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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
A german supply convoy makes his way trough a snowstorm-Russia, Winter 1941
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American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19
My grandparents goofing off the week before their wedding on the morning of December 7, 1941.
Actress, Candice Bergen, 1960s.
The Nuremberg trials: the Nazis’ last line of defense // Soviet Union // 1945
1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782×3780)
The German greeting // Germany // 1934
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