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Analyzing visual materials in elementary history textbook I arrived at the conclusions as follows. First, on the aspect of function, the visual materials of elementary history textbook unit are mainly either representational or interpretational. They are largely the figures focusing on visual interpretation for content. The visual materials simply focusing on the attention function are comparatively rare. And organizational materials organizing the order between historical facts(organization function) and retentional ones making memorization easier(retention function) are scarce. Second, as the result of analysis on the relation of visual materials and content text, a lot of type 1 materials (visual materials which are referred in content text and related directly with it) and type 2 materials (visual materials which are referred in content text and related indirectly with it) were found. Being related to content text, it is obvious that visual materials exert influence on understanding of content text directly and indirectly. On the other hand, there are some visual materials without any direct or indirect relation to content text, which are needed to be substituted. In the end, it is required for visual materials to be created, selected or modified to help learners' historical understanding.