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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.
Vulcanize your trouser mouse. Aurther Szyk, 1942
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“Death to the bourgeoisie and its lapdogs – Long live the Red Terror!!” Propaganda Poster in Russia, 1918.
Inscription on a headstone of a British soldier died 6th June 1944 age 17.
Two neighbours, an Albanian and a Serb, near Kosovo Polje, 1981
“Out of power” (International Herald Tribune, 2006)
1980s Chinese billboard promoting Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms.
People crowd the bodies of those slain while attacking the headquarters of the Hungarian communist party, their bodies covered by flags with the communist emblem torn from the centre, Budapest, 30 October, 1956
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