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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William C. Brumfield photograph collection - Brumfield, William Craft, 1944- photographer, donor.
The photographs document the architecture of pre-Soviet Russia. Most of the structures are churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, often shown in multiple views. Structures are located in both large cities and small towns from west of the Ural Mountains eastward through Siberia. Interior views include icon screens (iconostases) and fresco murals. Also represented are dwellings, commercial, and log buildings along with a few views of meadows, lakes, rivers and trees.
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Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs - Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer.
Photographs document the lives of Japanese Americans interned during World War II at the Manzanar Relocation Center, in Inyo County, California. There are numerous close-up and occupational portraits of individuals, including Roy Takeno, editor of the Manzanar Free Press, and photographer To?yo? Miyatake. Group portraits include families, women and children. Other photographs show people posed in their living quarters and engaged in indoor daily life such as shopping, religious services, health care, and education; more informal views portray outdoor agricultural scenes and sports and leisure activities. Landscape views feature the background mountains and desert as well as camp facilities and...
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Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection - Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869, photographer.
These photographs present a substantial documentary record of the participants and the landscape of the Crimean War, although there are no actual combat scenes. Comprised mainly of portrait photographs of British military personnel, as well as some French and Turkish military personnel, including a nurse attached to the French troops, leaders of the allied forces, Lord Raglan, Mare?chal Pe?lissier, and O?mer Lu?tfi Pas?a, and Fenton dressed as a Zouave. The views show cavalry and artillery camps, a mortar battery, a cemetery; buildings, the harbor, and ships at Balaklava; the plains between Balaklava and Sevastopol?, and distant views of Sevastopol?.
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Grabill photographs of frontier life in South Dakota and Wyoming - Grabill, John C. H., photographer.
3076-1: Ox teams in the Black Hills of South Dakota; 3076-2: Portraits of Oglala, Lakota, Miniconjou, and Brule? Indians, Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River, South Dakota; 3076-3: Railroads, including construction and railroad camps in South Dakota and Wyoming; 3076-4: Portraits of U.S. Cavalry & Infantry at South Dakota; 3076-5: Parades at Deadwood, South Dakota and Chicago, Ill.; 3076-6: Cityscapes and commercial buildings in South Dakota and Colorado; 3076-7: Ranch houses and a log cabin in South Dakota; 3076-8: Stagecoaches and coach drivers, including the Last Deadwood coach and Wells Fargo Express Co.; 3076-9: Military facilities at Fort Meade and Pine...
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Westward by sea a maritime perspective on American expansion, 1820-1890 / - Mystic Seaport Museum.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"This selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest. A number of photographs, paintings, maps, and nautical charts are also included to illustrate the story of Americans' western seaborne travel. Various themes are touched upon, including whaling, life at sea, shipping, women at sea, and native populations."--Home page.
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The church in the southern Black community, 1780-1925 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival. An award from the Library of...
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History of the American West, 1860-1920 - Denver Public Library. Western History/Genealogy Dept.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy."--Home page.
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Emile Berliner and the birth of the recording industry - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Focuses on the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries who was responsible for the development of the microphone, flat recording disc, and gramophone player. Features correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, motion picture components, and rare sound recordings.
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The first American West the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 / - University of Chicago. Library.; Filson Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images."
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Slaves and the courts, 1740-1860 - Library of Congress. Law Library.; Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents more than a hundred pamphlets and books, published between 1772 and 1889, concerning the difficult experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. All but one of the items are available both as online images and as searchable text; the exception is an unpublished handwritten slavery code of...
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Fifty years of Coca-Cola television advertisements highlights from the motion picture archives at the Library of Congress / - Coca-Cola Company.; Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents television advertisements, outtakes, and experimental footage documenting the historical developments of television advertising for the Coca-Cola carbonated beverage. Includes stop-motion advertising developed between 1954 and 1956; excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964; historical, biographical, and finding aid information; timeline; and selected bibliography.
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The life of a city early films of New York, 1898-1906 / - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Derived from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, presents forty-five films of New York that were made during the period from 1898 to 1906 by the Edison Company and the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Features selected bibliographies on New York and early motion pictures. Includes historical information about turn-of-the-century New York City and the United States.
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America singing nineteenth-century song sheets / - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Collection of 4,291 song sheets for popular music from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Consisting of lyrics produced between the turn of the nineteenth century and the 1880s, the collection reflects the political, social, and economic life of the time. Includes 97 British song sheets from Dublin and London.
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Inside an American factory films of the Westinghouse works, 1904 / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944.; Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
"The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse Machine Company. The films were intended to showcase the company's operations. Exterior and interior shots of the factories are shown along with scenes of male and female workers performing their duties at the plants."
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Theodore Roosevelt his life and times on film / - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress); Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Derived from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection and the Paper Print Collection of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress, presents 104 films that document the events in Theodore Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919. Features selected bibliography, timeline, film chronology, and four sound recordings of Roosevelt stating his progressive political views.
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We'll sing to Abe our song! sheet music about Lincoln, emancipation, and the Civil War : from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana / - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress); Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Collection of over two hundred sheet music compositions on the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Spanning the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of his birth in 1909, details historic events of late nineteenth-century America and reflects popular opinions of the time. Offers a variety of popular music styles such as Union draft songs, campaign pieces, and minstrel songs. Links to a section of The Learning Page covering the subjects of United States history, critical thinking, and arts and humanities as they relate to the collection.
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The last days of a president films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 / - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Presents twenty-eight films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company from March to November 1901, these actuality motion pictures feature footage of President William McKinley at his second inauguration; the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York; McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition; and McKinley's funeral. Links to a section of The Learning Page covering the subjects of United States history, critical thinking, and arts and humanities as they relate to the collection.
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Votes for women selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 / - Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.; Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore."
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Trails to Utah and the Pacific diaries and letters, 1846-1869 / - Harold B. Lee Library.; Utah Academic Library Consortium.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Tells the stories of Mormon families and other pioneers as they moved westward across the United States to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and 1869. Features forty-nine diaries, forty-three maps, eighty-two photographs and illustrations, and seven published guides for immigrants. Derived from source materials from the collections of Brigham Young University, members of the Utah Academic Libraries Consortium, and other archival institutions in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
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Music for the nation American sheet music / - Library of Congress. Music Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Derived from the collection of the Music Division at the Library of Congress, presents sheet music that was published in the United States and registered for copyright during the nineteenth century. Includes popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. Features a bibliographic description for each item in the collection.
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