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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Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress) - Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971, photographer.; Schleisner, William H. (William Herman), 1912-1962, photographer.; Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer.
Architectural photographs, often made on commission for architects, designers, and commercial businesses, record important design achievements. Interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures, primarily in the northeastern United States and Florida. Also, documentation of the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York. Work by Gottscho before the establishment of the firm Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. includes views of New York City and the surrounding area and images of family and friends.
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Nation's Forum Collection - Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937.; Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.; Clark, Champ, 1850-1921.; Colby, Bainbridge, 1869-1950.; Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.; Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957.; Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stille?), 1870-1956.; Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.; De Valera, Eamonn, 1882-1975.; Gerard, James Watson, 1867-; Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923.; Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954.; Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell), 1859-1934.; Lane, Franklin K.; Lewis, James Hamilton, 1863-1939.; Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924.; Long, Breckinridge, 1881-1958.; McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941.; Owen, Robert Latham, 1856-1947.; Palmer, Alexander Mitchell, 1872-1936.; Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948.; Poindexter, Miles, 1868-1946.; Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus), 1863-1925.; Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933.; Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1864-1937.; White, George, 1872-1953.; Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949.; Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927.
The Nation's Forum Collection at the Library of Congress consists of 59 acoustic recordings of speeches, delivered without a public audience solely for the purposes of preserving the speakers' voices. With two exceptions, the reverse side of the original records consisted of patriotic music. The recordings can be placed into two distinct series, 1918 and 1919-1920. Devoted mainly to World War I topics, the 1918 series was not sold commercially but distributed only to political organizations and other groups on ten-inch discs. The notable exception was the commercially-distributed recording of "From the battlefield of France" by General John J. Pershing,...
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American variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment, 1870-1920 / - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini.
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The American ballroom companion dance instruction manuals, ca. 1600-1920 / - Library of Congress. Music Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents over two hundred social dance manuals, pocket-sized books with diagrams used by itinerant dancing masters to teach the American gentry the latest dance steps. Includes anti-dance manuals as well as treatises on etiquette. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
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The New Deal stage selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 / - Library of Congress. Music Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents over 3,000 images of items from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress such as stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth. Includes finding aid. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
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Words and deeds in American history selected documents celebrating the Manuscript Division's first 100 years / - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Includes papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military officers and diplomats, reformers and political activists, artists and writers, scientists and inventors, and other prominent Americans. A detailed description accompanies each document, and additional information about the parent collections may be obtained by following links to catalog records and finding aids. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
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A century of lawmaking for a new nation U.S. Congressional documents and debates, 1774-1875 / - Law Library of Congress (U.S.); Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st...
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Hispano music & culture of the Northern Rio Grande the Juan B. Rael Collection / - Rael, Juan Bautista.; American Folklife Center.; Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress); Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Features recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture collection of alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance tunes that were performed by various artists and recorded by Juan B. Rael. Includes manuscript materials and publications by Rael covering the musical heritage and cultural traditions of the region.
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African American odyssey - Library of Congress.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"The African American odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship", highlights what was on view in the exhibition, and what is available in the Library's African American collection. Both include a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. Based on the text of the same name, additional collections are forthcoming to this site. The portions of the exhibit that are not currently available online are: "Fine Prints and Photographs by Twentieth-Century African American Artists," and Black Business and Family Life at the Turn of the Century in the Daniel A.P. Murray...
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The South Texas border, 1900-1920 photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection. - Runyon, Robert, 1881-1968.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; University of Texas at Austin. General Libraries.
Web site offers a searchable database of photographs from the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas border area. Comprised of over 8,000 items, the collection is the result of the work of the University of Texas at Austin, General Libraries and the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program. Includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards representing Runyon's life's work as a commercial photographer.
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Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas - Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.; Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, photographer.; Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill), photographer.; Archive of American Folk Song.
Snapshots primarily documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song from 1934 to ca. 1950. Photographs depict African American, white, and Latino musicians, singers and dancers, in the southern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia) and the Bahamas (Nassau, Andros Island, and Cat Island). Includes portraits of musicians posed with and without their instruments; many photos show musicians in various settings and activities--at homes, working in prison yards, working on chain gangs, performing outside and on stage at...
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Mr. Lincoln's virtual library preview. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Offers selections from two collections at LC. The Emancipation Proclamation draft and accompanying documents are from the Robert Todd Lincoln Family Papers housed in the Manuscript Division. This collection of approx. 40,000 items contains correspondence and papers accumulated primarily during Lincoln's presidency. The selection of prints and broadsides about Lincoln's assassination, are from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The Stern Collection contains over 10,500 books, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, autograph letters, prints, cartoons, maps, drawings, and other memorabilia that offer a unique view of Lincoln's life and times. In the future, Mr....
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African-American perspectives pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. The African-American Pamphlets contain 351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War.
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William P. Gottlieb photographs from the golden age of jazz - Library of Congress. Music Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The collection, which consists of over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz legends, chronicles the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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American environmental photographs, 1891-1936 images from the University of Chicago Library. - University of Chicago. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Consists of approximately 4,500 digitized photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. Images represent a wide range of American topography, forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses. Original material is housed in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Chicago Library.
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First-person narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Compilation of printed texts from libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations such as women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. An award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published during and after the Civil War. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives,...
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Meeting of frontiers - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, - Taft, Horatio Nelson, 1806-1888.; Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896, photographer.
Three-volume diary kept by Taft during Abraham Lincoln's administration in which Taft details events in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War years, including his connection with Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln family. Of special interest is Taft's description of Lincoln's assassination, based on accounts of Taft's friends and his son, who was one of the attending physicians at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot. The diary contains a genealogy of the Taft family dated 1860. Includes an undated photograph of Taft by Mathew Brady.
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Plays of Zora Neale Hurston, - Hurston, Zora Neale.; Hurston, Zora Neale. (1930); Hurston, Zora Neale. (1931); Hurston, Zora Neale. (1925); Hurston, Zora Neale. (1944); Hurston, Zora Neale. (1935)
Manuscript plays written by Hurston which were deposited in the Library of Congress Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944. Most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. Includes four very short plays, sketches or skits, and six full-length plays. Most are light-hearted if not outright comedies, and several include song lyrics without the associated music. Hurston knew the songs and subjects of these plays from her study of folklore in the African-American South as well as her own upbringing in the South. During the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,...
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Frontline diplomacy : the U.S. foreign affairs oral history collection, - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Foreign Affairs Oral History Program.; Bentley, Marilyn.; Warner, Marie.
CD-ROM containing transcripts of individual histories along with country specific readers documenting U.S. foreign affairs. Interviewees include career and noncareer diplomats, Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel from agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Congress, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U.S. Dept. of Labor, U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, and the United States Information Agency, spouses, and U.S. military officers. Published by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Arlington, Va., in 2000. Edited by Marilyn Bentley and Marie Warner. Also includes a CD-ROM of interview transcripts and another...
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