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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
Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the woman who was arrested for cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor in 1907.
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This mirror portrait was taken 100 years ago in Japan.
Sealtest Crazy Vanilla Ice Cream (1965)
Gypsy camp, early 1900s
Russian victory day propaganda banner – Su-30SM over the Pentagon.
December 1935. “Resettled farm child.”by Dorothea Lange
“Desert Rats” of the SAS on patrol in North Africa, January 18, 1943.
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