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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
“Aliaksandr Lukashenka – With the People!” – 1994 Belarusian presidential election poster campaign
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My glamorous grandmother in 1948.
“Don’t drink Coca-Cola, don’t finance death” – Poster against Coca-Cola for their killing of unionists in Colombia, October 2006.
Aftermath of the Cinema Rex terrorist attack in which 400+ people were burned alive. Iran, August 1978
Argentine military on a Soviet BELAZ dump truck captured from the British during the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands
“Made in Japan caught in the pacific tanned in the usa”1940s
Port Arthur, Tasmania c. 1880. It was founded in 1830 as a convict settlement and functioned as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects, and employing “secondary offenders” as its workforce
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