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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
US poster on the metric system from 1917
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My grandparents in the mid ‘50s. Taken in a photo booth at a fair.
“Sexual harassment call it out!”, United Kingdom, 2000s
“Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers.” USA, 2013
The war correspondent Jean Marin observes the corpses of Belgian civilians killed by the Waffen-SS at the Legaye, at Stavelot. 1944 (1387 × 928)
The second-place winner of a 2010 caricature contest organized by BADIL, a Palestinian right-to-return NGO
Portrait of a young grumpy girl from the 1850s.
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