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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Driving cattle to pasture / - Abadie, Alfred C., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera was placed to get the best view of the many cattle being driven toward grazing land. Edision Foundation records (envelope 135): "photographed by A. C. Abadie, May 9, 1904, Bliss, Oklahoma Territory. Showing a large number of cattle being rounded up in a pasture."
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Babies rolling eggs / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Some small children in winter clothing face the camera in a semicircle. They throw what appear to be eggs down the incline toward the camera position. From left and right of the camera, a great number of young boys scramble for the eggs. Many close-ups and mass photographs of the activities are then shown.
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Tossing eggs / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows a group of adults and adolescents on what appears to be the side of a hill in a pine grove, tossing and retrieving eggs. There is good footage of the participants's apparel.
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Carriers leaving building, U.S.P.O. [Version 1] / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The opening scene shows the steps of a large public building. Above the steps is a door out of which, coming toward the camera position, are approximately a hundred and fifty mail carriers of the postal service. They are in uniform and are all carrying mail bags. They continue down the steps in formation for the full length of the film.
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Carriers leaving building, U.S.P.O. [Version 2] / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of uniformed mail carriers as they leave the main post office to deliver letters. They can be seen walking down the steps of the building toward the camera position. Some mount bicycles and ride away, while others just walk. There are also some women in the film.
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Clerks casing mail for bags, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is an operation of mail handling called "casing." The camera was placed so that two men can be seen demonstrating the method. The demonstrators, with stacks of letters in their hands, place them in one of many apertures built into a cabinet or "case."
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Throwing mail into bags, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
This film concerns the separation of mail parcels before distribution. A semicircular rack of mail bags, each tagged with a different location, is placed on a set of the interior of a postal building. Two postal employees throw packages of envelopes brought to them by another employee into the marked mail bags.
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Clerks tying bags, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Two employees of the Post Office Department are removing stacks of letters from the aperatures in the "case" or cabinet and tying them into bundles. They then throw the tied envelopes into the appropriate sacks.
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Exchange of mail at rural P.O., U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The opening scene shows a yard in front of what seems to be a two-story house. A small boy is standing in front of the house near a post box fastened to one of the columns supporting the roof of the building. A horse-drawn rural delivery wagon drives up and a man gets out, delivers mail, gets back in, and drives the wagon out of the scene.
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Rural wagon delivering mail, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is the delivery of the U.S. mail in a rural area. The camera was positioned in full sight of a standard rural free delivery post box located in front of a well-kept house and garden. A small boy and girl walk past the camera position in front of the mail box. At that moment, a standard rural horse-drawn postal delivery wagon comes into sight. The postman places the mail in the box, and the wagon continues on its way.
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Rural wagon giving mail to branch, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The first scene shows a rural free delivery mail man standing waiting for the area mail to be delivered to him. As the film continues, a horse-drawn wagon marked "Rural Postal Delivery" passes the camera position. The mail is then handed to the waiting postman who boards a two-wheel wagon and drives away.
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Routing mail, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A man dressed in the attire of a U.S. mail carrier is standing in front of a backdrop painted to represent a projected dimensional schematic of the interior of a post office. The mail carrier is holding a stack of envelopes in his left hand, while with his right hand, he is placing the letters in the pigeonholes of a case especially constructed for the alphabetical sorting of letters. The case, approximately three feet by four feet, is mounted on four legs.
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Old mail coach at Ford, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film begins by showing a river approximately fifty yards wide. The opposite bank from the camera position is wooded. Shortly after the beginning of the film, four horses, drawing a standard passenger-and-mail coach, head for the camera position. The horse-drawn vehicle proceeds into the water, crosses the river, and passes the camera.
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Collecting mail, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is the movement of mail by the U.S. postal service. As the film begins, two types of mail boxes on a pole on the corner of a street can be seen. In the background, away from the camera position, are people going by on foot, as well as horse-drawn and electric streetcar transportation. At the end of the film, a man wearing the uniform of a mailman is seen approaching the mail boxes. He unlocks the boxes and removes the mail from both the small and large boxes.
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Cancelling machine, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera that photographed this film, built around the operation of cancelling mail, was placed high enough to include not only the machine and its operation but also the man who was making it work. During the film, a large number of envelopes are worked through the machine by an operator.
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Wagons loading mail, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The photographer placed his camera to encompass as much of the loading ramp of a mail delivery building as possible. As the film begins, several horse-drawn postal transportation vehicles are backed up to the ramp. At the end of the film, a postal delivery wagon pulled by one horse enters the scene and is backed against the ramp.
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Loading mail car, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
This film, part of series on the various activities of the Post Office, starts with a scene of a large railroad mail car on a siding. A horse-drawn, four-wheeled vehicle with a sign "U.S. Mail" on the side proceeds away from the camera toward the mail car. The vehicle stops, the driver gets out, and, as the film ends, he is seen unloading the cart and putting mail bags in the train.
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Loading sugar cane / - Bonine, R. (Robert K.) camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The short length of this films leaves much to be desired to give proper description. However, it is possible to see a large receiving car in a cane brake where several people are visible chopping cane and carrying it to the receiver. There is one person wearing white trousers, a blue coat, and a straw hat who comes from behind the camera position and starts up the incline. The film was photographed in Hawaii.
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High school field exercises, Missouri Commission / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The cameraman placed his equipment on the side of an athletic field adjacent to a high school. During the course of the film, teen-age boys exhibit their skill at high jumping, pole vaulting, shot putting, discus throwing, and broad jumping. These events take place in the immediate area of the camera range. All the events are supervised by an adult who is visible on the field at all times.
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Central high school, gymnastic drill / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The cameraman placed his equipment at the edge of a school yard where supervised gymnastics were being conducted by high school students. Male students can be seen doing the long and short "horse" exercises to the left of the camera position. In the center, a group of young girls are engaged in using the parellel bars and to the right of the camera, some older boys in white clothing are executing several difficult exercises on the high parallel bars. Across the extent of the visibility of the camera is a blackboard with the words "Kansas City, Mo."
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