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Library of Congress American Memory exhibits: Advertising -The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society African Americans Pamphlets - From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University African-American Southern Music - "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 African-American Odyssey Architecture and Engineering HABS/HAER - Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner , 1935-1955 Arendt, Hannah Papers 1898-1977 - Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress Baseball 1860-1969 - By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s Baseball Cards, 1887-1914 Bell Papers 1862-1939 - Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress Bernstein, Leonard - The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 Broadsides and Printed Ephemera ca. 1600-2000 - An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 Chautauqua Performers and Advertising Flyers 1904-1940 - Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century Chesapeake Bay and Washington, D.C. Books - The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925 Civil War 1861-1865 - Band Music from the Civil War Era Civil War1861-1865 Images - Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society Civil War1861-1865 Maps Civil War1861-1865 Photographs - Brady Studio and Others - Selected Civil War Photographs Coca-Cola Advertising Films 1951-1999 - Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress Congress - A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 Congress and Constitutional Convention - Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 Conservation and Environment - The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Coolidge - Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 Copland Music - The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990 Curtis ca. 1900 - Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images Daguerreotype Photographs - America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862 Dance Books - An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 Depression Era to World War II FSA/OWI Photographs - America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945 Detroit Publishing Company Photographs - Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920 Edison Films - Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies Environment and Conservation - American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library Film, Animated 1900-1921 - Origins of American Animation Fine, Irving - The Irving Fine Collection: Ca. 1914-1962 Flutes - Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection Folk Culture and Natural Environment, West Virginia -1992-1999 - Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia Folk Culture - Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 Folk Music Southern Appalachian 1966-1967 - Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Folk Music 1930s - California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties. Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell Folk Music Dust Bowl - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 Folk Music Southern U.S. 1939 - Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Frederick Douglass papers Great Plains 1880-1920 - The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection 1940s Jazz 1938-1948 - William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz Jefferson 1606-1827 - The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress Landscape and Architectural Design - American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design Liberia - Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 Lincoln 1850-1909 - Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library Lincoln 1850-1865 - Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress Lincoln 1859-1909 - "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana Manuscript Division Highlights - Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years Map Collections: 1544-1999 Mapping the National Parks Maps Revolutionary Era - The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 Maps Railroads, 1828-1900 McKinley - The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Midwest Books - Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest - American Indians of the Pacific Northwest New Deal Life Histories - American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940 New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 New York City - The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 Nineteenth-Century Books 1850-1877 - The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 1850-1877 - The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals Omaha Indian Music Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 Panoramic Photographs - Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 Portraits of Creative Americans - Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964 Posters - By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912 Presidential Inaugurations 1789-1997 - "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations Presidents and First Ladies Portraits - By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives 1831-1929 Books and Pamphlets Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 Ranching - Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 Religious Petitions 1764-1802 - Early Virginia Religious Petitions Revolutionary Era Maps - The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 Roosevelt 1898-1919 - Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film San Francisco - Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 Sheet Music - America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets 1800-1880 Sheet Music - Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 Sheet Music - Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 Slave Narratives - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 Southern U.S. - First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 Spanish-American War Films 1898-1901 - The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America 1815-1865 Texas - The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection Transportation - Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 Travel - Detroit Publishing Company Photographs - Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920 Variety Stage - The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 Washington - George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 Western U.S. Photographs 1860-1920 - History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library Westinghouse Factory Films - Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Whitman, Walt Notebooks 1850s - Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection Woman Suffrage Books and Pamphlets - Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Woman Suffrage Photographs and Prints - By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 Work and Leisure Films - America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 World War I and 1920 Election Recordings - American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
Library of Congress International Horizons Digital Collections include: Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas - A multimedia English-Spanish digital library Meeting of Frontiers - A multimedia English-Russian digital library
Library of Congress Exhibits include: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage African-American Mosaic: African-American Culture and History The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship American Treasures of the Library of Congress Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom Blondie Gets Married! Comic Strip Drawings by Chic Young Bob Hope and American Variety Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale de France Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-32 For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan The Gettysburg Address In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings from the Ben & Beatrice Goldstein Collection Madison's Treasures Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Revelations from the Russian Archives Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation Thomas Jefferson The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
National Archives Exhibits include: American Originals Charters of Freedom Gifts to 12 Presidents New Deal for the Arts Panoramic Photographs 1864-1921 People at War (WWII) Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives Powers of Persuasion--Poster Art from World War II Prologue Quarterly
Smithsonian Institution exhibits include: Information Age National Portrait Gallery includes A Brush With History and Portraits of the Presidents Smithsonian Photographic Services Home Page Smithsonian Home Page
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Virtual Exhibitions include: American Presidency Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820-Present Centennial Salute to Cinema Disability Rights Movement Edison After 40 Fast Attacks & Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion Japanese Americans and the Constitution Life in Ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth On Time Paint by the Number Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 Piano 300 Posters on the Home Front 1941-1945 Print Collecting at the Smithsonian: Building a National Collection 150 Years Project HOPE: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45) Puerto Rico: A Collector's Vision Quilts, Counterpanes and Throws Star-Spangled Banner Thomas Jefferson and American Wine: "Doubtless As Good" Tool Chests: Symbol and Servant Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896 Within These Walls

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