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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
West Berlin hudlums and African students: “Hey, look at these black subhumans!” // East Germany // 1963
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The first Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk on his horse in the head of a morale-boosting military parade on the Wenceslas Square, Prague, held as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the country’s creation, 28th October 1933.
‘Enjoy life now – There is no afterlife’ (American billboard poster by Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). United States of America, ca. 2019).
An American cartoon of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, 2021.
One of the oldest known photographs of Red Square. Moscow, 1856.
“Stop the militarization of space” soviet poster, 1984.
Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen Restaurants – 1963 – Disneyland
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