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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Cutting and canaling ice / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera shows what appears to be a frozen-over lake on which men are driving teams of horses pulling a device similar to a plow. The second camera position shows that the horses are being driven in a straight line across the ice, with the device chiseling a groove, called canaling, into the ice. This action precedes removal of the ice for storage so it can be used during the summer.
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Drill by the Providence police / - Armitage, F. S., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
In the center of a town square, a company of uniformed policemen equipped with nightsticks is standing at attention. The policemen execute several close-order drill maneuvers similar to those of any army infantry company. They end as they began, company front.
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Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains, and loading it into boats / - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film covers four operations involved in shipping ice: sawing the ice from frozen-over lakes, transferring it by means of speciality constructed freight cars to a dock some distance away, unloading it, and then transloading it onto a waiting ship. This is one of three films.
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Pawtucket Fire Department / - Armitage, F. S., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
A good film, photographed from a single-camera position, of the Fire Department of the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and its equipment. For the time, the apparatus was ultramodern.
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Street mail car, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The first scene appears to have been taken on a main thoroughfare of large city. In the immediate foreground is a horse-drawn U.S. mail vehicle waiting at the side of a streetcar track. Soon a streetcar approaches the camera position. It stops beside the mail vehicle and the driver unloads mail sacks from the streetcar. He then puts some sacks from his wagon onto the streetcar. As the film ends, both the streetcar and the horse-drawn mail delivery wagon leave the scene.
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Transporting Internal Rev. stamps, U.S.P.O. / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film shows a two-horse postal delivery wagon backed against a ramp, where two men are unloading the contents of the wagon into a delivery chute.
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Annual parade, New York Fire Department / - Porter, Edwin S., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Dignitaries are shown as they alight from a horse-drawn brougham and enter the speaker's bleachers. Next, personnel of the New York Fire Department walk by the camera. One of every piece of fire-fighting equipment then used by the department passes.
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Auto boat race on the Hudson / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The single camera position was from the point of view of the judge of the course. The films shows a boat race between small, motor-driven speed boats, which were approximately twenty feet long with the inboard engine decked over. Many boats of various designs and spectators can be seen as if the locale were a yacht club basin or yacht mooring. Participants in the race were W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.'s Hard Boiled Egg; The Standard, which won the championship and had never been beaten; the Vingt et Un; the F.I.A.T.; the Shooting Star; the Japansky, the Kotic the Nada.
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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
This automobile race was filmed from many camera positions. Several different types of motor cars from all parts of the world are seen. A series of interconnecting roads was used as the race course.
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Children in the surf, Coney Island / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Seven small children can be seen from the low angle camera position; the camera is pointed out to sea. The children are holding hands and wading in the surf. Beyond them can be seen three adults. At the end of the film, there is only one child in a white bathing costume holding a sailboat. Beyond the child toward the ocean is a large sailing craft.
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Mining operations, Pennsylvania coal fields / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film opens on an area covered with snow where the following operations are visible: track laying, and dirt moving by explosion, grader, steam shovel, and steam engine.
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Opening ceremonies, St. Louis exposition / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The principal buildings surrounding the square at the St. Louis Exposition are shown in a nearly 360-degree pan. The last portion of the film was photographed over the heads of spectators cheering the dedication speaker.
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Panoramic view of Charleston exposition / - Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera was placed in almost the center of the compound area by the exhibit buildings, and the cameraman began to photograph and pan his camera simultaneously. The film consists of pictures of the walkways, pools of water, bridges over the pools, exhibit buildings, bandstands, statuary, and decorations of all nature that, put together, made up the Exposition in Charleston in 1902.
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Parade of floats, St. Louis Exposition / - Weed, A. E., camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
One of the parades of floating craft held in the waterways of the St. Louis Exposition is shown in this film. The cameraman placed equipment on shore at a distance to include each of the competing craft. Photographed were twelve small craft, some motot-powered and some rowed, but all decorated with foliage and bunting and containing foreign representatives and dignitaries.
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Princeton and Yale football game / - Abadie, Alfred C., camera.; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The camera was moved to many positions throughout the stadium, which contained an estimated 50,000 spectators. The opening scene was a complete pan around the locale, showing the crowd assembled to watch the game. The remaining scenes were photographed from various positions throughout the football field, showing the game in progress. There is line play shown as well as broken-field running.
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Swimming pool, Palm Beach / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows a swimming pool with a white building on the far side. Several persons in bathing suits dive into the water from a springboard, as well as from the balcony above.
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Wrestling at the New York Athletic Club / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Several teams of wrestlers in action were photographed from a single-camera position on the set of the gymnasium of the New York Athletic Club.
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The Brooklyn handicap-1904 / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
To film this event, the camera was placed inside the rail, on the track surface itself. As the film begins, in the foreground a gate opens and a horse ridden by a jockey is escorted across the track, followed by several men who appear to be fans of the race horse. Following the first horse are six in succession, and then there is a large group of men surrounding another horse that appears to be a favorite. The horses head for the starting position, moving away from the camera. In the background at a distance of several hundred yards is...
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Logging in Maine / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men keep them headed with the flow of the water toward the lake on which the mill is located. The activities of approximately a dozen men were photographed.
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Society ballooning, Pittsfield, Mass. / - Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.; American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.; Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending to the skin of a big balloon in the foreground near the camera. The remainder of the film shows the balloon being filled with gas until it is buoyant enough to become airborne, the mounting of the suspended basket, the release of the balloon, and the actual flight. The balloon was the Centaur, which set the world's record of 1,193 miles in thirty-five hours during the contest at the Paris...
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