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Photograph of a Goudiry Woman and Children
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Africa Online Digital Library

The site’s stated goal is the implementation of emerging best practices in the “American digital library community” in an African context, and it does not disappoint. Indeed, the site demonstrates a rare combination of scholarly sophistication, ease of use, and broad appeal.
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The Village of Jeewah Moocuddum near Rania

This painting, entitled The village of Jeewah Moocuddum near Rania: William Fraser’s circle of village folk, his white stallion, and progeny, is one of many paintings comprising the Fraser Album.

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Pieter Cnoll, Batavian Senior Merchant

Painted by Jacob Coeman in 1665, this painting depicts Pieter Cnoll, his Eurasian wife Cornelia van Nijenrode, their two daughters, and two enslaved servants.

Image of a compass taken on the Burke and Wills expedition
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Burke and Wills – Terra Incognita

Supplementary material is easy to follow and fairly extensive... Information is included on the background to the expedition, its historical context, biographies of those involved, the preparation for and events of the expedition, and its aftermath.
Logo and name for the International Dunhuang Project
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International Dunhuang Project

The IDP, based at the British Library in London, is an international collaborative effort to catalog, conserve, and encourage research of Silk Road artifacts. This website, which currently displays around 20,000 digitized images of these artifacts, is one product of this larger effort.
A woman dressed in a kimono and hair in Japanese style sits in a room playing a shamisen. A tray with a tea set and a tobacco tray are placed next to her, and a screen is placed at her back.
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Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period

The site will be useful to instructors looking to add visual sources to enliven a discussion of Japanese history at this critical moment in which Japan confronted the threat of Western imperialism and embarked on its own urgent project of modernization.
1897 watercolor of Sydney's port looking across the roofs of several buildings towards the harbor and ships
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Australian Studies Resources

The wide assortment of material makes it useful for teaching many distinct themes relevant to world history.
Thumbnail image of painting of a ship with white sails.
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Japanese Nanbanjin Folding Screen

This byobu, or folding screen, was created by Kano Naizen ca. 1593-1603.

Screenshot of the site's map feature showing the Indian Ocean in the Industrial and Imperial era with markers for different objects, goods, and places highlighted on the site
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Indian Ocean History

It is easily the most comprehensive website for studying and teaching Indian Ocean history currently available.
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Excerpt from "A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689"

Ovington’s travelogue “The City of Surat and Its Inhabitants,” an excerpt from John Ovington’s A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689 provides students with a European trader’s point of view as he confronts the world of Islam during the Mughal rule of India.