Digital Collections
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CollectionCountry Studies Contains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in the…Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionCountry Profiles This series of profiles of foreign nations is part of the Country Studies Program, formerly the Army Area Handbook Program. The profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography,…Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionGender Issues in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Web Archive Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan are low-income countries where the status of women is far lower than that of women in neighboring countries. Women are frequently deprived of opportunities in education, adequate…Collection Items: View 285 Items
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CollectionFrontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training at the Library of Congress makes available interview transcripts from the oral history archives of the…- Contributor: Warner, Marie - Bentley, Marilyn - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Foreign Affairs Oral History Program
- Date: 1919
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CollectionAfghanistan Web Archive The Afghanistan Web Archive is comprised primarily of websites produced by the Afghan government, specifically the executive branch. Also included are a selection of sites from statistical reporting agencies, banking institutions, universities,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2009
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CollectionMiddle East/North Africa Government Institutions Web Archive An increasing number of government organizations from countries of the Middle East and North Africa are relying on their official websites to disseminate their publications that would have otherwise been available in…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Government Web Archive This collection consists of official government websites for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan and provides an overview of the political, economic, administrative and social situation in these four countries. Several of these…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2015
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CollectionAfrican Government Web Archive The African Government Web Archive provides links to information from key African government ministries, institutions and organizations for the 51 countries in Africa south of the Sahara. This will ensure that the…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionArmenian Rarities Collection The lands of the Armenians were for millennia located in Eastern Anatolia, on the Armenian Highlands, and into the Caucasus Mountain range. First mentioned almost contemporaneously by a Greek and Persian source…Collection Items: View 59 Items
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive The Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive includes campaign sites archived during these countries’ election seasons since 2014. This archive collection includes websites for government bodies, political parties, presidential candidates,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionSouth Asian Digital Collection The South Asian Digital Collection features selected books, serials, and manuscripts related to the present-day countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. All items in this digital…Collection Items: View 903 Items
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CollectionEgyptian Elections Web Archive In 2012, Egypt inaugurated, what was considered by many, one of its first truly free and fair elections, following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. This revolution, part of the larger movement known…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2012
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CollectionBrazilian Environmental Policy Web Archive The Brazilian Environmental Policy web archive presents a sampling of municipal web-content produced between 2010 and 2021 – following Brazil’s inclusion as one of the five emerging “BRICS” economies. This expanded economic…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Hispanic Division
- Date: 2019
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CollectionEast European Government Ministries Web Archive Websites of East European government ministries and agencies contain critical, primary sources for the study of all aspects of political, economic, and social life in the region. Much of the content on…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. European Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionOmar Ibn Said Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave…- Contributor: Bird, Isaac - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - American Bible Society - See, Sheikh Sana - Thomson, William Hanna - American Ethnological Society - Said, Omar Ibn - Dwight, Theodore - Dukur, Muḥammad - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division ... Bird, Isaac - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - American Bible Society - See, Sheikh Sana - Thomson, William Hanna - American Ethnological Society - Said, Omar Ibn - Dwight, Theodore - Dukur, Muḥammad - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Rothman, Adam - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Beard, Derrick Joshua - Kebe, Lamine - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1741
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CollectionKosovo Political and Social Issues Web Archive The Kosovo Political and Social Issues Web Archive is comprised of sites that address political and social issues and inform public policy. Content includes websites of Kosovo political parties, nongovernmental organizations, voluntary…Collection Items: View 25 Items
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CollectionEgypt 2008 Web Archive In 2008 Egypt witnessed a remarkable experience rich in political and democratic practices, and the sites captured back then should be revisited in the context of current events. In Spring 2008 the…- Date: 2008
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CollectionEltaher Collection The Eltaher Collection consists of more than 2,000 items in various formats, including books, pamphlets, photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings among other documents. The majority of the collection is in Arabic,…Collection Items: View 107 Items
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CollectionAbdul Hamid II Collection This collection contains 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They portray the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II and…- Contributor: Abdülhamid II - Abdullah Frères - Sebah & Joaillier
- Date: 1880
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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 407 Items
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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: Hawes, Butch - Odetta - Dehr, Rich - Berman, Marcia - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Miller, Frank - Mohr, Larry - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Gilkyson, Terry
- Date: 1894
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CollectionNorth Korean Serials This digital collection presented here makes some of the most sought-after materials in the Library’s North Korean collection available for free. The North Korean Serials digital collection at the Library of Congress…Collection Items: View 5,413 Items
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CollectionSingle Sheet Maps, Title Collection The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress holds over 1.5 million single-sheet maps. Many of the single-sheet maps that were received by the Geography and Map Division before the advent of…Collection Items: View 1,022 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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CollectionPhillips/Mathée Collection The Phillips/Mathée Collection spans the years 1913-2014, but only one item is dated later than 1972. The collection is a companion to the Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence, also held by…- Date: 1913
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CollectionCalifornia as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded…Collection Items: View 206 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, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
- Date: 1934
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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
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CollectionCarnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS). This collection, created primarily…- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin - Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Date: 1864
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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
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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: Aalund, Niels Anders - Postel, Adolph C. - Hausinger, William - Blume, Dana - Shaffer, Harold L. - Patout, Rivers - Rousser, C. A. - Jasper, Pat - Mayville, Donnie D. - Dodd, Harold L. ... Aalund, Niels Anders - Postel, Adolph C. - Hausinger, William - Blume, Dana - Shaffer, Harold L. - Patout, Rivers - Rousser, C. A. - Jasper, Pat - Mayville, Donnie D. - Dodd, Harold L. - Tray, James Thomas - Harris, Eugene - Thompson, Robert L. - Burkett, Joe L. - Gage, Charles H. - Laws, Andrew L. - Cooney, James Patrick - King, Charles H. - Hilliard, Henry - Henry, Mark - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Keenan, Gordie - Potoczniak, Anthony - Olsen, Eric Carl - Corgey, Dean - Holland, Benny - Quesada, José Angel - Ramirez, Gilda - Peterson, Betsy - Morrell, David C. - Tellepsen, Tom - Patton, William Benjamin - Braun, Leo J. - Hensley, James J. - Occupational Folklife Project - Dickens, Michael W. - Larrimer, George - Vest, Lou C. - Bludworth, Richard W. - American Folklife Center - Usher, Michael Gene - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Kersey, Bobby C. - Montgomery, Charles R. - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Diehl, William J. - Lindahl, Carl - Hennessey, William S. - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Halbert, David Maurice - Bennett, Steven R. - Glass, Leonard - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Mims, Doug - Seeba, Patrick - Glass, Matthew H. - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Houston Arts Alliance - Harris, Timothy C. - Robb, Alan A.
- Date: 2010
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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 Associates - F.L. Olmsted and Company - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted, John Charles - F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted Brothers - Olmsted, Frederick Law - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot
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