The Moving Image Research Center has several research guides that provide assistance finding moving images on subjects such as women's suffrage, politics and public affairs, and television commercials. We also include search strategies for locating additional items in our vast collection.
Research Guides
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Research GuideAmerican Women: Resources from the Moving Image Collections Part of the American Women series, this guide focuses on resources on and about women from the Moving Image Section of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.- Date: 2018-08-27
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Research GuideAmerican Women: Resources from the Recorded Sound Collections Part of the American Women series, this guide highlights the Library’s audio collections related to U.S. women's history and demonstrates the richness and variety of these resources in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.- Date: 2018-09-20
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Research GuideBob Hope at the Library of Congress The Bob Hope Collection is one of the largest in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division. This guide presents information on researching the collection, as well as Hope materials in other collections throughout the Library.- Date: 2018-08-16
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Research GuideCongressional Audiovisual Recordings This guide covers the audio and video recordings of House and Senate Floor proceedings available to the public from the Library of Congress's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center- Date: 2023-10-13
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Research GuideMajor Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour This research guide describes the collections associated with radio (1934-1945) and television (1948-1970) broadcasts of the Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2018-07-18
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Research GuideMoving Image Research at the Library of Congress The Library began collecting motion pictures in 1893 when Thomas Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson deposited the Edison Kinetoscopic Records for copyright. This guide focuses on moving image materials available from the Library.- Date: 2018-07-03
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Research GuideThe National Broadcasting Company at the Library of Congress A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the collections of the Library of Congress.- Date: 2018-07-16
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Research GuidePolitics and Public Affairs on Film, Television, and Radio This guide provides resources and search strategies for conducting research on news, politics, and public affairs in the moving image and recorded sound collections at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2018-12-27
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Research GuideRecorded Sound Research at the Library of Congress The Library began collecting commercial sound recordings in the 1920s when record companies donated copies of their newly published records. This guide focuses on music, broadcast and spoken word recorded sound collections at the Library.- Date: 2018-07-03
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Research GuideTelevision Commercials in the Moving Image Collections This guide describes several collections of television commercials and provides search strategies for finding television advertising materials in the moving image collections of the Library of Congress.- Date: 2018-08-07
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Research GuideTony Schwartz Collection A guide to the collection of the sound recordist Tony Schwartz- Date: 2022-06-27
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Research GuideWomen's Suffrage in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Collections Presented in this guide are collection materials found in the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division that explore the Women's Suffrage movement and offer an exciting glimpse into the struggle for the vote.- Date: 2018-08-29