A newspaper photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taken during a 1964 press conference.

Author Langston Hughes poses with a sculpture, in a 1943 Office of War Information photograph taken by Gordon Parks.

This resource provides links to many authors of the Romantic era. Biographies, works, and portraits are displayed for each author.

8th grade students in Fort Collins, Colorado each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of an historically/geographically accurate character. Each file...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...

With the National Gallery of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland Public TV developed programming and this website to explore the early years of Picasso's artistic development from his talent at 11 until early adulthood....

This book was created by 5th graders in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on the Great Depression. Students learned about the Depression though several different sources: in addition to standard historical...

An image of "Portrait of Louis XV of France and Maria Anna Victoria of Spain", created by Jean-Francois De Troy in 1723 (Oil on canvas, 195 x 129 cm).

This famous portrait in Canadian History by John T. Lee, showing the capture of the American Chesapeake during the War of 1812 by the British HMS Shannon, is reproduced on the Living Memory website from the National Library of Canada.

View a portrait of Shoshone Indian Chief Washakie.

Drawn portrait of John Adams.

Portrait photograph of Thomas Henry Huxley.

Portrait of Bertrand Russell.

Portrait of Blaise Pascal.

Portrait of Tyndall.

Group portrait of three Chinese children standing in a room in Chicago, Illinois, each holding an American flag and a Chinese flag.

A portrait of John C. Calhoun, one of the leading United States Southern politicians and philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocated for states' rihgts, limited government, and...

Portrait of Lew Wallace in Civil War dress uniform.

Four portrait photographs of General Lew Wallace.

A portrait of Arthur Cayley from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Christopher Columbus from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.