East Asian History

An open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan, its Asian empire and occupied Japan.

A collection of more than 700 images, made up largely of late-19th and early-20th century trade cards and illustrated European newspapers.

An international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programs.

Offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States.

Using new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world.

Information made available via Fordham University.

An ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the 17th CE.

A digitized collection of selected maps, courtesy of the University of Alabama.

An easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

Featuring more than 100 posters printed between the 1930s and 1990s, this collection shows the change of visual identity of Hong Kong from a British colony to a vibrant city.