Digital Collections
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CollectionChildren's Book Selections This special collection presents children’s books selected from the General and Rare Book Collections at the Library of Congress. The collection includes classic works that are still read by children today, and…Collection Items: View 68 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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CollectionNational Child Labor Committee Collection Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC…- Contributor: National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) - Hine, Lewis Wickes
- Date: 1908
Collection Items: View 5,125 Items
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CollectionHome Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio Before the age of radio, television, and other electronic diversions, families made their own entertainment in the home by playing games, reading aloud, performing plays, and, of course, by making music. Children…- Date: 1800
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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
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CollectionSelected Digitized Books This is a growing collection of selected books and other materials from the Library of Congress General Collections that can be made openly available. Most of the materials in this collection were…Collection Items: View 156,608 Items
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CollectionLewis Carroll Scrapbook An original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Dodgson was…Collection Items: View 10 Items
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CollectionLewis H. Machen Family Papers The Gresham family material in the Lewis H. Machen Family Papers consists of seven diaries kept by Georgia teenager LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847-1865) during the Civil War, and approximately 550 items of…- Contributor: Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry) - Machen, Minnie Gresham - Machen, James P. - Machen, Arthur Webster - Machen, Emmeline - Gresham, Leroy Wiley - Machen, Caroline Webster
- Date: 1860
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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
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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: Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 895 Items
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CollectionCaptain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal captures the culture and music of the men, women, and children who worked and lived along the Ohio and Erie Canal.…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan - American Folklife Center - Nye, Pearl R. - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1937
Collection Items: View 141 Items
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CollectionCabinet of American Illustration Contains more than four thousand original drawings by American book, magazine, and newspaper illustrators, made primarily between 1880 and 1910. The collection includes illustrations for magazines, novels, and children's books; cartoons; cover…- Contributor: Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas) - Rogers, W. A. (William Allen) - Steele, Frederic Dorr - Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green - Herford, Oliver - Wright, George Hand - Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay) - Beard, Daniel Carter - Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) - Fogarty, Thomas
- Date: 1830
Collection Items: View 3,938 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, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 451 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: American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2001
Collection Items: View 267 Items
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CollectionCartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon Contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration, spanning the years 1780 to 1977 and includes works by 521 American and foreign artists and illustrators.…- Contributor: Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection (Library of Congress) - Swann, Erwin
- Date: 1780
Collection Items: View 790 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: Spafford, Horatio Gates - American Colony (Jerusalem) - Vester, Bertha Spafford - Spafford, Anna T.
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 536 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
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CollectionIraq War 2003 Web Archive On March 20, 2003, the United States began military action against Iraq for the stated purpose of deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and preventing his use of suspected nuclear weapons (weapons of…- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2008
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CollectionPosters: Spanish Civil War Posters The collection consists of approximately 120 posters created between 1936 and 1939 during the Spanish Civil War.- Contributor: Unión General De Trabajadores De España - Puyol, Ramón - Hinsberger, Aleix - Spain. Ministerio De Instrucción Pública Y Sanidad - F.A.I. (Organization : Spain) - Falange Española. Jefatura Nacional De Prensa Y Propaganda. Seccion Mural - Bardasano, José - Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo (Spain) - Catalonia (Spain). Comissariat De Propaganda - Fontseré, Carles
- Date: 1936
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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: Kennedy, Stetson - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 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. - Kimball, M. H. - McPherson & Oliver - Gladstone, William A. - Kellogg Brothers - Ball, James Presley - M'clees, Jas. E. (James E.) - Paxson, Chas. (Charles)
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 332 Items
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CollectionLiljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs New Photos Added! View the most recent additions- Contributor: Liljenquist, Jason George - Liljenquist, Thomas Richard - Liljenquist, Christian Blaine - Liljenquist, Brandon Paul
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 7,784 Items
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CollectionSouth-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection resulted from an ethnographic field project conducted in the summer of 1977 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment…- Contributor: Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - American Folklife Center - Fleischhauer, Carl - Marshall, Howard W. - Stanley, David - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McGraw, Hugh - Coelho, Dennis - Adler, Thomas A. - Robinson, Beverly J. - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Blackmarr, Syd - Hamrick, Raymond C. - Jabbour, Alan
- Date: 1977
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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: Shippen, William - Nicholson, Joseph Hopper - Nicholson, Rebecca Lloyd - Shippen, Thomas Lee - Livingston, Anne Home Shippen - Shippen, Edward - Shippen, Alice Lee - Nicholson, Joseph
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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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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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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: Hollem, Howard R. - Vachon, John - Palmer, Alfred T. - Collins, Marjory - Bransby, David - United States. Office of War Information - Dixon, Royden - Lee, Russell - Rosskam, Louise - Delano, Jack ... Hollem, Howard R. - Vachon, John - Palmer, Alfred T. - Collins, Marjory - Bransby, David - United States. Office of War Information - Dixon, Royden - Lee, Russell - Rosskam, Louise - Delano, Jack - United States. Farm Security Administration - Siegel, Arthur S. - Rous, John - Liberman, Howard - Feininger, Andreas - Downey, Jack - Rothstein, Arthur - Wolcott, Marion Post - Sherwood, Mark - Rittase, William M. - Jacobs, Fenno - Collier, John
- Date: 1939
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CollectionLibrary of Congress Concerts The Library of Congress Music Division has presented one of the world's most distinguished concert series for nearly ninety years. The concert webcasts featured on this site provide an introduction to the…Collection Items: View 35 Items
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CollectionAinu and Ezochi Rare Collection This collection of rare materials brings together books, manuscripts, and maps produced during the 18th and 19th centuries that document Japanese exploration and observation of the island and prefecture now known as…Collection Items: View 92 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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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 5,176 Items
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CollectionSigmund Freud Papers Digitization of this collection was made possible by The Polonsky Foundation.- Contributor: Freud, Sigmund
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CollectionBess Lomax Hawes Collection The Bess Lomax Hawes collection is comprised of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax…- Contributor: Odetta - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Miller, Frank - Dehr, Rich - Mohr, Larry - Gilkyson, Terry - Berman, Marcia - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawes, Butch
- Date: 1894
Collection Items: View 365 Items
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CollectionErnest Bloch Collection This site features nineteen early manuscript compositions by composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), spanning the period from 1896 to 1916, and comprising a portion of the Ernest Bloch Collection at the Library of…- Contributor: Bloch, Ernest
- Date: 1888
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CollectionGenthe Collection Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was an internationally recognized photographer working in the soft-focus pictorialist style. The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio after his death.- Contributor: Genthe, Arnold
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 16,862 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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CollectionJames A. Garfield Papers The papers of U.S. president, army officer, lawyer, and educator James A. Garfield (1831-1881) consist of approximately 80,000 items (200,083 images), most of which were digitized from 177 reels of previously produced…- Contributor: Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield - Garfield, James A. (James Abram)
Collection Items: View 488 Items
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CollectionRosa Parks Papers The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division,…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa - Williams, Aubrey Willis
Collection Items: View 2,512 Items
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CollectionEmile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry This collection showcases the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2002
Collection Items: View 532 Items
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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