Digital Collections
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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 52,090 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…
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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 47,574 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
Collection Items: View 15,479 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 7,862 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 2,492 Items
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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 242 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. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- 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
Collection Items: View 196 Items
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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. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 55 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 41 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 12 Items
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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 80 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: Cohn, AL - Forman, Mitchel - Grusin, Dave - Dankworth, John - Holman, Bill - McFarland, Gary - Handy, George - Mandel, Johnny - Mulligan, Gerry - Boras, Tom - Lee, Julian - Brookmeyer, Bob
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 151 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: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 351 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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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…
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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
Collection Items: View 175 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 2,637 Items
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CollectionSerge Koussevitzky Archive The Music Division at The Library of Congress is principal home to the legacy of Serge Koussevitzky (1874- 1951), indefatigable champion of 20th century composers and a vital figure in the world…
- Contributor: Serge Koussevitzky Collection (Library of Congress) - Koussevitzky, Olga - Koussevitzky, Serge - Naumov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 506 Items
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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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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: Halsman, Philippe - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Fine, Sylvia - McDowall, Roddy - Kaye, Danny - Dena Pictures, Inc
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,055 Items
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CollectionJohn A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers John A. Lomax, Sr., and his son Alan Lomax became stewards of a nascent Archive of American Folk-Song in September 1933. Their tenure lasted until Alan separated from the Library of Congress…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1907
Collection Items: View 415 Items
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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: Mullen, Patrick B. - Eiler, Terry - Severt, Carrie - American Folklife Center - Jarrell, Tommy - Todd, Zenna - Patton, Ila - Choate, Donna - Fleischhauer, Carl - United States. National Park Service ... Mullen, Patrick B. - Eiler, Terry - Severt, Carrie - American Folklife Center - Jarrell, Tommy - Todd, Zenna - Patton, Ila - Choate, Donna - Fleischhauer, Carl - United States. National Park Service - Owen, Margaret Counts - Jabbour, Alan - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Cruise, Crystal - Wolfe, Charles K. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Stanley, Lura - Marshall, Howard W. - Shockley, Maggie - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Wilson, Joe - Bryan, Mamie - Owen, Blanton - Ray, Roxie - Richardson, Larry - Adler, Thomas A.
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 2,103 Items
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CollectionNew Mexico Folklife Project Collection The New Mexico Folklife Project was conducted by Carl Fleischhauer of the American Folklife Center, in the summers of 1984 and 1985. In 1984, the effort supported the work of the folklorist…
- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) - Kalb, Laurie Beth - Fleischhauer, Carl - Pratt, Boyd C. - New Mexico. Historic Preservation Division
- Date: 1984
Collection Items: View 112 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
Collection Items: View 9,217 Items
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CollectionPinelands Folklife Project The Pinelands Folklife Project collection represents the culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of…
- Contributor: Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Samuelson, Sue - McDonald, Dennis - Vivian, V. Eugene - O'Connor, Malachi - Hunn, Eugene S. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Thatcher, Elaine - American Folklife Center - Hufford, Mary ... Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Samuelson, Sue - McDonald, Dennis - Vivian, V. Eugene - O'Connor, Malachi - Hunn, Eugene S. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Thatcher, Elaine - American Folklife Center - Hufford, Mary - Sinton, John W. - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - Parsons, Gerald E. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Pinelands Cultural Society - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Cervetto, Jack - Lund, Jens - Glassie, Henry - Shourds, Harry V. - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Little, Silas - Ridgway, Merce - Tweed, Stewart M. - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Cartwright, Christine A. - Cohen, David Steven - Orr, Jay - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane)
- Date: 1983
Collection Items: View 1,325 Items
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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: Lueders-Booth, John - Wachs, Eleanor F. - American Folklife Center - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Taylor, David Alan - Fleischhauer, Carl - Fertig, Barbara C. - United States. National Park Service - University of Lowell - Norkunas, Martha K. ... Lueders-Booth, John - Wachs, Eleanor F. - American Folklife Center - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Taylor, David Alan - Fleischhauer, Carl - Fertig, Barbara C. - United States. National Park Service - University of Lowell - Norkunas, Martha K. - Bell, Michael Edward - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - Bartis, Peter - Rankin, Tom - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - DeNatale, Douglas - Refugee Arts Group - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Montaño, Mario
- 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
Collection Items: View 625 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 947 Items
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CollectionCartoon Prints, American This assemblage of more than 800 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series,…
- Contributor: Childs, John - Currier, Nathaniel - Maurer, Louis - Baillie, James S. - Robinson, Henry R. - Currier & Ives - Bucholzer, H. - Clay, Edward Williams - Magee, John L.
- Date: 1766
Collection Items: View 807 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: Ball, James Presley - M'clees, Jas. E. (James E.) - McPherson & Oliver - Moore, Henry P. - Gladstone, William A. - Kellogg Brothers - Paxson, Chas. (Charles) - Kimball, M. H.
- Date: 1861
Collection Items: View 332 Items
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CollectionAlexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress The collection contains over 145,000 items. The online version contains 4,695 items (equaling about 51,500 images), consists of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone…
- Contributor: Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene) - Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard - Bell, Alexander Graham - Fairchild, Marian
- Date: 1862
Collection Items: View 4,715 Items
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CollectionAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a…
- Contributor: United States. Works Progress Administration - Federal Writers' Project - Writers' Program (U.S.) - United States. Work Projects Administration
- Date: 1936
Collection Items: View 2,838 Items