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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
“The result! Racial pride fades.” Nazi Germany, pre war (circa 1933-1939)
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Portrait of Mussolini by Gerardo Dottori, 1933. One of many so-called ‘aeropaintings’ (aeropittura) produced by Futurist painters in the 1930s emphasising speed and aviation.
Give The Bosses The Rise They Deserve, Class War newspaper Summer 1991
Pro-Yeltsin forces take aim the Supreme Soviet building in Moscow during the October Coup, 1993
“Profilo Continuo”. A Futurist sculpture of Mussolini (1933).
Italian fascist propaganda poster on the colonisation of Ethiopia, 1938.
Street Dreams are made of these… Streets Neapolitan Log, 1976.
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