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CollectionAfghanistan Web Archive The Afghanistan Web Archive is comprised primarily of websites produced by the Afghan government, specifically the executive branch. Also included are a selection of sites from statistical reporting agencies, banking institutions, universities,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2009
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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. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
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CollectionAmerican Federation of Labor Records The records of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) span the years 1883-1925 and consist of letterpress volumes of correspondence of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) and William Green (1870-1952), presidents of the organization,…- Contributor: American Federation of Labor
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CollectionBain Collection The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the…- Contributor: Bain News Service - Bain, George Grantham
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 41,519 Items
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CollectionBusiness in America Web Archive The Business in America Web Archive is a collection of websites of major companies that have appeared on the Fortune 500 list. Today's large corporations communicate to customers, shareholders, and others via…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2015
Collection Items: View 651 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: Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) - Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green - Rogers, W. A. (William Allen) - Wright, George Hand - Steele, Frederic Dorr - Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas) - Fogarty, Thomas - Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay) - Herford, Oliver - Beard, Daniel Carter
- Date: 1830
Collection Items: View 3,938 Items
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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…- Contributor: Kelly, Walt - Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell) - Mauldin, Bill - Bartholomew, Charles Lewis - Berryman, Clifford Kennedy - Kirby, Rollin - Cesare, Oscar Edward - Frueh, Alfred Joseph - Covarrubias, Miguel - Johnson, Herbert - Conacher, John C. - Muḥaṣṣiṣ, Ardashīr - Mahony, Felix - Crockett, Gib
- Date: 1794
Collection Items: View 6,141 Items
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CollectionCartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon Contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration, spanning the years 1780 to 1977 and includes works by 521 American and foreign artists and illustrators.…- Contributor: Swann, Erwin - Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1780
Collection Items: View 790 Items
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CollectionCartoon Prints, British The Prints and Photographs Division holds one of the largest collections of British political and satirical prints in America. The approximately 9,000 prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the collection highlight British…- Date: 1620
Collection Items: View 1,026 Items
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CollectionChronicling America Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digital collection format. This change includes…- Contributor: National Endowment for the Humanities - National Digital Newspaper Program (U.S.) - Library of Congress
- Date: 2006
Collection Items: View 3,072,279 Items
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CollectionCopyright Historical Record Books Collection, 1870-1977 (Preview) The U.S. Copyright Office is governed by Title 17 of the United States Code, which requires the Register of Copyrights to maintain and provide public access to copyright records. This collection is…Collection Items: View 16,063 Items
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CollectionDirectory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries The Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries is a searchable index of newspapers published in the United States since 1690. This directory can help identify what titles exist for a specific…
Collection Items: View 8,033 Items
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CollectionDun & Bradstreet Reference Book Collection R.G. Dun & Company, now known as Dun & Bradstreet, was a credit reporting agency that provided ratings on an enterprise’s financial strength and ability to pay back debts. This was useful…- Contributor: R.G. Dun & Company - Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.)
- Date: 1859
Collection Items: View 286 Items
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CollectionEarly Copyright Records Collection, 1790 to 1870 The documents in this collection are the result of the first federal copyright laws in 1790 and 1831 (as amended) and contain the early copyright records and material held by the federal…- Date: 1790
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CollectionEconomics Blogs Web Archive The goal of the Economics Blogs Web Archive is to capture current economic research and original thought as reflected in the blogs by professors of economics, economic policy and/or research institutions and…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2018
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CollectionEugene Meyer Papers The subject files, 1929-1959, of investment banker, financier, public official, and newspaperman Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) relating to his tenure as fifth chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1930-1933, consist of correspondence, memoranda,…- Contributor: Meyer, Eugene
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CollectionFarm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives The photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was…- Contributor: United States. Farm Security Administration - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 171,047 Items
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CollectionFarm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the…- Contributor: Wolcott, Marion Post - Lee, Russell - Dixon, Royden - Palmer, Alfred T. - Rosskam, Louise - Liberman, Howard - Bransby, David - Feininger, Andreas - Downey, Jack - United States. Office of War Information ... Wolcott, Marion Post - Lee, Russell - Dixon, Royden - Palmer, Alfred T. - Rosskam, Louise - Liberman, Howard - Bransby, David - Feininger, Andreas - Downey, Jack - United States. Office of War Information - Rous, John - Vachon, John - Rothstein, Arthur - Delano, Jack - Sherwood, Mark - Hollem, Howard R. - Rittase, William M. - Siegel, Arthur S. - Collier, John - Collins, Marjory - Jacobs, Fenno - United States. Farm Security Administration
- Date: 1939
Collection Items: View 1,623 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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CollectionHome Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio Before the age of radio, television, and other electronic diversions, families made their own entertainment in the home by playing games, reading aloud, performing plays, and, of course, by making music. Children…- Date: 1800
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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: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
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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
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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 10 Items
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CollectionLewis H. Machen Family Papers The Gresham family material in the Lewis H. Machen Family Papers consists of seven diaries kept by Georgia teenager LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847-1865) during the Civil War, and approximately 550 items of…- Contributor: Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry) - Machen, Caroline Webster - Machen, Emmeline - Machen, James P. - Gresham, Leroy Wiley - Machen, Minnie Gresham - Machen, Arthur Webster
- Date: 1860
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CollectionLGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive The LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive captures digital content related to LBGTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2018
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CollectionLGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive The LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive collects and preserves online content which documents LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the United States and around the world. Sites include domestic and international non-profit organizations,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2018
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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: Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Afi/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1897
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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
Collection Items: View 7,776 Items
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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…- Contributor: Fleischhauer, Carl - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Montaño, Mario - Lueders-Booth, John - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - United States. National Park Service - Taylor, David Alan - DeNatale, Douglas - Bell, Michael Edward - University of Lowell ... Fleischhauer, Carl - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Montaño, Mario - Lueders-Booth, John - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - United States. National Park Service - Taylor, David Alan - DeNatale, Douglas - Bell, Michael Edward - University of Lowell - Norkunas, Martha K. - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Rankin, Tom - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Bartis, Peter - Refugee Arts Group - Fertig, Barbara C. - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1987
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CollectionManuscript Division Web Archive The Manuscript Division Web Archive includes principally websites of organizations with which the Division has an existing relationship. Although diverse in content, they fall into several broad categories. First, there are sites…- Contributor: Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) - Navy League of the United States - National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) - National Consumers' League - Freud Museum (London, England) - Sigmund Freud Copyrights (Firm) - Solidarity Center (Afl-Cio) ... Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) - Navy League of the United States - National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) - National Consumers' League - Freud Museum (London, England) - Sigmund Freud Copyrights (Firm) - Solidarity Center (Afl-Cio) - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - National Council of Jewish Women - National Coalition for History - Society of Woman Geographers - Sigmund Freud Archives - Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century - Center for International Private Enterprise - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society - Ameen Rihani Organization - National Urban League - American Studies Association - Phi Beta Kappa - American Historical Association - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (U.S.) - American Society of Landscape Architects - Streit Council for a Union of Democracies - Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit - League of Women Voters (U.S.) - Library of Congress - American Council of Learned Societies
- Date: 2008
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CollectionMass Communications Web Archive The Mass Communications Web Archive provides resources for researchers studying how communication is distributed in the United States.Collection Items: View 38 Items
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CollectionNational Child Labor Committee Collection Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC…- Contributor: Hine, Lewis Wickes - National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1908
Collection Items: View 5,125 Items
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CollectionNational Photo Company Collection This collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C., life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington,…- Contributor: National Photo Company
- Date: 1909
Collection Items: View 35,613 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 1,248 Items
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CollectionNelson W. Aldrich Papers The files, 1908-1912, of the National Monetary Commission (2,362 items; 4,724 images) from the papers of U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island Nelson W. Aldrich (1841-1915) are part of a larger…- Contributor: Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Aldrich, Abby Pearce Chapman - Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth) - Nichols, Jeannette Paddock
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CollectionNew York Journal and Related Titles, 1896-1899 The New York Journal Collection consists of The Journal (1896-01-01 to 1896-07-18) and subsequent titles, New York Journal (1896-07-16 to 1897-04-01) and New York Journal and Advertiser (1897-04-02 to 1899-12-31) . In…- Date: 1896
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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: Lightsey, Thomas N. - Morrell, David C. - Burkett, Joe L. - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Hennessey, William S. - Larrimer, George - Aalund, Niels Anders - Gage, Charles H. - Harris, Timothy C. - Dickens, Michael W. ... Lightsey, Thomas N. - Morrell, David C. - Burkett, Joe L. - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Hennessey, William S. - Larrimer, George - Aalund, Niels Anders - Gage, Charles H. - Harris, Timothy C. - Dickens, Michael W. - Glass, Leonard - Vest, Lou C. - Halbert, David Maurice - Henry, Mark - Bennett, Steven R. - Rousser, C. A. - Usher, Michael Gene - Jasper, Pat - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Peterson, Betsy - Hausinger, William - Glass, Matthew H. - Occupational Folklife Project - Tray, James Thomas - Cooney, James Patrick - Mayville, Donnie D. - Harris, Eugene - Bludworth, Richard W. - Postel, Adolph C. - Robb, Alan A. - Shaffer, Harold L. - Hilliard, Henry - Holland, Benny - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Ramirez, Gilda - Potoczniak, Anthony - Blume, Dana - Mims, Doug - Montgomery, Charles R. - American Folklife Center - Kersey, Bobby C. - Lindahl, Carl - King, Charles H. - Laws, Andrew L. - Seeba, Patrick - Houston Arts Alliance - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Olsen, Eric Carl - Patout, Rivers - Diehl, William J. - Keenan, Gordie - Quesada, José Angel - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Tellepsen, Tom - Braun, Leo J. - Thompson, Robert L. - Hensley, James J. - Dodd, Harold L. - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Corgey, Dean - Patton, William Benjamin
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 1,219 Items
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CollectionOffice of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Reports On June 27, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved an order External issued by the Council of National Defense, a First World War era group of six Cabinet Secretaries, revived to coordinate…Collection Items: View 1,594 Items
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CollectionPosters: WPA Posters This collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more…- Date: 1936
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CollectionPrincess Marie Bonaparte Papers Correspondence (300 items; 1,238 images) from psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962), his analysand, pupil, confidante, and benefactor, forms the entirety of this digital collection. Part of a larger…- Contributor: Bonaparte, Marie
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