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This is America… Keep it Free! (ca 1944). The Greatest Generation had the right idea!

‘It’s Worth Repeating – ‘Really You Shouldn’t’, 1944.

Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island.

Son of sharecropper washing hands, 1938

The inner city of the destroyed Würzburg, Germany. Autumn 1945

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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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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 .
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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.
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‘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.
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My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
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100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
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Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
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‘Race mixing is communism! USA 1953’
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GDR Stamp, 1982, “Solidarity with the Palestinian People”
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I visted CPL Doss last week
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The NAACP in New York protesting outside the theater asking for the boycott of “The Birth of a Nation”. 1947
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My great-grandmother and her friend Sherry in 1969. On the back, Sherry wrote: “Brenda, always remember our fun times together, from one crazy thing to another.”
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Portrait of Kaw-u-tz, a Caddo Native American, 1906.
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Osama bin Laden photographed with several Mujahideen fighters during the Soviet Invasion, Afghanistan 1988. .
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The military commissar is the father and soul of his unit. USSR, 1941
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Bush’s legacy (Chappate, 2009)
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|Pan American Airlines 1956|
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