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Pocahontas (Matoaka) 1595-1617

Children's Tunics

Children's Tunics thumbnail image

Liberian Letters

Image of one of the handwritten letters from the collection

Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters

Thumbnail of Painting of a woman holding flowers and a book

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Image from the collection titled "Making Pottery at Kwilu" taken by Robert E. Smith in the 1960s. It shows a woman kneeling over a clay bowl she is sculpting with her hands.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Thumbnail of a painting of three women and a girl watching a patient being carried.

Day of 10 August 1792

Mediateca INAH

Canadiana

Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia

The image is titled on the site as "Children contend with a too-big bicycle, Pre Umbel" taken in 1991. It is a black and white photograph showing too girls holding up a bicycle, unable to climb onto it.

Berlin Wall Trabant

Freedom on the Move

Outline of a man and woman running away, set against a background of advertisements.

Reports by Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General

Reports by Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General

Wetmore Print Collection

Detail of Durer's "Last Supper" from his Passion series showing Jesus holding one of his disciples

Mexican-American War and the Media

Painting of men on a stoop reading a newspaper with shocked expressions surrounded by