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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Buying stamps from Rural Wagon, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film shows a man carrying a mail sack. He climbs the stairs of a front porch, rings a doorbell, and a woman comes to the door. The postman hands her something, turns around, and walks down the stairs.
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Tying up bags for train, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera shows the action of two postal employees as they remove mail sacks from the semicircular rack where they are placed so they can be filled with mail for their respective locations. The two postal employees stack the mail sacks on a cart in preparation for dispatch elsewhere.
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Post man delivering mail, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
This film shows the delivery of the U.S. mail, in a rural area. A two-horse vehicle, with a sign reading "U.S. Mail," appears on the scene. The postal employee gets out of the vehicle and places mail in a standard metal mail box. A woman comes out of her house and removes the mail from the mail box, then buys stamps from the mail carrier as the picture ends.
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Cutting sugar cane / - Bonine, R. (Robert K.) camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The poor condition of the film, its short length, and the distance of the subject matter from the camera position do not permit much description other than saying some workers are in a field. In the foreground, it can be seen that workers have been harvesting a crop of the cane family.
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Basket ball, Missouri Valley College / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is a basketball game played between teams of girls. The film shows a section of a basketball court in the foreground, the backboard, and the basket. In the background is a three-story brick schoolbuilding. The short length of the film does not allow too much description of the activities.
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Kanakas diving for money, no. 2 / - White, James H. (James Henry), camera.; Bleckyrden, W., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Several native boys swimming in what appears to be a harbor area can be seen in the foreground. In the background several seagoing ships are loading and unloading cargo. During the course of the film, a man in an outrigger canoe paddles by the camera.
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Boys diving, Honolulu / - Bonine, R. (Robert K.) camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A large group of small boys stand on a pier, looking up at what probably is the railing and hoping pennies will be thrown into the water for them to retrieve. The boys are clothed only in swim trunks. At a distance of approximately a mile, six large clipper shipss can be seen at anchor.
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Noon hour, Hope Webbing Co. / - Armitage, F. S., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The single-camera position shows the employees of a manufacturing company as they pass by during the noon hour.
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Brook trout fishing / - Armitage, F. S., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera shows a small waterfall and a stream. Across the stream on the bank is a man with a fishing pole in one hand and a retrieving net in the other. During the course of the film, he makes the normal movements of a man accustomed to trout fishing. High on the bank to the right is a spectator. At the end of the film, the fisherman catches, nets, and lands a fish.
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The ball game / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Photographed from one camera position behind home plate, the film shows a baseball game in progress. The action includes two players running toward the camera; one uniform is distinquishable as Newark, New Jersey.
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Women of the ghetto bathing / - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film shows the women in the pool. Only the heads and shoulders of most of the women are visible but it is possible to see they are wearing rented bathing attire.
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Clerks tying up for bags, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film shows two postal employees as they tie into bundles stacks of letters they have just removed from a destination "case."
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The roller skate craze / - Selig.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
During this short film, the cameraman photographed many different people in varied walks of life all of whom are wearing roller skates. Each scene, since the camera changed from individual to individual, is too short to allow any further description.
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Atlantic City floral parade / - Waters, Percival L.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress); Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Views of a parade down an Atlantic City street lined with crowds of spectators--some people watching from roofs--children, women in long skirts, many moustached men wearing hats. Shows uniformed men marching, boys pulling a small floral float with a woman riding in it, an elaborate float with a girl in it being pushed by a man, more small floats (decorated chairs?) with children, two black men carrying flowers, a marching uniformed band playing their instruments, a policeman mixed in with the band, a float with banner "Young Pier" with children in it and a young black maid beside it, blacks...
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Bathing at Atlantic City / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film shows the bathing beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The camera position was from a tower or some platform high over the heads of the people on the sand adjoining the water. The camera pans approximately 180 degrees, taking in hundreds of people sitting on the sand between the boardwalk and the ocean, part of the boardwalk, and a great deal of the ocean area where people are swimming.
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Boat race / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; McCutcheon, Wallace, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Two standard U.S. Navy eight-oar pulling boats, each commanded by a coxswain at the steering position in the stern, are seen abeam of one another. At a signal, both pulling boats begin moving and it can be seen that the camera was positioned on a vessel following the two competing pulling boats. The camera stays with the two boats until their destination is disclosed as a navy battle cruiser at anchor. The cruiser, unidentified, is flying an American flag. The film ends as the two pulling boats come abeam of the cruiser Indiana with their oars in the "boat oar"...
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Calf branding / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The cameraman placed his camera near a fire where some branding irons were being heated. As the film begins, three men can be seen going through the various operations of branding calves. In the background is a large herd of cattle.
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Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass. / - Porter, Edwin S., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
About fifty canoes filled with people on an outing in the summertime were photographed from a single camera position from a bridge overlooking the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Carriers at work, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is the handling and sorting of the U.S. mail. The sorting bags and the alphabetizing pigeonhole equipment are visible in a scene photographed from an altitude of approximately twenty-five feet. The placement of the equipment and its use by the post office personnel can be seen.
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Cleveland fire department / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is the activities of a fire department that can be seen coming out of the fire engine house located across the street from the camera position. The action must have been a drill or rehearsal as the street is lined with people awaiting the arrival of the three pumpers, the two hook-and-ladder wagons, and the four personnel wagons that made up the contingent of fire equipment.
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