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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
Original poster promoting Mussolini’s invasion of the horn of Africa, 1935
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Experimental camoflauge for US soldiers during WW1.(1917)
Obergefreiter of the Luftwaffe field division in Russia, 1942
Family photo – estate sale find
The imperialists may put a man on the moon, but they’ll never but a man in Havana. 1971
Shell hitting the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, World War I, September 19, 1914
My grandfather(right) and the other two members of his gang 1947
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