Sears Homes

From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 100,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Link…

Patrick Browne

The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica - 1756. Link…

Unrealised Moscow

The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Link…

Science

A selection of the (big, meaty, Megabitey) goodness to be found at the History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries. Link…

Andreas Cellarius

The Harmonia Macrocosmica is a thing of beauty. Link…

Glimpses of South Asia before 1947

Articles, illustrations, photographs, postcards, lithographs, engravings, and archival film of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka before 1947. Link…

Masks

A large collection of masks from India. Link…

G.I. Jones

Photographs from Nigeria in the 1930s. Link…

Nadia Rusheva

Nadezhda Nikolayevna “Nadya” Rusheva was a Russian illustrator and graphic designer who died in Moscow in 1969 at the age of 17 from a brain haemorrhage. Link…

Castas

"Each scene portrays a man and woman of different races with one or two of their progeny and is accompanied by an inscription that identifies the racial mix depicted."


"In a painting from an anonymous casta set, the chamizo male is actually shown stabbing his Indian wife. The message is clear: certain mixtures-particularly those of Spaniards or Indians with Blacks-could only lead to the contraction of debased sentiments, immoral proclivities, and ability to a decivilized state."
Links… 1, 2, 3, 4 [edit] Link 4 broken 04.May.2007.

Up Periscope

U-Boats Link…


British submarines Link…


Pictures taken through periscopes – nuclear airburst test, shorelines and lots of sinkings. Link…