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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
2nd president of the United States John Adams fighting a giant snake, from a Japanese book on the revolutionary war, 1861
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NAZI -> NATO (Christian Hans Herluf Bidstrup, 1958)
She’s got rice, and she’s ready for anything. Rice Council of America, 1969
Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words ‘I will destroy the Church’. USA, March 1953.
11-12-year-old Isaac Allal, the only survivor of the plane crash in Hurum, Norway. On 20 November 1949, a Douglas DC-3 carrying 28 Jewish children from Tunisia to Israel crashed into a mountainside during fog.
“Long live the great Soviet friendship!” / Poster dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Reunification of the Ukraine and Russia / USSR, 1954
Great Great Aunt Mable had Resting Bitch Face.
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