The map as History. The First Color Photos From World War I, on the German Front. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Most of us know this — or at least if we don’t know the exact date, we know it happened in 1914, 100 years ago. We also know that the spark of the killing ignited the international geopolitical tinderbox just waiting to flame into the First World War. Yet as military historians often remind us, no one event can really start a conflict of that unprecedented scale any more than one event can stop it. The second half of the year 1914 saw a series of interrelated crises, responses, counter-crises, and counter responses that, these hundred years on, few of us could cite off the top of our heads. We can compensate for the century between us and the Great War by reading up on it, of course.
That color photography exists of anything in mid-1910s Europe, much less as momentous and disastrous a period as World War I, still surprises some people. Via Dangerous Minds Related Content: Frank W. Download 100,000+ Images From The History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of The Wellcome Library. The Wellcome Library, in London, specializes in the history of medicine.
While the institution has long offered a good digital collection for browsing, the library announced yesterday that they are making more than 100,000 historical images free to download under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. (Users can distribute, edit, or remix at will; the license even allows for commercial use, with attribution.) The Wellcome’s holdings represent the institution’s long-term interest in collecting art related to medicine, the body, public health, and medical science.
The drop-down menu labeled “Technique” in the standard search box returns a staggering array of types of visual culture, from aquatint to carving to fresco to X-ray. The library reports that the earliest image available is from 400 AD: a fragment of papyrus from an illustrated herbal manuscript, featuring a faded color drawing of a plant. Rights-managed images are marked as such in the thumbnail results that appear after a search. 14,000 Free Images from the French Revolution Now Available Online.
It’s often said that the French Revolution (1789-1799) created the “blueprint” for all revolutions to come.
Unlike any event before it, the Revolution drew its strength from ideology — an ideology that turned on the belief that France had created a radical break with its monarchical past, and would now radically re-organize itself along egalitarian and democratic lines. To drive this message home, the revolutionaries produced thousands of pamphlets and political works of art. What’s more, they created a new revolutionary calendar and a series of revolutionary festivals that helped give cultural expression to the idea that France had entered a new political age. More than a century later, the Russian revolutionaries would use the French blueprint and all cultural tools at their disposal to promote its Marxist ideals. You’ve seen the posters.
The images in the archive can be sorted by theme. Via Hyperallergic Related Content: Prints, Drawings & Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection. This ambitious multi-year endeavor will digitize the 15,000 individual prints, drawings, and watercolors from The Anne S.
K. Brown Military Collection. The artwork vividly documents all aspects of military and naval history, with emphasis on the history and illustration of world military and naval uniforms from the 17th century to the present. In addition to the material on military and naval dress, this digital collection includes portraiture, caricatures, wartime posters, original photographs, and graphics on military and naval history in general, campaigns and battles, the arts and tactics of warfare, drills and regulations. There is a vast amount of material pertaining to military decorations and insignia, heraldic ornaments, armor, weaponry, equitation, flags, knightly orders, court and ceremonial dress, architecture, and the general history of costume. Hvistoria – History in making. Map Warper: Home. Watch 1000 Years of European Borders Change In 3 Minutes.
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