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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
Robert F. Kennedy’s wife, Ethel, attempts to comfort him as lay mortally wounded on floor of the kitchen in the Ambassador Hotel. June 6, 1968. RIP
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“Labour clears the way” – UK, Labour Party poster, 1910
“Hitler came the closest” American poster, artist Boris Artzybasheff, 1943
Germany – 1939/1945
“Only the stupidest cows vote for their own butcher”, by Rudolf Herrmann, 1932.
Bell & Howell Slide Projector
USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.
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