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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
A young girl is murdered in the city of Miropol, Ukraine. More than 250 civilians were massacred in this way in the garden of the city’s town hall. (October 13, 1941)
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Recruitment Cartoon for Māori soldiers, December 1915 New Zealand.
British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940.
Ayatollah Khomeini is escorted off of his Air France flight during the Islamic Revolution, returning to Iran after living in the West while in exile. When asked by journalists about what he felt after finally returning to his homeland after so long, he responded, “Nothing.” Iran, 1979
Ku Klux Klan poster from 1930s warning about communists in Alabama.
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Sears (70’s) Fashionable ——Clothes….
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