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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
Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943.
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My mother and aunt. 1935
Noseart of P-47 Thunderbolt “I’ve Had It” ca 1944
A foggy day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands photographed by Berbard Eilers near the Royal Palace in 1910.
1st May demonstration “Stalin Bierut Peace”, Polish People’s Republic, 1951
My beautiful grandparents in the 60’s
Barbarity vs Civilisation, by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1899
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