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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
Nose art of B-24D ‘Come And Get It’ (S/N 42-40941) – 90th Bomb Group, 400th Bomb Squadron, 5th Air Force – Pacific Theater circa 1943
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Macy’s was a different place in 1944.
Chinese Anti-USA Propaganda, 2021
My mom in the 60s with the cat she still talks about today. She said it chased dogs out of the yard
For women with more exciting things to do than scrub floors: One-Step Floor Care. 1967
A Soviet tank faces the badly damaged Reichstag building in Berlin where the last desperate pocket of German resistance was finally crushed, May 1945.
Chinese Anti-USA Propaganda, 2019
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