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jeannepompadour

Portrait of a woman as Flora by Jacques-François Delyen, circa 1730-35

mapsontheweb

Travel times from Berlin 1819 vs 1906 vs 2015

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The Dying Saint Sebastian (Detail), 1789. by François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837)

herochan

Generational Oppression

Art by Ricardo Chucky || IG

amethystviolist

[ID: A realistic painting of a raised black fist over a mottled gray background. At the base of the image, the arm bears a chained manacle. Above it is an unfettered metal shackle. A plastic and metal handcuff with a broken chain rests above that. Finally, over the handcuff, a plastic zip-tie pulls the skin around the wrist. End ID.]

laughablyaverage

This artist is selling prints on RedBubble, and 100% of the profits going to Black Lives Matter

fakehistory

Napoleon declares himself emperor (1804)

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Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Archduke Franz Ferdinand

antique-royals

Eugenie de Montijo Empress of France

weirdvintage

A crowd of happy youngsters chase Father Christmas along a London street. He is on his way to a south London store to distribute presents, 1926 (via Vintage Photo LJ)

artfortheages

Portrait of Mrs Howe - Alfred Stevens - 1900

wilfordthelibrarian

Love that red colour!

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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

via reddit

14kgoldupgraded

Don’t forget this part either. While the 1924 Immigration Act essentially cut off Jewish immigration to the U.S., further action by officials enforcing anti-immigrant law was a huge issue in the 1930s too. Being a refugee did not save you from deportation.

And the same thing is happening today with all the refugees from the west and south Asian, and Central and South American countries we’ve either destablized or aided in the destabilization of. We can’t let ICE and their minions deport these immigrants to be killed.