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Collection10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants The acquisition of medieval liturgical chant manuscripts that trace the history of music notation as it evolved over half a millennium, became a major collection priority in the Music Division beginning in…Collection Items: View 55 Items
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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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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 325 Items
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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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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…Collection Items: View 335 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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CollectionAfter the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,…- Date: 1941
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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…Collection Items: View 6,613 Items
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CollectionAlexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress The collection contains over 145,000 items. The online version contains 4,695 items (equaling about 51,500 images), consists of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone…- Date: 1862
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CollectionAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the…- Date: 1775
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CollectionAmerican Choral Music The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. The music selected reflects the diversity of choral music in the collections…- Date: 1865
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CollectionAmerican Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive The American Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive is a collection of websites presenting various projects and events in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. This anniversary is historically…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
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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,…Collection Items: View 359 Items
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CollectionAmerican Music Creators Web Archive The American Music Creators Web Archive is a collection of websites of musicians, performers, and composers contributing to the American music scene. The collection strives to be representative of all genres of…Collection Items: View 69 Items
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CollectionAncestral Voices Among the very first activities of the American Folklife Center (AFC) -- created in 1976 -- was the Federal Cylinder Project (FCP), a large-scale initiative to preserve and provide access to historic…Collection Items: View 26 Items
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CollectionAnna Maria Brodeau Thornton Papers The seven volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1793-1861, of Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (ca.1775-1865) document her position at the center of a Washington, D.C., social circle that included George and Martha Washington,…Collection Items: View 12 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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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 1,382 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…Collection Items: View 380 Items
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CollectionThe Atlantic Neptune Collection The Atlantic Neptune Collection contains nautical charts depicting the most detailed surveys of North American coastal areas and harbors in the 18th century. Because of this detail, they were heavily used by…- Date: 1775
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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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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…- Date: 2018
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CollectionBaseball Sheet Music This presentation features 292 items of sheet music that reference baseball from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Many of the items shown represent the earliest widely-distributed baseball collectibles;…Collection Items: View 318 Items
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CollectionBefore and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906…- Date: 1897
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CollectionBenajah Jay Antrim Journals The journals (5 items; 517 images) of Benajah Jay Antrim (1819-1903), a chemist, photographer, mathematical instrument maker, and artist, are comprised of three volumes of handwritten diary entries and two complementary volumes…Collection Items: View 11 Items
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CollectionBenjamin Harrison Papers The papers of U.S. senator from Indiana and U.S. Army officer Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), who became the twenty-third president of the United States, consist of 69,600 items (178,479 images), most of which…Collection Items: View 189 Items
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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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CollectionBlair Family Papers The papers of the Blair family, a prominent nineteenth-century political family, consist of 19,100 items (48,166 images) most of which were digitized from 49 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years…Collection Items: View 602 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: Owen, Blanton - Marshall, Howard W. - Choate, Donna - Jabbour, Alan - Severt, Carrie - American Folklife Center - Eiler, Terry - Bryan, Mamie - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal ... Owen, Blanton - Marshall, Howard W. - Choate, Donna - Jabbour, Alan - Severt, Carrie - American Folklife Center - Eiler, Terry - Bryan, Mamie - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal - United States. National Park Service - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Todd, Zenna - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Adler, Thomas A. - Wolfe, Charles K. - Stanley, Lura - Jarrell, Tommy - Owen, Margaret Counts - Fleischhauer, Carl - Mullen, Patrick B. - Ray, Roxie - Patton, Ila - Wilson, Joe - Shockley, Maggie - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Richardson, Larry
- Date: 1977
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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 52 Items
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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
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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…Collection Items: View 45 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
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CollectionCalifornia as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded…Collection Items: View 206 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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CollectionCambini Quintets Among the Library of Congress's musical treasures are a set of unique manuscripts by Italian composer Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (1746-1825?) that contain music for over 100 of his string quintets. These…Collection Items: View 101 Items