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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
Inscription on a headstone of a British soldier died 6th June 1944 age 17.
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“It’s Enough” (Libya, 2011)
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972
My twin great grand aunts and their friend being cheeky in 1940s
“The Zionist Crocodile to Palestine Arabs: Don’t be afraid!!! I will swallow you peacefully…” — caricature featured on Palestinian Christian newspaper Falastin, 18 June 1936
Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)
The chin turret of a Boeing B-17G bomber with the cowling removed, revealing its six .50 caliber machine guns, June 17, 1944
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