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Free access to cultural treasures from libraries and museums around the world. Rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and more on a multilingual site.

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Church of the Dormition and Church of Saint Afanasii in Russia, snapped on a mid-summer's evening in 2001.

Did you know that, in the Edo Period in Japan, making rice cakes in December was a tradition for rich families?

"A View in Jamaica": an early 19th century watercolor depicting a plantation house shaded by trees.

Published in first era of printing in Malta, this 1647 book was made to instill pride in the island's literate classes.

This watercolor shows military personnel of the Women’s Army Corps in New Guinea in 1944, during World War II.

From around 200 BCE, this Greek text on papyrus has 7 lines of writing from the first chorus of "Orestes" by Euripides.

The national anthem of France (Marseillaise) was written in one night. One of the oldest recordings (c. 1898) is here:

Here is the November 1960 inaugural address by Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first indigenous governor-general of Nigeria.

Like crime ? Interested in ? You might enjoy this detective novel by famous Bengali writer, Panchkori Dey.

Only surviving manuscript that contains (except for 2 missing leaves) complete text of Babylonian Talmud, .

Karen Keninger of Natl Library Svc for the Blind discusses Daisy Consortium and ePub format.

Nan Talese at : people need to read more foreign literature and be more aware of what is happening globally.

James Shapiro, Shakespearean Scholar at Columbia: "I've spent my adult life in libraries."

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