Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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African-American sheet music, 1850-1920 selected from the collection of Brown University. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans....
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Omaha Indian music from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Ethnographic field collection of traditional Omaha music from the 1890s through the 1980s. Contains recordings from wax cylinders, songs, speeches, interviews, photographs, field notes, and tape logs. Features material from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress, and 1983 and 1999 interviews with members of the Omaha tribe.
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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942 - Kennedy, Stetson.; American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections is a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida. Features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine camps; children's songs, dance music, and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as life histories. Provides access to 376 sound recordings and 106 accompanying materials, personnel. Includes a special presentation, A Florida treasure hunt, by Stetson Kennedy. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National...
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Prairie settlement Nebraska photographs and family letters, 1862-1912. - Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927.; Nebraska State Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
This digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, which illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains. Includes approximately 3,000 glass plate negatives by Solomon D. Butcher which record the process of settlement of Nebraska between 1886 and 1912, including Custer, Buffalo, Dawson, and Cherry counties. Also includes approximately 3,000 pages of Oblinger family letters discussing land, work, neighbors, crops, religious meetings, problems with grasshoppers, financial problems, and the Easter Blizzard of 1873. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library...
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Puerto Rico at the dawn of the modern age nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century perspectives ; from selected divisions of the Library of Congress. - Library of Congress.; Library of Congress. Hispanic Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections. Among the topics it highlights are the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the Spanish-American War. Materials in the collection were published between 1831 and 1929 and consist of thirty-nine political pamphlets, eighteen monographs, and one journal.
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The nineteenth century in print the making of America in books and periodicals. - Library of Congress.; University of Michigan.; Cornell University.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents books and periodicals published in the United States during the nineteenth century, especially the second half of the century. Focuses on the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes volumes of American poetry.
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The Leonard Bernstein collection ca. 1920-1989 / - Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.; Library of Congress. Music Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Documents Bernstein's extraordinary life and career. The collections makes available a selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People's Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence, held by the Library of Congress Music Division.
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Now what a time blues, gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943) / - Work, John W. (John Wesley), 1901-1967.; Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-; James, Willis, 1900-1966.; American Folklife Center.; Fort Valley State College (Ga.)
Consists of sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943 at the folk festival at Fort Valley College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work.
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Quilts and quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the "All-American Quilt Contest" sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands' End, and Good Housekeeping. Together these collections provide a glimpse into America's diverse quilting traditions. The quilt documentation from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project, an ethnographic field project conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service, includes over 220 photographs and over 180 recorded interviews with quiltmakers in Appalachian North Carolina and Virginia. These materials document quilts and quilting within the context of daily life...
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Inventing entertainment the motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison companies. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Features motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and original magazine articles. Includes histories of Edison's invention and manufacture of motion pictures and sound recordings, and a special biography page on Edison, inventor of the phonograph, kinetograph, and kinetoscope.
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American landscape and architectural design, 1850-1920 a study collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. - Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.; Frances L. Loeb Library.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Searchable collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides of architectural structures and landscapes designed between 1850 and 1920 in the United States which have been digitized by the Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Voices from the Dust Bowl the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41 / - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. Consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk culture, American Folklife Center).
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The evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920 - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage. The collection consists of approximately 60 books and pamphlets, over 140 Federal statutes and Congressional Resolutions, and additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and a two-part motion picture. Numbers are subject to change with site updates.
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Votes for women suffrage pictures, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Collection of photographs and cartoons from the Prints and Photographs Division and Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
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Portraits of the presidents and first ladies - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Compilation of formal and informal portraits of United States presidents from the collection of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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Buckaroos in paradise ranching culture in northern Nevada, 1945-1982 / - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community created by the Paradise Valley Folklife Project, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. Features motion pictures and sound recordings that document the work and life of the Ninety-Six Ranch and its cowboys, known in the region as buckaroos.
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Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920 selected from the collections of Duke University. - Miller, Stephen D. (Stephen Douglas), 1971-; Schultz, Lois, 1944-; Duke University. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in the United States between 1850 and 1920 selected from the collections in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. The selection presents a significant perspective on American history and culture. The sheet music chosen for digital reproduction represents a wide variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, Civil War songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum...
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Prosperity and thrift the Coolidge era and the consumer economy 1921-1929. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Chronicles the economic period of the 1920's in the United States through books, pamphlets, legislative documents, selections from consumer and trade journals, photographs, short films, and audio selections of Coolidge speeches.
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Origins of American animation - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper comic strips and early animated films, as represented by Keeping Up With the Joneses, Krazy Kat, and The Katzenjammer Kids. As well as showing the development of animation, these films also reveal the social attitudes of early twentieth-century America."
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From slavery to freedom the African-American pamphlet collection, 1824-1909 / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, reconstruction, and related topics.
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