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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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CollectionAndre Kostelanetz Collection Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980) was a Russian-born conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts during the 1930s and 1940s. He had a highly successful concert career…- Contributor: Kostelanetz, Andre
- Date: 1922
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CollectionAndrew Jackson Papers The Andrew Jackson Papers is one of twenty-three presidential collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The Jackson archival collection contains more than 26,000 items dating from 1767 to…- Contributor: Jackson, Andrew
- Date: 1767
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CollectionAndrew Johnson Papers The papers of vice president, senator, and representative Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who became the seventeenth president of the Unites States in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, consist of 40,000 items (63,710 images),…- Contributor: Johnson, Andrew - Moore, William G. (William George)
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CollectionAnna E. Dickinson Papers The papers of lecturer, reformer, actress, and author Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932) span the period 1859-1951, but are chiefly concentrated in the years from 1859 to 1911. The collection consists of approximately…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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CollectionAnna Maria Brodeau Thornton Papers The seven volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1793-1861, of Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (ca.1775-1865) document her position at the center of a Washington, D.C., social circle that included George and Martha Washington,…- Contributor: Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau
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CollectionAnsel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. For the first time, digital scans…- Contributor: Adams, Ansel
- Date: 1943
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CollectionArabic Language Rare Materials Collection The Library of Congress is home to a substantial number of rare items in the Arabic language, the vast majority of which are housed in the African and Middle Eastern Division, that…Collection Items: View 1,117 Items
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CollectionArchitecture, Design & Engineering Drawings The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40,000 drawings (described in more than 3,900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with most dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are primarily…- Date: 1750
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CollectionArchive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret…Collection Items: View 1,382 Items
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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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CollectionArt and Design Web Archive The Art and Design Web Archive focuses on art and design-related websites that enhance, complement and contextualize the Library’s rich holdings of materials related to the fields of fine and decorative arts.…Collection Items: View 22 Items
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CollectionAssociated Press News Dispatches, 1915-1930 The collection of news dispatches of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Associated Press spans the period 1915-1930 and consists of 375 volumes (387,082 images), housed in 254 boxes, the contents of…- Contributor: Associated Press. Washington Bureau
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CollectionThe Atlantic Neptune Collection The Atlantic Neptune Collection contains nautical charts depicting the most detailed surveys of North American coastal areas and harbors in the 18th century. Because of this detail, they were heavily used by…- Date: 1775
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CollectionThe Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands This online collection contains digitized items from the Library of Congress collection that was originally made available as The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands/De Atlantische Wereld: Amerika en Nederland digital library…Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionAuthor Websites Web Archive The Author Websites Web Archive is a collection of official author websites. These sites offer a unique record of the intellectual and creative activities of authors and the ways in which they…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2018
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CollectionAzerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan Government Web Archive The countries of Central Asia represent a key geographic area of strategic interest for the United States and other major world powers, including China, the European Union, India, Iran, Russia and Turkey.…Collection Items: View 376 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 News Service - Bain, George Grantham
- Date: 1860
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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
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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
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CollectionBangladeshi Elections Web Archive This collection of websites documents the Bangladeshi General Elections beginning with the 2018-2019 election cycle, up to the present. The websites in this collection cover the political parties taking part in the…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Asian Division
- Date: 2018
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CollectionBaseball Cards The Benjamin K. Edwards Collection includes 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Distributed in cigarette packs, these cards were the forerunners of modern sports trading cards. They portray such…- Contributor: American Tobacco Company
- Date: 1887
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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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CollectionBefore and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 1999
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CollectionBenajah Jay Antrim Journals The journals (5 items; 517 images) of Benajah Jay Antrim (1819-1903), a chemist, photographer, mathematical instrument maker, and artist, are comprised of three volumes of handwritten diary entries and two complementary volumes…- Contributor: Antrim, Benajah Jay
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CollectionBenjamin Franklin Papers The papers of statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) consist of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s. The collection's…- Contributor: Franklin, William Temple - United States. Legation (France) - Oswald, Richard - Franklin, Benjamin
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CollectionBenjamin Harrison Papers The papers of U.S. senator from Indiana and U.S. Army officer Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), who became the twenty-third president of the United States, consist of 69,600 items (178,479 images), most of which…- Contributor: Harrison, Benjamin
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CollectionBenjamin Luft Collection of 9-11 Oral Histories The Benjamin Luft collection of 9-11 oral histories consists of video interviews of individuals impacted by the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster, and interviewees’ photographs and manuscript materials documenting their…- Contributor: Luft, Benjamin J.
- Date: 2010
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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: Gilkyson, Terry - Mohr, Larry - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Odetta - Berman, Marcia - Dehr, Rich - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Butch - Miller, Frank
- Date: 1894
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CollectionBetty Herndon Maury Maury Papers The papers of diarist Betty Herndon Maury Maury (1835-1903) consist of a diary kept by Maury from June 3, 1861, to February 18, 1863. The two-volume diary was scanned from one reel…- Contributor: Maury, Betty Herndon Maury
- Date: 1861
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CollectionBlackwell Family Papers The Blackwell Family Papers span the years 1759-1960, with the bulk of the material dating from 1845 to 1890. Consisting of approximately 29,000 items (58,002 images), most of which were digitized from…- Contributor: Blackwell, Kitty Barry - Blackwell, H. B. (Henry Browne) - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Blackwell, Elizabeth - Blackwell, Alice Stone - Stone, Lucy - Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown - Blackwell, Emily
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CollectionBlair Family Papers The papers of the Blair family, a prominent nineteenth-century political family, consist of 19,100 items (48,166 images) most of which were digitized from 49 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years…- Contributor: Woodbury, Levi - Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Gist - Blair, Woodbury - Stevens, Samuel - Clapp, Charles Q. - Blair, Francis Preston - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston)
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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 - Jabbour, Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Ray, Roxie - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Shockley, Maggie - Owen, Blanton - Mullen, Patrick B. - Wolfe, Charles K. - Wilson, Joe ... Severt, Carrie - Jabbour, Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Ray, Roxie - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Shockley, Maggie - Owen, Blanton - Mullen, Patrick B. - Wolfe, Charles K. - Wilson, Joe - Cruise, Crystal - Adler, Thomas A. - Owen, Margaret Counts - Marshall, Howard W. - United States. National Park Service - Fleischhauer, Carl - Richardson, Larry - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Stanley, Lura - Jarrell, Tommy - American Folklife Center - Eiler, Terry - Todd, Zenna - Bryan, Mamie - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Choate, Donna - Patton, Ila
- Date: 1977
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CollectionBooks About Music Before 1800 Shortly after the Music Division was established 120 years ago, a handful of acquisition priorities were agreed upon: early writings about music published before 1801 were identified as having both historical significance…Collection Items: View 2,006 Items
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CollectionBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the…- Contributor: Federal Writers' Project - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 2001
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CollectionBosnian Political and Social Issues Web Archive The Bosnian Political and Social Issues Web Archive is comprised of sites that address political and social issues and inform public policy. Content includes websites of Bosnian-Herzegovinian political parties, non-governmental organizations, voluntary…Collection Items: View 53 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
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CollectionBranch Rickey Papers The approximately 1,750 baseball scouting reports from the 1950s and 1960s presented here are part of the papers of Branch Rickey (1881-1965), best known as the executive who broke Major League Baseball's…- Contributor: Rickey, Branch
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CollectionBrazil Cordel Literature Web Archive Brazilian chapbooks, known as literatura de cordel, are typically sold at street fairs, where the pamphlets are hung by string (cordel in Portuguese). They are a grassroots form of communication whose purpose…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
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CollectionBrazilian Elections Web Archive This collection of websites documents the Brazilian elections and covers three presidential elections for the years 2010, 2014, and 2018. Each election consists of two rounds, and multiple parties run for municipal,…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2010
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