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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
Pamphlet protesting the Treaty of Trianon directed at American citizens, Hungary, 1920
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“Among the blind and squint-eyed, there are those who see the truth!” 1947 Turkey
“Come on, bomb me!” Lebanon War, 2006
USN escort carrier USS Gambier Bay bracketed by shells from the Japanese fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944. A Japanese cruiser is seen on the right horizon
“Women who don’t wait!” The soviet sailors’ board of shame whose women left them, USSR, 1980s.
Anti war poster of a Unknown date
My great great grandmother, Susan Martin
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