Digital Collections
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CollectionCivil War Explore the faces, places and events of the U.S. Civil War through photographs, prints and drawings. The Prints & Photographs Division holds thousands of images relating to the Civil War, found in…
- Contributor: Brady, Mathew B. - Smith, William Morris - O'Sullivan, Timothy H. - Gardner, Alexander - Barnard, George N. - Gibson, James F.
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 20,457 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 199 Items
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CollectionCivil War Maps Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Virginia - Virginia Historical Society
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 2,338 Items
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CollectionDonald Benham Civil War Collection The Donald Benham Civil War Collection consists of 300 items (576 images) in one container, and spans the years 1806 to 1916, with the bulk dating from 1850 to 1870. The collection…
- Contributor: Benham, Donald
Collection Items: View 15 Items
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CollectionCivil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints Provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath. The images represent the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision…
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 8,724 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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CollectionLiljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs New Photos Added! View the most recent additions
- Contributor: Liljenquist, Thomas Richard - Liljenquist, Christian Blaine - Liljenquist, Brandon Paul - Liljenquist, Jason George
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 7,825 Items
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CollectionCivil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers Comprising 164 items (359 digital images), this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865 documenting the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member…
- Contributor: Reynolds, Juliana Smith - Reynolds, Tilton C.
- Date: 1851
Collection Items: View 174 Items
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CollectionWashington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 This collection represents three manuscript volumes that document daily life in Washington, D.C., through the eyes of U.S. Patent Office examiner Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), including Taft's connection with Abraham Lincoln and…
- Contributor: Taft, Horatio Nelson - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 8 Items
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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.
Collection Items: View 332 Items
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CollectionConfederate States of America Records The records of the Confederate States of America span the years 1854-1889, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1861-1865, during the Civil War in America. The collection relates…
- Contributor: Wadsworth, James Wolcott - Confederate States of America. Navy - Confederate States of America. Department of Justice - Confederate States of America. War Department - Confederate States of America. Department of State - Confederate States of America. Department of the Treasury - Confederate States of America. Post-Office Department - Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee - Confederate States of America
Collection Items: View 89 Items
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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: Moore, Henry P. - Paxson, Chas. (Charles) - Kellogg Brothers - M'clees, Jas. E. (James E.) - Gladstone, William A. - McPherson & Oliver - Ball, James Presley - Kimball, M. H.
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 332 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 196 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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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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CollectionFrance in America This online collection presents digitized items from the Library of Congress collection originally made available as the France in America digital library project, a part of the Global Gateways initiative. Conceived in…
Collection Items: View 651 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 906 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. 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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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: Siegel, Arthur S. - Dixon, Royden - Sherwood, Mark - United States. Farm Security Administration - Palmer, Alfred T. - Rothstein, Arthur - Vachon, John - Rosskam, Louise - Feininger, Andreas - Rittase, William M. ... Siegel, Arthur S. - Dixon, Royden - Sherwood, Mark - United States. Farm Security Administration - Palmer, Alfred T. - Rothstein, Arthur - Vachon, John - Rosskam, Louise - Feininger, Andreas - Rittase, William M. - Wolcott, Marion Post - Collier, John - Collins, Marjory - Hollem, Howard R. - Delano, Jack - Liberman, Howard - United States. Office of War Information - Downey, Jack - Jacobs, Fenno - Lee, Russell - Rous, John - Bransby, David
- Date: 1939
Collection Items: View 1,623 Items
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CollectionCharles Wellington Reed Papers, 1776 to 1926 The papers of Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed (1841-1926) span the years 1776-1926, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1862-1865, when he served with the…
- Contributor: Reed, Charles Wellington
- Date: 1776
Collection Items: View 36 Items
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CollectionEdwin McMasters Stanton Papers, 1818-1921 The papers of lawyer and Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) span the years 1818-1921, with the bulk of the material originating between 1862 and 1870. They consist of approximately 7,650…
- Contributor: Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters)
Collection Items: View 56 Items
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CollectionE. B. Washburne Papers The papers of United States representative from Illinois, diplomat, lawyer, and historian E. B. (Elihu Benjamin) Washburne (1816-1887) consist of 37,000 items in 144 containers. The material spans the years 1829-1915, with…
- Contributor: Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin)
Collection Items: View 169 Items
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CollectionNathan W. Daniels Diary and Scrapbook The papers of Union army officer and Freedmen’s Bureau advocate Nathan W. Daniels (1836-1867), spanning the years 1861-1867, consist of three volumes of a handwritten diary with photographs, illustrations, and newspaper clippings…
- Contributor: Richmond, Cora L. V. (Cora Linn Victoria) - Daniels, Nathan W.
Collection Items: View 11 Items
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CollectionMary Ann Bickerdyke Papers The papers of Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke (1817-1901), a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission who was known as "Mother Bickerdyke" to Union soldiers, consist of 1,800…
- Contributor: Bickerdyke, Mary Ann
Collection Items: View 97 Items
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CollectionBetty Herndon Maury Maury Papers The papers of diarist Betty Herndon Maury Maury (1835-1903) consist of a diary kept by Maury from June 3, 1861, to February 18, 1863. The two-volume diary was scanned from one reel…
- Contributor: Maury, Betty Herndon Maury
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 7 Items
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CollectionPhilip Henry Sheridan Papers The papers of army officer Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) span the years 1853-1896, with the bulk of the material originating between 1862 and 1887. They consist of approximately 18,000 items digitally reproduced…
- Contributor: Sheridan, Philip Henry
Collection Items: View 760 Items
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CollectionSamuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence The papers of Union soldier Samuel J. Gibson (1833-1878) consist of a diary kept by Gibson in 1864 while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and a letter to his…
- Contributor: Gibson, Samuel J.
Collection Items: View 7 Items
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CollectionJohn Carvel Arnold Papers The papers of laborer and Union soldier John Carvel Arnold (1833-1865) consist of 190 items (533 images) in one container and span the years 1856-1937, with the bulk dating from 1864 to…
- Contributor: Arnold, John Carvel
Collection Items: View 13 Items
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CollectionWm. Oland Bourne Papers The papers of reformer, poet, editor, and clergyman William Oland Bourne (1819-1901) span the years 1841-1885, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1856-1867. As editor of the periodical…
Collection Items: View 56 Items
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CollectionClara Barton Papers The papers of nurse, educator, philanthropist, and lecturer Clara Barton (1821-1912) consist of 62,000 items (81,608 images), most of which were digitized from 123 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years…
- Contributor: Hubbell, Julian B. (Julian Bertine) - Barton, Clara
- Date: 1805
Collection Items: View 975 Items
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CollectionMatthew Fontaine Maury Papers The papers of naval officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) consist of 14,650 items (22,631 images) scanned from original materials. Spanning the years 1825-1960, with the bulk concentrated in the period…
- Contributor: Maury, Matthew Fontaine - Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) - Coblentz, Catherine Cate
Collection Items: View 125 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
Collection Items: View 29 Items
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CollectionUlysses S. Grant Papers The papers of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), army officer and eighteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 50,000 items dating from 1819-1974, with the bulk falling in the period 1843-1885. They…
- Contributor: Grant, Julia Dent - Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) - Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.)
Collection Items: View 471 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
Collection Items: View 767 Items
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CollectionNational American Woman Suffrage Association Records The records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) span the years from 1839 to 1961 but are most numerous for the period 1890 to 1930. The collection consists of approximately…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection Items: View 2,141 Items
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CollectionLouis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers The papers of naval officer Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877) consist of 8,000 items (11,135 images) scanned from original materials. Spanning the years 1797 to 1874, the collection contains correspondence, military records, financial…
- Contributor: Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes
Collection Items: View 54 Items
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CollectionNAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records The processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund consist of approximately 80,000 items of which about 80% (210,299 images) have been digitized thus far. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Collection Items: View 2,373 Items
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CollectionAndrew Johnson Papers The papers of vice president, senator, and representative Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who became the seventeenth president of the Unites States in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, consist of 40,000 items (63,710 images),…
- Contributor: Moore, William G. (William George) - Johnson, Andrew
Collection Items: View 98 Items
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CollectionHotchkiss Map Collection The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of…
- Date: 1828
Collection Items: View 350 Items
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CollectionManuscript Division Web Archive The Manuscript Division Web Archive includes principally websites of organizations with which the Division has an existing relationship. Although diverse in content, they fall into several broad categories. First, there are sites…
- Contributor: Ameen Rihani Organization - Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century - Streit Council for a Union of Democracies - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (U.S.) - Sigmund Freud Copyrights (Firm) - National Coalition for History - American Society of Landscape Architects - Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society - Phi Beta Kappa ... Ameen Rihani Organization - Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century - Streit Council for a Union of Democracies - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (U.S.) - Sigmund Freud Copyrights (Firm) - National Coalition for History - American Society of Landscape Architects - Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society - Phi Beta Kappa - Sigmund Freud Archives - National Consumers' League - National Urban League - Solidarity Center (Afl-Cio) - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - American Council of Learned Societies - Freud Museum (London, England) - National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - National Council of Jewish Women - American Studies Association - Center for International Private Enterprise - Navy League of the United States - Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) - Library of Congress - Society of Woman Geographers - League of Women Voters (U.S.) - Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) - American Historical Association
- Date: 2008
Collection Items: View 44 Items