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CollectionAbdul Hamid II Collection This collection contains 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They portray the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II and…- Date: 1880
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CollectionAfrican American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition The Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900) devoted a building to matters of "social economy." The United States section of the building featured an exhibit that, according to W.…- Date: 1900
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CollectionAfricana Historic Postcard Collection The African Section of the Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division has amassed a unique collection of more than 7000 historical photographic postcards documenting an important visual record of Africa…Collection Items: View 1,300 Items
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CollectionAnsel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. For the first time, digital scans…- Date: 1943
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CollectionArchitecture, Design & Engineering Drawings The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40,000 drawings (described in more than 3,900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with most dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are primarily…Collection Items: View 1,800 Items
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CollectionArmenian Rarities Collection The lands of the Armenians were for millennia located in Eastern Anatolia, on the Armenian Highlands, and into the Caucasus Mountain range. First mentioned almost contemporaneously by a Greek and Persian source…Collection Items: View 59 Items
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CollectionBallets Russes de Serge Diaghilev The world of ballet changed dramatically when the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev took Paris by storm at the Théâtre du Châtelet in May of 1909. Armed with ground-breaking choreographic originality and…- Date: 1909
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CollectionBenjamin Luft Collection of 9-11 Oral Histories The Benjamin Luft collection of 9-11 oral histories consists of video interviews of individuals impacted by the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster, and interviewees’ photographs and manuscript materials documenting their…Collection Items: View 45 Items
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CollectionBess Lomax Hawes Collection The Bess Lomax Hawes collection is comprised of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax…- Date: 1894
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CollectionBlue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project was conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork in August and…- Contributor: Eiler, Terry - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Shockley, Maggie - Ray, Roxie - Bryan, Mamie - Patton, Ila - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Jabbour, Alan ... Eiler, Terry - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Shockley, Maggie - Ray, Roxie - Bryan, Mamie - Patton, Ila - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Jabbour, Alan - American Folklife Center - Todd, Zenna - Wilson, Joe - Mullen, Patrick B. - Choate, Donna - Adler, Thomas A. - United States. National Park Service - Stanley, Lura - Cruise, Crystal - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Jarrell, Tommy - Wolfe, Charles K. - Owen, Blanton - Marshall, Howard W. - Richardson, Larry - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Fleischhauer, Carl
- Date: 1977
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CollectionBrady-Handy Collection In 1954 the Library of Congress purchased from Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans, the daughters of Levin C. Handy approximately 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives. The L.C. Handy Studio…- Contributor: Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin) - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1855
Collection Items: View 5,006 Items
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CollectionBy Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's rookie season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15th, 1947, Robinson became the first African American in the…Collection Items: View 77 Items
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CollectionCabinet of American Illustration Contains more than four thousand original drawings by American book, magazine, and newspaper illustrators, made primarily between 1880 and 1910. The collection includes illustrations for magazines, novels, and children's books; cartoons; cover…- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 3,939 Items
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CollectionCalifornia Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell This online presentation, California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in 12 languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. It includes sound…- Date: 1938
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CollectionCartoon Drawings Offers more than 9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present, primarily from 1880 to 1980. The cartoons cover people and events throughout…- Date: 1880
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CollectionCartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection Herbert L. Block (1909-2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. His long chronicle of major social and political…- Contributor: Block, Herbert
- Date: 1930
Collection Items: View 9,250 Items
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CollectionCartoon Prints, American This assemblage of more than 800 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series,…- Date: 1700
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CollectionCase Books Consists of more than 2,200 books and serials spanning the period 1550 to the present, with most published between 1840 and 1970. Illustrations are the featured aspect of these works, and many…- Date: 1557
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CollectionDolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music This presentation explores the influences of country music on Dolly's life and career. Though sometimes overshadowed by the more glamorous aspects of Dolly Parton's popular image, traditional Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass…Collection Items: View 21 Items
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CollectionDrawings (Documentary) The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 4,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. Also included are topographical…- Date: 1783
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CollectionEthnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project The Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project was conducted in 1982 by the American Folklife Center to survey selected religious and secular ethnic community-based schools conducted, at least in part,…Collection Items: View 788 Items
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CollectionFenton Crimean War Photographs Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March…- Contributor: Fenton, Roger
- Date: 1855
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CollectionGenthe Collection Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was an internationally recognized photographer working in the soft-focus pictorialist style. The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio after his death.- Date: 1869
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CollectionGeorgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence This collection of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence and Related Material (157 items; 618 images) consists mostly of letters, 1929-1947, written by painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and her husband, Photo-Secession movement…Collection Items: View 41 Items
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CollectionGoldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings This category consists of all of the individually issued prints and drawings in the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection: 1,688 items dating primarily from the 1880s to the 1960s. The collection…- Date: 1880
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CollectionGrabill Collection The one hundred and eighty-eight photographs sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress for copyright protection between 1887 and 1892 are thought to be the largest surviving collection of…- Date: 1888
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CollectionGroups of Images (LOTs) More than 13,000 groups of photographs, prints, drawings, and other visual material offer access to 1.5 million items dating primarily from the 1800s through the present. The groups, called "LOTs," gather images…- Date: 1800
Collection Items: View 13,006 Items
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CollectionGuide Records This category provides an overview of collections in the Prints & Photographs Division in order to indicate the breadth and depth of the visual resources available for research. The descriptions of "filing…- Date: 1839
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CollectionJean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Collection The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve collection consists of interviews and photographs by Mary Hufford and Tom Tankersley in December 1985 for the American Folklife Center, comprising part of the…- Contributor: Tankersley, Tom - United States. National Park Service - American Folklife Center - Hufford, Mary - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1985
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CollectionJohnston (Frances Benjamin) Collection NEW! See Gardens and Historic Houses in more than 1,000 hand-colored photos Collection Overview: Lantern Slides for Garden & Historic House Lectures Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American…- Date: 1850
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CollectionLamb Studios Archive This online presentation offers images of nearly 2,500 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings feature striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the…- Date: 1869
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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: Thalanh, Sith - Xanamane, Phanat - Pakdi, Inseng - Xanamane, Amonelath - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - Xanamane, Samko - Thongdy, Kira - Nunez, Heddy L. - American Folklife Center - Ounechith, Bouasone ... Thalanh, Sith - Xanamane, Phanat - Pakdi, Inseng - Xanamane, Amonelath - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - Xanamane, Samko - Thongdy, Kira - Nunez, Heddy L. - American Folklife Center - Ounechith, Bouasone - Sengsouly, Khanthaly - Xanamane, Phouthone - Phoumylay, Fancy - Louangsouphom, Chanthaly - Luangphone, Nithy - Xanamane, Aet - Somchit, Amy - Sengsouly, Meng - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Hamdani, Badar - Haggood, Sami - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee - Xanamane, Kingston - Phoumylay, Palixay
- Date: 2022
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CollectionLarry Colwell Dance Photographs, 1944-1966 Photographs of dance and dancing are vital visual documentation of dance practices and performance in the United States. This digital collection represents the entire contents of the Music Division’s collection of Larry…Collection Items: View 108 Items
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CollectionLawrence & Houseworth Collection In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition…- Date: 1862
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CollectionLewis Carroll Scrapbook An original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Dodgson was…Collection Items: View 7 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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CollectionLook Collection The Look Magazine Photograph Collection is a vast photographic archive created to illustrate Look Magazine and related publications produced by companies founded by Gardner Cowles. The cataloged portion of the collection totals…- Contributor: Cowles Communications, Inc
- Date: 1937
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CollectionLowell Folklife Project Collection The Lowell Folklife Project was conducted in 1987-1988 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, with support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts…Collection Items: View 1,140 Items
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CollectionMusical Instruments at the Library of Congress Instrument collecting at the Library began in 1935 with the donation of five Stradivarius stringed instruments by Mrs. Gertrude Clarke Whittall. Since then other instruments have been acquired, including strings, flutes and…Collection Items: View 152 Items
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CollectionOccupational Folklife Project The Occupational Folklife Project (OFP) began in 2010 as a multi-year project by the American Folklife Center (AFC) to document the culture of contemporary American workers during an era of economic and…- Contributor: Olsen, Eric Carl - Peterson, Betsy - Quesada, José Angel - Rousser, C. A. - Hennessey, William S. - Hausinger, William - Burkett, Joe L. - Glass, Matthew H. - Corgey, Dean - Henry, Mark ... Olsen, Eric Carl - Peterson, Betsy - Quesada, José Angel - Rousser, C. A. - Hennessey, William S. - Hausinger, William - Burkett, Joe L. - Glass, Matthew H. - Corgey, Dean - Henry, Mark - Vest, Lou C. - Lindahl, Carl - Jasper, Pat - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Montgomery, Charles R. - Ramirez, Gilda - Dodd, Harold L. - Postel, Adolph C. - Bludworth, Richard W. - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Seeba, Patrick - Hensley, James J. - Laws, Andrew L. - Shaffer, Harold L. - Cooney, James Patrick - American Folklife Center - Thompson, Robert L. - Tellepsen, Tom - King, Charles H. - Houston Arts Alliance - Robb, Alan A. - Tray, James Thomas - Diehl, William J. - Patout, Rivers - Blume, Dana - Glass, Leonard - Morrell, David C. - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Potoczniak, Anthony - Holland, Benny - Gage, Charles H. - Harris, Timothy C. - Usher, Michael Gene - Aalund, Niels Anders - Harris, Eugene - Bennett, Steven R. - Hilliard, Henry - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Mims, Doug - Braun, Leo J. - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Patton, William Benjamin - Dickens, Michael W. - Larrimer, George - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Halbert, David Maurice - Kersey, Bobby C. - Mayville, Donnie D. - Occupational Folklife Project - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Keenan, Gordie
- Date: 2010
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