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EXPLORE MIT Visualizing Cultures

Learn about Commodore Perry, the opening of Japan, and the1904-5 Russo-Japanese War through images from the period.

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Do You Speak American?
Do You Speak American?
Walt Whitman, 1870
Walt Whitman
Tupperware advertisement, 1959
Tupperware!
Students from the St. Rita's School for the Deaf, 1918
History Through Deaf Eyes
Picturing America
Picturing America
Annie Oakley with gun
Annie Oakley
Portraits of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, leaders of the "Regulators," 1787
Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation
The Writing Code
The Writing Code