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CollectionWorld War II Rumor Project The World War II Rumor Project collection contains manuscript materials compiled by the Office of War Information (OWI). The OWI was established by an Executive order on June 13, 1942, for the…- Contributor: Horowitz, Eugene - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942
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CollectionWorld War II Military Situation Maps This collection contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western…- Contributor: United States. Army. Army Group, 1st. Headquarters - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Allied Forces. Army Group, 12th. Engineer Section
- Date: 200?
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CollectionWorld War I Sheet Music From 1914 through 1920 the Library of Congress acquired over 14,000 pieces of sheet music relating to what ultimately became known as the First World War, with the greatest number coming from…- Date: 1914
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CollectionWorld War I Centennial Web Archive The World War I Centennial Web Archive is a collection of websites presenting various projects and events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States involvement in the First World War. It…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionWorld War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914-1926 This vast online collection of World War I era newspaper clippings is from a single unique source: the 400-volume, 80,000-page set, World War History: Daily Records and Comments as Appeared in American…Collection Items: View 407 Items
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CollectionNewspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 This online collection is drawn from three primary sources: The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings, a volume published by the New York Times shortly after the armistice that compiled…- Date: 1914
Collection Items: View 441 Items
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CollectionAmerican Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I The Nation's Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker.…- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Baker, Newton Diehl - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Daniels, Josephus - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - White, George - Gompers, Samuel - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) ... Coolidge, Calvin - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Baker, Newton Diehl - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Daniels, Josephus - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - White, George - Gompers, Samuel - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - De Valera, Éamon - Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Wood, Leonard - Long, Breckinridge - Lane, Franklin K. - Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) - Clark, Champ - Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Colby, Bainbridge - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Lewis, James - Poindexter, Miles
- Date: 1918
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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
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CollectionPosters: World War I Posters This collection makes available online approximately 1,900 posters created between 1914 and 1920. Most relate directly to the war, but some German posters date from the post-war period and illustrate events such…- Date: 1914
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CollectionJapanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942-1946 Produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who…- Date: 1942
Collection Items: View 4,685 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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CollectionGeorge S. Patton Papers: Diaries, 1910-1945 The diaries of U.S. army officer George S. Patton (1885-1945) are part of a larger collection of Patton papers available for research use onsite in the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library…- Date: 1910
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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: Lee, Russell - Hollem, Howard R. - Liberman, Howard - Rittase, William M. - Rous, John - Collier, John - United States. Farm Security Administration - Delano, Jack - Wolcott, Marion Post - United States. Office of War Information ... Lee, Russell - Hollem, Howard R. - Liberman, Howard - Rittase, William M. - Rous, John - Collier, John - United States. Farm Security Administration - Delano, Jack - Wolcott, Marion Post - United States. Office of War Information - Downey, Jack - Feininger, Andreas - Jacobs, Fenno - Palmer, Alfred T. - Rosskam, Louise - Siegel, Arthur S. - Bransby, David - Rothstein, Arthur - Collins, Marjory - Sherwood, Mark - Vachon, John - Dixon, Royden
- Date: 1939
Collection Items: View 1,623 Items
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CollectionVeterans History Project Collection Offering an unparalleled digital archive of primary source material, the Veterans History Project (VHP) Collection preserves and makes accessible the firsthand narratives of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I…Collection Items: View 92,758 Items
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CollectionGeorgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence This collection of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence and Related Material (157 items; 618 images) consists mostly of letters, 1929-1947, written by painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and her husband, Photo-Secession movement…- Contributor: Stieglitz, Alfred - O'Keeffe, Georgia
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CollectionHorydczak Collection The Theodor Horydczak Collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential,…- Contributor: Horydczak, Theodor
- Date: 1915
Collection Items: View 14,331 Items
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CollectionInternational Tribunals Web Archive The International Tribunals Web Archive contains selected websites on the most important international courts and tribunals created since World War II to adjudicate legal issues of a transnational nature. The collection preserves…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Law Library
- Date: 2014
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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 1,396 Items
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CollectionJohn J. Pershing Papers The diaries, notebooks, and address books of John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948), U.S. army officer and commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, are part of a larger collection of…- Contributor: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Pershing, Helen F. (Helen Frances)
- Date: 1860
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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…- Contributor: Adams, Ansel
- Date: 1943
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CollectionHannah Arendt Papers The papers of author, educator, political philosopher, and public intellectual Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) constitute a large and diverse collection (25,000 items; 82,597 images) reflecting a complex career. The collection spans the years…- Contributor: Blücher, Heinrich - Arendt, Hannah
- Date: 1898
Collection Items: View 1,552 Items
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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. Office of War Information - United States. Farm Security Administration
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 171,047 Items
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
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CollectionCharles S. Hamlin Papers The digitized portion (8,096 items; 17,808 images) of the papers of lawyer, politician, assistant secretary of the treasury, and governor of the Federal Reserve Board Charles S. Hamlin (1861-1938) includes diaries (1887-1937),…- Contributor: Hamlin, Charles S. (Charles Sumner) - Hamlin, Anna - Hamlin, Huybertie Pruyn - Robles, Sebastian T. (Sebastian Tomas)
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CollectionCalvin Coolidge Papers The papers of John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), thirtieth president of the United States, consist of approximately 179,000 documents (222,732 images), which have been digitized from 190 reels of previously reproduced microfilm. Held…- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin
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CollectionWoody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive) at…- Contributor: Archive of American Folk Song - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2001
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CollectionRobert Lansing Papers The private memoranda, desk diaries, and notes, 1915-1922, of diplomat and lawyer Robert Lansing (1864-1928) consist of 22 volumes (3,090 images) located in containers 63-67 of a larger collection of Lansing papers…- Contributor: Lansing, Robert
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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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CollectionFreedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953 Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953, contains a selection of 209 letters, memoranda, photographs, and publications (1,176 images) documenting a momentous period in the history of the Library of Congress when…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 2004
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CollectionMilitary Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation.…- Date: 1570
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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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CollectionChester Alan Arthur Papers The papers of Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886), who became the twenty-first president of the United States in 1881 after James A. Garfield’s assassination, consist of 4,400 items (7,675 images), most of which…- Contributor: Arthur, Chester Alan
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CollectionWilliam A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection The William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (ca. 500 items) spans the years 1773 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the Civil War period, 1861-1865. The collection consists…- Contributor: Gladstone, William A.
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CollectionHidden Treasures at the Library of Congress This Week's Hidden Treasure in Partnership with HISTORY This Week's Hidden Treasure is an exciting opportunity to examine historically meaningful and culturally relevant artifacts from the treasured collections of the Library of…Collection Items: View 27 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: American Colony (Jerusalem) - Vester, Bertha Spafford - Spafford, Horatio Gates - Spafford, Anna T.
- Date: 1870
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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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CollectionJubal Anderson Early Papers The papers of United States and Confederate army officer, lawyer, and Virginia state legislator Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) consist of 5,000 items (5,368 images) in 18 containers. Spanning the years 1829-1930, the…- Contributor: Early, Jubal Anderson
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CollectionBlackwell Family Papers The Blackwell Family Papers span the years 1759-1960, with the bulk of the material dating from 1845 to 1890. Consisting of approximately 29,000 items (58,002 images), most of which were digitized from…- Contributor: Blackwell, Emily - Blackwell, Kitty Barry - Stone, Lucy - Blackwell, Elizabeth - Blackwell, Alice Stone - Blackwell, H. B. (Henry Browne) - Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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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
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CollectionNow What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.…- Contributor: Gaines, Elwood - Chestain, Sonny - Ellis, Charles - Ford, T. J. - Ford, Osa - Thomas, John Lee - Chastain, Will - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Ezell, Buster - Smith Band (Musical Group) ... Gaines, Elwood - Chestain, Sonny - Ellis, Charles - Ford, T. J. - Ford, Osa - Thomas, John Lee - Chastain, Will - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Ezell, Buster - Smith Band (Musical Group) - Turner, Monroe - Traveller Home Singers - Spiritual Four Quartet - Fisk University - Turner, Oscar - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Turner, Alma - Heavenly Gate Quartet - Bond, Edward - Gibson, Gus - Jackson, Deacon Sam - Holloway High School Quartet - Richardson, Zema - Johnson, Warren G. - Mathis, Allison - Monch, Matthew - Bond, James - Gregory, Richard - Stripling, Sidney - Winrow, Anthony - Parker, Cleve
- Date: 1938
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CollectionJohn A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers John A. Lomax, Sr., and his son Alan Lomax became stewards of a nascent Archive of American Folk-Song in September 1933. Their tenure lasted until Alan separated from the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1907
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CollectionRoman Totenberg Papers The violinist Roman Totenberg enjoyed an extraordinarily long and varied career. Born on January 1, 1911 in Łódź, Poland, he moved as a child with his family to Moscow where he first…- Contributor: Paganini, Nicol - Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Schubert, Franz - Kolsky, Ilka - Milhaud, Darius - Dvořák, Antonín - Brahms, Johannes - Totenberg, Roman - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Date: 1846
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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…- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1997
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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…- Contributor: Blair, Woodbury - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston) - Woodbury, Levi - Stevens, Samuel - Blair, Gist - Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Francis Preston - Clapp, Charles Q.
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CollectionOlmsted Associates Records The digitized portion of the Olmsted Associates Records consist of approximately 149,000 items (366,518 images), scanned from 532 reels of microfilm reproducing the two largest series in the collection, the Letterbooks, 1884-1899,…- Contributor: Olmsted, John Charles - Olmsted Brothers - F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted Associates - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot - Olmsted, Frederick Law - F.L. Olmsted and Company - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
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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, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
- Date: 1934
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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 - American Folklife Center - Kennedy, Stetson
- Date: 2000
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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: Lomax, Alan - Lange, Dorothea - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Rothstein, Arthur - Sonkin, Robert - American Folklife Center - Archive of American Folk Song - Hemmig, Robert - Todd, Charles L. - Pike, Russ
- Date: 1939
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CollectionPanoramic Photographs Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More…- Contributor: Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio) - Geo. R. Lawrence Co - West Coast Art Co - Pillsbury Picture Co - Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.)
- Date: 1851
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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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CollectionPolish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States, 1926 Digitization of this collection was made possible by the Polish Library in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Polish-American Society - American-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Poland
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CollectionSelections from the National Film Registry The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. They are not selected as the "best"…Collection Items: View 72 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
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CollectionGisella Selden-Goth Collection Musicologist and collector Gisella Selden-Goth (1884-1975) amassed an extraordinary collection of holograph music manuscripts during her lifetime, including works by Bach, Chopin, Haydn, and Mozart. In 1963, she placed her collection on…Collection Items: View 29 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: Todd, Zenna - Cruise, Crystal - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Shockley, Maggie - Severt, Carrie - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Wolfe, Charles K. - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Adler, Thomas A. - Choate, Donna ... Todd, Zenna - Cruise, Crystal - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Shockley, Maggie - Severt, Carrie - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Wolfe, Charles K. - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Adler, Thomas A. - Choate, Donna - Marshall, Howard W. - Jabbour, Alan - Jarrell, Tommy - United States. National Park Service - Eiler, Terry - Ray, Roxie - Owen, Blanton - American Folklife Center - Fleischhauer, Carl - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Owen, Margaret Counts - Stanley, Lura - Mullen, Patrick B. - Wilson, Joe - Bryan, Mamie - Patton, Ila - Richardson, Larry
- Date: 1977
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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
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CollectionGladstone Collection of African American Photographs The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs provides almost 350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered,…- Contributor: Gladstone, William A. - Ball, James Presley - Paxson, Chas. (Charles) - Kellogg Brothers - Kimball, M. H. - McPherson & Oliver - Moore, Henry P. - M'clees, Jas. E. (James E.)
- Date: 1861
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CollectionJapanese Censorship Collection The Japanese Censorship Collection contains 1,327 marked-up copies of censored monographs and galley proofs for approximately 1,100 titles, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. They include copies submitted by publishers for examination…Collection Items: View 261 Items
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CollectionMary Church Terrell Papers The papers of educator, lecturer, suffragist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) consist of approximately 13,000 documents, comprising 25,323 images, all of which were digitized from 34 reels of previously…- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
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CollectionEltaher Collection The Eltaher Collection consists of more than 2,000 items in various formats, including books, pamphlets, photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings among other documents. The majority of the collection is in Arabic,…Collection Items: View 107 Items
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CollectionFrontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training at the Library of Congress makes available interview transcripts from the oral history archives of the…- Contributor: Bentley, Marilyn - Warner, Marie - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Foreign Affairs Oral History Program
- Date: 1919
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CollectionPhillips/Mathée Collection The Phillips/Mathée Collection spans the years 1913-2014, but only one item is dated later than 1972. The collection is a companion to the Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence, also held by…- Date: 1913
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CollectionMatson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection This collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most…- Contributor: American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department - Matson Photo Service
- Date: 1898
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CollectionCurtis (Edward S.) Collection The Curtis collection consists of more than 2,400 silver-gelatin, first generation photographic prints--some of which are sepia-toned--made from Curtis's original glass negatives. Most of the photographic prints are 5" x 7" although…- Contributor: Curtis, Edward S.
- Date: 1899
Collection Items: View 1,149 Items
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CollectionStereograph Cards New Photos Added! View the most recent additions- Contributor: Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) - Underwood & Underwood - H.C. White Co - Strohmeyer & Wyman - American Stereoscopic Company - Rau, William Herman - Keystone View Company - International Stereograph Co
- Date: 1860
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CollectionWarren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence This correspondence (240 items; 1910-1924) consists primarily of letters written by President Harding (1865-1923), before and during his tenure as a U.S. senator, to his paramour Carrie Fulton Phillips (1873-1960), wife of…- Contributor: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Phillips, Carrie Fulton
- Date: 1905
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CollectionMeeting of Frontiers Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of…Collection Items: View 19,661 Items
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CollectionMilitary Legal Resources This collection includes material from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School External in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) External…Collection Items: View 2,278 Items
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CollectionDetroit Publishing Company Includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Subjects strongly represented in the collection include city and town views,…- Contributor: Byron (Firm : New York, N.Y.) - Hart, Edward H. - Detroit Publishing Co - Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood) - Johnston, J. S. (John S.) - Jackson, William Henry - Glover. L. S. (Lycurgus S.)
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 25,173 Items
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CollectionThe Moldenhauer Archives - The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift…- Contributor: Moldenhauer, Hans
- Date: 1000
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CollectionDrawings (Master) Background and Scope: Joseph Pennell Drawings Some 4,700 drawings created by American artist, illustrator, printmaker, and writer Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) are preserved in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Such…- Date: 1500
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CollectionArabic Language Rare Materials Collection The Library of Congress is home to a substantial number of rare items in the Arabic language, the vast majority of which are housed in the African and Middle Eastern Division, that…Collection Items: View 973 Items
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CollectionRare Illustrated Children's Books in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900 - 1929 Figure 1 In Vald [In the Forest]. New York, 1918 The Library of Congress is home to a superb collection of rare children’s books and periodicals in Hebrew and Yiddish, among them…Collection Items: View 10 Items
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CollectionAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a…- Contributor: United States. Works Progress Administration - Writers' Program (U.S.) - United States. Work Projects Administration - Federal Writers' Project
- Date: 1936
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CollectionWoodrow Wilson Papers The papers of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), scholar, president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, and president of the United States (1913-1921), consist of approximately 280,000 documents, comprising approximately 620,000 images, most…- Contributor: Wilson, Woodrow - Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt
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CollectionTheodore Roosevelt Papers The papers of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), public official, author, decorated veteran of the Spanish-American War, governor of New York, and president of the United States (1901-1909), consist of approximately 276,000 documents (roughly…- Contributor: Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler - Roosevelt, Theodore
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CollectionThomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers consists of approximately 3,000 items (4,126 images) spanning the period 1842-1937, with most of the items dated from 1855, when Whitman first published…- Contributor: Whitman, Walt - Harned, Thomas Biggs
- Date: 1842
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CollectionLamb Studios Archive This online presentation offers images of nearly 2,500 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings feature striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the…- Contributor: J. & R. Lamb Studios
- Date: 1869
Collection Items: View 2,456 Items
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CollectionWilliam H. Taft Papers The papers of William Howard Taft (1857-1930), twenty-seventh president of the United States and tenth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, consist of approximately 676,000 documents (789,441 images), which have been…- Contributor: Taft, William Howard
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CollectionCarnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS). This collection, created primarily…- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin - Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Date: 1864
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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
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