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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
A Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops to encourage their surrender, 1942
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Lucille Ball for Schaefer Beer (1947)
The crew of the 11th Doolittle Raider “Hari Kari-er on the deck of the USS Hornet whilst transiting the Pacific Ocean, April 1942. The crew of the B-25 bailed out over the border of Anhui and Zheijang provinces and were assisted by Chinese forces.
“This Man May Die If You Talk Too Much”, US Second World War poster, 1943.
British mine employees from the Dolcoath copper and tin mine – Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom – Victorian era, c. 1895.
Gorbachev as the rocket vampire(1988)
“The Nympho Torture Girls of Jap ‘Camp Brutal'”, by Earl Norem for “True Men Stories” magazine (July 1962)
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