. (Liberia, 2004)
The launch of Imperial Japanese battlecruiser Kongō at Barrow-in-Furness, May 18, 1912.
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