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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 hot air ballon lift off of the ground of the Bremen gasworks; Sometime between 1918 and 1945.
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‘The Two Faces of General Franco’ — Mexican caricature of Francisco Franco (1950) showing him as a murderous Nazi on one side and anti-communist hero on the other. Artist: Miguel Covarrubias.
A squad of Vietnamese soldiers patrolling the border between Vietnam and China, The Sino-Vietnamese war 1979
MLk removing a burned cross from his lawn. The boy beside him is his son.(1960)
Chevy Chevette: It’ll drive you happy ad, 1977
Actress Joan Crawford (1936) photographer: Hurrell
‘Them days is gone forever’ (American poster by Alvah Posen/ U.S. Government Printing Office for Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)/ Office of War Information (OWI). United States of America, 1943).
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