Online Collections in American Memory

Manuscript Division materials in the collections listed below are available as digital images or as searchable text. Please read about copyright restrictions before making use of these documents.

• African American Odyssey exhibition (digital images)
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (searchable text)
• Manuscript Division section of American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (research guide)
• The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images)
• The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1862-1939 (digital images and searchable text), final release
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 includes a report prepared by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1865 (searchable text) and a private souvenir album documenting the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition (digital images).
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (digital images and searchable text)
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images)
• Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (searchable text)
• Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953 (digital images)
• "I Do Solemnly Swear ...": Presidential Inaugurations (digital images)
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress (digital images)
• The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images and searchable text), final release
• Letters of Delegates to Congress (searchable text)
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images and searchable text), final release
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (digital images and searchable text)
• The James Madison Papers (digital images and searchable text)
• Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images)
• Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States (digital images), digital collection in Global Gateway
• By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s (digital images and searchable text)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (digital images and searchable text)
• A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers (digital images and searchable text)
• Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 (digital images and searchable text)
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images and searchable text), final release
• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (digital images)
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
  (digital images)
• Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years (digital images)
• The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress (digital images)

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library provides an overview of digital collections at the Library of Congress and allows you to select collections by titles and topics or by type.