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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
Commonwealth tank crews being instructed on their newly delivered M3 Grant medium tanks. Early 1942, North Africa.
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Anti-Nazi Poster (ca.1942)
A “personal taxi” in 1904, New York
Diana Spencer, in 1972, with pet guinea pig.
BONES are still needed, WW2-era poster reminding the British to save bones for the war effort
‘Saint Benito’ — German cartoon (1929) depicting Benito Mussolini as a saint in stained glass with dagger and fasces.
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