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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Photographs from the Chicago daily news, 1902-1933 - Chicago Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Presents images of urban life in or near Chicago, Illinois, captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs feature a variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper as well as politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to Chicago.
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Map collections, 1500-2003 - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress offers access to its online map collection for the years 1500-2002. The collection is organized according to seven major categories. Information about the date of publication, subject, medium, call number, and location of each map is provided.
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The Chinese in California 1850-1925 / - Bancroft Library.; University of California, Berkeley. Ethnic Studies Library; California Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life...
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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian photographic images. - Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Library.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Digital version of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis, a twenty-volume set from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library. Features a collection of over 2,000 photogravure plates and narrative portraying the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty North American Indian tribes.
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The Wilbur and Orville Wright papers at the Library of Congress / - Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.; Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright whose pioneering work led to the world's first powered, controlled, and sustained flight. Features correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wright brothers' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives.
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American notes travels in America, 1750-1920 : from the general collections, Library of Congress. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
"American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites."
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Tending the commons folklife and landscape in southern West Virginia : from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Features excerpts from original sound recordings and photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. Includes extensive interviews on native forest species and the seasonal round of traditional harvesting. Documents community cultural events such as storytelling, baptisms in the river, cemetery customs, and the spring wild leek feasts. Interpretive texts outline the social, historical, economic, environmental, and cultural contexts of community life, while a series of maps and a diagram depicting the seasonal round of community activities provide special access to collection materials.
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American women a gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
A slightly expanded and fully searchable version of American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (2001) that has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site, including 36 items newly digitized especially for American Women.
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After the day of infamy man on the street interviews following the attack on Pearl Harbor / - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. Radio Research Project.
A collection of more than 12 hours of interviews recorded after the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor and compiled from two separate audio collections: Man on the street (1941) and Dear Mr. President (1942), recorded as part of the Radio Research Project. Includes one essay: "Making and Maintaining the Original Recordings." Also included are biographies of the fieldworkers who conducted and arranged the interviews, complete transcripts of the interviews, related manuscripts, and original disc sleeves. Recordings are indexed by name, location, subject, manuscript title, and recording number. Also searchable by keyword.
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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 Cha?vez, 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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Fiddle tunes of the old frontier the Henry Reed collection, from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / - Reed, Henry, 1884-1968.; Jabbour, Alan.; Ricci, Glenn.; American Folklife Center.
Presents a multi-format collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-1967, when Reed was over 80 years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, andinfluence; a list of related...
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Abdul-Hamid II collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire - Abdu?lhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918 donor.; Abdullah fre?res, 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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Lawrence & Houseworth photographs of Northern California and Western Nevada from the series Gems of California scenery - Lawrence & Houseworth.; Lawrence & Houseworth, publisher.
Half-stereograph prints show sites in Northern California with emphasis on San Francisco and areas of the Sierra Nevada. Also views of Carson City and Virginia City in Western Nevada. Subjects include placer and hydraulic mining operations and settlements; commercial buildings; the Central Pacific Railroad; churches; dwellings; mills; missions; harbors and wharfs; schools; some ships. Also cityscapes and street scenes; views of Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Calif., and the redwoods of Calaveras County, Calif.
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Frank and Frances Carpenter collection - Carpenter, Frank G. 1855-1924, photographer, collector.; Carpenter, Frances, 1890-1972, photographer, donor.
Travel views of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, with additional locations in the Middle East, Mexico, Central America and some areas of the Caribbean. Many of the images show people, illustrating occupations, clothing, customs, and daily life. Other topics depicted include architecture, agriculture, commerce, education, housing, industry, transportation, archaeological sites, monuments, and street scenes.
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Panoramic maps collection - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; He?bert, John R.; Dempsey, Patrick E. (Patrick Eugene), 1949-
Collection contains about 1,700 idealized schematic views of towns and cities; a wealth of detail in setting, streets, and buildings. The majority of items presented here are documented in "Panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada", second edition (1984), by John R. He?bert and Patrick E. Dempsey.
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Newspaper pictorials World War I rotogravures. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
During the World War I era (1914-18), leading newspapers took advantage of a new printing process that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce images. Rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations, even on inexpensive newsprint paper, was used to create vivid new pictorial sections. Publishers that could afford to invest in the new technology saw sharp increases both in readership and advertising revenue. The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and advertisements...
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Parallel histories Spain, the United States, and the American frontier = Historias paralelas : Espan?a, Estados Unidos y la frontera americana. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Biblioteca Nacional (Spain); Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina (Seville, Spain)
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. A cooperative effort between the National Library of Spain, the Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular of Seville and the Library of Congress, the project is part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway initiative to build digital library partnerships with national libraries around the world. Through the presentation in digital form of books, maps, prints and photographs, manuscripts, and other documents from the...
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Voices from the days of slavery former slaves tell their stories. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. The former slaves discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, how slaves were coerced, their families, and, of course, freedom. They have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond. All known recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center are included in this online collection together with transcriptions of the recordings....
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Performing arts encyclopedia explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress - Library of Congress.
The site displays the diversity of performing arts through the Library of Congress's collections of music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials. Special presentations and featured collections will highlight some of the unique and unusual materials in the Library's collections.
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Dayton C. Miller flute collection, - Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941.
It appears that Miller's philosophy of collecting was simple, practical, and all-inclusive. The collection contains, for example, several Asian, Native American, and other specimens which, although in effect real instruments, appear to have been made for tourist and souvenir sales. Several others seem to be failed attempts at constructing replica instruments during the initial phases of the early music (or period instrument) movement. However, the quality of much of the collection is high and displays examples of pristine craftsmanship involving precious metals, ivory, jade, tortoise shell, and nearly every wood traditionally associated with woodwind instrument construction. Two of the better...
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