Digital Collections
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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...- Contributor: Sebah & Joaillier - Abdullah Frères - Abdülhamid II
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 1,825 Items
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CollectionAbdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress In 1884 Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gifted the Library of Congress with a collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works that he had richly embossed with this inscription in English, French and Ottoman:...Collection Items: View 320 Items
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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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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Government Web Archive This collection consists of official government websites for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan and provides an overview of the political, economic, administrative and social situation in these four countries. Several of these...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2015
Collection Items: View 395 Items
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive The Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive includes campaign sites archived during these countries’ election seasons since 2014. This archive collection includes websites for government bodies, political parties, presidential candidates,...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
Collection Items: View 184 Items
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CollectionAfrican Government Web Archive The African Government Web Archive provides links to information from key African government ministries, institutions and organizations for the 51 countries in Africa south of the Sahara. This will ensure that the...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
Collection Items: View 104 Items
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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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CollectionAinu and Ezochi Rare Collection This collection of rare materials brings together books, manuscripts, and maps produced during the 18th and 19th centuries that document Japanese exploration and observation of the island and prefecture now known as...Collection Items: View 75 Items
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CollectionAmerican Colony in Jerusalem, 1870-2006 The papers of the American Colony in Jerusalem, a non-denominational utopian Christian community, consist of approximately 16,600 items, spanning the years 1786-2007, of which about three-fourths of the materials (50,288 images) have...- Contributor: Spafford, Anna T. - Spafford, Horatio Gates - American Colony (Jerusalem) - Vester, Bertha Spafford
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 536 Items
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CollectionAndre Kostelanetz Collection Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980) was a Russian-born conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts during the 1930s and 1940s. He had a highly successful concert career...- Contributor: Kostelanetz, Andre
- Date: 1922
Collection Items: View 185 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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CollectionAssociated Press News Dispatches, 1915-1930 The collection of news dispatches of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Associated Press spans the period 1915-1930 and consists of 375 volumes (387,082 images), housed in 254 boxes, the contents of...- Contributor: Associated Press. Washington Bureau
Collection Items: View 380 Items
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CollectionThe Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands This online collection contains digitized items from the Library of Congress collection that was originally made available as The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands/De Atlantische Wereld: Amerika en Nederland digital library...Collection Items: View 82 Items
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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, George Grantham - Bain News Service
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 41,491 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
Collection Items: View 259 Items
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CollectionBangladeshi Elections Web Archive This collection of websites documents the Bangladeshi General Elections beginning with the 2018-2019 election cycle, up to the present. The websites in this collection cover the political parties taking part in the...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 26 Items
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CollectionBosnian Political and Social Issues Web Archive The Bosnian Political and Social Issues Web Archive is comprised of sites that address political and social issues and inform public policy. Content includes websites of Bosnian-Herzegovinian political parties, non-governmental organizations, voluntary...Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionBrazil Cordel Literature Web Archive Brazilian chapbooks, known as literatura de cordel, are typically sold at street fairs, where the pamphlets are hung by string (cordel in Portuguese). They are a grassroots form of communication whose purpose...- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
Collection Items: View 29 Items
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CollectionBrazilian Elections Web Archive This collection of websites documents the Brazilian elections and covers three presidential elections for the years 2010, 2014, and 2018. Each election consists of two rounds, and multiple parties run for municipal,...- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 107 Items
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CollectionBrazilian Environmental Policy Web Archive The Brazilian Environmental Policy web archive presents a sampling of municipal web-content produced between 2010 and 2021 – following Brazil’s inclusion as one of the five emerging “BRICS” economies. This expanded economic...- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 45 Items
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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: Nijinska, Bronislava
- Date: 1891
Collection Items: View 209 Items
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CollectionBrumfield Collection William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the jumping-off point for the explorers,...- Contributor: Brumfield, William Craft
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 1,139 Items
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CollectionBulgarian Political and Social Issues Web Archive The Bulgarian Political and Social Issues Web Archive is comprised of sites that address political and social issues and inform public policy. Content includes websites of Bulgarian politicians, political parties, non-governmental organizations,...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. European Division
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 90 Items
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CollectionBurma/Myanmar Elections Web Archive The Burma/Myanmar Elections web archive brings together a collection of websites that document the General Elections of 2010, the by-elections of 2012, and the General Elections of 2015.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 72 Items
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CollectionCambodian Elections Web Archive The Cambodian Elections Web Archive covers the 2013 and 2018 general elections, which saw Cambodians vote for representatives to the 125-seat National Assembly.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division
- Date: 2013
Collection Items: View 46 Items
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CollectionCarpenter Collection The more than 15,000 images in the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection represent the extensive photographic files assembled by Frank G. Carpenter and his daughter Frances to illustrate his popular writings on...- Contributor: Carpenter, Frances - Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 1,823 Items
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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 9,182 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: 1650
Collection Items: View 983 Items
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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: 1550
Collection Items: View 101 Items
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CollectionA Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875 Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Law Library of Congress (U.S.)
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 39 Items
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CollectionCharles William Le Gendre Papers This selection of the first five containers (1,760 items; 4,774 images) of the papers of army officer and diplomat Charles William Le Gendre (1830-1899) spans the years 1866-1893, but is concentrated in...- Contributor: Le Gendre, Charles William
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CollectionChina-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) 2018-2021 Web Archive The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is part of China’s “One Belt, One Road (OBOR)” initiative. OBOR’s vision encompasses a geographical region that extends from the Baltics in Europe to Southeast Asia and...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 71 Items
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CollectionChinese Rare Book Digital Collection The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection draws from the 5,300 titles of Chinese rare books housed at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The online presentation includes nearly 2,000 digitized...Collection Items: View 1,990 Items
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CollectionCollege Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection More than 180 artists living and working in Japan created the 212 fine art prints in the College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection. The prints, dating primarily from 2003 to...- Contributor: College Women's Association of Japan
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 214 Items
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CollectionCoptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the...- Contributor: Wilson, Marian Robertson - Newlandsmith, Ernest - Moftah, Ragheb - Tóth, Margit
- Date: 1926
Collection Items: View 363 Items
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CollectionCountry Studies Contains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in the...Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionCrisis in Darfur 2006 Web Archive Described by the United Nations as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the current conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur began in early 2003, when rebels attacked government targets and then expanded...- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2006
Collection Items: View 221 Items
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CollectionCuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of...- Contributor: Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Kirkor Minassian Collection (Library of Congress)
Collection Items: View 44 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
Collection Items: View 2,635 Items
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CollectionThe Different Faces of Nationalism in Pakistan Web Archive The Different Faces of Nationalism in Pakistan Web Archive collects websites and blogs of Pakistan-based organizations, individuals, and groups who engage with the political scene in Pakistan through the language of nationalism....- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division
- Date: 2011
Collection Items: View 39 Items