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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
Barricades on the Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, “Before the Attack” – 25th June 1848.
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“The sky of the motherland is safely protected” Recruitment poster for the Soviet Air Defense Force( 1984 )
Poor Vietcong soldier vs rich South Vietnam soldier, South Vietnam’s leaflet. Vietnam war, date unknown.
My great-grandparents, unfortunately remembered for being vain and image-obsessed
My grandfather in Vietnam, 1968
” Whistle-blower in Moscow” – political cartoon made by Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte (”The International Herald Tribune”), June 2013
A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby.
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