WORLD CIRCA 1900: USEFUL LINKS
1900: ART AT THE CROSSROADS:
Uses the international exhibition of art presented at Paris's 1900 World Fair
as an entry point to exploring fin-de-siecle culture.
AMERICA 1900:
A web-site accompanying a PBS American Experience documentary.
ANGLO BOER WAR MUSEUM: A web-site from the Bloemfontein, South Africa museum devoted to study of the turn-of-the-century war between the British and the descendants of the earlier Dutch settlers.
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THE WORLD IN THE 1890S: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WORLD'S TRANSPORTATION
COMMISSION, 1896-96:
An archive of photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division of the
Library of Congress. To see the images organized geographically, see
THE
COMMISSION'S ITINERARY.
ASIAWEEK EYEWITNESS -- A COLONIAL LEGACY:
A selection of Chinese photos by the Frenchman Auguste Francois from 1904.
BALKAN PORTRAITS: Photography in the Balkans (1906-1910) by Dr. Fritz Wentzel.
BOXER REBELLION: A brief overview from the History Learning Site.
BOXER REBELLION: A short entry from the Military History Encyclopedia on the Web.
BOXER
REBELLION -- WIKIPEDIA:
An overview from the on-line encyclopedia.
BRITISH PATHE FILM
ARCHIVE: An introduction to
the 3500 hour video archive of news from 1896 to 1970.
CHARLES URBAN, MOTION PICTURE PIONEER: A web-site devoted to a turn-of-the-century documentary film-maker.
CHINA IN 1900: A very concise portrait from the UK-based History Learning Site.
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THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR:
The companion web-site to a PBS documentary about the 1898 war that saw the
U.S. acquire overseas colonies.
: A rich record of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii's 1909-1912
photographic surveys for the Russian Ministry of Transportation.
IMAGES FROM THE PARIS 1900 WORLD'S FAIR (C. 1900): A selection of photos from Facts on File.
JAPANESE OLD PHOTOGRAPHS IN BAKUMATSU-MEIJI PERIOD:
Images from the turn of the last century.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898-1901)
: A narrative introduction to the "splendid little war."