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    A catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-26 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Stern, Alfred Whital
    • Date: 1960

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    About this Collection | World Digital Library | Digital Collections  External This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections. The original World Digital Library site (preserved in LC’s Web Archives here) and all descriptive metadata were translated from English and made available in six additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian,...
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    [Ten menus of the Lotos club, New York April 30, 1892- Dec. 16, 1893.]. Page Order: Piece 2 is a Center Span.; On verso, all Pieces: In exchange from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, July 29, 1930. Page Order: Center Span Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 130, Folder 8. Copy scanned: See Notes
    • Contributor: Twain, Mark - Lotos Club - Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - McKelway, St. Clair - Low, Seth - Lotos Club (New York, N.Y.)
    • Date: 1893

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    A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875 Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Law Library of Congress (U.S.)
    • Date: 1998

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    Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence The papers of Union soldier Samuel J. Gibson (1833-1878) consist of a diary kept by Gibson in 1864 while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and a letter to his wife while held as a prisoner at Camp Sumter in Georgia, the Confederate prisoner of war camp commonly known as Andersonville Prison. The diary documents the capture of the Federal garrison at...
    • Contributor: Gibson, Samuel J.

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    Finding 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 atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

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    Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919 Approximately 6,500 items from the Samuel F. B. Morse Papers in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress have been digitized, including correspondence, diaries, printed matter, maps, drawings and miscellany. These document Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and abroad, his career as a painter, his family life, his travels, and...
    • Contributor: Clausing, Ludwig - Morse, Samuel Finley Breese - Magnetic Telegraph Company
    • Date: 1793

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    Virginia House of Delegates , December 8, 1789. Broadside Extract. LAC nsk 2020-11-19 create (1 card)
    • Contributor: James Madison Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Virginia House of Delegates - Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
    • Date: 1789-12-08

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    Omaha Indian Music Presented here are selections from the American Folklife Center's collections documenting Omaha music traditions. The sound recordings include 44 wax cylinder recordings made in the 1890s (first published on a 1985 LP entitled Omaha Indian Music: Historical Recordings from the Fletcher/La Flesche Collection), 323 songs and spoken-word segments from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, 24 spoken-word segments from an interview with an Omaha...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2000

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    Martha 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, and company director Martha Graham (1894-1991) is considered one of the pioneering founders of American modern dance. In a career spanning over seven decades, Graham developed her own innovative technique and produced...
    • 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

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    Accession catalogue of music, Miller Collection | Catalog of scores in the Dayton C. Miller Collection | Catalog of flute music in the Dayton C. Miller Collection     Catalog. Text. print | 1 volume ; 28 cm | The collector's hand-written inventory of scores in his collection, with columns for title, composer, arranger, arrangement, publisher, when bought, cost, and remarks. Includes 2307 entries, many containing multiple musical compositions. Holograph. In ink. Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. (Preferred Citation). Bequest; Dayton C. Miller; 1941. (Acquisition). Print (Form). Unmediated...
    • Contributor: Miller, Dayton Clarence
    • Date: 1941-01-01

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    American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents vary in form from...
    • Contributor: Writers' Program (U.S.) - Federal Writers' Project - United States. Works Progress Administration - United States. Work Projects Administration
    • Date: 1936

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