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CollectionAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a…- Contributor: Writers' Program (U.S.) - Federal Writers' Project - United States. Work Projects Administration - United States. Works Progress Administration
- Date: 1936
Collection Items: View 2,838 Items
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CollectionArchive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret…Collection Items: View 903 Items
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CollectionAuthor Websites Web Archive The Author Websites Web Archive is a collection of official author websites. These sites offer a unique record of the intellectual and creative activities of authors and the ways in which they…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 81 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…- Contributor: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen) - Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green - Wright, George Hand - Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas) - Herford, Oliver - Beard, Daniel Carter - Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) - Steele, Frederic Dorr - Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay) - Fogarty, Thomas
- Date: 1830
Collection Items: View 3,938 Items
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CollectionChildren's Book Selections This special collection presents children’s books selected from the General and Rare Book Collections at the Library of Congress. The collection includes classic works that are still read by children today, and…Collection Items: View 68 Items
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CollectionEdward F. Edinger Papers The papers (3,100 items; 10,077 images) of leading Jungian analyst Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) span the years 1550 (photostatic copy of an alchemical treatise) to 2016, with the bulk of the material…- Contributor: Edinger, Edward F.
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CollectionFlorida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections combines sound recordings and manuscript materials from four discrete archival collections made by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers from the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, the…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Kennedy, Stetson - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 Items
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CollectionGeospatial Applications Story Maps and web maps produced at the Library of Congress utilize geospatial technology to create curated entry points into our digital collections. We invite you to explore the incredible stories of…Collection Items: View 126 Items
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CollectionLiving Nations, Living Words This collection—part of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” signature project—contains audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets reading and discussing an original poem. Listen to Joy Harjo, Louise…Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionMangyan bamboo collection from Mindoro, Philippines, circa 1900-1939 The Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection counts among its most unique items a collection of 71 bamboo slats and 6 cylinders from the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. These items are…- Contributor: Gardner, Fletcher - Luyon - Sikadan - Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Maliwanag, Ildefonso
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CollectionThe PALABRA Archive Listen to audio recordings of prominent writers from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and other regions with Luso-Hispanic heritage populations reading from their works at the Library of Congress.Collection Items: View 734 Items
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CollectionRare Illustrated Children's Books in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900 - 1929 Figure 1 In Vald [In the Forest]. New York, 1918 The Library of Congress is home to a superb collection of rare children’s books and periodicals in Hebrew and Yiddish, among them…Collection Items: View 10 Items
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CollectionSelected Digitized Books This is a growing collection of selected books and other materials from the Library of Congress General Collections that can be made openly available. Most of the materials in this collection were…Collection Items: View 157,675 Items
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CollectionSelections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy “Whoever writes the bismillah in a beautiful writing enters Paradise without judgment.” (1-84-154.56) Scholars and practitioners of Islamic calligraphy have long considered the written word the quintessential medium for expressing religious sentiment…Collection Items: View 273 Items
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CollectionSt. Mark's Poetry Project Audio Archive Funded by money originally earmarked for the socialization of juvenile delinquents, the newly formed Poetry Committee declared St. Marks Church-in-the-Bouwerie in Manhattan’s East Village as their new home. Among the founders was…Collection Items: View 421 Items
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CollectionThomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers consists of approximately 3,000 items (4,126 images) spanning the period 1842-1937, with most of the items dated from 1855, when Whitman first published…- Contributor: Whitman, Walt - Harned, Thomas Biggs
- Date: 1842
Collection Items: View 236 Items
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CollectionWalt Whitman Papers (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection) This small collection of papers (about 150 items; 1,200 images) of poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) spans the years 1837-1957 with the bulk concentrated in the period 1840-1891. Included are examples of the…Collection Items: View 37 Items
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CollectionWalt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection The papers of poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection consist of approximately 28,000 items spanning from 1763 to 1985. The bulk of the items date from the 1840s…Collection Items: View 2,932 Items
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CollectionZora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained…- Contributor: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Date: 1925
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