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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
Parisians Tear Christian Dior Dress Off Model, 1947
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Before. Now. In future Soviet Russia, (1922)
This is from about 1966 or 67, I was born in 62 & I’m the short blond kid. My dad & our neighbor’s dad built us a tree fort which of course we called The Bat Cave.
Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an airfield in England to replace squadron losses for the US Eighth Air Force – 1943/44 (Original Color Photograph Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
Soviet Russian invasion of Finland (British Cartoon, 1939)
“Referendum: YES, Crimea is Russian or NO, Crimea is NOT Ukrainian” – Cartoon mocking the official Crimean status referendum as a sham (2014)
My mom and dad on their wedding day (with a close family friend) August 1964.
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