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    Jack D. Gay Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; Fort Knox, Kentucky; European Theater; France; Belgium; Rhineland, Germany.
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    Rudolph Giannoni Collection Staff Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - England; Germany.
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    John Carlos oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in New York, New York, 2013 August 18 John Carlos discusses his childhood in Harlem, New York, the changes that he saw in Harlem with the widespread use of heroin and the splintering of families, and describes the disparities in education for black children when he was growing up. He remembers the influence of black leaders including Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carlos was recruited to run...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Carlos, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Cuban volunteers embarking Men carrying rifles and bedrolls boarding ship via gangway.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly
    • Date: 1898
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    James E. Wall Collection Captain, Air Force, World War, 1939-1945 - Texas; China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater.
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    George A. Jackson Collection First Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; France; Germany; European Theater.
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    [Men boxing]
    Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests | Early Edison camera tests
    Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1891
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    James Lewis Nelson Collection Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; England.
    • Contributor: Willie, Michael Lloyd - Wrcb-Tv Channel 3 - Bowen, Sarah - Nelson, James Lewis
    • Date: 1943
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    Buster's joke on Papa
    Title from MAVIS: Busters joke on Papa, 1903 Dec 21
    The first scene shows Mama buying crabs from a vendor. The second shows Papa preparing for bed while Buster places crabs in the bed. Father retires and leaps from the bed in agony at the pain inflicted by the crabs. The last scene shows Mama placing Buster on a pillow on his chair to eat his breakfast.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
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    John E. Everhart Collection Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Santa Ana, King City, Chico and Stockton, California; Roswell, New Mexico; Sioux City, Iowa; England; Germany; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Everhart, John E. - Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (Rsvp) of Sacramento, CA - Cohen, Jane Reed - G. Hoberman / L. Rogaski
    • Date: 1942
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    George W. Davis Collection Captain, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; Italy; Corsica; British Guiana.
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    Joseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06 Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him,...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lowery, Joseph E.
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    [Animal act with baboon, dog and donkey]
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149 | Zouary can no. 149 | Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149
    Opens on a closeup of a baboon "playing" a violin, then cuts to a medium shot of the same. The baboon wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a loose bow tie and tweed pants. Cuts to a closeup of the baboon in a circular mask or iris effect, without the violin but with a collar around his neck and a striped kitten that he...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    Roy I. Albert Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Custer, Michigan; Camp Roberts, California; Miami, Florida; Malden, Missouri; Indiana; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Georgia; England; France; Stalag IIIA, Germany.
    • Contributor: Albert, Roy I. - Vollano, William J. - Ypsilanti District Library and Ypsilanti Rotary - Chapman, Mimi
    • Date: 1943
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    Berchard Lamar Glant Collection Private, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; North Africa; Oran; Algeria; Naples, Italy; Anzio, Italy; Africa; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Willie, Michael Lloyd - Wrcb-Tv Channel 3 - Bowen, Sarah - Glant, Berchard Lamar
    • Date: 1941
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    Clyde Harold Queen Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Korea; United States. Staff Sergeant, Marine Corps, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Korea. Chief Petty Officer, Coast Guard, Cold War.
  • Article
    The great train robbery H38748 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 1Dec1903; H38748. Justus D. Barnes (head bandit), G. M. Anderson (slain passenger, tenderfoot, and robber), Walter Cameron (sheriff). Camera, Edwin S. Porter, J.B. Smith, and others. Incomplete: material in the Edison Collection (viewing copy and viewing print, copy 2) is incomplete. Footages have not been confirmed. Differences in footages may be due to different methods of...
    • Contributor: Anderson, Gilbert M. - Porter, Edwin S. - Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Marble, Scott - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Barnes, J. D. (Justus D.) - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903
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    Funeral of Hiram Cronk The film shows a city thoroughfare lined with crowds of people watching a military parade. The first group to come into view is a marching band, then a large formation of soldiers in the uniform of Rough Riders. Following them is a hearse drawn by four black horses, escorted by veterans of the Civil War, and horse-drawn open carriages. The camera position shifts and...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    Alfred Goldstein Collection Corporal, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Belgium; Camp Maxey, Texas.
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    Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seattle, Washington, 2013 May 12 Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold medal and an NBA championship playing for the Boston Celtics, one of thirteen Russell would win, including eight in a row. Russell had a difficult relationship with the sports media in Boston, but...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Russell, Bill - Branch, Taylor
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Bonds at war A plea to buy more war bonds. Shows battle scenes, and points out the value of different types of equipment in terms of bonds.
    • Contributor: United States. War Savings Staff - Gallico, Paul - Stout, Rex - U.S. Government Films Collection (Library of Congress) - Sperber, Elliott
    • Date: 1942
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    Sidney Rogers Barnett Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States; England; France; Luxembourg; Belgium; Austria; Germany; European Theater.
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    Robert Eugene Robinson Collection Technical Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - European Theater.
    • Contributor: Willie, Michael Lloyd - Wrcb-Tv Channel 3 - Robinson, Robert Eugene - Bowen, Sarah
    • Date: 1943
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    Copyright title: Theodore Roosevelt leaving the White House | Alternate title: Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Ass't Sec'y, U.S. Navy leaving White House | Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy leaving White House | Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory title: TR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897 | Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897 | Theodore Roosevelt leaving the White House | Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Ass't Sec'y, U.S. Navy leaving White House | TR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897
    TR, in formal dress with hat, walks down the steps of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. and turns and walks toward the stationary camera. The south portico of the White House is visible through trees in background.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
    • Date: 1898
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    Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 13 Joseph and Embry Howell recall the summer of 1966 in Southern Georgia. Recruited by Charlie Sherrod of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) they discuss the complexities they encountered from embodying a white identity, most significantly through their experience of living with a black family in the South. They emphasize how changing racial perception and power influenced a shift in SNCC's tactic of nonviolence,...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Howell, Embry - Howell, Joseph T. - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2015-01-01