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    Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection archive, 1913-2005 Records of the collection of illustrated books acquired by Lessing J. Rosenwald and now held by the Library of Congress. Correspondence, Subject File, speeches and writing, printed ephemera, and miscellany related to the rare book collection and its creator, Lessing J. Rosenwald. Contains records of the Library of Congress's custodianship of the collection, administrative and legal documents, planning material for related exhibits and publications,...
    • Contributor: Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius)
    • Date: 1913
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    Grenfell Press archive collection, 1979-1992 The collection is divided into five categories: Correspondence and Typescripts, Grenfell Press Publications, Miscellaneous Publications, and Oversize materials.
    • Date: 1913
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    Theater programs, playbills and miscellany from the Rouben Mamoulian Collection, 1942-1982 Collection of theater, film and concert programs for performances in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, London, England and other locations, many annotated by Armenian American film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian. Arranged alphabetically by title in three separate groupings: Programs and Playbills, Miscellany and Movie Miscellany.
    • Contributor: Newman, Helen C. - Ozerov, I︠u︡riÄ­ Nikolaevich - Mamoulian, Rouben
    • Date: 1930
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    Post-World War II posters from Germany, 1945-1947 A collection of official posters and broadsides from Allied Powers-occupied Germany for the immediate post World War II (post-1945) period, included with confiscated materials from the Library's Third Reich Collection. Contains official notices by the American and Allied occupying government from 1946-1947; official notices by local governments in Leipzig, Berlin, and elsewhere; and announcements for cultural events such as lectures, concerts, plays, sports activities...
    • Date: 1945
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    Posters of the German Military Government in the Generalgouvernement Warschau (German occupied Poland) from World War I, 1915-1916 A collection of posters of official announcements by the German military government in Poland. Topics include setting exchange rates of currency, licensing, issuing identity cards, handling animals, requesting skilled labor for work in factories and coal mines, banning or controlling sales of alcohol, regulating rents and property taxes, registration of visitors to Warsaw, controlling flour, bread and rationing other staples. Includes numerous posters announcing...
    • Date: 1939
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    Serials and miscellaneous publications of the underground movements in Europe during World War II, 1936-1945 The work is divided into 28 series of serials and miscellaneous publications for the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, French Territories, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Netherland Territories, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia. The serials are periodicals with dates, and sometimes issue numbering, while the miscellaneous publications embraces a wide field of political tracts, single handout sheets, private letters, newspaper clippings, posters,...
    • Date: 1939
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    Pforzheimer collection of Bruce Rogers materials, 1200-1957 Bruce Rogers was one of the foremost typographers and book designers of his time. His papers include correspondence, book preparatory materials, printing samples, artwork, writings and speeches, and other items that document his professional and personal life. Carl Pforzheimer was a book collector, as well as an associate of Rogers. Included here are Rogers related materials collected by Pforzheimer.
    • Contributor: Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard)
    • Date: 1508
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    Otto H.F. Vollbehr collection of printers' and publishers' marks The Otto H. F. Vollbehr Collection of Printers' and Publishers' includes samples of such in nearly all of the major European countries. They chronicle the early example of printing through the seventeenth century.
    • Contributor: Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich) - Völcker, Georg
    • Date: 1490
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    Ralph Ellison personal library and ephemera, 1937-2010 The Collections consists of books owned by Ellison as well as journals and ephemera. The Library of Ralph Ellison Collection includes bibliographic description of books from Ralph Ellison's rooms as well as information about those book that are not displayed in the rooms. The rooms are marked as A and B in the bibliographic description. Roman numerals denote bookcase number and Arabic - shelf...
    • Contributor: Ellison, Ralph
    • Date: 1937
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    Scrap books compiled by Thompson and Chesson The collection comprises of 19 scrapbooks consisting of newspaper clippings from various sources documenting the activities of George D. Thompson and writings by F.W. Chesson. The volumes also include handwritten notes by Thompson, pamphlets and handbills, letters to the editor, newspaper reports, essays and book reviews written by Chesson. The first six volumes, (volumes 1-6 of the scrapbooks) were compiled between 1835-1846 by George...
    • Contributor: Chesson, F. W. (Frederick William) - Thompson, George
    • Date: 1797
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    Nazi party and other early 20th century German history related posters A collection of posters and broadsides related to the rise and establishment of the German Nazi Party, 1923-1945 and some earlier related materials from the aftermath of World War I. Includes announcements of speeches or appearances by Nazi leaders Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Josef Burckel, Hermann Esser, Karl Fiehler, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Paul Giesler, Walter Graf, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Karl Holz, Rudolf Jordan,...
    • Date: 1917
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    Sylvester and Orphanos Archive collection Provenance The Sylvester and Orphanos Archive was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2014. This original purchase includes correspondence and production materials associated with the operation of Sylvester and Orphanos Publishers from its beginning in 1976 through 2006. The archive joins the Rare Book and Special Collections Division's Sylvester and Orphanos collection, the complete catalog of its publications.
    • Contributor: Sylvester, Ralph - Orphanos, Stathis - Gerry, Vance
    • Date: 1976
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    Paul Avrich anarchism collection, 1890-2006 Records of the Records of the Records of the Paul Avrich Anarchism Collection are now held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. The collection consists of materials collected by Dr. Paul Avrich in the course of is interests in anarchism and Russian history and as university professor and author. The original collection contains correspondence (labeled Manuscripts in...
    • Contributor: Larsen, Clara - Ferm, Alexis C. - Berkman, Alexander - Thorne, Ahrne - Steimer, Mollie - Ferm, Elizabeth Byrne - Nettlau, Max - Rocker, Rudolf - Poggi, Charles - Avrich, Paul ... Larsen, Clara - Ferm, Alexis C. - Berkman, Alexander - Thorne, Ahrne - Steimer, Mollie - Ferm, Elizabeth Byrne - Nettlau, Max - Rocker, Rudolf - Poggi, Charles - Avrich, Paul - Vattuone, John - Isca, Valerio - Raymond, Louis G. - Nomad, Max - Kelly, Harry - Arcos, Federico - Goldman, Emma
    • Date: 1854
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    Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library, 1566-1926 The collection is comprised primarily of late 19th and early 20th century publications on hunting, natural history, exploration, conservation, endangered species, cultural anthropology, ornithology and sport. The majority of the titles give instruction and techniques for hunting specific types of game in varying weather conditions, terrain and locations around the world. Other genres in the collection include memoir, art and poetry.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Kermit - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1566
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    Manuscript Plays Collection, Library of Congress Copyright Office drama deposits, 1863-1973 Selected typewritten or handwritten playss deposited in the United States Copyright Office that were subsequently transferred to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division due to their unique or noteworthy qualities. The collection is among the oldest of the extant plays, including examples of early items bound in leather and others that are handwritten. The collection also contains plays by well-known authors as well...
    • Date: 1870
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    Autographs of European notables, 1422-1879 Records of the autograph letters, manuscripts, and documents written or subscribed by the Kings and Queens or other rulers of England, Germany, Spain, and Italy, including the Popes of Rome, and Rulers of France, including the Napoleonic collection. The documents are written in the language of the country under which they appear unless otherwise indicated. There are often portraits of the writers included with...
    • Contributor: Thacher, Emma Treadwell - Bourne, Henry Eldridge - Thacher, John Boyd
    • Date: 1274
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    Victor Hammer collection The gift consists of materials relating chiefly to the artistic career of Victor Karl Hammer (1882-1967) in Europe and the United States after his emigration from Austria in 1939.
    • Contributor: Hammer, Victor - Kredel, Fritz - Farrell, David - Hammer, Carolyn Reading
    • Date: 1920
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    Early American Paper Money Collection, 1746-1865 The Early American Paper Money Collection contains bills issued primarily by the Continental Congress and the original thirteen colonies. The denominations range from one penny to a hundred dollars and three pence to eight pounds. Includes random examples of Continental Currency and bills issued by Bank of Toronto, Bank of the United States, Confederate States of America, Connecticut, Corporation of Washington, Delaware, City of...
    • Date: 1746
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    McManus-Young clipping collection of materials on magic, 1870-1955 With a date span of 1779 through 1955, the McManus-Young Collection provides a rich survey of the literature of "illusion practices," which includes works on conjuring, ventriloquism, fortune-telling, spiritualism, witchcraft, gambling, hypnotism, automata, and mind reading comprised of a gathering of thousands of pamphlets and offprints. This ephemeral literature is the backbone of modern magic. Through these small publications, tricks are revealed and outlined,...
    • Date: 1870
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    Manuscript holdings from the Library of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : a finding aid to the collection in the Library of Congress, ca. 1450-1935 Manuscripts from the Library of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) were a part of the larger Holmes Family Library gift to the Library of Congress in 1935. The collection contains correspondence, sermon notes, recipe books, household account books, notebooks, travel journals, tributes, diaries, an address book, a medical account book, photograph album, book of quotations, Latin vocabulary, medieval medical recipe book,...
    • Contributor: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr
    • Date: 1450
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    Radical pamphlet collection, 1870-1985 Pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, posters, cartoons, sheet music, and prints relating primarily to American communism, socialism, and anarchism from 1870 through 1980, with the bulk of the material published between 1930 and 1949. The largest component deals with the operations of the Communist Party of the United States of America, its members, and various "front" organizations. Many pamphlets relate to the presidential campaigns of...
    • Contributor: Browder, Earl - Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson - Greene, William Batchelder - Thomas, Norman - Foster, William Z. - Goldman, Emma
    • Date: 1870
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    John Davis Batchelder ephemera and special collections, 2200 BCE-1948 Theater programs, playbills, newspapers, incunabula leaves, prints, official documents, bookplates, inaugural souvenirs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts and politics primarily in the US, but also Europe. Persons represented in the collection include Albrecht Durer, Peter Schoeffer, Wynkyn de Worde, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Edwin Booth, and several US Presidents.
    • Contributor: Batchelder, John Davis
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    M & S Collection of American radical extremist literature of the 20th century, 1934-1981 The M & S Collection of American Radical Extremist Literature of the 20th Century's diversity is a reflection of this medley of American radical views. The collection documents the activities of extremist groups and their visions of the good community from 1934 to 1981, with the majority of the material centering on the years 1950 to 1981. The Collection embraces a vast number of...
    • Date: 1934
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    Walter Hamady and The Perishable Press collection, 1895-2019 Walter Hamady was an artist, professor, poet and printer, who ran the Perishable Press, Limited for over forty years. The collection includes correspondence, planning documents, original art, photographs, printing plates, Hamady’s personal library, reference materials, ephemera and realia.
    • Contributor: Williams, Jonathan - Wilde, John - Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum - Flynn, Patrick Jb - Moty, Eleanor - Belanger, Terry - Olson, Toby - Behrens, Roy R. - Runser, Robert E. - Oppenheimer, Joel - Krohn, Anna Emilie
    • Date: 1895
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    Janus Press archive The Janus Press Archive contains material relating to the production of books, posters and broadsides, and printed ephemera bearing the Janus Press imprint, as well as other projects carried out with the assistance of its founder Claire Van Vliet, covering the period from 1955 to the present.
    • Contributor: Kaufman, Margaret - Seluzicki, Charles - Van Vliet, Claire - Fine, Ruth - Burke, Clifford - Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph) - Siegl, Helen
    • Date: 1955