HISTORICAL PICTURE COLLECTIONS - EXHIBITS LIST

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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