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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Band music from the Civil War era - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program; Library of Congress. Music Division.
Makes available examples of a brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North and the South during the Civil War. This online collection includes both printed and manuscript music selected from the collections of the Music Division of the Library of Congress and the Walter Dignam Collection of the Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, New Hampshire). The collection features over 700 musical compositions, as well as 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of...
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Jackie Robinson and other baseball highlights, 1860-1960 [electronic resource]. - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.; Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The special presentation called Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson, 1860s-1960s is a time line in five sections. It draws on approximately thirty items--manuscripts, books, photographs, and ephemera--from many parts of the Library.
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"I do solemnly swear--", presidential inaugurations from several divisions of the Library of Congress and other institutions. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
A collection of items or digital files from each of the 62 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to William Jefferson Clinton's in 1997, and will include items from the 63rd inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music. An important component is the collaboration with the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, which permits the site to offer Yale's online presentations of the inaugural addresses from Presidents Washington to Bush with associated searchable text...
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Early Virginia religious petitions a collaborative project / - Library of Congress.; Library of Virginia.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents images of over 400 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802. Covers topics such as the separation of church and state, rights of dissenters, sale and division of property in the established church, and the dissolution of unpopular vestries. Features an online version of a Library of Congress exhibition entitled Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. 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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Traveling culture circuit Chautauqua in the twentieth century : from the University of Iowa Libraries. - University of Iowa. Libraries.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Collection of publicity brochures, promotional advertisements, and talent circulars for performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. Derived from the Redpath Lyceum Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries, materials promote entertainers, lecturers, and performing groups such as teachers, preachers, statesmen, politicans, actors, singers, opera stars, glee clubs, concert companies, magicians, and whistlers.
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America at work, America at leisure motion pictures from 1894-1915 / - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Collection of motion pictures covering work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915. Features films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events.
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The capital and the bay narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay region, ca. 1600-1925 / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents books that capture the Washington, D.C. area and Chesapeake Bay region in words and pictures. Depicts the region as it developed between the onset of European settlement and the first quarter of the twentieth century. Selected from the Library of Congress's general collections and its Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the collection offers first-person narratives, early histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures, and books of photographs.
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Emergence of advertising in America 1850-1920 / - Duke University. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. Materials drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University include cookbooks, photographs of billboards, print advertisements, trade cards, calendars, almanacs, and leaflets for numerous products.
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California as I saw it first-person narratives of California's early years, 1849-1900 / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. Covers the decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. 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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Chicago anarchists on trial - Chicago Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair, a violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886. Covers the May 4, 1886 meeting and bombing; the trial, conviction, and subsequent appeals of those accused of inciting the bombing; and the execution of four of the convicted and the later pardon of the remaining defendants. Features searchable transcript of the murder trial. Includes twenty-four images of three-dimensional artifacts, including contemporary Chicago Police Department paraphernalia, labor banners, and an unexploded bomb casing.
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An American time capsule three centuries of broadsides and other printed ephemera / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
Derived from the Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress, presents thousands of primary source items from the American states, the District of Columbia, and London, England. Materials date from the seventeenth century to the present and encompass key events and eras in American history such as the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the American Civil War, women's suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution. Features posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and business cards.
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Civil War treasures from the New-York Historical Society - New-York Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Drawn from the New-York Historical Society's archival collections documenting the Civil War, the collection features recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides.
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The African-American experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 selections from the Ohio Historical Society. - Ohio Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society that depict the history of African Americans in Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Materials cover slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.
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Sunday school books shaping the values of youth in nineteenth-century America / - Michigan State University. Libraries.; Clarke Historical Library.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865. Drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries, documents the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the antebellum era. Individual works illustrate a number of thematic divisions that preoccupied nineteenth-century America such as sacred and secular, natural and divine, civilized and savage, rural and industrial, and adult and child. Topics include history, holidays, slavery, African Americans, Native Americans, travel and missionary accounts, death and dying, poverty, temperance, immigrants, and advice.
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The Northern Great Plains photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak photograph collections / - North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The Fred Hulstrand History in Pictures Collection and The F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection, two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at the North Dakota State University, depict rural and small-town life at the turn of the century. Resource features images of sod homes and the people who built them; farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and one-room schools and the children that were educated in them. 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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Small-town America stereoscopic views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 / - New York Public Library. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
12,000 photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library. The views show buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages as well as natural landscapes. They also depict agriculture, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local celebrations, natural disasters, people, and costumes. 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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California gold Northern California folk music from the thirties : collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell / - Cowell, Sidney Robertson.; American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The Work Project Administration (WPA) California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in 12 languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest - University of Washington.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. The materials are drawn from the extensive collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle."
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The Spanish-American War in motion pictures - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Features sixty-eight motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, films depict troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events. 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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Pioneering the Upper Midwest books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Highlights the local history of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Depicts the land, resources, and people of each region. Derived from first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works from the collections of the Library of Congress. 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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