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CollectionGeographers on Film Geographers on Film are a collection of recorded interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers from August 1970 until the mid-1980s, which includes scholars, and cartographers who have shaped the discipline. Interviews with…Collection Items: View 3 Items
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CollectionInside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse…- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Bitzer, G. W.
- Date: 1999
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CollectionSelections from the National Film Registry The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. They are not selected as the "best"…Collection Items: View 72 Items
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CollectionBefore and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1999
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CollectionTheodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film Consisting of 104 motion pictures and four sound recordings, the majority of the motion pictures (87) are from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division…- Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 121 Items
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CollectionThe Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Of these, twenty-five were made by the American Mutoscope…- Contributor: Afi/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1897
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CollectionLast Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 The twenty-eight films of this collection are actuality motion pictures from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. They include footage of President William McKinley at his second inauguration; of…- Date: 1901
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CollectionThe Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures This presentation features 68 motion pictures, produced between 1898 and 1901, of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 81 Items
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CollectionOrigins of American Animation The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1999
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CollectionVariety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1996
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CollectionHistorical Media Publications Collection The Historical Media Publications Collection provides researcher access to the Library's vast holdings of publications related to the burgeoning development of the moving image and broadcasting industries in the early to mid-20th…Collection Items: View 5,618 Items
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CollectionThe Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine in London American actor, singer and comedian Danny Kaye arrives with his wife, Sylvia Fine, for an appearance in London. November 1948. Following the professional lives of…- Contributor: Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - McDowall, Roddy - Kaye, Danny - Halsman, Philippe - Dena Pictures, Inc - Fine, Sylvia
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,053 Items
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CollectionAmerica at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures. Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from…- Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
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CollectionSelections from the Katherine Dunham Collection [Katherine Dunham, dancer, three-quarter length portrait] (top to bottom) Katherine Dunham as Woman with a Cigar from Tropics, by Alfredo Valenti; Katherine Dunham in the 1940 Broadway hit production of Cabin in…- Contributor: Dunham, Katherine
- Date: 1920
Collection Items: View 125 Items
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CollectionGreat Conversations in Music The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the…- Date: 2001
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CollectionInventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the…- Date: 1847
Collection Items: View 431 Items
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CollectionNational Screening Room The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library's vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, accessible to the viewers worldwide.…Collection Items: View 1,290 Items
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CollectionRagtime Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. See, hear, explore and learn!- Date: 1890
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CollectionWebinars Library of Congress webinars are online-only instructional presentations consisting of audio, video, or audio-plus-slide-decks hosted on videoconferencing and online meeting platforms. Webinars can include workshops for educators, illustrated audio lectures, how-to guides…Collection Items: View 438 Items
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CollectionHidden Treasures at the Library of Congress This Week's Hidden Treasure in Partnership with HISTORY This Week's Hidden Treasure is an exciting opportunity to examine historically meaningful and culturally relevant artifacts from the treasured collections of the Library of…Collection Items: View 27 Items
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
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CollectionThe Carnegie Hall Collection of Conversations with Composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich held the first Carnegie Hall Composer’s Chair from 1995 to 1999. One of her many initiatives as chair was to build a video archive of interviews with composers whose…Collection Items: View 11 Items
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CollectionBuckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 Includes 41 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings, motion pictures produced from 1945 to 1965 by Leslie Stewart (owner of the Ninety-Six Ranch), 2,400 still photographs drawn from the Center's ethnographic field…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 2,441 Items
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CollectionLao Buddhist New Year Festival in Southern Louisiana This collection documents the 2022 Louisiana Lao New Year Festival (LLNY) presented April 15-17, 2022, by Wat Thammarattanaram, a Buddhist temple and monastery in Broussard (Iberia Parish), Louisiana. With the support of…- Contributor: Xanamane, Aet - Phoumylay, Palixay - Thongdy, Kira - Luangphone, Nithy - Xanamane, Samko - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Thalanh, Sith - Xanamane, Kingston - Xanamane, Amonelath - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee ... Xanamane, Aet - Phoumylay, Palixay - Thongdy, Kira - Luangphone, Nithy - Xanamane, Samko - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Thalanh, Sith - Xanamane, Kingston - Xanamane, Amonelath - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee - American Folklife Center - Phoumylay, Fancy - Sengsouly, Meng - Haggood, Sami - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Louangsouphom, Chanthaly - Hamdani, Badar - Xanamane, Phouthone - Nunez, Heddy L. - Xanamane, Phanat - Ounechith, Bouasone - Sengsouly, Khanthaly - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - Somchit, Amy - Pakdi, Inseng
- Date: 2022
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CollectionPatriotic Melodies Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and…- Date: 1900
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CollectionPinelands Folklife Project The Pinelands Folklife Project collection represents the culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of…- Contributor: Pinelands Cultural Society - Fleischhauer, Carl - Little, Silas - Glassie, Henry - Cervetto, Jack - Shourds, Harry V. - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Hunn, Eugene S. - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn ... Pinelands Cultural Society - Fleischhauer, Carl - Little, Silas - Glassie, Henry - Cervetto, Jack - Shourds, Harry V. - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Hunn, Eugene S. - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - American Folklife Center - Thatcher, Elaine - Samuelson, Sue - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Orr, Jay - Parsons, Gerald E. - Lund, Jens - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Sinton, John W. - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Hufford, Mary - Cohen, David Steven - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - O'Connor, Malachi - Tweed, Stewart M. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission - Cartwright, Christine A. - Ridgway, Merce - Vivian, V. Eugene - McDonald, Dennis
- Date: 1983
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CollectionCivil Rights History Project On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Derby, Doris Adelaide - Huggins, Ericka - Bishop, John Melville - Thelwell, Michael - Connor, Peggy Jean - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Brown, Harold K. - Siler, Charles E. - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Crosby, Patricia A. ... Derby, Doris Adelaide - Huggins, Ericka - Bishop, John Melville - Thelwell, Michael - Connor, Peggy Jean - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Brown, Harold K. - Siler, Charles E. - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Crosby, Patricia A. - Seeger, Pete - Ladner, Joyce A. - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Greenberg, Jack - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Vivian, C. T. - Howell, Embry - Jones, James Oscar - Mahone, Sam - Breaux, Toni - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Hill, Oliver W. - Churchville, John Elliott - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Howard, Elbert - Bailey, D'army - Simpson, Euvester - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Lucy, William - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Miller, James E. - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Hopkins, Evans D. - Jones, Jamila - Rosenberg, John M. - Anderson, Fletcher - Williams, Cecil J. - Lawson, Jennifer - Dixon, Elmer - Burras, Carol Cummings - Dixon, Aaron - Parker, Wheeler - Sherrod, Charles - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Fuller, Linda - Robinson, Reginald - Russell, Bill - Miller, Carolyn - Bassett, Emmett W. - Crosby, David L. - Holloway, Emma Kate - Cline, David P. - Stewart, Eleanor - Mtume, Norma - Dittmer, John - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Clark, Robert George - Tillow, Walter M. - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Magee, Clarence - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Abernathy, Ralph David - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Richardson, Judy - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - American Folklife Center - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Jones, Clarence B. - Dove, Samuel - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Blake, Harry - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Carlos, John - Jenkins, Mary F. - McCarty, Michael D. - Suggs, Frances L. - Young, Sam - Diamond, Dion T. - Griffin, Willie James - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Terry, Esther M. A. - Ackerman, David M. - Lowery, Joseph E. - McClary, Robert - Guster, Leesco - Miller, Grace H. - Marshall, Cecilia - Guyot, Lawrence - Williams, Junius W. - Holloway, Eddie A. - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Montes, Carlos - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Collins, Barbara Maria - Bassett, Priscilla - Sullivan, Patricia - Paysour, Lafleur - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Holloway, Lucius - Moldovan, Alfred - Young, Carrie Lamar - Hicks, Charles Ray - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Dudley, John F. - Jarmon, Charles - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Tillow, Kay - Long, Worth W. - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Head, Rosie M. - Anderson, William G. - Southern Oral History Program - Avery, Annie Pearl - Suggs, Harold - Broadway, Louise W. - Wright, Simeon - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Library of Congress - McNichols, Steven - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Carawan, Candie - Cox, Courtland - Sobol, Richard B. - Burns, Julia Matilda - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Bates, Scott - Zapata, Luis - Noonan, Martha P. - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Booker, Simeon - Branch, Raylawni G. - Carawan, Guy - Hutchings, Phil - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Dahmer, Vernon - Vickers, Barbara Edna - Brown, Robert J. - Branch, Taylor - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Caldwell, Ben R. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Jones, Mary A. - Strickland, William - Richardson, Gloria - Ladner, Dorie - Moore, E. Maynard - Henderson, Juadine - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - McDew, Charles - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Howell, Joseph T. - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Sellers, Cleveland - Alexander, Roberta - Walker, Theresa Ann - Funchess, Glenda - Mosnier, Joseph - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Geiger, Jack - King, Lonnie C. - Browner, Clifford - Sales, Ruby - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Camarillo, Mateo - Luper, Calvin - Greene, Freddie - Cleaver, Kathleen - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Arellanes, Gloria - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Bruce, Walter - Tuttle, Rick - Carter, Robert L. - Bond, Julian - Smith, Jeanette - Sherrod, Shirley - Varela, Maria - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Robinson, Betty Garman - Newson, Moses J. - Crosby, Emilye - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Zellner, Dorothy - George, Virginia Simms - McLaurin, Charles - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Saunders, William - Lawrence, William M.
- Date: 2010
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