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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
Alexander Graham Bell – c. 1905
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German soldiers after a street fight in Novorossiysk, 1943
Allied war correspondents examining the couch in Adolf Hitler’s bunker on which he is thought to have shot himself with his wife, Eva Braun, on April 30, 1945. The blood staining the arm of the couch is likely Hitler’s. (1000×1000)
Mcdonald’s Chicken Select Strips 2004
Hitler Youth poster (1930s) and American Meat Industry poster (1980s)
Help keep your school All American! 1950
My grandma with her dog! 1939 Germany.
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