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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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  1. 2h

    Are you in Washington for today's ? Check out this 1834 rendering of the U.S. Capitol.

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  2. 4h

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of , photo of Martin Luther King Jr at 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.

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  3. 18 Jan

    Elvis Presley meeting with U.S. president Richard Nixon at the White House on December 21, 1970.

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  4. 18 Jan

    Women, children bathing at Kampong Makassar internment camp near present-day Jakarta during WWII.

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  5. 16 Jan

    Press release by on digitized Afghan treasures recently presented to President Karzai at US State Dept.

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  6. 16 Jan

    Afghan holdings of to be on WDL. "Prayers for Safety and Success" was one item offered to Pres. Karzai

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  7. 15 Jan

    First major medical book in post-Islamic Iran written in Persian by Jurjānī, a famous physician of 12th century Iran.

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  8. 14 Jan

    New on : Photo of prayer niche (or mihrab) in Khodzha Akhrar mosque (Uzbekistan) in the late 1860s.

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  9. 14 Jan

    Ten lines of Chagatai poetry skillfully cut out of blue paper, which was then put on cream background.

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  10. 14 Jan

    Did you know? Almost ½ of the world's 6K languages could die out by the end of the century if we don’t step up conservation efforts

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  11. 11 Jan

    Afghan President Receives Digitized Cultural Treasures: In a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State with Afgha...

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  12. 11 Jan

    Like calligraphy? Here's a bold illuminated divination text from a 16th-century Persian Qur'an.

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  13. 10 Jan

    (Photos) participates in presentation to President Karzai: |

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  14. 10 Jan

    , 1927, "Metropolis" film opened in Germany. 4 copies of film poster exist; here's one.

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  15. 9 Jan

    in 1909 Ernest Shackleton's crew arrived 180 km from South Pole, further south than any previous expedition.

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  16. 8 Jan

    This 1872 colored lithograph shows Smeroe, the largest volcano on the island of Java.

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  17. 8 Jan

    that Alabama was acquired by the United States from Spain in 1810 and was admitted to the Union in 1819?

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  18. 7 Jan

    A 1900 view of the Forum, the nexus of political, business, and social life in ancient Rome.

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  19. 6 Jan

    Vivid 1635 illustration of the revelation of baby Jesus, in honor of Three Kings' Day (Epiphany).

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  20. 5 Jan

    1600s edition of the earliest piece of prose fiction in the Japanese literary tradition: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

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