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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
Blood-stained “Song for Peace” sheet found in Yitzhak Rabin’s pocket after he was assassinated by a right-wing extremist in Tel Aviv 1995
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British M3 Gun Motor Carriages from the Royal Dragoons used for indirect fire in Northern Italy, 18-Feb-1945
Various Ads from the back of Teen Magazine, 1960
Dad playing Vietnam blues away
75-year-old Mary Parish lights a cigarette for her 101-year-old mother, Mary Ann Parish. Walworth, London, 14 February 1946
“NO!” ‘USSR Anti-Drinking Propaganda’ ARTIST: Viktor Govorkov 1954
Young Ho-Chi-Minh, 1921
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