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9 hours agoCuban poster calling for the expulsion of US troops occupying South Korea – 1972 12 hours ago‘Carrying the same torch. Racial Controversy. March on Washington Aug. 28. Communist Front Organizations’ (Editorial cartoon by Jack Knox/ Nashville Banner. United States of America, 1963). 14 hours agoIn 1933, Americans were restless, and this postcard sums up the opinion of President Franklin Roosevelt, American brewers and thousands of everyday citizens ready for the repeal of Prohibition. 15 hours agoFirst Communion, 1887 18 hours agoa Congolese man next to an Okapi, somewhere in the Congo River Basin. circa 1910 [667×456]
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Jun 1 2022

Australian Aboriginals

Jun 1 2022

U.S. Marines in Peiping, China readies for deployment to lift the siege in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, c. June 1900 [1000 x 718]

Jun 2 2022

“While you are away, the Yanks are ‘lend-leasing’ your women” German leaflet to demoralize British troops, August 1944

Jun 2 2022

A young girl dancing at a festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1972

Jun 2 2022

Private John W. Emmons, from the 6th marine Division, and a friend take a well earned nap on Okinawa, 1945. (USMC photo by Private First Class R.G. West) [1913×1513]

Jun 2 2022

“Max Legroom” Honda Civic Hatchback, 1987

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Soviet poster from 1932, by Viktor Deni, translation in comments

Posted On : August 9, 2022 Published By : AJ
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Listening to copies of The Beatles “Rubber Soul” in the Quality Control room at the EMI pressing plant in London, England, 1965 [525×702]

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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This piece of World War II German propaganda was dropped from airplanes over England; it derided the American soldier as a “handsome brute” who was “lease lending” British women. His scandals were the talk of “all England.” (ca 1944)

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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‘This is America… food basket of democracy — where, war or peace, Americans are the best fed people in the world’ (Sheldon-Claire Co., Farm Security Administration. United States of America, ca. 1942).

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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Acrobatic tap dancing 1936 (Nicholas Brothers)

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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In December 1943, four men were tried for their roles in mass murder in the city of Kharkov. Officials said that between 1941 and 1943, over 30,000 victims had been shot, hanged, burned alive, and gassed. The trial was the first time that Germans were prosecuted for WWII atrocities [1000 x 634].

Posted On : August 8, 2022 Published By : AJ
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Before alarm clocks became widely affordable in the 1940s and 1950s, there were people – called “knocker-uppers” – who had the job of waking up workers during the Industrial Revolution, often by shooting dry peas from a pea shooter at their windows. [1440×1800]

Posted On : August 7, 2022 Published By : AJ
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British soldiers from the Cameron Highlanders chalk “Hitler! Look oot, the Jocks are coming”, 1939 [600×400]

Posted On : August 7, 2022 Published By : AJ
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My grandma said this is an old relative, but I’m not sure what she would’ve been to me. What a lovely photograph though.

Posted On : August 7, 2022 Published By : AJ

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