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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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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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CollectionAn American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 326 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: Courier Litho. Co - Strobridge & Co. Lith - U.S. Printing Co - A.S. Seer Print - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - U.S. Lithograph Co - Metropolitan Litho. Studio
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 2,099 Items
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CollectionVariety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1996
Collection Items: View 81 Items
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CollectionCartoon Prints, British The Prints and Photographs Division holds one of the largest collections of British political and satirical prints in America. The approximately 9,000 prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the collection highlight British…- Date: 1620
Collection Items: View 1,026 Items
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CollectionWashington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 This collection represents three manuscript volumes that document daily life in Washington, D.C., through the eyes of U.S. Patent Office examiner Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), including Taft's connection with Abraham Lincoln and…- Contributor: Taft, Horatio Nelson - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1861
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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: McDowall, Roddy - Fine, Sylvia - Kaye, Danny - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Halsman, Philippe - Dena Pictures, Inc
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,055 Items
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CollectionGuide Records This category provides an overview of collections in the Prints & Photographs Division in order to indicate the breadth and depth of the visual resources available for research. The descriptions of "filing…- Date: 1839
Collection Items: View 135 Items
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CollectionHistorical Media Publications Collection The Historical Media Publications Collection provides researcher access to the Library's vast holdings of publications related to the burgeoning development of the moving image and broadcasting industries in the early to mid-20th…Collection Items: View 4,786 Items
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CollectionLars Schmidt Collection Swedish theatrical producer, director, and publisher Lars Schmidt (1917-2009) spent over 50 years in the theater business. He began as a licensee of American plays and owner of a theater boat in…- Contributor: Schmidt, Lars
- Date: 1910
Collection Items: View 269 Items
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CollectionBain Collection The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the…- Contributor: Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 41,519 Items
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CollectionCivil War Maps Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Virginia Historical Society - Library of Virginia - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 2,338 Items
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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 - American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 Items
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CollectionLeonard Bernstein About the Leonard Bernstein Collection The Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress is as exceptional as its name would suggest. Bernstein, arguably the most prominent figure in American classical music…- Contributor: Coates, Helen - Bernstein, Leonard - Harmon, Charlie - Gottlieb, Jack
- Date: 1900
Collection Items: View 3,832 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 176 Items
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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: Mauriber, Saul - Lutz, Mark - Van Vechten, Carl - Taylor, Prentiss
- Date: 1927
Collection Items: View 1,417 Items
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CollectionYiddish Language Play Scripts from the Lawrence Marwick Collection The Yiddish theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City, and other urban centers, during the early twentieth century. The 77 unpublished…Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionZora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained…- Contributor: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Date: 1925
Collection Items: View 22 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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CollectionThe Roger Reynolds Collection Roger Reynolds' compositions incorporate elements of theater, digital signal processing, dance, video, and real-time computer spatialization, in a signature multidimensionality of engagement. This Web site provides a glimpse into the process of…- Contributor: Schick, Steven - Reynolds, Roger - McAdams, Stephen - Suzuki, Tadashi - Xenakis, Iannis - Takemitsu, Tōru
- Date: 196?
Collection Items: View 83 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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CollectionBronislava Nijinska Collection The collection of notable dancer, choreographer and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) contains a diverse variety of materials documenting dance and the arts in the twentieth century. Available here are over 200 collection…- Contributor: Reinhardt, Max - Cuevas, George De - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Pavlova, Anna - Nijinska, Irina - Diaghilev, Serge - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Dolin, Anton ... Reinhardt, Max - Cuevas, George De - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Pavlova, Anna - Nijinska, Irina - Diaghilev, Serge - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Dolin, Anton - Stravinsky, Igor - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Kirsta, Georg - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Vertès, Marcel - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Exter, Alexandra - Petipa, Marius - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Nijinska, Bronislava - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Chagall, Marc - Poulenc, Francis - Jacob's Pillow - Rubinstein, Ida - Ashton, Frederick
- Date: 1740
Collection Items: View 211 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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CollectionFine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library…- Contributor: Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Ikkei - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Andō, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Sadahide
- Date: 1615
Collection Items: View 2,770 Items
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CollectionBallets Russes de Serge Diaghilev The world of ballet changed dramatically when the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev took Paris by storm at the Théâtre du Châtelet in May of 1909. Armed with ground-breaking choreographic originality and…- Date: 1909
Collection Items: View 193 Items
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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: Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin) - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1855
Collection Items: View 5,006 Items
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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 37 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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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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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: Shaffer, Harold L. - Harris, Timothy C. - Braun, Leo J. - Thompson, Robert L. - Usher, Michael Gene - Occupational Folklife Project - Bennett, Steven R. - Bludworth, Richard W. - Robb, Alan A. - Harris, Eugene ... Shaffer, Harold L. - Harris, Timothy C. - Braun, Leo J. - Thompson, Robert L. - Usher, Michael Gene - Occupational Folklife Project - Bennett, Steven R. - Bludworth, Richard W. - Robb, Alan A. - Harris, Eugene - Postel, Adolph C. - Potoczniak, Anthony - Dodd, Harold L. - Cooney, James Patrick - Patton, William Benjamin - Houston Arts Alliance - American Folklife Center - Olsen, Eric Carl - Dickens, Michael W. - Blume, Dana - Kersey, Bobby C. - Holland, Benny - Jasper, Pat - Tray, James Thomas - Diehl, William J. - Corgey, Dean - Tellepsen, Tom - King, Charles H. - Hausinger, William - Peterson, Betsy - Larrimer, George - Burkett, Joe L. - Henry, Mark - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Vest, Lou C. - Laws, Andrew L. - Gage, Charles H. - Lindahl, Carl - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Hennessey, William S. - Hensley, James J. - Keenan, Gordie - Mims, Doug - Halbert, David Maurice - Montgomery, Charles R. - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Glass, Leonard - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Glass, Matthew H. - Patout, Rivers - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Hilliard, Henry - Seeba, Patrick - Mayville, Donnie D. - Morrell, David C. - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Quesada, José Angel - Ramirez, Gilda - Aalund, Niels Anders - Rousser, C. A.
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 1,219 Items
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CollectionPanoramic Photographs Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More…- Contributor: West Coast Art Co - Geo. R. Lawrence Co - Pillsbury Picture Co - Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio) - Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.)
- Date: 1851
Collection Items: View 4,320 Items
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CollectionProfessional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive The Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor,…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 402 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, joined "California As I Saw It", Pioneering the Upper Midwest, and…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 143 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 1,345 Items
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CollectionStereograph Cards New Photos Added! View the most recent additions- Contributor: Underwood & Underwood - Rau, William Herman - H.C. White Co - American Stereoscopic Company - Strohmeyer & Wyman - Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) - International Stereograph Co - Keystone View Company
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 55,240 Items
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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 5,478 Items