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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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“The National Socialist State in the future will prevent people whose lives are not worth living from being born.” Nazi Germany, date unknown.
Frank Zappa on a crawler tractor in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. c1968
The Love Rug strokes your bodies as you make love! (1970s)
“Welcome Big Brother Democracy” — United States/White Russia unity poster, before the October Revolution and founding of the Soviet Union (1917)U
“The result! Racial pride fades.” Nazi Germany, pre war (circa 1933-1939)
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