Lurline Baths
"A large indoor swimming pool can be seen. The camera was directed toward a slide from which people can be seen entering the pool in rapid succession"--Early motion pictures. "At San Francisco. The main feature is the toboggan slide which the bathers use, some sitting, others lying down, head first or feet first. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.
Contributor:
Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - White, James H. (James Henry) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1897
Film, Video
Sutro Baths
Title in Edison films catalog: Sutro Baths, no. 2
"Another view in which the figures show larger. A springboard furnishes the bathers with much amusement; also a toboggan slide. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "A large indoor swimming pool is shown, as well as the walkways that separate the varying depths of the water, and a sign identifying the locale on the wall farthest from the camera position. In the immediate foreground, camera right…
Contributor:
Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - White, James H. (James Henry) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1897
Film, Video
Sutro Baths, no. 1
"One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions. The bathers are clad in black trunks, making fine contrast with the flesh tints. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "In the background are three tiers of spectators watching the bathers. There are many people bathing and diving into the swimming pool.…
Contributor:
Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - White, James H. (James Henry) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1897
Film, Video
Women of the ghetto bathing
Title from Biograph production log: Ladies day at public baths | Title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalog: Ladies day at the public baths
The subject is a group of women and girls in a public swimming pool wearing turn-of the-century bathing attire. Many women and girls are playing in the pool, while others climb out and jump into the pool. The water in the the pool appears to be about four feet deep and the pool is very crowded. According the Biograph picture catalogue, the scene takes…
Contributor:
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Date:1902
Film, Video
Leander Sisters
Leander Sisters, Yellow Kid dance
The Leander Sisters perform a clever, characteristic dance called the "Yellow Kid." Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is composed largely of bathers. One sister appears to be dressed as Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid comic strip character.
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry) - Leander Sisters - Blechynden, Frederick
Date:1897
Film, Video
Cupid and Psyche
Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Cupid and Psyche dance
"An original dance by the Leander Sisters, performed at the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal. One is dressed as Cupid, with the accompanying wings, bow and arrow; the other represents Psyche. The dance is full of grace and action and the figures show life size and very clear. The costumes are white and show up in beautiful contrast to the dark background, which is…
Contributor:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry) - Leander Sisters - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blechynden, Frederick
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1903
Film, Video
The burglar's slide for life
"The first scene shows the interior of a room in an apartment house. A burglar enters and seeing a portable vapor bath in the corner of the room gets into it to hide. Presently two ladies enter. One is the lady of the house and she is evidently showing her friend through the rooms. The new vapor bath interests her friend, so she lights…
Contributor:
Porter, Edwin S. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Mannie
Date:1905
Film, Video
Panoramic view of the Golden Gate
Variant title from AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: Panorama of the Golden Gate
This film, photographed from the front of a moving steam engine, shows the scenic portion of the Market Street Railway (formerly the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad route) along the bluffs and cliffs of Lands End, at the northwest corner of San Francisco, overlooking the Golden Gate and the Marin headlands. The film shows the first 1.5 miles of the 5.25 mile eastbound return…
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Date:1902
Film, Video
Panorama of beach and Cliff House
Panoramic view of beach and Cliff House
This film is an afternoon panorama of weekend crowds at the north end of Ocean Beach, the western shore of San Francisco near the famed Cliff House. The film postdates the nearby Dutch Windmill (1902) and predates the burning of this Cliff House (1907). Until the 1920s much of western San Francisco was open sand dunes blown inland from Ocean Beach, the five-mile-long untamed…
Contributor:
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Date:1903
Film, Video
European rest cure
"On the gangplank of one of the large ocean liners leaving New York is shown an old gentleman kissing his wife and daughter good-bye before leaving on a tour abroad for a much needed rest from business cares and troubles. A great crowd of people are next shown waving farewells to departing friends and relatives as the big steamer leaves the pier. We now…
Contributor:
Porter, Edwin S. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hart, Joseph
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Preservation Directorate - Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Winston Churchill: The Right Words at the Right Time
As part of our National Book Festival Presents series for June, "Connecting the World With Words," Erik Larson discusses his latest book, "The Splendid and the Vile," which tells the story of Winston Churchill during the London Blitz of World War II, with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David Rubenstein.
Contributor:
National Book Festival (U.S.) - Library of Congress
Date:2020
Film, Video
The Surprising History of Bird Feeding
Paul Baicich and Margaret Barker discussed their book, "Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation," written with colleague Carrol Henderson.
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
Contributor:
Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Library of Congress
Date:2012
Film, Video
Emile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry
Emile Berliner (1851-1929) was a German-born immigrant whose inventions contributed to the birth of the recording industry. A largely self-educated man, Berliner was responsible for the development of the microphone, the flat recording disc and the gramophone player. Often overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Like the works of these…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Library of Congress
Date:2011
Film, Video
Nobel Laureate Herta Müller
The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, presented a reading and discussion withNobel Laureate Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. The event which was co-sponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center and the European Division of the Library of Congress included a reading by Müller, who is a novelist, poet and essayist, and a discussion moderated by…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office - Library of Congress
Jack Wayne Wilson Collection
Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Indiana; Camp Blanding, Florida; Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Fort Meade, Maryland; Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia; Newport News, Virginia; Colorado; North Africa; Italy; France; European Theater.
Contributor:
Rhay, Gary D. - Timeless Media Group - Collins, Denver - Wilson, Jack Wayne
Film, VideoLurline Baths "A large indoor swimming pool can be seen. The camera was directed toward a slide from which people can be seen entering the pool in rapid succession"--Early motion pictures. "At San Francisco. The main feature is the toboggan slide which the bathers use, some sitting, others lying down, head first or feet first. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.
Film, VideoSutro Baths
Film, VideoSutro Baths, no. 1 "One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions. The bathers are clad in black trunks, making fine contrast with the flesh tints. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "In the background are three tiers of spectators watching the bathers. There are many people bathing and diving into the swimming pool.…
Film, VideoWomen of the ghetto bathing
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Film, VideoThe burglar's slide for life "The first scene shows the interior of a room in an apartment house. A burglar enters and seeing a portable vapor bath in the corner of the room gets into it to hide. Presently two ladies enter. One is the lady of the house and she is evidently showing her friend through the rooms. The new vapor bath interests her friend, so she lights…
Film, VideoPanoramic view of the Golden Gate
Film, VideoPanorama of beach and Cliff House
Film, VideoEuropean rest cure "On the gangplank of one of the large ocean liners leaving New York is shown an old gentleman kissing his wife and daughter good-bye before leaving on a tour abroad for a much needed rest from business cares and troubles. A great crowd of people are next shown waving farewells to departing friends and relatives as the big steamer leaves the pier. We now…
Film, VideoRemoving Residual Iron in Platinum and Palladium Prints Matthew Clark and Dana Hemingway discuss preservation techniques in the handling of platinum and palladium prints.
Film, VideoWinston Churchill: The Right Words at the Right Time As part of our National Book Festival Presents series for June, "Connecting the World With Words," Erik Larson discusses his latest book, "The Splendid and the Vile," which tells the story of Winston Churchill during the London Blitz of World War II, with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David Rubenstein.
Film, VideoThe Surprising History of Bird Feeding Paul Baicich and Margaret Barker discussed their book, "Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation," written with colleague Carrol Henderson.
personal narrativeGeorge H. O'Brien, Jr. Collection Major, Marine Corps, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Korea; Quantico, Virginia; Camp Pendleton, California.
personal narrativeRichard L. Hill Collection Musician Third Class, Navy, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Great Lakes, Illinois; Washington, DC; Korea; Pensacola, Florida.
Film, VideoResurrecting the Ancient Library of Alexandria Hassan Eltaher discusses the considerable cultural and historical project of reviving Egypt's ancient library at Alexandria.
Film, VideoEmile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry Emile Berliner (1851-1929) was a German-born immigrant whose inventions contributed to the birth of the recording industry. A largely self-educated man, Berliner was responsible for the development of the microphone, the flat recording disc and the gramophone player. Often overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Like the works of these…
Film, VideoNobel Laureate Herta Müller The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, presented a reading and discussion withNobel Laureate Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. The event which was co-sponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center and the European Division of the Library of Congress included a reading by Müller, who is a novelist, poet and essayist, and a discussion moderated by…
Film, VideoDevelopment of Transjordan During the 19th Century Raouf Abujaber discusses the development of Transjordan during the 19th century.
personal narrativeJames O. Stapleton Collection Corporal, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Japan; Korea.
personal narrativeErnest Schepper, Jr. Collection Second Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945.
personal narrativeJack Wayne Wilson Collection Staff Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Indiana; Camp Blanding, Florida; Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Fort Meade, Maryland; Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia; Newport News, Virginia; Colorado; North Africa; Italy; France; European Theater.
Film, VideoLaura Kasischke: 2012 National Book Festival Laura Kasischke appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
personal narrativeArthur E. Odegard, Jr. Collection Technician Four, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Lee, Virginia; Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Japan.