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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
My Grandmother in the 1960s
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My Great Grandmother Pauline 1923 Age 9
Ante Pavelić, head of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Ustaše during WW2, in his disguise used for a false passport to escape to Argentina. He was assisted by the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church to escape justice for his genocidal crimes during the NDH (1940s)(672×889)
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Inside of the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum; 1950s
At the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Marine Honor Guards stand watch over the original Declaration of Independence, which was displayed at the base of the statue to commemorate Jefferson’s bicentennial anniversary, April 13, 1943. (758 x 1024)
Chinese combat engineers conduct emergency repairs at night using wooden beams for the bombed-out railway bridge no. 185 across the Ch’ongch’on River, Korea, 1951. The bridge had reported been bombed 7000 times during the Korean War.
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