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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.
‘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
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
1924 US election poster from Robert La Follette’s Progressive Party, attacking Calvin Coolidge for not condemning the Ku Klux Klan.
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“Facing the beast” Anti-western cartoon, 2014.
“One Ride with Yankee Papa 13″- Vietnam, April 16, 1965. (Photo by Larry Burrows for Life Magazine)
Fisher price Mountain Climbers, 1970s.
“A Son is Born” versus “A Daughter is born”, Azerbaijani satire-1909
Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.
Private John David Kleinfelder, of Massachusetts, served with the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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