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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Thomas Jefferson papers, - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm books, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings, and other papers. The bulk of the correspondence and writings falls within the period 1775-1826 and encompasses the major events of the founding and growth of the United States in that era. Letters, notes, lists, and essays document Jefferson's role as the founder of the University of Virginia and his interest...
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Alexander Graham Bell family papers, - Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.; Bell, Alexander Melville, 1819-1905.; Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, 1857-1923.; Fairchild, Marian, 1880-1962.; Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene), 1822-1897.
Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone (1876). Also includes material documenting his contributions to the education of the deaf and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering. Includes bound volumes of the Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, a bulletin concerning Bell's laboratory and estate in Baddeck, N.S.; and volumes of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, later American Annals of the Deaf. Correspondents include Edward Miner Gallaudet, Ulysses S. Grant,...
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Hannah Arendt papers, - Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. 1961.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. 1963.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. 1968.; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. 1978.; Blücher, Heinrich, 1899-1970.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, clippings, and other papers primarily concerning Arendt's intellectual, social, and professional life as a lecturer and writer after World War II. Subjects include the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Jewish response to the Holocaust, totalitarianism in Germany, and Zionism. Mss. of her works include Between Past and Future; Six Exercises in Political Thought (1961), Eichmann in Jerusalem; A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), and The Life of the Mind (1978). Family papers include correspondence and unpublished writings of her husband, Heinrich Blücher. Many of the letters...
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U.S. Work Projects Administration records, - United States. Work Projects Administration.; United States. Works Progress Administration.; Federal Writers' Project.; Writers' Program (U.S.)
Series A. includes correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, oral testimony in the form of life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys, critical appraisals, administrative records, graphs, drawings, maps, and other records. Subjects include production of American Guide-books which were intended to encourage travel to various states to bolster the economy during the Great Depression, rural and urban folklore, customs of social and ethnic groups, and African Americans both slaves and ex-slaves. Folklorists include Benjamin Albert Botkin and John A. Lomax. Authors include Nelson Algren, Sterling Brown, Jack Conroy, and Richard Wright....
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Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting - Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951, photographer.; Matson, G. Eric (Gästgifvar Eric), 1888-1977, photographer.; Larsson, Lewis, photographer.; American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer.; Matson Photo Service, photographer.
John D. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Photograph albums show people, locations, and events in the Middle East generally from the 1890s to 1954. Two albums document Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai during World War I, showing Ottoman/German and British military activities, as well as the early British Mandate period (LOTs 13827 and 13833). Other notable albums include images of British officials meeting with Arab leaders in Amman in 1921 (LOT 13834), a series of "Diaries in Photos"...
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Abdul-Hamid II collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire - Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918 donor.; Abdullah frères, photographer.; Sebah & Joaillier, photographer.
These photographic albums portray the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. They highlight the modernization of numerous aspects of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the places depicted are within the boundaries of modern-day Turkey, but buildings and sites in Iraq, Lebanon, Greece and other countries are also included. The images show students and educational facilities, including law, medical and military schools; well-equipped army and navy personnel and facilities; technologically advanced lifesaving and fire fighting brigades; factories; mines; harbors; hospitals; and government buildings. The collection also documents historic Byzantine and Ottoman monuments, mosques, mosaics,...
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Horatio Nelson Taft diary, - 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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Zora Neale Hurston plays, - 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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Thomas Jefferson papers, - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm books, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings, and other papers. The bulk of the correspondence and writings falls within the period 1775-1826 and encompasses the major events of the founding and growth of the United States in that era. Letters, notes, lists, and essays document Jefferson's role as the founder of the University of Virginia and his interest...
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Abraham Lincoln papers, - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War. Includes two drafts of the Gettysburg address, material preserved by John G. Nicolay in his capacities as Lincoln's secretary and editor of the Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1905), a letter of condolence from Queen Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a small amount of material about Lincoln dated after 1865. Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Benjamin Harris Brewster, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, David Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, George Brinton McClellan, George Gordon Meade, Edwin...
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George Washington papers, - Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.
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Aaron Copland collection, - Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.; Kraft, Victor, 1915-1976.
The Aaron Copland collection consists of published and unpublished music by Copland and other composers, correspondence, writings, biographical material, datebooks, journals, professional papers including legal and financial material, photographs, awards, art work, and books. Of particular interest is the correspondence with Nadia Boulanger, which extent over 50 years, and with his long-time friend, Harold Clurman. Other significant correspondents are Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, Carlos Chávez, David Diamond, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, Claire Reis, Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, and Virgil Thomsom. The photographic collection of Copland's friend and confidant Victor Kraft, a professional photographer, forms part of the collection.
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Irving Fine collection, - Fine, Irving, 1914-1962.
The bulk of the materials in the collection are musical scores and sketches which represent virtually the entire musical output of the composer, some of which have been cataloged individually and classified and shelved in ML96.F47, ML96.5.F47, ML30.3C.F55, and ML29c.F527. In addition there are photographs, clippings, programs, scrapbooks, as well as correspondence from 20th century musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Ned Rorem, and William Schuman.
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Moldenhauer archives at the Library of Congress, - Moldenhauer, Hans.
The archives consist primarily of music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings. They span years from the Middle Ages to the present, and include documents of composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others. The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio...
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Chronicling America historic American newspapers / - Library of Congress.; National Endowment for the Humanities.; National Digital Newspaper Program (U.S.)
This site allows you to search and read digitized newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Currently, content is available from the following geographic areas: California, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
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Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information color slides and transparencies collection (Library of Congress) - Bransby, David, photographer.; Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.; Collier, John, 1913-1992, photographer.; Delano, Jack, photographer.; Dixon, Royden, photographer.; Downey, Jack, photographer.; Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer.; Hollem, Howard R., photographer.; Jacobs, Fenno, 1904-1975, photographer.; Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer.; Liberman, Howard, photographer.; Palmer, Alfred T., photographer.; Rittase, William M., 1894-1968, photographer.; Rosskam, Louise, 1910- photographer.; Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer.; Rous, John, photographer.; Sherwood, Mark, photographer.; Siegel, Arthur S., photographer.; Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.; Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.; United States. Farm Security Administration.; United States. Office of War Information.
Documentary images of life and culture in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Farm Security Administration images focus on rural areas, depicting farming, mining, forestry, migrant labor, children, and fairs. Includes particularly extensive coverage of Afro-Americans, but also includes whites, Hispanic Americans, and islanders. Office of War Information images cover civilian training during World War II, civil engineering (especially dam construction and operation of the Tennessee Valley Authority), factories and industrial labor, women working in the defense industry, transportation (particularly by railroad and by air), World War II mobilization, military facilities (with an emphasis on air...
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Frederick Douglass papers, - Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.; Douglass, Helen, 1838-1903.
Correspondence, diary (1886-1887), speeches, articles, manuscript of Douglass's autobiography, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to his interest in social, educational, and economic reform; his career as lecturer and writer; his travels to Africa and Europe (1886-1887); his publication of the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, in Rochester, N.Y. (1847-1851); and his role as commissioner (1892-1893) in charge of the Haiti Pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Subjects include civil rights, emancipation, problems encountered by freedmen and slaves, a proposed American naval station in Haiti, national politics, and women's rights. Includes material relating...
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, - Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.; Clausing, Ludwig, 1809?-1834.
Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, newspapers, printed matter, maps, drawings, photographs, and other papers. Includes letters from Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States and commenting on American, British, and European art; correspondence and other papers relating to his invention of the telegraph, law suits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph; diaries (chiefly 1829-1831) recording his travels in Italy and elsewhere in Europe and...
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