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CollectionSheet Music of the Musical Theater Sheet Music of the Musical Theater is a collection of more than 16,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1880 and 1922. These songs, specified as “M1508” items in the Library’s classification…Collection Items: View 17,198 Items
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
Collection Items: View 51,841 Items
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CollectionWorld War I Sheet Music From 1914 through 1920 the Library of Congress acquired over 14,000 pieces of sheet music relating to what ultimately became known as the First World War, with the greatest number coming from…- Date: 1914
Collection Items: View 13,978 Items
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CollectionBaseball Sheet Music This presentation features 292 items of sheet music that reference baseball from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Many of the items shown represent the earliest widely-distributed baseball collectibles;…Collection Items: View 318 Items
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CollectionYiddish American Popular Sheet Music The Library's collection of Yiddish American sheet music is an unusual one for the Library of Congress. It began, not with a donation or purchase of materials which were then cataloged, but…Collection Items: View 1,349 Items
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CollectionCivil War Sheet Music Collection Cover art for "Fire Away Galop" by J. de Jasienski, published by Wm. Hall & Son, New York, 1866. The Civil War Sheet Music Collection at the Library of Congress consists of…- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 2,577 Items
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CollectionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870-1885 Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method…- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 47,573 Items
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CollectionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860 Consists of over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1820 to 1860. This collection complements an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music…- Date: 1820
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CollectionHistoric Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922 Pictured above, Cover art for for "Alice's reverie, op. 18," by J.P. Melmoth, published by Chas. W. Held, New York, 1890. This sheet music collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from…- Date: 1800
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CollectionEarly American Sheet Music The Library of Congress classification number M1.A1 includes music printed or 'copied in manuscript' in the United States or the colonies through 1820. As an early record of musical life in America…- Date: 1820
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CollectionWomen's Suffrage in Sheet Music For as long as socially and politically aware citizens have gathered to voice dissent, music has served a paramount role; the women's suffrage movement proves no exception. From local community suffrage meetings,…Collection Items: View 286 Items
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CollectionAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
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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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CollectionBand Music from the Civil War Era On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress re-created a typical concert of brass band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. That concert has become the starting-point for…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2000
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CollectionCambini Quintets Among the Library of Congress's musical treasures are a set of unique manuscripts by Italian composer Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (1746-1825?) that contain music for over 100 of his string quintets. These…Collection Items: View 101 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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CollectionTransit of Venus March Transit of Venus The Library of Congress joins with NASA in celebrating the second "transit of Venus" since December 6, 1882, by providing access to the score and band parts of John…- Contributor: Sousa, John Philip
- Date: 1769
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CollectionIrving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962 The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer, conductor, writer, and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine Collection. Comprising manuscript and…- Contributor: Fine, Irving
- Date: 1930
Collection Items: View 74 Items
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial…- Contributor: Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth - Druyan, Ann
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 352 Items
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CollectionSilent Film Scores and Arrangements Music and sound have always served an integral role in film, and the Silent Film Scores and Arrangements digital collection offers unique insight into that development. The collection includes over 3,000 items…Collection Items: View 4,646 Items
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CollectionThe Gerry Mulligan Collection [Portrait of Gerry Mulligan, ca. 1980s] by William P. Gottlieb. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. As a saxophonist, composer, arranger and band leader, Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) is a jazz legend.…- Contributor: Forman, Mitchel - Boras, Tom - Mulligan, Gerry - Dankworth, John - Lee, Julian - Mandel, Johnny - Holman, Bill - Cohn, AL - McFarland, Gary - Grusin, Dave - Handy, George - Brookmeyer, Bob
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 153 Items
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CollectionLarry Colwell Dance Photographs, 1944-1966 Photographs of dance and dancing are vital visual documentation of dance practices and performance in the United States. This digital collection represents the entire contents of the Music Division’s collection of Larry…- Contributor: Colwell, Larry - Barboza, Anthony
- Date: 1944
Collection Items: View 108 Items
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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: Stern, Alfred Whital - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 Items
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CollectionPatriotic Melodies Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and…- Date: 1900
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CollectionAaron Copland Collection The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through…- Contributor: Copland, Aaron - Kraft, Victor
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 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 2,544 Items
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CollectionThe Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine in London American actor, singer and comedian Danny Kaye arrives with his wife, Sylvia Fine, for an appearance in London. November 1948. Following the professional lives of…- Contributor: Fine, Sylvia - McDowall, Roddy - Halsman, Philippe - Kaye, Danny - Dena Pictures, Inc - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,050 Items
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CollectionUnearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala The Community Collections Grant project entitled Unearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala aims to document generations-old “heirloom songs” of the Kohala region in the northwest portion of the island of Hawai’i. The…- Contributor: Palya, Adam - Keawe, John - Awa'a, Helen - Solomon, Richard - Stovall, Lauren Kamalei - Golden, Randee - Keawe, Hope - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Lorenzo, U'ilani - Kawaiae'a, Raylene Ha'alelea - Lupenui, Boots - Solomon, Bryan - Hayden, Sharon - Veloria, Audrey
- Date: 2022
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CollectionWilliam P. Gottlieb Collection In 1995 this collection was purchased with financial support from the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund. The collection consists of jazz photographs taken by writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb, from 1938 to…- Contributor: Gottlieb, William P.
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 1,793 Items
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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: Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1934
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CollectionCelebrating CHamoru Nobenas This collection documents devotional prayer rituals based in Roman Catholicism but uniquely adapted and embraced by the Indigenous CHamoru/Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands and among diasporic CHamoru/Chamorro communities throughout the United…- Contributor: Rojas, Carmen Camacho - Pangelinan, Maria Diaz - Quan, Philip Taitano - Leon Guerrero, Zita Taisacan - Pangelinan, Zita Diaz - Atalig, Lina Pangelinan - Bautista, Lola Quan - Forbes, Eric - Flores, Teresita Concepcion - Fejeran, Albert ... Rojas, Carmen Camacho - Pangelinan, Maria Diaz - Quan, Philip Taitano - Leon Guerrero, Zita Taisacan - Pangelinan, Zita Diaz - Atalig, Lina Pangelinan - Bautista, Lola Quan - Forbes, Eric - Flores, Teresita Concepcion - Fejeran, Albert - Pangelinan, Lourdes - Leon Guerrero, Frank - Pangelinan, Victor Diaz - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Nauta, Rita Pangelinan - Borja, Lawrence Arceo - Songsong, Brant M. - Vera, Román María De - Perez, Marie (Cecilia Marie) - Pangelinan, Victoria Diaz - Ramirez, Malia Toni
- Date: 2023
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CollectionBlue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project was conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork in August and…- Contributor: Severt, Carrie - Marshall, Howard W. - Jarrell, Tommy - Owen, Blanton - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Adler, Thomas A. - United States. National Park Service - Cruise, Crystal - Todd, Zenna ... Severt, Carrie - Marshall, Howard W. - Jarrell, Tommy - Owen, Blanton - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Adler, Thomas A. - United States. National Park Service - Cruise, Crystal - Todd, Zenna - Mullen, Patrick B. - Bryan, Mamie - Jabbour, Alan - Wilson, Joe - Eiler, Terry - American Folklife Center - Fleischhauer, Carl - Patton, Ila - Shockley, Maggie - Richardson, Larry - Choate, Donna - Ray, Roxie - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Stanley, Lura - Wolfe, Charles K. - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Owen, Margaret Counts
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 2,103 Items
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CollectionFederal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939 This online presentation includes items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, playbills, programs, and playscripts, including productions…- Contributor: Gottlieb, William P.
- Date: 1938
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CollectionLowell Folklife Project Collection The Lowell Folklife Project was conducted in 1987-1988 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, with support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts…- Contributor: Bartis, Peter - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - United States. National Park Service - Taylor, David Alan - Montaño, Mario - Refugee Arts Group - Lueders-Booth, John - American Folklife Center - Norkunas, Martha K. ... Bartis, Peter - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - United States. National Park Service - Taylor, David Alan - Montaño, Mario - Refugee Arts Group - Lueders-Booth, John - American Folklife Center - Norkunas, Martha K. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Fertig, Barbara C. - Bell, Michael Edward - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - DeNatale, Douglas - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Rankin, Tom - University of Lowell
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 1,140 Items
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CollectionEarly Copyright Records Collection, 1790 to 1870 The documents in this collection are the result of the first federal copyright laws in 1790 and 1831 (as amended) and contain the early copyright records and material held by the federal…- Date: 1790
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CollectionPosters: WPA Posters This collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more…- Date: 1936
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CollectionVan Vechten Collection Comprised of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964, the bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the…- Contributor: Van Vechten, Carl - Lutz, Mark - Mauriber, Saul - Taylor, Prentiss
- Date: 1927
Collection Items: View 1,417 Items
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CollectionPosters: Performing Arts Posters Contains approximately 2,100 posters in the online Performing Arts Posters category represent the entire contents of three collections: the Magic Poster Collection, the Minstrel Poster Collection, and the Theatrical Poster Collection.- Contributor: Metropolitan Litho. Studio - Strobridge & Co. Lith - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - A.S. Seer Print - U.S. Printing Co - U.S. Lithograph Co - Courier Litho. Co
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 2,099 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: Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1934
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