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    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 - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Sutro Baths
    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 - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    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 - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Women of the ghetto bathing
    Ladies day at public baths | 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) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
    • Date: 1902
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    Native woman washing a Negro baby in Nassau, B.I. A woman puts a toddler-aged boy into a washtub outdoors and vigorously washes him; camera pans left to show other women and children who scatter.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    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: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Mannie - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1905
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    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: Blechynden, Frederick - Leander Sisters - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Cupid and Psyche
    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: White, James H. (James Henry) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Blechynden, Frederick - Leander Sisters - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
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    Panoramic view of the Golden Gate
    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: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
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    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: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
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    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: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hart, Joseph - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Removing Residual Iron in Platinum and Palladium Prints Matthew Clark and Dana Hemingway discuss preservation techniques in the handling of platinum and palladium prints.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Preservation Directorate
    • Date: 2015
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    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: Rubenstein, David - Larson, Erik
    • Date: 2020-06-18
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    George H. O'Brien, Jr. Collection Major, Marine Corps, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Korea; Quantico, Virginia; Camp Pendleton, California.
    • Contributor: Unknown Interviewer - Wilkerson, Thomas - Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (Cmoh) - O'Brien Jr., George H.
    • Date: 1949
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    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 - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Richard L. Hill Collection Musician Third Class, Navy, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Great Lakes, Illinois; Washington, DC; Korea; Pensacola, Florida.
    • Contributor: Lexington Veterans Association - Hill, Richard L. - Hill, Richard - National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) - Nancy Bond Rowland - Kelley, Robert
    • Date: 1949
    • Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:33:57.0
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    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 - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2011
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    Resurrecting the Ancient Library of Alexandria Hassan Eltaher discusses the considerable cultural and historical project of reviving Egypt's ancient library at Alexandria.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2012
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    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 - Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office
    • Date: 2012
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    Jerry Juilfs Collection Sergeant, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Ord, California; Fort Hood, Texas; Vietnam.
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    Ernest Schepper, Jr. Collection Second Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945.
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    James O. Stapleton Collection Corporal, Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Japan; Korea.
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    Laura Kasischke: 2012 National Book Festival Laura Kasischke appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Kasischke, Laura
    • Date: 2012-09-23
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    Arthur E. Odegard, Jr. Collection Technician Four, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Lee, Virginia; Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Japan.
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    From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2011