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CollectionPrairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912 This digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate...
- Contributor: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Nebraska State Historical Society
- Date: 2000
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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: National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawes, Butch
- Date: 1894
Collection Items: View 365 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specifications for a chapel in Boston] 1 item : ink on paper.
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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CollectionAmerican Colony in Jerusalem, 1870-2006 The papers of the American Colony in Jerusalem, a non-denominational utopian Christian community, consist of approximately 16,600 items, spanning the years 1786-2007, of which about three-fourths of the materials (50,288 images) have...
- Contributor: Spafford, Anna T. - Spafford, Horatio Gates - American Colony (Jerusalem) - Vester, Bertha Spafford
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 536 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Textual description of Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa.] 1 item : ink on paper.
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specifications for two churches] 1 item : ink on paper. | Written specifications for "New North Church, Boston, built 1803-4" and "First Congregational Church, Providence, 1816, Jnop. H. Green, archit."
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specifications for Church of St. Stephen, London, Eng.] 1 item : ink on paper.
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWar lecture 1 item. | Holograph lecture by Clara Barton about her service during the Civil War.
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Inventory related to the Wilhelm Schreiber collection of 15th-18th century book illustrations] 14 items (154 pages) : handwritten ; sheets 17 x 21 cm. | The Library acquired this handwritten item level inventory along with the Schreiber collection in 1929. The inventory is comprised...
- Contributor: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig
- Date: 1891
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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: Kraft, Victor - Copland, Aaron
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specifications for three churches] 1 item : ink on paper.
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed Material"Make the slave's case our own" Holograph anti-slavery speech of Susan B. Anthony.
- Contributor: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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CollectionAmerican Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1996
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Unpublished biography of Richard Morris Hunt] 1 item (ca. 500 pages) : typescript, with some illustrations ; 11 x 8.5 inches.
- Contributor: Hunt, Catherine Clinton Howland
- Date: 1895-01-01
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CollectionMartha Graham at the Library of Congress (clockwise from top left) The Dance: Washington Festival [review]; "Graham Presents Copland's Ballet" [clipping] by Oscar Thompson; A unique dance by Martha Graham [clipping], 1926; [Tangara], photograph of Martha Graham. Dancer, choreographer,...
- Contributor: Barber, Samuel - Riegger, Wallingford - Noguchi, Isamu - Hovhaness, Alan - Emmons, Beverly - Starer, Robert - Horst, Louis - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Karan, Donna ... Barber, Samuel - Riegger, Wallingford - Noguchi, Isamu - Hovhaness, Alan - Emmons, Beverly - Starer, Robert - Horst, Louis - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Karan, Donna - Tipton, Jennifer - Copland, Aaron - Graham, Martha - El-Dabh, Halim - Lester, Eugene - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Dello Joio, Norman - Hindemith, Paul - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Schuman, William - Martha Graham Dance Company - Rosenthal, Jean - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Skelton, Thomas R.
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 1,141 Items
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CollectionRoman Totenberg Papers The violinist Roman Totenberg enjoyed an extraordinarily long and varied career. Born on January 1, 1911 in Łódź, Poland, he moved as a child with his family to Moscow where he first...
- Contributor: Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Paganini, Nicol - Kolsky, Ilka - Totenberg, Roman - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Brahms, Johannes - Schubert, Franz - Milhaud, Darius - Dvořák, Antonín
- Date: 1846
Collection Items: View 125 Items
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."
- Date: 1581
Collection Items: View 52,136 Items
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CollectionThe Evolution of the Conservation Movement The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs,...
- Date: 1850
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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: Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky ... Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Pavlova, Anna - Nijinska, Bronislava - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Vertès, Marcel - Kirsta, Georg - Cuevas, George De - Jacob's Pillow - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Nijinska, Irina - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Poulenc, Francis - Diaghilev, Serge - Rubinstein, Ida
- Date: 1740
Collection Items: View 230 Items
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPlantation manual, 1857-1858 Holograph page from the manual of James Henry Hammond in which he provides instructions for breastfeeding infants, as well as the work arrangements for the elderly and for pregnant slaves.
- Contributor: Hammond, James Henry
- Date: 1866-01-01
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CollectionMilitary career of Albert James Myer, who organized and commanded the U.S. Army Signal Corps in ... 20 photographic prints : albumen, gelatin silver ; 22 x 26 cm. or smaller. | 1 drawing : ink wash. | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. | Photographs relating to the military...
- Contributor: Myer, Albert James
- Date: 1860
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specifications for Hollis Street Church] 1 item : ink on paper. | Handwritten specifications provide external and internal dimensions including those for galleries, columns, and a "Corinthian Venetian window behind the pulpit".
- Contributor: Bulfinch, Charles
- Date: 1803-01-01
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial...
- Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 351 Items