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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
Grover’s Mill resident William Dock ready to defend against martians after listening to the War of the Worlds, a radio drama about an alien invasion. 1938 (986×796)
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One of the propaganda poster from the Turkish War of Independence. The occupied territories are delineated by borders, Turkish woman is thinking sadly in front of the Istanbul skyline. 1920
Distant cousin fixing the wheel on the car. Early 1920s. One hundred years ago!
Wilhelm Dorr, formerly an SS warden in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen, is forced to make an announcement for a British newsreel while standing in front of a truck filled with prisoners’ corpses. 1945 (1251 x 1200)
‘Everyone has only one earth’ Soviet poster, unknown date
1979 ad by a Pakistani airline about flying to New York.
‘The Greens in the European Parliament!’ (German poster by unknown artist for the German green party campaign (die Grünen) in the 1984 European Parliament election. Federal Republic of Germany, 1984).
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