- Collection 10th-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…
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- Collection A.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
- Collection Aaron 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: Kraft, Victor - Copland, Aaron
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 Items
- Collection Abdul 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: Sebah & Joaillier - Abdülhamid II - Abdullah Frères
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 1,825 Items
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- Collection Abraham 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
Collection Items: View 20,206 Items
- Collection Afghanistan 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
Collection Items: View 22 Items
- Collection Afghanistan, 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
Collection Items: View 435 Items
- Collection Afghanistan, 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 184 Items
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- Collection African 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: Calloway, Thomas J. - Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1899
Collection Items: View 557 Items
- Collection African 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 335 Items
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- Collection Africana 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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- Collection AIDS Memorial Quilt Records This online collection presents digitized images of the AIDS Memorial Quilt panel maker files housed in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The panel maker files contain more than…
- Contributor: Jones, Cleve - Rhoad, Julie - Names Project Foundation
- Date: 1986
Collection Items: View 5,164 Items
- Collection Ainu 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
- Collection Alan 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: American Folklife Center - Association for Cultural Equity - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 6,613 Items
- Collection Alan 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: King, Edward - Frazier, Lonnie - Larson, John - Jackson, Andrew - Marczis, Joseph - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Pol, Thomas - Hulan - Pischner, Helen - Bellaire, Exilia ... King, Edward - Frazier, Lonnie - Larson, John - Jackson, Andrew - Marczis, Joseph - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Pol, Thomas - Hulan - Pischner, Helen - Bellaire, Exilia - Marttila - Grbić, Ludevit - Sainović, Ilija - Maki, Emil - McCormick, Ed - Fredrickson, Kaisa - Guzal, Frank - Romel, Ted - Berky, Nandor - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Strzelecki, Tony - Styes, Archie - Krawezak, B. - Bonner, Patrick - Scheffer, Peter - Floriani, Vladimir - Vasvary, Steve - McCauley, Edward - Kubesh, John G. - Aho, Lillian - Romel, Sylvester - Lewandowski, Ted - Leclaire, Leilia - Maté - Cadeau, Mathilda - Meyers, Herman - Velin, Maria - Delmas, Adolphus - Pittman, Sampson - Gallagher, Emerald - Allen, Perry - Sielvankiewiez - Baratono, Art - Erickson, Max - Thrasher, Ed - Lomax, Alan - Pohjala, Aina - Cadeau, John - Trueblood, Asel - Niewiadomska, Frances - Green, John W. - Romel - Rajčević, Stepan - Halinen, Selma Elona - Bangac, Petar - Pope, Allan C. - Viita, Frank - Larson, Steen - Korvenpaa, Charles - Nemeth, Kalman - Hyvönen, John - Mahoski, Henry - Trivanović, Stefan - Rudzinski, Alex - Wallen, Mr - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Ricksgers, Joseph - Dobričan, Lazar - Hirvelä, Wäin - Warslzyk, Tony - Kubien, Rose - Cloud, Clarence - Frazier, Viola - Vizina, Adelore - Romel, Leo - Bellaire, Mose - Kania, Felix - Similä, Gusti - Basrak, Stjepan - Larson, Nils - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Palmer, Mason - Vujanović, Stjepan - Floriani, Margaret - Aho, Pekka - Kallio, Kalle - Norman, John - Cadeau, Ed - Olah, Julius - Maki, Frank - Fredrickson, John - Härkönen, Amanda - Lathrop, Carl - McBride, Bill - Archive of American Folk Song - Brideup, Louis - Frazier, Calvin - McCarthy, Barney - Marinetti, Victor - Carrière, Fred - Lewandowski, Stephan - Szilagyi, Dizso - Frazier, Belle - Lewandowski, Edwina - Gaza, V. Sipoo - McDonough, Patrick - Szabo, Andy - Gallagher, Dominic - Kruczynski, Clara - Cloud, Joe - Happy Jack Woodward - Bonner, Daniel - Carrière, Dolphis - Tomić, Pajo - Marinetti, John - Rautanen, Vernon - Frazier, Clara - Romel, Adolph - Juhani, Aapo - Graham, Bert - Ketvirtis, Charles - Miron, Joe - Preda, Emil Milan - Floriani, Veko - Wells, Lester - Dragić, Todor
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 1,270 Items
- Collection Albert 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 12,255 Items
- Collection Alexander 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 Graham - Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene) - Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard - Bell, Alexander Melville - Fairchild, Marian
- Date: 1862
Collection Items: View 4,715 Items
- Collection Alexander 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: Hamilton, Alexander - First Church in Albany
Collection Items: View 882 Items
- Collection Alexander 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)
Collection Items: View 124 Items
- Collection The 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: Stern, Alfred Whital - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 Items
- Collection Amazing 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…
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- Collection America 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 - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
- Collection America 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. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
- Collection An 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
- Collection American 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…
Collection Items: View 140 Items
- Collection American 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 - Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division
- Date: 2011
Collection Items: View 199 Items
- Collection American 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, Horatio Gates - Spafford, Anna T. - Vester, Bertha Spafford - American Colony (Jerusalem)
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 536 Items
- Collection American 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: Marshall, Fred - Mele, Joseph C. - American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Earhart, Amelia - Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) - La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) - Christian, Donna - Abbott, Fortis - Aspinall, Wayne N. - Emerson, Lee - Center for Applied Linguistics - National Endowment for the Humanities
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 506 Items
- Collection American 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
Collection Items: View 359 Items
- Collection American 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
- Collection American 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: Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - Coolidge, Calvin - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Lewis, James - Colby, Bainbridge - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Clark, Champ - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) ... Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - Coolidge, Calvin - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Lewis, James - Colby, Bainbridge - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Clark, Champ - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Long, Breckinridge - De Valera, Éamon - White, George - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - Lane, Franklin K. - Baker, Newton Diehl - Poindexter, Miles - Daniels, Josephus - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - Wood, Leonard - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Gompers, Samuel
- Date: 1918
Collection Items: View 97 Items
- Collection American 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: Writers' Program (U.S.) - Federal Writers' Project - United States. Work Projects Administration - United States. Works Progress Administration
- Date: 1936
Collection Items: View 2,838 Items
- Collection American 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
- Collection American 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
Collection Items: View 48 Items
- Collection American 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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