Search Collections
-
CollectionTissandier Collection The Tissandier Collection contains approximately 975 items documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries. Subjects include general and technical images of…
- Contributor: Tissandier, Gaston - Tissandier, Albert
- Date: 1773
Collection Items: View 422 Items
-
CollectionThe March King: John Philip Sousa Painting of Sousa during US Marine Band era, [n.d.]. Performing Arts Reading Room.
- Contributor: Sousa, John Philip
- Date: 1849
Collection Items: View 674 Items
-
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
-
CollectionGarden and Forest Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry,…
- Contributor: Sargent, Charles Sprague
- Date: 1888
Collection Items: View 11 Items
-
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) - Stern, Alfred Whital - Library of Congress
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 Items
-
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: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1774
Collection Items: View 278 Items
-
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
-
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 402 Items
-
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: Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.) - Geo. R. Lawrence Co - West Coast Art Co - Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio) - Pillsbury Picture Co
- Date: 1851
Collection Items: View 4,320 Items
-
CollectionBrady-Handy Collection In 1954 the Library of Congress purchased from Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans, the daughters of Levin C. Handy approximately 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives. The L.C. Handy Studio…
- Contributor: Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin) - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1855
Collection Items: View 5,003 Items
-
CollectionLawrence & Houseworth Collection In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition…
- Contributor: Lawrence & Houseworth
- Date: 1862
Collection Items: View 910 Items
-
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
Collection Items: View 7,799 Items