"Brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century."
Documents African life; European life in Africa in all its manifestations; and the African landscape, in particular as it changed over time. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.
Historical photographs from Protestant and Catholic mission collections in Europe and North America. Maintained by University of Southern California Library.
"Around 1890 the KITLV started collecting photographs for the purpose of documenting the image of the Dutch East and West Indies in all their facets, such as landscapes, town views, architecture, and life under indigenous and Dutch rule and so forth."
A digital collection prepared by Susan Smulyan and her students to interpret a Japanese scroll found in the Library's collections that documents the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in 1854.
