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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
1979: Charmin has “So much squeezable softness, you gotta hug it.” Since nobody wanted to talk about cleaning one’s tuches, advertisers leaned into “soft” and fluffy” instead.
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“No to racism” Soviet Union 1972
Beauty and Health Machine – Say What – 1929 ad.
Polite words, but intentions are still the same // Soviet Union //””1961.
Part of the 320th squadron of the “Jolly Rogers” 90th Bombardment Group, the crew of this B-24 arrived in Papua New Guinea only four months prior before being shot down in March of 1944.
Original color photograph of “Armored Knights” participating in the “2000 years of German Culture” exhibition organized by the Nazis in Munich, 1937. (986×1185)
Great Grandma and aunt with a Granddad photobomb
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