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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W.S.S. Thriftettes / - BDF Films.; Miscellaneous Collection (Library of Congress)
A promotion for war savings stamps, reputed here to help confine Germany's Kaiser to a circus cage.
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AWOL--All wrong old laddiebuck / - Bowers, Charles R., 1889-1946, animation.; American Motion Picture Corporation.; AFI/Rhode Island Historical Society Collection (Library of Congress)
From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Concerns American soldiers in Europe after the armstice [sic]. One goes AWOL with "Joy" (Miss AWOL) and after a series of mishaps with her, he is thrown in a guard house while his fellow soldiers go home.
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[Gertie on tour--excerpts] / - McCay, Winsor, production, animation.; McCay, John, animation.; Fitzsimmons, John A., animation.; Rialto Productions.; AFI/Cinematheque Canadienne Collection (Library of Congress)
Gertie is a dinosaur who lives in present times. She encounters a train and dreams of being the life of the party in her time.
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[The centaurs--excerpts] / - McCay, Winsor, production, animation.; McCay, John, animation.; Fitzsimmons, John A., animation.; Rialto Productions.; AFI/Cinematheque Canadienne Collection (Library of Congress)
A half human-half horse boy and girl meet and fall in love. They have a baby and go home to their parents for a happy reunion.
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The first circus / - Sarg, Tony, 1882-1942, animation.; Dawley, Herbert M., production, animation.; Dawley Productions.; AFI/Uhl (Bernard) Collection (Library of Congress)
During the stone-age the Stonehenge Circus entertained cavemen and women. The circus had a dinosaur that doubled as a trampoline and tightrope for the acrobats.
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Lathrop School, calisthenics / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A group of preadolescent boys and girls is standing in a row facing the camera position. In back of them is a wall on which is written "Kansas City, Mo." As the film progresses, the students go through a series calisthenics, performing them in unison, and continue this throughout the film.
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Kindergarten ball game / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A row of approximately twenty-five children under the age of six can be seen facing the camera. They stand in front of a long blackboard with the words "Kansas City, Mo." written on it. As the film continues, the children bounce the balls they have in their hands, then form a circle and march around the bouncing balls.
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Hyde Park School, room 2 / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Four rows of pre-adolescent children, both boys and girls, are standing in front of a blackboard on which the words "Kansas City, Missouri" can be seen. Each boy and girl has a pair of Indian clubs and for the extent of the film the group demonstrates in unison different exercises, using the clubs.
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Parke Davis' employees / - Armitage, F. S., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Photographed from a single-camera position, this film encompasses a scene of a large number of people either walking or riding bicycles as they leave what appears to be a factory. The title indicates they are employees of a drug firm.
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Midway of Charleston exposition / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows people walking on the midway at the Charleston Exposition. Very few objects are discernible because of the distance.
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Cattle leaving the corral / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The single camera shows a fenced area, a large gate, two men on the fencepost above the gate, and a large herd of cattle behind the gate. The gate is opened and the cattle stream through the opening, herded by four men on horseback. As the film ends, all of the herd of cattle have passed through the gate and by the camera position. Only the empty corral is visible.
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Charleston chain-gang / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Apparently, the film was photographed from a compound bordered by high walls and buildings. At a distance of fifty yards in the direction that the camera is pointed a column of men can be seen walking backwards and holding a chain under their arms. All the men are dressed the same. Two men carrying shotguns gesture to indicate the chain gang should move. They walk toward camera position, continuing until the last man in the column passes the camera.
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Bass fishing / - Talbot, Henry, cast.; Marvin, Arthur W., 1861-1911, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A man in fashionable sporting attire is standing on some large rocks at the edge of a stream. He is holding a short fishing rod in his hands and casting into the running stream. The film ends as the fisherman kneels at the edge of the water, holding the reel in his left hand while he hauls in the fish with a net held in his right hand. There are several occasions when the fisherman cannot be seen, as he walks out of camera range.
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Special delivery messenger, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
As the scene opens, the front of a house, the shrubbery, a staircase, and the sidewalk are visible. From camera left, using a flying dismount, comes a bicycle rider in the uniform of a special delivery messenger. After parking his bicyle, he goes up the stairs to the front door of the house. A woman emerges, he hands her a letter, returns to his bicycle, then rides off out of the scene.
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Circular panorama of housing the ice / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera photographed an area of industrial activity. Against a hill approximately one hundred feet in height, ten escalatorlike conveyors have been constructed. The film indicates that the system was designed to lift ice that had been cut from a lake to the top of a hill where it was either stored or shipped. The camera pans from the mechanized area to the right 150 degrees to show the total operation.
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Coach at rural post office, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
This section of the postal film is concerned with a stagecoach pulled by four horses arriving and delivering a pouch of mail to a rural post office for rerouting. Also visible is the post office delivery wagon.
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Delivering mail from sub-station / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subjects seen by the camera are a portion of a large building with columns in front that indicates it is a government building and three small shuttle streetcars across the street from the camera position. As the film progresses, the shuttle cars leave. Twice during the film a larger streetcar passes in front of the camera position.
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Train taking up mail bag, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject of this Postal Department documentary is "snatching" the mail bag from the suspended post by the railroad mail clerk. As the film begins, a man climbs the steps leading to the device that suspends the mail bag in the air. A train can be seen in the distance approcaching the mail bag. At the end of the film, the mail bag is just being snatched from the suspension device.
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Asia in America, St. Louis exposition / - Weed, A. E., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film begins with a wide shot of an area crowded with people, some riding elephants, others marching in procession in front of a structure with the sign "Asia" on it. The people are wearing various costumes.
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Herding horses across a river / - Abadie, Alfred C., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Approximately forty horses can be seen in the distance across a river. They are being driven into the water by men on horseback. The horses approach the camera position as they ford the river. The film ends as the horses are seen passing the camera and being herded by five men on horseback.
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