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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
‘Long live victory!’, soviet kazakh poster, 1945
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Mark Nelson is measuring soil moisture next to a CO2 efflux device, Biosphere 2. Oracle, Arizona, United States. Marsh 18, 1993
1947: The fuselage of the ‘Spruce Goose’ (Hughes H-4 Hercules) making its way to final assembly in California.
A canal in Venice (Italy) being drained and cleaned using a Decauville railway and two camels, 1956
A local woman makes her own flour (Tehuantepec, Mexico 1952)
Canadian Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau with his press secretary Suzanne Perry (Matthew Perry’s mother), Ottawa, February 1980, photographer Boris Spremo
Young German soldier WW2
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