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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…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
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CollectionRare Book Selections The collections housed in The Rare Book and Special Collections Division amount to nearly 800,000 books, encompassing nearly all eras and subjects maintained in well over 100 separate collections. All of these…
Collection Items: View 5,502 Items
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CollectionAfrican American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection "African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African…
- Date: 1875
Collection Items: View 890 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 Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained…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
Collection Items: View 22 Items
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CollectionSlavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860 This collection consists of 105 library books and manuscripts, totalling approximately 8,700 pages drawn principally from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. Law Library
- Date: 2002
Collection Items: View 109 Items
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CollectionPersian Language Rare Materials The Library of Congress is home to a noteworthy collection of rare Persian language manuscripts, lithographic books and early imprints, as well as printed books, housed in the African and Middle Eastern…
Collection Items: View 522 Items
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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…
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CollectionLessing J. Rosenwald Collection In 1943, at the height of WWII, Lessing J. Rosenwald (1891-1979) announced that he would donate the entirety of his graphic arts collection, as well as all future purchases, to both the…
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CollectionSir Francis Drake (Kraus Collection) Sir Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake's accomplishments as an explorer and naval strategist were unparalleled. His most notable feat was circumnavigating the earth from 1577-80, the first such voyage since Magellan's in…
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2005
Collection Items: View 105 Items
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CollectionPrinted Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera The collection contains, among other materials, posters, playbills, songsheets, notices, invitations, proclamations, petitions, timetables, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, ballots, tickets, menus, and business cards. There are more than 28,000 items in the collection…
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 10,776 Items
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CollectionNational American Woman Suffrage Association Collection The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA…
- Contributor: Blackwell, Alice Stone - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Howe, Julia Ward - National American Woman Suffrage Association - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Date: 1800
Collection Items: View 1,936 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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CollectionThe Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana The collection contains more than 11,100 items. This online release presents more than 1,300 items with more than 4,000 images and a date range of 1824-1931. It includes the complete collection of…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress - Stern, Alfred Whital
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 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
Collection Items: View 641 Items
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CollectionJay I. Kislak Collection The Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas is composed of important archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps and graphic works of art, which survey the…
Collection Items: View 363 Items
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CollectionDocuments from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early…
- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1774
Collection Items: View 326 Items
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CollectionThe United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures This online collection contains digitized items from the Library of Congress collection that was originally made available as The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures/Brasil e Estados Unidos: Expandindo Fronteiras,…
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CollectionPioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 340 Items
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CollectionCapital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925 The fourth in a series of local history collections presented by the National Digital Library Program as part of American Memory, joined "California As I Saw It", Pioneering the Upper Midwest, and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 143 Items
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CollectionOmar Ibn Said Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave…
- Contributor: Kebe, Lamine - American Ethnological Society - Dwight, Theodore - Thomson, William Hanna - Bird, Isaac - Rothman, Adam - Dukur, Muḥammad - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - Beard, Derrick Joshua - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ... Kebe, Lamine - American Ethnological Society - Dwight, Theodore - Thomson, William Hanna - Bird, Isaac - Rothman, Adam - Dukur, Muḥammad - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - Beard, Derrick Joshua - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - See, Sheikh Sana - American Bible Society - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Said, Omar Ibn
- Date: 1741
Collection Items: View 46 Items
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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. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 326 Items
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CollectionLouisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase is a landmark event in American history, one that had a lasting impact not only on the size of the United States, but also on its economic, cultural, and…
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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: Newlandsmith, Ernest - Wilson, Marian Robertson - Tóth, Margit - Moftah, Ragheb
- Date: 1926
Collection Items: View 372 Items
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CollectionHans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents, 1433-1877 The Hans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents, 1433-1877, consists of 162 multipage items (5,950 images) dating mainly from 1500 to 1800, which were digitized from 4 reels of previously produced…
- Contributor: Kraus, Hans Peter
Collection Items: View 237 Items
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CollectionStars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 This online collection includes the complete seventy-one-week run of The Stars and Stripes World War I edition. The Stars and Stripes was published in France by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of…
- Date: 1918
Collection Items: View 91 Items
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CollectionBenjamin Franklin Papers The papers of statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) consist of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s. The collection's…
- Contributor: Franklin, William Temple - Oswald, Richard - Franklin, Benjamin - United States. Legation (France)
Collection Items: View 41 Items
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CollectionThomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, consist of approximately 25,000 items, making it the…
- Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1606
Collection Items: View 26,691 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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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…
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