Digital Collections
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Collection10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants The acquisition of medieval liturgical chant manuscripts that trace the history of music notation as it evolved over half a millennium, became a major collection priority in the Music Division beginning in…Collection Items: View 55 Items
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CollectionA.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 Arthur Paul Schmidt (1846-1921) was a German-born music publisher who pioneered the development and dissemination of American music. The A.P. Schmidt Company Archives documents his firm's publishing activities in Boston, Leipzig and…Collection Items: View 6,687 Items
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CollectionAaron Copland Collection The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through…- Contributor: Copland, Aaron - Kraft, Victor
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 Items
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CollectionAbdul Hamid II Collection This collection contains 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They portray the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II and…- Contributor: Abdullah Frères - Abdülhamid II - Sebah & Joaillier
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 1,825 Items
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CollectionAbdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress In 1884 Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gifted the Library of Congress with a collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works that he had richly embossed with this inscription in English, French and Ottoman:…Collection Items: View 325 Items
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CollectionAbraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans…- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
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CollectionAfghanistan Web Archive The Afghanistan Web Archive is comprised primarily of websites produced by the Afghan government, specifically the executive branch. Also included are a selection of sites from statistical reporting agencies, banking institutions, universities,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2009
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Government Web Archive This collection consists of official government websites for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan and provides an overview of the political, economic, administrative and social situation in these four countries. Several of these…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2015
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive The Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive includes campaign sites archived during these countries’ election seasons since 2014. This archive collection includes websites for government bodies, political parties, presidential candidates,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
Collection Items: View 183 Items
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CollectionAfrican American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection "African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African…- Date: 1875
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CollectionAfrican American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition The Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900) devoted a building to matters of "social economy." The United States section of the building featured an exhibit that, according to W.…- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Calloway, Thomas J. - Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
- Date: 1899
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CollectionAfrican Government Web Archive The African Government Web Archive provides links to information from key African government ministries, institutions and organizations for the 51 countries in Africa south of the Sahara. This will ensure that the…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
Collection Items: View 181 Items
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CollectionAfrican-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923 The core of this presentation consists of "stock" arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. In addition, we offer a smaller selection of historic sound recordings…- Date: 1883
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CollectionAfricana Historic Postcard Collection The African Section of the Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division has amassed a unique collection of more than 7000 historical photographic postcards documenting an important visual record of Africa…Collection Items: View 1,300 Items
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CollectionAfter the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,…- Date: 1941
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CollectionAinu and Ezochi Rare Collection This collection of rare materials brings together books, manuscripts, and maps produced during the 18th and 19th centuries that document Japanese exploration and observation of the island and prefecture now known as…Collection Items: View 92 Items
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan - American Folklife Center - Archive of American Folk Song - Association for Cultural Equity
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 6,612 Items
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings In 1938 the Library of Congress dispatched the pioneering folklorist and song collector Alan Lomax—already a seasoned field worker at age 23—to conduct a folk song survey of the Great Lakes region.…- Contributor: Frazier, Calvin - Gallagher, Andrew E. - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Guzal, Frank - Cloud, Clarence - Kubesh, John G. - Norman, John - Basrak, Stjepan - Lewandowski, Ted - Ricksgers, Joseph ... Frazier, Calvin - Gallagher, Andrew E. - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Guzal, Frank - Cloud, Clarence - Kubesh, John G. - Norman, John - Basrak, Stjepan - Lewandowski, Ted - Ricksgers, Joseph - Similä, Gusti - Delmas, Adolphus - Pischner, Helen - Rajčević, Stepan - Krawezak, B. - Härkönen, Amanda - Marinetti, John - Halinen, Selma Elona - Tomić, Pajo - Palmer, Mason - Gallagher, Emerald - Velin, Maria - Thrasher, Ed - Larson, John - Miron, Joe - Maté - Fredrickson, Kaisa - Aho, Pekka - Warslzyk, Tony - Rautanen, Vernon - Larson, Steen - Lewandowski, Edwina - Brideup, Louis - Fredrickson, John - Szabo, Andy - Wells, Lester - Hyvönen, John - Nemeth, Kalman - Olah, Julius - Bangac, Petar - Cadeau, Ed - Lathrop, Carl - Carrière, Dolphis - McCauley, Edward - Lomax, Alan - Romel, Ted - Dragić, Todor - Floriani, Margaret - Pittman, Sampson - Happy Jack Woodward - Trivanović, Stefan - Pope, Allan C. - Hulan - Juhani, Aapo - Archive of American Folk Song - Kruczynski, Clara - Leclaire, Leilia - Kubien, Rose - McCormick, Ed - Scheffer, Peter - Sielvankiewiez - Trueblood, Asel - Berky, Nandor - Cadeau, Mathilda - Erickson, Max - Rudzinski, Alex - Floriani, Veko - Maki, Frank - Larson, Nils - Szilagyi, Dizso - Dobričan, Lazar - Sainović, Ilija - Baratono, Art - Grbić, Ludevit - Graham, Bert - Frazier, Belle - Vasvary, Steve - Cadeau, John - Green, John W. - Carrière, Fred - Styes, Archie - Korvenpaa, Charles - Romel, Leo - Strzelecki, Tony - Wallen, Mr - Niewiadomska, Frances - McDonough, Patrick - Kallio, Kalle - Bonner, Patrick - Marinetti, Victor - McBride, Bill - Marttila - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Vujanović, Stjepan - Vizina, Adelore - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Mahoski, Henry - Gallagher, Dominic - Frazier, Lonnie - Kania, Felix - Lewandowski, Stephan - Frazier, Viola - Ketvirtis, Charles - Allen, Perry - Bellaire, Mose - Floriani, Vladimir - Jackson, Andrew - McCarthy, Barney - Maki, Emil - Marczis, Joseph - Meyers, Herman - Frazier, Clara - Preda, Emil Milan - Romel - Bellaire, Exilia - Pohjala, Aina - Hirvelä, Wäin - Romel, Adolph - Viita, Frank - King, Edward - Cloud, Joe - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Pol, Thomas - Aho, Lillian - Romel, Sylvester - Bonner, Daniel
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 1,270 Items
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CollectionAlbert Schatz Collection Albert Schatz (1839-1910) was a German music dealer with life-long interest in opera and its history. In 1873, when Schatz assumed ownership of the Musikalienhandlung Ludwig Trutschel Nachfolger in Rostock, Germany, he…Collection Items: View 12,254 Items
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CollectionAlexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress The collection contains over 145,000 items. The online version contains 4,695 items (equaling about 51,500 images), consists of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone…- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard - Bell, Alexander Graham - Fairchild, Marian - Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene)
- Date: 1862
Collection Items: View 4,715 Items
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CollectionAlexander Hamilton Papers The papers of Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804), first treasury secretary of the United States, consist of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings (although not his Federalist essays), and correspondence…- Contributor: First Church in Albany - Hamilton, Alexander
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CollectionAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers The papers of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, member of both houses of the United States Congress, and vice president of the Confederate States of America, span the…- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton)
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CollectionThe Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana The collection contains more than 11,100 items. This online release presents more than 1,300 items with more than 4,000 images and a date range of 1824-1931. It includes the complete collection of…- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress - Stern, Alfred Whital
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 Items
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CollectionAmazing Grace This collection highlights the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” from the earliest printing of the song to selected performances of it on published and field recordings. These items have been collected…- Date: 1930
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CollectionAmerica at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures. Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
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CollectionAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
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CollectionAn American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 326 Items
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CollectionAmerican Choral Music The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. The music selected reflects the diversity of choral music in the collections…- Date: 1865
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CollectionAmerican Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive The American Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive is a collection of websites presenting various projects and events in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. This anniversary is historically…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
Collection Items: View 199 Items
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CollectionAmerican Colony in Jerusalem, 1870-2006 The papers of the American Colony in Jerusalem, a non-denominational utopian Christian community, consist of approximately 16,600 items, spanning the years 1786-2007, of which about three-fourths of the materials (50,288 images) have…- Contributor: Spafford, Anna T. - American Colony (Jerusalem) - Spafford, Horatio Gates - Vester, Bertha Spafford
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 536 Items
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CollectionAmerican English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. They…- Contributor: Earhart, Amelia - Emerson, Lee - Abbott, Fortis - Mele, Joseph C. - Christian, Donna - Center for Applied Linguistics - La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) - National Endowment for the Humanities - Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) - American Folklife Center - Aspinall, Wayne N. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Marshall, Fred
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 506 Items
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CollectionAmerican Federation of Labor Records The records of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) span the years 1883-1925 and consist of letterpress volumes of correspondence of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) and William Green (1870-1952), presidents of the organization,…- Contributor: American Federation of Labor
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CollectionAmerican Folklife Center Web Archive The American Folklife Center Archive, established in the Library of Congress Music Division in 1928 as the Archive of American Folk Song, is now one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials…Collection Items: View 23 Items
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CollectionAmerican Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I The Nation's Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker.…- Contributor: Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - White, George - Baker, Newton Diehl - Wood, Leonard - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Clark, Champ - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Poindexter, Miles - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) ... Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - White, George - Baker, Newton Diehl - Wood, Leonard - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Clark, Champ - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Poindexter, Miles - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Lane, Franklin K. - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - Long, Breckinridge - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - Coolidge, Calvin - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - Lewis, James - Gompers, Samuel - Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Daniels, Josephus - Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - De Valera, Éamon - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Colby, Bainbridge - Gerard, James W. (James Watson)
- Date: 1918
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CollectionAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a…- Contributor: United States. Works Progress Administration - Writers' Program (U.S.) - United States. Work Projects Administration - Federal Writers' Project
- Date: 1936
Collection Items: View 2,838 Items
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CollectionAmerican Music Creators Web Archive The American Music Creators Web Archive is a collection of websites of musicians, performers, and composers contributing to the American music scene. The collection strives to be representative of all genres of…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 69 Items
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CollectionAmerican Music Industry Web Archive The American Music Industry Web Archive captures the websites of individuals and companies that represent music creators and are involved broadly in the business of music. This includes mainstream and independent record…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2018
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CollectionAmerican Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2003
Collection Items: View 257 Items
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CollectionAmerican Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 The collection represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 1,435 Items
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CollectionAncestral Voices Among the very first activities of the American Folklife Center (AFC) -- created in 1976 -- was the Federal Cylinder Project (FCP), a large-scale initiative to preserve and provide access to historic…Collection Items: View 26 Items