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This web exhibition “The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: as seen in prints and archives” has been produced as a collaboration between the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) and the British Library. Its aim is to bring together the…

The Queenslander was the weekly summary and literary edition of the Brisbane Courier (now The Courier-Mail). The Queenslander was launched by the Brisbane Newspaper Company in 1866 and it was discontinued in 1939.
This showcase features some 1000…

The preliminary digitized music collections currently available are the Oregon Music Collection, focusing on music by Oregonians or about Oregon events and places, and the Women Composers Collection, showing the strength of the collection in music by…

The archive of the Canton of Jura (Archives cantonales jurassiennes ArCJ), supported by Wikimedia CH, have uploaded their collection of works by the Swiss photographer Eugène Cattin (1866-1947) to Wikimedia Commons. Cattin was a professional…

Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark, has more than 25,000 images in the public domain for free download. They come in various resolutions, but a selection of 160 highlights is offered in very high resolution.

This collection contains over 10.000 sound recordings from the 1950s to the 1990s. CC-BY-SA

SOCH (Swedish Open Cultural Heritage) contains data about Swedish cultural heritage. The set of objects (approx 5.5 million in 2014) includes archaeological, ethnological and religious objects, as well as ancient monuments, historical buildings and…

The Shoe Museum Lausanne's collection tells the story of footwear across Europe through the ages. Its collection consists of more than 400 objects (mainly reconstructions based on archaeological discoveries) of ancient footwear from Prehistoric times…

50 images from the scientific collection, includes excellent Charles Babbage related images. Available on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

The collection on Wikimedia Commons currently contains about 50,000 ethnographic pieces from all over the world.