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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
Women in arms: a female red guard fighter in the Finnish civil war, 1918
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Female guards pictured after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Many Holocaust perpetrators showed no remorse.
Full female acrobat/aerealist cast of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1935.
West German policemen: thankfully we live in a free country… // Soviet Union // 1987
A battle-hardened German soldier in Stalingrad, 27 November 1942
1958 ad for Tunies Tuna Hot Dogs!
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