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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
My grandparents goofing off the week before their wedding on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Please! Dissent is not a crime! USA 1970
«The feat of the Chernobyl firefighters», USSR, 1987
New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as the epitome of the aging warrior who had finally fallen.
Variety packs. Ahh memories….
Fiat G.50 flying over North Africa in formation with a Messerschmitt Bf 110, 1941.
Thank GOD for The Atomic Bomb! (1950’s Pro-Nuclear Weapon Poster)
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