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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
The British actress Audrey Kathleen Hepburn – as she was reviewing a script before recording a program for the United Nations Children’s Fund – on the United Nations Radio, c. 1953
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Goebbels’ burned corpse, May 1945
England, 1944. LtCol Frank Pritchard commanders, captains James Carr, Beauregard King, Robert Finley & and 1stLt Charles L. Thomas. 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
Cora M. Strayer’s Detective Agency. Chicago, 1908
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“My tuna tacos are approved…” Recipe ad from Chicken of the sea. 1979
P-40s at the assembly plant. Each aircraft had a cost of $44,892 which equals out to about $648,181 a piece in today’s money. There were 13,738 built between 1938-1944.
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