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Punch Magazine Cartoon Gallery

A nice gallery of photos from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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.

Photos of New York City from the Life Magazine collection

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.

"The Atomic Archive explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past to the present. Read biographies of A-bomb father Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi's dispassionate account of the Trinity Test. Examine maps of the damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and summaries of arms-control treaties. You'll also find an excellent gallery of photographs and historical footage."

"The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer, and in the Google Earth viewers on this website."

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

A class website run by a history class at Hershey High School. Looks like an interesting idea to steal, um, be inspired by...

A blog featuring historical artifacts, documents and Project Gallery.

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

Really cool to use for compare/contrast and visual literacy.

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.