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TITLE:
American Memory Collection

AUTHORS:
Library of Congress

SUBJECT CATEGORIES:
Social Sciences -- History
Multidisciplinary Studies -- Museums and Archives

SUBJECT KEYWORDS:
United States -- History--Sources
American history
Library of Congress. Special Collections
United States History--Catalogs
Photograph collections
Motion picture film collections
Archival materials
Manuscripts, American
National Digital Library

SITE INCLUDES:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PAMPHLETS from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War.
Broad topics: African-Americans, the arts, ethnicity, religion, politics and government, war.

Selected CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS from the Library of Congress, 1861-1865
Civil War encampments, battlefields, and portraits as captured by Mathew Brady and his staff of photographers.
Broad topics: Celebrities and prominent individuals, cities and towns, industry, scenic views, transportation, war.

The Evolution of the CONSERVATION MOVEMENT, 1850-1920
Multiformat collection of photographs, printed works (including government documents) and manuscripts documenting the Conservation movement in the United States. Features an album of paintings, photographs, and scientific and literary works produced by the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899.
Broad topics: Celebrities and promient individuals, natural world, politics and government.

Documents from the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS and the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1774-1789
Printed broadsides offering an account of America's struggle for nationhood.
Broad topics: politics and government, war.

DAGUERREOTYPES, 1842-1862
600 portrait daguerreotypes by the Mathew Brady studio plus architectural views, outdoor scenes, and occupational portraits.
Broad Topics: African-Americans, celebrities and prominent individuals, politics and government.

Photographs from the DETROIT PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1880-1920
25,000 photographs of turn-of-the-century America from the Detroit Publishing Company.
Broad topics: Cities and towns, industry, scenic views, transportation.

Color Photographs from the FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION and the Office of War Information, ca. 1938-1944
Photographs of rural and small town America during the late 1930s and scenes of the defense and war mobilization effort from 1939-1944.
Broad topics: African-Americans, agriculture, cities and towns, ethnicity, family, industry, labor, scenic views, transportation, war, women.

GOTTSCHO-SCHLEISNER Photographs, ca. 1935-1955
Approximately 29,000 photographs of buildings, interiors, and gardens of renowned architects and interior designers.
Broad topics: architecture, celebrities and prominent individuals, cities and towns.

Theodor HORYDCZAK Photographs, 1923-1959
Over 14,000 photographs of buildings, business, news and human interest items in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Broad topics: architecture, cities and towns, war.

Early MOTION PICTURES, 1897-1916
Three groupings from the earliest period of the medium: President William McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, New York City, and San Francisco Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire.
Broad topics: Celebrities and prominent individuals, cities and towns, emigration and immigration, ethnicity, labor, recreation, scenic views, transportation.

The NATION'S FORUM Sound Recordings, 1918-1920
Political speeches by American leaders during World War I and the presidential election of 1920.
Broad topics: Celebrities and prominent individuals, industry, labor, war.

Carl VAN VECHTEN Photographs, 1932-1964
Portraits of literary figures, artists, and celebrities; scenic views, mostly in the Northeast.
Broad topics: African Americans, celebrities and prominent individuals, scenic views.

The American VARIETY STAGE, 1870-1920
Multiformat collection of materials from the popular stage and allied arts. Materials include photographs and memorabilia of Houdini, English and Yiddish playscripts, a selection of playbills and program books, as well as motion pictures and sound recordings.
Broad topics: the arts, celebrities and prominent individuals, comedy and drama, ethnicity, music, recreation.

The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of WALT WHITMAN NOTEBOOKS
Offers access to four Walt Whitman notebooks and cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995.
Broad topics: the arts, celebrities and prominent individuals, poetry, war (Civil War).

The National American WOMAN SUFFRAGE Association Collection, 1848-1921
167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the campaign for woman suffrage.
Broad topics: family, politics and government, women.

WORLD'S TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION Photographs, 1894-1896
Views of foreign countries and their native forms of transportation.
Broad topics: foreign, transportation.

Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT, 1936-1940
Typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.
Broad topics: African Americans, agriculture, cities and towns, emigration and immigration, ethnicity, family, industry, labor, recreation, women.