Digital Collections
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CollectionNative American Constitutions and Legal Materials The Law Library of Congress collection contains a variety of Native American legal materials. The Law Library holds most of the laws and constitutions from the early 19th century produced by the...Collection Items: View 428 Items
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CollectionHistoric American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey Overview of the HABS/HAER/HALS collections, which document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design from the 17th-20th centuries in the United States and its territories through measured drawings, photographs, and written historical...- Contributor: Historic American Buildings Survey
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 44,391 Items
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CollectionLiving Nations, Living Words This collection—part of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” signature project—contains audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets reading and discussing an original poem. Listen to Joy Harjo, Louise...Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionLouisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase is a landmark event in American history, one that had a lasting impact not only on the size of the United States, but also on its economic, cultural, and...Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionHans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents, 1433-1877 The Hans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents, 1433-1877, consists of 162 multipage items (5,950 images) dating mainly from 1500 to 1800, which were digitized from 4 reels of previously produced...- Contributor: Kraus, Hans Peter
Collection Items: View 237 Items
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CollectionMilitary Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation....- Date: 1570
Collection Items: View 4,492 Items
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CollectionGroups of Images (LOTs) More than 13,000 groups of photographs, prints, drawings, and other visual material offer access to 1.5 million items dating primarily from the 1800s through the present. The groups, called "LOTs," gather images...- Date: 1800
Collection Items: View 12,982 Items
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CollectionLibrary of Congress Websites Web Archive The Library of Congress Websites Web Archive is a collection of websites representing the Library's online presence. Some archived URLs map to specific parts of the organization, for example the American Folklife...- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2016
Collection Items: View 90 Items
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CollectionStereograph Cards Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The Prints & Photographs Division's holdings...- Contributor: H.C. White Co - Keystone View Company - American Stereoscopic Company - International Stereograph Co. - Underwood & Underwood - Rau, William Herman - Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) - Strohmeyer & Wyman
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 49,136 Items
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CollectionCoronavirus Web Archive The Coronavirus Web Archive contains representative web-based content that documents the impact and response to the Covid-19 pandemic on communities across the United States and the world. This collection was curated by...- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2020
Collection Items: View 510 Items
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CollectionAncestral Voices Among the very first activities of the American Folklife Center (AFC) -- created in 1976 -- was the Federal Cylinder Project (FCP), a large-scale initiative to preserve and provide access to historic...Collection Items: View 26 Items
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CollectionAmerican Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2003
Collection Items: View 255 Items
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CollectionYudin Collection of Russian-American Company Records, 1783-1946 The Russian-American Company records, once part of the personal library of Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin (1840-1912), date from 1783 to 1830 and include 166 items (1,369 images), ranging in length from one to...
- Contributor: I︠u︡din, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich) - Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) - Rossiĭsko-Amerikanskai︠a︡ Kompanii︠a
Collection Items: View 171 Items
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CollectionPioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 341 Items
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CollectionBy Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's rookie season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15th, 1947, Robinson became the first African American in the...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 71 Items
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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 207 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: Daniels, Nathan W. - Richmond, Cora L. V. (Cora Linn Victoria)
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CollectionHispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Rael, Juan Bautista - Lobato, Salomé - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Archuleta, Ricardo - American Folklife Center - Chávez, Adelaido - Romero, Alfredo - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Lobato, Julián ... Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Rael, Juan Bautista - Lobato, Salomé - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Archuleta, Ricardo - American Folklife Center - Chávez, Adelaido - Romero, Alfredo - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Lobato, Julián - Cantú, José Ignacio - Mares, Remigio - García, Pedro - Medina, Esteban - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Montoya, Luis - Arellano, Narciso - Arellano, Esequiel - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Trujillo, Amado - Chávez, Adolfo - Anaya, Nieves - Anaya, Ernestina
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 226 Items
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CollectionCapital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925 The fourth in a series of local history collections presented by the National Digital Library Program as part of American Memory, joining "California As I Saw It", Pioneering the Upper Midwest, and...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 143 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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CollectionTending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia This collection presents 718 excerpts of sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project Collection. The project documented traditional uses of the mountains in...- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 2,017 Items
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CollectionWorking in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture...- Contributor: McCarl, Robert - Smith, Lynda S. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Taylor, David Alan - Cooper, Martha - American Folklife Center - United States. National Park Service. Mid-Atlantic Regional Office - Lloyd, Timothy Charles - Levitas, Susan - Pascrell, Bill - Lautenberg, Frank R. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1993
Collection Items: View 4,388 Items
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CollectionGoldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings This category consists of all of the individually issued prints and drawings in the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection: 1,688 items dating primarily from the 1880s to the 1960s. The collection...- Date: 1800
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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: Brady, Mathew B. - Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin)
- Date: 1855
Collection Items: View 5,005 Items
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CollectionDayton C. Miller Collection The collection contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and nonwestern...- Contributor: Miller, Dayton Clarence
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 2,636 Items
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CollectionCartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection Herbert L. Block (1909-2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. His long chronicle of major social and political...- Contributor: Block, Herbert
- Date: 1930
Collection Items: View 9,163 Items
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CollectionCarpenter Collection The more than 15,000 images in the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection represent the extensive photographic files assembled by Frank G. Carpenter and his daughter Frances to illustrate his popular writings on...- Contributor: Carpenter, Frances - Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 1,823 Items
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CollectionWorld's Transportation Commission This collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs,rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed...- Contributor: Jackson, William Henry
- Date: 1894
Collection Items: View 888 Items
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CollectionAbdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress In 1884 Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gifted the Library of Congress with a collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works that he had richly embossed with this inscription in English, French and Ottoman:...Collection Items: View 323 Items
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CollectionMargaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives This selection of fieldwork materials (212 folders containing approximately 9,450 items; 37,273 images) from the papers of noted American anthropologist and writer Margaret Mead (1901–1978) spans the years 1925-1978, with the bulk...- Contributor: Institute for Intercultural Studies - Cobb, Edith - South Pacific Ethnographic Archives - Belo, Jane - Fortune, Reo - Schwartz, Theodore - Benedict, Ruth - Lowenfeld, Margaret - Romanucci-Ross, Lola - Mead, Margaret - Foerstel, Lenora - Wolfenstein, Martha - Bateson, Gregory
Collection Items: View 216 Items
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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