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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.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Students from the St. Rita's School for the Deaf, 1918
History Through Deaf Eyes
GeoHistorian Project
GeoHistorian Project
Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary," The New York American, 1909
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Henry "Hank" Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, 1934 baseball card
The Jewish Americans
Whale fishery: attacking a right whale, Currier & Ives
Laura Jernegen: Girl on a Whaleship
Portraits of Abigail and John Adams, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
John & Abigail Adams
The War
The War
Tupperware advertisement, 1959
Tupperware!