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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
Italian bersagliere with a Breda 30 in action in Ukraine in the winter of 1941-42
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The corpse of Pope Pius IX after being exhumed in 1956
Georgi Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and other Soviet officers greeting Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jul 1945
My dad and mom and me. 1957.
Go Home Negro Circa 1960
My Great Grandfather looking dapper!-1929
11 Feb 1911: Melbourne Zoo’s lion, Wallace, rented by a magician performing at the Melbourne Opera House, walked offstage and out of the theatre. He took shelter in the T&G Buildings, 400 metres from the theatre. After two hours he was coaxed into a cage and returned to the zoo.
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