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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
20 years old Jocelyne Khoueiry, a Maronite Christian, defending a building in Beirut against Palestinian fighters during the Lebanese Civil War (Mai, 1976)
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Children playing in Central Park, the building in the distance is the Clark mansion, NYC, 1910s
Soviet flamethrower soldiers fight for the city of Küstrin 03/12/1945. Photo by A. Kapustyansky
Mom Hack: 7-UP in Milk 1955
Marilyn Monroe wiping away tears after it was announced she had filed for divorce from Joe DiMaggio (1954)
American soldiers surrender to the SS-Kampfgruppe Peiper . Stoumont, Belgium. 12/19/1944
American Communist Poster, USA 1932
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