Visual Arts Documents

What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).

This map depicts the extent of the Roman Empire in the first century, A.D.  Many of the principal provincial cities, throughout the empire, are l...

This factoid of key events, leading up to and beginning on D-Day, adds interesting tidbits of history to the Normandy-invasion story. Click on the im...

This article was the first in a series of articles written in July, 1947 about the "flying disc" recovered near Roswell.  It reports that Major J...

These rules were adopted on the 13th of May, 1858, for Town Ball (a successor to the British game of "rounders") by the Massachusetts Association of B...

Map depicting the location of Saint-Remy-de-Provence, where Vincent spent nearly a year in an asylum.  

This is an excerpt from the oral history of Sarah Graves, also known as "Aunt Sally." Note that to maintain authenticity, writers transcribed the ora...

This text image depicts another excerpt from the oral history of Sarah Graves (also known as "Aunt Sally").  Interviewed in the 1930s, as part o...

During the 1930s, the federal government hired writers to interview former slaves and to obtain their oral histories. This is page 1 of the oral hist...

This is page 2 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 3 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 4 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 5 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

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