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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
Avon Cosmetics, 1968
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My Mother and Grandmother, 1922
‘We can do it! Throw rockets and bombs to a metal scrap yard!’, Soviet Union, second half of 1980s
Armorers load a Mark 10 aerial mine into the bomb bay of a Grumman Avenger onboard the carrier USS Lexington off the Palau Islands, 29-March-1944
1906 Punch cartoon about the Congo Free State, depicting Leopold II as a snake.
California Canned Asparagus, 1930 ad.
My great uncle dressed as a woman for senior day.
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