American Memory Historical Collections
Examples of materials related to Georgia are provided for
most of the collections listed below. Search on the term Georgia
to locate additional resources within these American Memory
collections.
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray
Collection, 1818-1907
The collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review
of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the
early twentieth centuries.
The
African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio
Historical Society
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images
illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920,
a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration,
religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony
and discord, and struggles and successes.
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown
University
This collection consists of 1,307 pieces of African-American
sheet music dating from 1850-1920. It includes many songs
from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the
1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period.
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from
the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of
War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary
photographs ever produced. The collection contains more
than 2000 images
of Georgia during the 1930s.
America
Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
For most of the nineteenth century Americans learned the
latest songs from printed song sheets. Not to be confused
with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets,
usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no music.
America's
First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views,
1839-1864
The collection consists of approximately 600 photographs
dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes produced
by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of
the collection. Search
the collection on Georgia to locate five images
of Congressmen from Georgia.
American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection
from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides
represents an historical view of American buildings and
landscapes built during the period 1850-1920.
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1940
The collection includes 2,900 documents representing the
work of over 300 writers from 24 states. The histories describe
the informant's family education, income, occupation, political
views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous
observations. Included in the collection are 73
titles of mostly first-person accounts of life in Georgia
during the Great Depression.
American
Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
This collection comprises 253 published narratives by
Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels
in the colonies and the United States and their observations
and opinions about American peoples, places, and society
from about 1750 to 1920.
An American
Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed
Ephemera
The collection comprises 28,000 primary source items dating
from the seventeenth century to the present and encompassing
key events and eras in American history. Included in the
collection are forty
items printed in Georgia.
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs
by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955
The collection is comprised of over 29,000 photographs
primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors
and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic
buildings, and other structures concentrated chiefly in
the northeastern United States. The collection contains
more than sixty
photographs of residences and places in Georgia.
Baseball
Cards, 1887-1914
This collection presents 2,100 early baseball cards dating
from 1887 to 1914. Browse
by city to locate baseball players from Georgia.
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938
The collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former
slaves. Browse
by states to locate slave narratives from Georgia.
Built
in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record, 1933-Present
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections
document achievements in architecture, engineering, and
design in the United States through a comprehensive range
of building types and engineering technologies. Browse
by place to locate items in Georgia.
By
Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights,
1860s-1960s
Materials (manuscripts, books, photographs, and ephemera)
that tell the story of Jackie Robinson and the history of
baseball in general. Also included is a sampler of 34 images
related to early baseball (1860s-1920s) from various files
and collections in the Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The collection consists of a linked set of published congressional
records of the United States of America from the Continental
Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.
The
Chinese in California, 1850-1925
The collection documents the nineteenth and early twentieth
century Chinese immigration to California and the West.
The collection contains letters pertaining to Chinese murder
trials or complaints of discrimination in several states
including Georgia.
The
Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
This compilation of printed texts traces how Southern
African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant
Christianity into the central institution of community life.
Civil
War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
The images in this collection are drawn from the New-York
Historical Society's rich archival collections that document
the Civil War.
Documents
from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention,
1774-1789
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles)
and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21
titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress
and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
- Articles
of Confederation and perpetual union between the states
of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and
Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia.
The
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
This collection presents over 9,000 images relating to
the early history of advertising in the United States.
The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
The collection documents the historical formation and
cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect
America's natural heritage.
Fiddle
Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
This is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of
traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen
Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67.
First
American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
This collection assembles rare books, pamphlets, newspapers,
maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett
and by the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky,
which he founded in 1884 and named after John Filson, author
of The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke
(1784), a promotional tract recognized as the first history
of the state.
First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
This compilation of 141 printed texts from the libraries
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents
the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from
the viewpoint of Southerners.
Florida
Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
The collection is a multiformat ethnographic
field collection documenting African-American, Arabic,
Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan,
Seminole, and Slavic cultures
throughout Florida.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909
The collection consists of 397 pamphlets, published from
1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others
who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation,
Reconstruction, and related topics.
Frontline
Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of
the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
The collection presents a window into the lives of American
diplomats. Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic
personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques,
personal analyses, and private thoughts. The collection
includes interviews of American diplomats from Georgia.
George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
The collection consists of approximately 65,000 items
(176,000 pages). Correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace
books, diaries and journals, reports, notes, financial account
books, and military papers accumulated by George Washington
from 1741 through 1799 are organized into 9 Series.
Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
The collection includes 3042 pieces of sheet music published
in America between 1850 and 1920.
The
James Madison Papers, 1723-1836
The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division
at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000
items captured in some 72,000 digital images. They document
the life of the man who came to be known as the "Father
of the Constitution" through correspondence, personal
notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography,
legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Map
Collections
The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic
Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were
created from maps and atlases selected from the collections
of the Geography and Map Division. The collection is organized
according to seven major categories: Cities
and Towns, Conservation
and Environment, Cultural
Landscapes, Discovery
and Exploration, General
Maps, Military
Battles and Campaigns, and Transportation
and Communication. Browse
the geographic location index to locate maps of Georgia.
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
The collection consists of over 62,000 pieces of sheet
music registered for copyright during the nineteenth century.
Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music,
sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental
music, method books and instructional materials, and music
for band and orchestra.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
The collection is particularly strong in poetry and in
the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
This collection comprises periodicals published in the
United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during
the second half of the century. The materials selected illuminate
the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology.
"Now
What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music
Festivals, 1938-1943
The collection consists of approximately one hundred sound
recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related
documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State
College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley,
Georgia.
Photographs
from the Chicago Daily News
This collection comprises approximately 54,000 images
of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between
1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily
News, one of Chicago's leading newspapers.
Prosperity
and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
This collection assembles a wide array of Library of Congress
source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread
prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition
to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in
this transition.
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996
The collection showcases materials from the Blue Ridge
Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the Lands'
End All-American Quilt Contest Collection (1992, 1994, 1996).
Together these provide a glimpse into America's diverse
quilting traditions.
Selected
Civil War Photographs
The collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the
images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady,
and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for
battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes
portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a
selection of enlisted men.
September
11, 2001, Documentary Project
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the
heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions
of Americans and others in the months that followed the
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon,
and United Airlines Flight 93. The project includes eight
images from Cobb, Georgia.
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860
The collection contains just over a hundred pamphlets
and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the
difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American
slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The
collection contains more than fifty images
of Georgia.
- Trial
of Thomas Sims, on an Issue of Personal Liberty, on the
Claim of James Potter, of Georgia, Against Him, as an
Alleged Fugitive from Service: Arguments of Robert Rantoul,
Jr., and Charles G. Loring, with the Decision of George
T. Curtis, Boston, April 7-11, 1851 / phonographic
report by Dr. James W. Stone.
Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording
Trip
A multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes
approximately 700 sound recordings, as well as photographic
prints, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts
documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern
United States collecting folksongs.
Taking
the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
The collection contains approximately four thousand images
featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits.
The
Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
The collection consists of approximately 27,000 documents
ranging in date from 1606 to 1827. Correspondence, memoranda,
notes, and drafts of documents make up two-thirds of the
Papers.
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit
Publishing Company, 1880-1920
The collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and
transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph
prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Included in
the collection more than forty images
of Georgia.
Voices
from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture
the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born
between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been
former slaves. The almost seven hours of recordings were
made in nine Southern states and provide an important glimpse
of what life was like for slaves and freedmen. Included
in the collection are seven
interviews from Georgia.
Washington
as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
The collection documents the architecture and social life
of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the 1920s,
1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial,
residential, and government buildings, as well as street
scenes and views of neighborhoods.
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