Digital Collections
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CollectionQuilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 Contains 181 segments from recorded interviews with quiltmakers and 410 graphic images (prints, positive transparencies, and negatives) from two collections in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: the Blue…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 605 Items
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CollectionOrigins of American Animation The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 29 Items
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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. Manuscript Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress
- Date: 2004
Collection Items: View 226 Items
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CollectionPanoramic Maps The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Dempsey, Patrick E. (Patrick Eugene) - Hébert, John R.
- Date: 1997
Collection Items: View 1,521 Items
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CollectionFiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was…
- Contributor: Reed, Henry - American Folklife Center - Jabbour, Alan - Reed, Watha - Ricci, Glenn - Glenroy, William B. - Reed, Gene
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 292 Items
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CollectionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860 Consists of over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1820 to 1860. This collection complements an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music…
- Date: 1820
Collection Items: View 15,479 Items
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CollectionAmerican Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2003
Collection Items: View 257 Items
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CollectionToday in History Today in History is a Library of Congress presentation of historic events illuminated by items from the Library’s Digital Collections. This feature premiered in April, 1997 to highlight items from the Library’s…
Collection Items: View 368 Items
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CollectionHistoric American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey Overview of the HABS/HAER/HALS collections, which document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design from the 17th-20th centuries in the United States and its territories through measured drawings, photographs, and written historical…
- Contributor: Historic American Buildings Survey
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 45,519 Items
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CollectionAmerican Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 The collection represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 1,435 Items
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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: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
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CollectionThe Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures This presentation features 68 motion pictures, produced between 1898 and 1901, of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 81 Items
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CollectionEarly American Sheet Music The Library of Congress classification number M1.A1 includes music printed or 'copied in manuscript' in the United States or the colonies through 1820. As an early record of musical life in America…
- Date: 1820
Collection Items: View 2,492 Items
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CollectionWorking in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture…
- Contributor: McCarl, Robert - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - United States. National Park Service. Mid-Atlantic Regional Office - Levitas, Susan - Taylor, David Alan - American Folklife Center - Smith, Lynda S. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Cooper, Martha - Lautenberg, Frank R. - Lloyd, Timothy Charles - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Pascrell, Bill
- Date: 1993
Collection Items: View 4,388 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…
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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: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 2001
Collection Items: View 59 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, joining "California As I Saw It", Pioneering the Upper Midwest, and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 143 Items
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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. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
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CollectionMaps of Liberia, 1830-1870 This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - American Colonization Society - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 30 Items
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CollectionWomen's and Gender Studies Web Archive The Women's and Gender Studies Web Archive collects and preserves online content on topics of importance to the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies. Collection priorities include primary sources, first hand…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 171 Items
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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. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 488 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…
- Contributor: Adams, Ansel
- Date: 1943
Collection Items: View 258 Items
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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: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 39 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. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 326 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 - United States. Work Projects Administration - Writers' Program (U.S.) - Federal Writers' Project
- Date: 1936
Collection Items: View 2,838 Items
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CollectionOmaha Indian Music Presented here are selections from the American Folklife Center's collections documenting Omaha music traditions. The sound recordings include 44 wax cylinder recordings made in the 1890s (first published on a 1985 LP…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 873 Items
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CollectionVoices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-two interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2004
Collection Items: View 66 Items
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CollectionCivil Rights History Project On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress…
- Contributor: Richardson, Gloria - Moore, E. Maynard - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Anderson, Fletcher - Burras, Carol Cummings - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Seeger, Pete - Alexander, Roberta - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Bailey, D'army ... Richardson, Gloria - Moore, E. Maynard - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Anderson, Fletcher - Burras, Carol Cummings - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Seeger, Pete - Alexander, Roberta - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Bailey, D'army - Connor, Peggy Jean - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - McCarty, Michael D. - Hill, Oliver W. - Stewart, Eleanor - Griffin, Willie James - Southern Oral History Program - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Robinson, Betty Garman - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Sherrod, Shirley - Bishop, John Melville - Guster, Leesco - King, Lonnie C. - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Cleaver, Kathleen - Siler, Charles E. - Miller, Carolyn - Marshall, Cecilia - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Churchville, John Elliott - Abernathy, Ralph David - Lucy, William - Jarmon, Charles - Jones, Jamila - Walker, Theresa Ann - American Folklife Center - Branch, Taylor - Paysour, Lafleur - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Robinson, Reginald - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Greene, Freddie - Lowery, Joseph E. - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Suggs, Frances L. - Bates, Scott - Wright, Simeon - Lawson, Jennifer - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - McNichols, Steven - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Montes, Carlos - Suggs, Harold - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Carter, Robert L. - Clark, Robert George - Howell, Embry - Miller, James E. - Jenkins, Mary F. - Mahone, Sam - Varela, Maria - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Hutchings, Phil - Ladner, Joyce A. - Howard, Elbert - Parker, Wheeler - Williams, Junius W. - Luper, Calvin - Carawan, Guy - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Jones, Clarence B. - Mosnier, Joseph - Williams, Cecil J. - Strickland, William - Tuttle, Rick - Caldwell, Ben R. - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Breaux, Toni - Russell, Bill - Sales, Ruby - Young, Sam - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Holloway, Lucius - Diamond, Dion T. - Ladner, Dorie - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - McClary, Robert - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Library of Congress - Holloway, Emma Kate - Tillow, Walter M. - Vivian, C. T. - McLaurin, Charles - Sobol, Richard B. - Rosenberg, John M. - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Jones, Mary A. - Geiger, Jack - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Howell, Joseph T. - Burns, Julia Matilda - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Blake, Harry - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Bassett, Priscilla - Huggins, Ericka - Jones, James Oscar - Mtume, Norma - Bruce, Walter - Simpson, Euvester - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Crosby, Emilye - Sullivan, Patricia - Cline, David P. - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Head, Rosie M. - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Hicks, Charles Ray - Long, Worth W. - Branch, Raylawni G. - Vickers, Barbara Edna - McDew, Charles - Dahmer, Vernon - Zellner, Dorothy - Holloway, Eddie A. - Crosby, David L. - Thelwell, Michael - Sherrod, Charles - Brown, Robert J. - Camarillo, Mateo - Broadway, Louise W. - Brown, Harold K. - Lawrence, William M. - Richardson, Judy - Collins, Barbara Maria - Young, Carrie Lamar - Bassett, Emmett W. - Fuller, Linda - Anderson, William G. - George, Virginia Simms - Moldovan, Alfred - Noonan, Martha P. - Bond, Julian - Avery, Annie Pearl - Arellanes, Gloria - Browner, Clifford - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Funchess, Glenda - Saunders, William - Dudley, John F. - Smith, Jeanette - Tillow, Kay - Greenberg, Jack - Dixon, Elmer - Dittmer, John - Sellers, Cleveland - Newson, Moses J. - Guyot, Lawrence - Cox, Courtland - Carlos, John - Carawan, Candie - Henderson, Juadine - Ackerman, David M. - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Booker, Simeon - Zapata, Luis - Dove, Samuel - Crosby, Patricia A. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Hopkins, Evans D. - Miller, Grace H. - Terry, Esther M. A. - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Magee, Clarence - Dixon, Aaron - McKinney, Samuel Berry
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 157 Items
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CollectionPatriotic Melodies Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and…
- Date: 1900
Collection Items: View 175 Items
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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: Montgomery, Charles R. - Patton, William Benjamin - Corgey, Dean - Glass, Leonard - Hausinger, William - Tray, James Thomas - Potoczniak, Anthony - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Bennett, Steven R. - Cooney, James Patrick ... Montgomery, Charles R. - Patton, William Benjamin - Corgey, Dean - Glass, Leonard - Hausinger, William - Tray, James Thomas - Potoczniak, Anthony - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Bennett, Steven R. - Cooney, James Patrick - Keenan, Gordie - Diehl, William J. - Halbert, David Maurice - Hilliard, Henry - Rousser, C. A. - Tellepsen, Tom - Larrimer, George - Morrell, David C. - Lindahl, Carl - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Shaffer, Harold L. - Thompson, Robert L. - Aalund, Niels Anders - Harris, Timothy C. - Olsen, Eric Carl - Hensley, James J. - Occupational Folklife Project - Postel, Adolph C. - Laws, Andrew L. - Usher, Michael Gene - Braun, Leo J. - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Mayville, Donnie D. - Seeba, Patrick - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Houston Arts Alliance - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Quesada, José Angel - Jasper, Pat - Glass, Matthew H. - Gage, Charles H. - Kersey, Bobby C. - Vest, Lou C. - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Dickens, Michael W. - Hennessey, William S. - King, Charles H. - Robb, Alan A. - Henry, Mark - Holland, Benny - Patout, Rivers - Burkett, Joe L. - Blume, Dana - Ramirez, Gilda - Bludworth, Richard W. - American Folklife Center - Harris, Eugene - Peterson, Betsy - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Dodd, Harold L. - Mims, Doug
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 1,219 Items
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CollectionPuerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives The digital collection Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives is one component of a collaborative project undertaken by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 72 Items
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CollectionTending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia This collection presents 718 excerpts of sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project Collection. The project documented traditional uses of the mountains in…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 2,017 Items
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CollectionLomax Collection The collection includes 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 451 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: Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal - Owen, Blanton - Shockley, Maggie - Adler, Thomas A. - Mullen, Patrick B. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Jabbour, Alan - Eiler, Terry ... Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Cruise, Crystal - Owen, Blanton - Shockley, Maggie - Adler, Thomas A. - Mullen, Patrick B. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Jabbour, Alan - Eiler, Terry - Richardson, Larry - Choate, Donna - Todd, Zenna - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Wolfe, Charles K. - Ray, Roxie - Patton, Ila - United States. National Park Service - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Jarrell, Tommy - Marshall, Howard W. - Stanley, Lura - Bryan, Mamie - Wilson, Joe - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 2,103 Items
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CollectionWilliam McKinley Papers The papers of army officer, U.S. representative, and governor of Ohio William McKinley (1843-1901), who became the twenty-fifth president of the United States, consist of 131,000 items (121,435 images) most of which…
- Contributor: McKinley, William
Collection Items: View 250 Items
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CollectionSeptember 11, 2001, Documentary Project Flight Attendant. Photo by David A. Taylor, September 2001. September 11, 2001, Documentary Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project captures the reactions, eyewitness accounts,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2001
Collection Items: View 267 Items
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CollectionBand Music from the Civil War Era On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress re-created a typical concert of brass band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. That concert has become the starting-point for…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 55 Items
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CollectionVan Vechten Collection Comprised of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964, the bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the…
- Contributor: Van Vechten, Carl - Lutz, Mark - Mauriber, Saul - Taylor, Prentiss
- Date: 1927
Collection Items: View 1,417 Items
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CollectionRochambeau Map Collection The collection consists of 40 manuscript and 26 printed maps, and a manuscript atlas, the originals of which are in the Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division.
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 200?
Collection Items: View 71 Items
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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 - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Afi/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1897
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