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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 Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .
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French actress, producer and model, Catherine Deneuve – sitting in a park in Paris, France – photo by Jeanloup Sieff, c. 1997.
‘90,000 tons of diplomacy’ (American poster for Northrop Grumman Corporation/ Newport News Shipbuilding. Featuring the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) aircraft carrier. United States of America, ca. 2008).
Chinese singer Peng Liyuan, wife of current President of China Xi Jinping, singing for martial law troops in Beijing in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre – 1989
German Mother Medal 1938
Me in pot, early ‘70s
Chicken of The Sea Tuna 1980
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