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"To open our image slideshow, just click on any of the images below. The selected image will then be shown in full and you can navigate through the slideshow by using the forward and back arrows. To simply download the image, click on image name underneath the photograph."

Beautiful web-based timeline software Welcome to TikiToki, a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free. How would you like to create beautiful, interactive timelines that include videos and image galleries? Well, now you can thanks to a great new web service brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon. TikiToki makes creating online timelines as easy as possible. Sign up for our free, basic account and within almost no time, you could be creating a timeline of your life, of a historical event that interests you or of the life of a great musician or artist... the possibilities are endless. Already have loads of videos and images on Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo. You'll be pleased to hear that we have integrated TikiToki with these popular services, making adding videos and images to your timeline a cinch. You don't even have to pay a penny to start creating timelines. Our basic account is completely free.

Search portal for collections of digital images from participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada. See the Copyright tab for permissions. Search interface available in English and French.

Photos of New York City from the Life Magazine collection

This is a representative selection of images from some of the most sumptuous manuscripts displayed in the Cambridge Illuminations exhibition

Quite a few beautiful images from medieval manuscripts. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

A nice gallery of photographs from the Tiananmen Square protests, from The Atlantic.

Superb pictures from Life Magazine showing various aspects of life on the home front during WW II.

Aerial & Panoramic Views Mayors Bridges Parades Celebrities Sports City Departments Street Scenes Education Times Square, Grand Central & Penn Station Civic Center Transportation Crime & Criminals Waterfront Hospitals & Public Charities WPA Housing Working Landmarks

Archive of pictures, maps and other multimedia from New York City.

Enormous number of links to portraits in the UK National Portrait Gallery.

Photos from the Cultural Revolution

Pictorial Study Guides for American History

These fellows presented their online study resource - which includes, introductions, lesson plans, timelines, fun facts, summaries and test reviews, and a large image gallery sorted by time period - at a conference I attended in Pasadena last Spring. I think it is better for High School teachers and students. I teach 8th grade and use it mostly for my own edification.

Clipart illustrations of famous places during or made famous by the American Revolutionary War.

'This site is designed to provide free viewing and downloading of the entire USGS photographic collection.'

An excellent portal for a multitude of primary source sites focussing on US history. Heaps of primary sources.

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Maps

Useful for teaching the Industrial Revolution, etc.