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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. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 1,436 Items
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CollectionGeorge Washington Papers The papers of army officer and first U.S. president George Washington (1732-1799) held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress constitute the largest collection of original Washington papers in the…- Contributor: Washington, George
- Date: 1592
Collection Items: View 35,444 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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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 82 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CollectionFrance in America This online collection presents digitized items from the Library of Congress collection originally made available as the France in America digital library project, a part of the Global Gateways initiative.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 652 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 - Franklin, Benjamin - Oswald, Richard - United States. Legation (France)
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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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CollectionShippen Family Papers The papers of the Shippen family, a wealthy and powerful group of Philadelphians connected by blood and marriage who reached the height of their influence in the mid-eighteenth century, span the years…- Contributor: Nicholson, Joseph - Nicholson, Joseph Hopper - Shippen, Edward - Shippen, Alice Lee - Shippen, Thomas Lee - Nicholson, Rebecca Lloyd - Shippen, William - Livingston, Anne Home Shippen
Collection Items: View 105 Items
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CollectionJohn Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770 As noted in the 2008 HBO mini-series chronicling the life and career of John Adams (1735-1826), as a young lawyer the future president served as counsel for the defense in the trial…Collection Items: View 5 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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CollectionAmazing Grace This collection highlights the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” from the earliest printing of the song to selected performances of it on published and field recordings. These items have been collected…- Date: 1930
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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: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1774
Collection Items: View 326 Items
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CollectionAnna Maria Brodeau Thornton Papers The seven volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1793-1861, of Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (ca.1775-1865) document her position at the center of a Washington, D.C., social circle that included George and Martha Washington,…- Contributor: Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau
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CollectionAlexander Hamilton Papers The papers of Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804), first treasury secretary of the United States, consist of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings (although not his Federalist essays), and correspondence…- Contributor: First Church in Albany - Hamilton, Alexander
Collection Items: View 882 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. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
- Date: 200?
Collection Items: View 71 Items
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CollectionFrederick Law Olmsted Papers The papers of farmer, writer, reformer, landscape architect, urban and suburban planner, and conservationist Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) consist of approximately 24,000 items (roughly 47,300 images), most of which were digitized from…- Contributor: Olmsted, John - Olmsted, Gideon - Olmsted, Frederick Law
Collection Items: View 741 Items
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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 Associates - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot - F.L. Olmsted and Company - Olmsted Brothers - F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted, Frederick Law
Collection Items: View 6,688 Items
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CollectionJames Madison Papers, 1723-1859 James Madison (1751-1836) is one of 23 presidents whose papers are held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The Madison Papers consist of approximately 12,000 items, spanning the period…- Contributor: Madison, James
- Date: 1723
Collection Items: View 12,017 Items
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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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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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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: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 10,774 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 5,394 Items
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CollectionBain Collection The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the…- Contributor: Bain News Service - Bain, George Grantham
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 41,517 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 204 Items
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CollectionCartoon Prints, British The Prints and Photographs Division holds one of the largest collections of British political and satirical prints in America. The approximately 9,000 prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the collection highlight British…- Date: 1620
Collection Items: View 1,026 Items
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CollectionEast Florida Papers This collection consists primarily of the records (65,000 items; 190,918 images) of the Spanish colonial government of East Florida from 1784, when Spain regained the colony from Great Britain according to the…Collection Items: View 480 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
Collection Items: View 91 Items
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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: Kolsky, Ilka - Milhaud, Darius - Dvořák, Antonín - Paganini, Nicol - Totenberg, Roman - Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Schubert, Franz - Brahms, Johannes
- Date: 1846
Collection Items: View 125 Items
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CollectionPosters: Yanker Poster Collection The Yanker Poster Collection includes more than 3,000 political, propaganda, and social issue posters and handbills, dating 1927-1980. Most posters are from the United States, but over 55 other countries and the…- Contributor: Yanker, Gary
- Date: 1927
Collection Items: View 3,501 Items
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CollectionMapping the National Parks This collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present,…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 173 Items
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