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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[Cuneiform tablets collection]. - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division.; Kirkor Minassian Collection (Library of Congress)
Cuneiform tablets with inscriptions pertaining primarily to receipt of and payment for goods and services. Twelve tablets are identified as school exercise tablets. These were orginally unfired, as they were meant to be erased and reused. Other tablets, and the brick fragments, contain votive or commemorative inscriptions or are records of religious offerings. This last group includes also two votive cone inscriptions, inscribed cone-shaped clay "nails" made to be placed in the walls of a temple.
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National Child Labor Committee collection - Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.; National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), funder/sponsor.
Photographs, taken primarily by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee, focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions, and educational settings in the United States between 1908 and 1924. Images depict working conditions in agriculture, home labor, street trades, and various other industries, including, mining, canneries, glass factories, and cotton mills. Photographs also show recreational activities, victims of work-related accidents, health care activities, and images representing protests of child labor practices. Included are photographs of cartoons and clippings.
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September 11, 2001, documentary project - American Folklife Center.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in the sound and video recordings, written narratives, poetry, photographs, and drawings that comprise this online presentation. The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation's folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record, and document America's reaction. A sampling of the material collected through this...
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Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song : correspondence, 1940-1950. - Archive of American Folk Song.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
American Memory web site that highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress. The letters were written primarily in the early 1940s, shortly after Guthrie had moved to New York City and met the Archive's assistant in charge, Alan Lomax. Provides browsing letter titles and subject (including names of correspondents). Also includes a biographic sketch of Guthrie by Mark Allan Jackson, chronology, selected discography, and bibliography.
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The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress); Library of Congress.
Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and naval strategist, circumnavigated the earth from 1577-1580. During these travels, Drake visited the Caribbean and the Pacific claiming a portion of California for Queen Elizabeth and waging battles on the Spanish. This collection comprises important primary and secondary materials accumulated about Drake's voyages throughout the then Spanish territory of the Americas. Texts are in English, Latin, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French.
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Before and after the great earthquake and fire early films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 / - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Site offers a perspective on the effects the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires of 1906 had on the development of the city. Seventeen films shot before the devestating events and seven shot detailing the horrendous damage are available for viewing. In addition a 1915 and 1916 film are included to illustrate the rebuilt area.
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Railroad maps, 1828-1900 - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the achievement of early railroaders. Included in the collection are progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms. All of the items presented here are documented in Railroad maps of the United States compiled by Andrew M. Modelski in 1975. The bibliography contains 623 railroad maps of...
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Mapping the national parks - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
The Mapping the National Parks collection documents the history, cultural aspects, and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, reflecting early mapping of the areas that would become four National Parks, as well as the parks themselves. Production of this collection is supported by a gift from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Civil War maps - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Virginia Historical Society.; Library of Virginia.
Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts, all available for the first time in one place. Most of the items presented here are documented in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson...
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The American Revolution and its era maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 / - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
American Revolution and Its Era, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 : A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress, compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately 2,000 maps and charts. Additional maps and charts in this bibliography are to be added to the online collection.
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The Rochambeau map collection - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.
The Rochambeau Map Collection contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal collection, cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795. The maps show Revolutionary-era military actions, some of which were published in England and France, and early state maps from the 1790s. Many of the items in this group of maps show the importance of cartographic materials in the campaigns of the American Revolution as well as...
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The Hotchkiss map collection - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.
The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of which were used by the Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson for their combat planning and strategy. Several of the maps have annotations of various military officers, demonstrating their importance in the military campaigns. The collection also includes maps made or used by Hotchkiss during his post-war years, including maps with information about railroads, minerals and mining, geology and history, most of which focus on...
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World War II military situation maps, 1944-1945 - United States. Army. Army Group, 1st. Headquarters.; Allied Forces. Army Group, 12th. Engineer Section.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.; Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.
The World War II Military Situation Maps contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany. Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified "G-3 Report" giving detailed information on troop positions for the period 3 Mar. 1945-26 July 1945. These maps and reports were used by the commanders of the United States forces in their evaluation of the campaigns and for planning future strategies....
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Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 American Colonization Society collection / - American Colonization Society.; Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be...
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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 1900-1910 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, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, District of Columbia.
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Constitutional Convention broadsides. - United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Contains broadsides and other documents related to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the ratification of the new Constitution, and the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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Continental Congress broadsides. - United States. Continental Congress.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Contains broadsides and other documents pertaining to the work of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War and Confederation period. Items include acts, resolutions, committee reports, treaties, and proclamations. Many of the documents represent drafts of resolutions and bills which eventually passed in a different form; some items have manuscript annotations which are not elsewhere recorded. Some pieces exist in multiple copies.
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[Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller] - Miller, Elizabeth Smith, 1822-1911.; Miller, Anne Fitzhugh, 1856-1912.; National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
The scrapbooks were compiled by suffragists Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, of Geneva, N.Y., between 1897 and 1911. They include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, programs, letters, and photographs about the woman suffrage movement and suffragists in the United States (chiefly in New York State) and Great Britain. Organizations covered include the Geneva Political Equality Club, the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Theodor Horydczak collection (Library of Congress) - Horydczak, Theodor, ca. 1890-1971, photographer.
Images documenting the architecture and social life of Washington, D.C., primarily from ca. 1920 to ca. 1950. Exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential, and government buildings, including the U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Institution. Other subjects include Georgetown, the southwest waterfront, the C&O (Chesapeake & Ohio) Canal, Potomac River bridges, the National Cathedral and other religious buildings, educational and training institutions, organizations' buildings, hotels and restaurants, embassies, museums and libraries, outdoor sculptures, and monuments. Additional subjects include street scenes and neighborhoods; developments in transportation and aviation; Washington events, including the Bonus Army encampment and the 1933 World Series;...
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Panoramic photograph filing series (Library of Congress) - Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.), b. 1877, copyright claimant.; Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio), photographer, copyright claimant.; Geo. R. Lawrence Co., photographer, copyright claimant.; Pillsbury Picture Co., copyright claimant.; West Coast Art Co., photographer, copyright claimant.
Most are panoramic scenes of the United States and over 20 foreign countries, especially views of towns, cities, and tourist locations, with emphasis on California, New York, Texas, and Illinois. Highlights natural wonders, engineering feats (especially the Panama Canal), and the aftermath of disasters, such as fires, earthquakes, and accidents. Includes activities revolving around mines, lumber, oil, agriculture, and other industries. Contains group portraits of school groups, bathing beauties, sports teams, firemen, company picnics, religious groups, professional organizations, convention attendees, and other. Depicts military facilities and related images, taken between and during the first and second world wars. Sporting events,...
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