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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
England, 1944. LtCol Frank Pritchard commanders, captains James Carr, Beauregard King, Robert Finley & and 1stLt Charles L. Thomas. 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
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Portrait of Alcha Ellen Hinkle, a Kansas woman, circa 1904. She’d have been sixteen or seventeen at the time.
Execution of Kiev Jews by Einsatzgruppen units near Ivangorod,Ukraine. 1942, January 1
Danish zookeeper watering the Emperor Penguins on a hot summer day in 1957.
Three scout girls collect peach pits, which were processed to make gas mask filters during WWI, 1918
1972 Soviet poster Shame on Racists!
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