Digital Collections
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CollectionAn American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 1998
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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…- Contributor: Barboza, Anthony - Colwell, Larry
- Date: 1944
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CollectionBronislava Nijinska Collection The collection of notable dancer, choreographer and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) contains a diverse variety of materials documenting dance and the arts in the twentieth century. Available here are over 200 collection…- Contributor: Reinhardt, Max - Cuevas, George De - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Chagall, Marc - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Petipa, Marius - Stravinsky, Igor - Pavlova, Anna - Ashton, Frederick ... Reinhardt, Max - Cuevas, George De - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Chagall, Marc - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Petipa, Marius - Stravinsky, Igor - Pavlova, Anna - Ashton, Frederick - Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Diaghilev, Serge - Nijinska, Irina - Kirsta, Georg - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Nijinska, Bronislava - Vertès, Marcel - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Jacob's Pillow - Poulenc, Francis - Rubinstein, Ida - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky
- Date: 1740
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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
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CollectionMartha Graham at the Library of Congress Dancer, choreographer, and company director Martha Graham (1894-1991) is considered one of the pioneering founders of American modern dance. In a career spanning over seven decades, Graham developed her own innovative technique…- Contributor: Menotti, Gian Carlo - Noguchi, Isamu - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Schuman, William - El-Dabh, Halim - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Graham, Martha - Martha Graham Dance Company - Horst, Louis - Tipton, Jennifer ... Menotti, Gian Carlo - Noguchi, Isamu - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Schuman, William - El-Dabh, Halim - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Graham, Martha - Martha Graham Dance Company - Horst, Louis - Tipton, Jennifer - Barber, Samuel - Hovhaness, Alan - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Skelton, Thomas R. - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Riegger, Wallingford - Copland, Aaron - Lester, Eugene - Hindemith, Paul - Dello Joio, Norman - Karan, Donna - Rosenthal, Jean - Emmons, Beverly - Starer, Robert - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 1,027 Items
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CollectionThe Roger Reynolds Collection Roger Reynolds' compositions incorporate elements of theater, digital signal processing, dance, video, and real-time computer spatialization, in a signature multidimensionality of engagement. This Web site provides a glimpse into the process of…- Contributor: Suzuki, Tadashi - McAdams, Stephen - Reynolds, Roger - Schick, Steven - Xenakis, Iannis - Takemitsu, Tōru
- Date: 196?
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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
Collection Items: View 239 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 81 Items
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement…- Contributor: Archive of American Folk Song - American Folklife Center - Association for Cultural Equity - Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 6,612 Items
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CollectionLomax Collection The collection includes 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for…- Contributor: Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 451 Items
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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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CollectionHispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of…- Contributor: García, Pedro - Romero, Alfredo - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Anaya, Nieves - Cantú, José Ignacio - Arellano, Esequiel - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Medina, Esteban - Chávez, Adolfo - Chávez, Adelaido ... García, Pedro - Romero, Alfredo - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Anaya, Nieves - Cantú, José Ignacio - Arellano, Esequiel - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Medina, Esteban - Chávez, Adolfo - Chávez, Adelaido - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Montoya, Luis - Mares, Remigio - Trujillo, Amado - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Anaya, Ernestina - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Arellano, Narciso - Rael, Juan Bautista - Archuleta, Ricardo - Lobato, Julián - American Folklife Center - Lobato, Salomé
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 226 Items
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CollectionEarly American Sheet Music The Library of Congress classification number M1.A1 includes music printed or 'copied in manuscript' in the United States or the colonies through 1820. As an early record of musical life in America…- Date: 1820
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CollectionPosters: Performing Arts Posters Contains approximately 2,100 posters in the online Performing Arts Posters category represent the entire contents of three collections: the Magic Poster Collection, the Minstrel Poster Collection, and the Theatrical Poster Collection.- Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith - Courier Litho. Co - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - U.S. Printing Co - A.S. Seer Print - Metropolitan Litho. Studio - U.S. Lithograph Co
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 2,099 Items
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CollectionThe March King: John Philip Sousa Painting of Sousa during US Marine Band era, [n.d.]. Performing Arts Reading Room.- Contributor: Sousa, John Philip
- Date: 1849
Collection Items: View 680 Items
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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: Choate, Donna - Todd, Zenna - Patton, Ila - Owen, Margaret Counts - Stanley, Lura - Jarrell, Tommy - Bryan, Mamie - Jabbour, Alan - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Shockley, Maggie ... Choate, Donna - Todd, Zenna - Patton, Ila - Owen, Margaret Counts - Stanley, Lura - Jarrell, Tommy - Bryan, Mamie - Jabbour, Alan - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Shockley, Maggie - Fleischhauer, Carl - Mullen, Patrick B. - Cruise, Crystal - Severt, Carrie - Adler, Thomas A. - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Marshall, Howard W. - Eiler, Terry - Richardson, Larry - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Ray, Roxie - Wilson, Joe - Wolfe, Charles K. - United States. National Park Service - American Folklife Center - Owen, Blanton
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 2,103 Items
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CollectionChicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection The Chicago Ethnic Arts Project survey was conducted in 1977 by the American Folklife Center at the request of the Illinois Arts Council to assess and document the status of ethnic art…- Contributor: Epstein, Shifra - Brzovich, Mato - Moloney, Mick - Robinson, Beverly J. - Bradunas, Elena - Hellenberg, Antony - González, José Gamaliel - Choi, Chungmoo - March, Richard - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta ... Epstein, Shifra - Brzovich, Mato - Moloney, Mick - Robinson, Beverly J. - Bradunas, Elena - Hellenberg, Antony - González, José Gamaliel - Choi, Chungmoo - March, Richard - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta - Fleischhauer, Carl - Illinois Arts Council - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Mack, James - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Chicago Ethnic Arts Project - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - Lund, Jens - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Mathias, Elizabeth - Swenson, Greta E. - Kalčik, Susan J. - George, Philip B. - Bartis, Peter - Dovydenas, Jonas - Klymasz, Shirley - American Folklife Center - Libonati, Roland V. (Roland Victor)
- Date: 1976
Collection Items: View 1,138 Items
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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.- Contributor: Genthe, Arnold
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 16,862 Items
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CollectionRhode Island Folklife Project Collection The Rhode Island Folklife Project collection resulted from a field survey project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, conducted in cooperation with the Rhode Island Heritage Commission, the Rhode Island…- Contributor: Rhode Island Folklife Project - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bell, Michael Edward - Bartis, Peter - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Fleischhauer, Carl - Goldstein, Kenneth S. - Glawson, Francis - Horenstein, Henry - Burns, Thomas A. - American Folklife Center - Harley, Nancy
- Date: 1979
Collection Items: View 979 Items
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CollectionVoices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of selections from a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 533 Items
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CollectionProfessional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive The Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 402 Items
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CollectionMaine Acadian Cultural Survey Collection The Maine Acadian Cultural Survey was an eight-week study conducted in 1991 as a joint project of the American Folklife Center and the North Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service…- Contributor: Ornstein, Lisa - United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bayley, Julie - Taylor, David Alan - Whitman, David A. - Marshall, Howard W. - Brassieur, C. Ray - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1991
Collection Items: View 270 Items
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings In 1938 the Library of Congress dispatched the pioneering folklorist and song collector Alan Lomax—already a seasoned field worker at age 23—to conduct a folk song survey of the Great Lakes region.…- Contributor: Frazier, Clara - Allen, Perry - Floriani, Veko - Green, John W. - Szabo, Andy - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Meyers, Herman - Lewandowski, Ted - Frazier, Belle - Fredrickson, John ... Frazier, Clara - Allen, Perry - Floriani, Veko - Green, John W. - Szabo, Andy - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Meyers, Herman - Lewandowski, Ted - Frazier, Belle - Fredrickson, John - Rautanen, Vernon - Lewandowski, Edwina - Warslzyk, Tony - Romel, Ted - Korvenpaa, Charles - Kubien, Rose - Cloud, Joe - Miron, Joe - Leclaire, Leilia - Vujanović, Stjepan - Strzelecki, Tony - Viita, Frank - Pope, Allan C. - Floriani, Margaret - Bellaire, Mose - Olah, Julius - Thrasher, Ed - Scheffer, Peter - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Ketvirtis, Charles - Velin, Maria - Graham, Bert - McDonough, Patrick - Rudzinski, Alex - Norman, John - Kubesh, John G. - Baratono, Art - Halinen, Selma Elona - Larson, Nils - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Hirvelä, Wäin - Styes, Archie - Lathrop, Carl - Carrière, Dolphis - Szilagyi, Dizso - Cadeau, John - Happy Jack Woodward - McCarthy, Barney - Vasvary, Steve - Sielvankiewiez - Hulan - McCormick, Ed - Similä, Gusti - Fredrickson, Kaisa - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Frazier, Viola - King, Edward - Niewiadomska, Frances - Romel, Leo - Pischner, Helen - McBride, Bill - Pohjala, Aina - Dragić, Todor - Guzal, Frank - Brideup, Louis - Krawezak, B. - Rajčević, Stepan - Wells, Lester - Larson, Steen - Berky, Nandor - Aho, Lillian - Hyvönen, John - Tomić, Pajo - Cadeau, Mathilda - Aho, Pekka - Larson, John - Marczis, Joseph - Cloud, Clarence - Dobričan, Lazar - Erickson, Max - Trivanović, Stefan - Maki, Frank - Maki, Emil - Palmer, Mason - Ricksgers, Joseph - Frazier, Calvin - Bonner, Patrick - Bellaire, Exilia - Basrak, Stjepan - Romel, Sylvester - Delmas, Adolphus - Carrière, Fred - Romel - Lomax, Alan - Preda, Emil Milan - Bangac, Petar - Kruczynski, Clara - Marttila - Vizina, Adelore - Sainović, Ilija - Lewandowski, Stephan - Wallen, Mr - Floriani, Vladimir - Marinetti, Victor - Kallio, Kalle - McCauley, Edward - Mahoski, Henry - Maté - Pittman, Sampson - Jackson, Andrew - Grbić, Ludevit - Marinetti, John - Nemeth, Kalman - Frazier, Lonnie - Gallagher, Emerald - Pol, Thomas - Cadeau, Ed - Romel, Adolph - Härkönen, Amanda - Archive of American Folk Song - Juhani, Aapo - Gallagher, Dominic - Trueblood, Asel - Bonner, Daniel - Kania, Felix
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 1,270 Items
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CollectionMontana Folklife Survey Collection The Montana Folklife Survey was conducted in the summer of 1979 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, in cooperation with the Montana Arts Council. The survey was a…- Contributor: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Wasson, George B. - Crummett, Michael - Fleischhauer, Carl - Johnson, Paula J. - Dockstader, Ray - Stanton, Gary Ward - McBride, Tom - Toelken, Barre - Toelken, Miiko - American Folklife Center - Montana Arts Council - Young, Kay
- Date: 1979
Collection Items: View 613 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…- Contributor: Mohr, Larry - Hawes, Butch - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Odetta - Berman, Marcia - Dehr, Rich - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Miller, Frank - Gilkyson, Terry
- Date: 1894
Collection Items: View 365 Items
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CollectionSouthern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip This recording trip is an ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United…- Contributor: Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 895 Items
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CollectionColorado Folklife Project Collection The Colorado Folklife Project was sponsored by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, working with John D. Farr, representative of the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide Foundation, Frisco, Colorado, to assist in…- Contributor: Emrich, Ron - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Dettmer, Elke - Marshall, Howard W. - Natanson, Barbara Orbach - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1980
Collection Items: View 130 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 267 Items
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CollectionLeonard Bernstein About the Leonard Bernstein Collection The Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress is as exceptional as its name would suggest. Bernstein, arguably the most prominent figure in American classical music…- Contributor: Coates, Helen - Gottlieb, Jack - Harmon, Charlie - Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1900
Collection Items: View 3,832 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: Fine, Sylvia - Kaye, Danny - Dena Pictures, Inc - Halsman, Philippe - McDowall, Roddy - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,055 Items
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CollectionDayton C. Miller Collection The collection contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and nonwestern…- Contributor: Miller, Dayton Clarence
- Date: 1880
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CollectionAaron Copland Collection The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through…- Contributor: Kraft, Victor - Copland, Aaron
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 Items