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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
“Soviet Threat”, soviet poster, 1980
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“She’s so lucky…has three phones!” Bell, 1950s
A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, and goes with him to Allied captivity. Walcheren, November 1944
No race, creed or religion should have to endure the kind of derision that Native Americans face today…. (2001) National Congress of American Indians.
German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.
My great grandpa that was born in 1895 on the right
Marines on Iwo Jima when they got word that the Japanese had surrendered, March 1945
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