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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 refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.
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Little Maxlyn Paulson in Kansas in 1922. People invented names for their babies back then sometimes, as they do today.
Comic map of Europe (1871)
Gravy Master. The answer to YOUR gravy problems. 1940s
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My maternal grandparents wedding day (1965, Sri Lanka)
“American Diplomacy”, USSR, 1986
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