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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
In the 1980s, Nixon Plumber G. Gordon Liddy and psychedelics advocate Timothy Leary toured the college lecture circuit billed as Nice Scary Guy vs. Scary Nice Guy.
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Exhumed corpse of Gustav Vasa king of Sweden 1523-1560, picture taken in 1945.
“In Guns We Trust” USA, 1993
Flexon Glasses ad August 2001
“Lafayette, we are here” WWI American propaganda poster
Hong Kong Police officers change cap badges at the stroke of midnight following the handover of sovereignty to China (1997-07-01)
Fight for liberty – 1943
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