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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
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
“Aliaksandr Lukashenka – With the People!” – 1994 Belarusian presidential election poster campaign
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“Whoever Comes to our Land with a Sword will get Destroyed by a Sword!” – Armenian Soviet poster c. 1943
My grandparents. They got married when she was 16 and were married for 72 years. He died at 92 and she passed two weeks later. They were the funniest people I ever met.
“An Irish Hero! 1 Irishman Defeats 10 Germans… Join an Irish Regiment To-Day” – recruiting poster c. 1916
1924 US election poster from Robert La Follette’s Progressive Party, attacking Calvin Coolidge for not condemning the Ku Klux Klan.
A group of men sitting next to each other in a trench. WWI, 1914
‘Come on, shtop pushin!’ — American postcard from the Second World War (1943) showing Stalin pushing Hitler down the toilet.
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