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View of the Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943. Jews deported to the Sobibor killing center were driven through the gate into the camp on foot, by truck or horse-drawn cart. The train track led through a separate entrance to the right onto the…

Mexico City viewed from outside the wall

a cove with several boats, surrounded by large rocks

A view of Lake Kivu from Rubona peninsula, Gisenyi, Rwanda

harbor with penguins, men, and ships

This oil on linen painting depicts the port of Cannanore (Kannur) shortly after the Dutch gained control of the region from the Portuguese in 1663. Balbi visited Cannanore in October 1582.

This image of Aleppo appears in the Travel Journal of Ambrosio Bembo. Like Balbi, Bembo too traveled throughout the Middle East and enlisted the assistance of a a French artist to illustrate various cities he visited during his travels. Bembo…

Photograph shows aftermath of the August 6, 1945 atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan.

Colored photograph of the barracks at the Manzanar incarceration camp. Verso states, "View from camp of Manzanar." Title from verso. A photo from: Manzanar Photo Album.

The Manzanar Photo Album contains photographs of children, barracks, funerals,…