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Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970

An executioner from India in 1903.

Liking isn’t helping, Singapore (2013)

Saddam Hussein captured by the United States military in December 2003

Photo of children who didn’t pass the ‘one drop’ rule and were slaves, eventually emancipated in New Orleans, from ‘Harper’s Weekly’, 30 of January of 1864.

1900s

Western supermarket. Cartoon by Herluf Bidstrup. // Soviet Union // 1960s
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German tennis player Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters, which he defeated in a match that took place because of the sisters’ boast that they would beat any man players except the top 200. The German drank two shandy before the match. 1998
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1926 Ku Klux Klan illustration depicting “the end of Catholic influence in the US”
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Rare 1950’s photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin’s head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the “Katyn Massacre,” Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)
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When a Moth Seems a Monster, Mebaral Sedative, Winthrop Labs, 1959
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Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922)
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The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939
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Temperance postcard, 1915, USA
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1972 LA Times Nov 20 – Thanksgiving dinners with the Joker and the Skipper
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American elections // Soviet Union // 1972
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Van Heusen – 1955
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Gavrilo Princip’s parents in front of their house, Bosnia, 1910s/1920s
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Edward Teller’s Hungarian passport that he used to enter the US in 1935. Teller is best known for being the father of the hydrogen bomb, as well as testifying against J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954.
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Soviet Union // 1958
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West Berlin hudlums and African students: “Hey, look at these black subhumans!” // East Germany // 1963
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Four men sitting in William Howard Taft’s would-be White House bathtub, 1909
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1936. “Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer
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North Korean football player Pak Do Ik. He scored the winning goal against Italy in the World Cup (1-0) in 1966 getting North Korea through to the quarter-finals. (they were then beaten by Portugal). This picture of him was taken in 2002 by Koryo Studio (600×800).
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”Deutschland Unter Allies” – political cartoon made by Canadian cartoonist John Collins (”The Gazette”), May 1943
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h.i.s. menswear ad: For whom the bell tolls, 1969
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