American Memory Historical Collections
Examples of materials related to Alabama are provided for
most of the collections listed below. Search on the term Alabama
to locate additional resources within these American Memory
collections.
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray
Collection, 1818-1907
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a
panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history
and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the
early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries,
with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and
1900. Search
the bibliographic records and the full-text
option to find items related to Alabama.
Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of
Congress consist of approximately 20,000 documents which
include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures,
drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material.
The
African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio
Historical Society
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images
illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920,
a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration,
religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony
and discord, and struggles and successes.
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown
University
This collection consists of 1,307 pieces of African-American
sheet music dating from 1850-1920. It includes many songs
from the heyday of antebellum blackface minstrelsy in the
1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period.
The collection contains twelve pieces of sheet music for
Alabama.
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from
the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of
War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary
photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government
photographers, the images show Americans in every part of
the nation. The collection contains more than 2,000
black-and-white photographs. To locate color photographs
of Alabama browse the geographic
location index.
America
Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
This collection spans the period from the turn of the
nineteenth century to the 1880s, although a majority of
the song sheets were published from the 1850s to the 1870s.
America's
First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views,
1839-1864
The Library's daguerreotype collection consists of approximately
600 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes
produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion
of the collection. Search
the bibliographic records using the search term Alabama
to locate daguerreotype portraits of congressmen from Alabama.
American
Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University
of Chicago Library
The collection consists of 4,500 photographs documenting
natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in
the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning
of the twentieth centuries. Browse the collection by state
to locate seven photographs of Alabama.
American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: A Study Collection
from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides
represents an historical view of American buildings and
landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. Search
the bibliographic records using the search term Alabama
to locate six items for Alabama.
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1940
These life histories were written by staff of the Folklore
Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works
Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from
1936-40. The collection contains thirty-three titles for
Alabama.
American
Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
This collection 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 1750 to 1920. Search the full-text
option to locate items pertaining to Alabama, including
Alabama
--volume 2 from Our
Whole Country.
An American
Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed
Ephemera
The Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress
is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection
comprises 28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth
century to the present and encompassing key events and eras
in American history. Browse by geographic
location of printing to locate twenty-one items printed
in Alabama.
American
Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the
Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable
version of the print publication American Women: A Library
of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture
in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online
use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized
material located throughout the Library of Congress Web
site. Search
the collection on Alabama to locate six items.
Baseball
Cards, 1887-1914
This collection presents 2,100 early baseball cards dating
from 1887 to 1914. Browse
by city to locate baseball cards for baseball players
from Mobile
and Montgomery.
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938
The collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former
slaves. Browse
by state to locate slave narratives for Alabama.
Built
in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record, 1933-Present
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document
achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in
the United States through a comprehensive range of building
types and engineering technologies. Browse
by place to locate items for Alabama.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The collection consists of a linked set of published congressional
records of the United States of America from the Continental
Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.
The
Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
This compilation of printed texts traces how Southern
African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant
Christianity into the central institution of community life.
Search
the bibliographic records to find items related to Alabama,
including The
Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders
and Their Work by Charles Octavius Boothe.
Civil
War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
The images in this collection are drawn from the New-York
Historical Society's rich archival collections that document
the Civil War.
The
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
This collection presents more than 9,000 images relating
to the early history of advertising in the United States.
The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
This collection documents the historical formation and
cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect
America's natural heritage. Search the full-text
option to locate items related to Alabama, including
an
Address by Braxton Bragg Comer Governor of Alabama.
Fiddle
Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
This multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional
fiddle tunes is performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia.
Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed
was more than eighty years old, the tunes represent the
music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian
frontier.
First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
This compilation of 141 printed texts from the libraries
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents
the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from
the viewpoint of Southerners.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909
This collection consists of 397 pamphlets, published from
1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others
who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation,
Reconstruction, and related topics.
Historic
American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
This collection includes 3,042 pieces of sheet music published
in America between 1850 and 1920.
Map
Collections
The Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress
holds more than 4.5 million items, of which this collection
represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted
to digital form. The collection is organized according to
seven major categories: Cities
and Towns, Conservation
and Environment, Cultural
Landscapes, Discovery
and Exploration, General
Maps, Military
Battles and Campaigns, and Transportation
and Communication. Browse
the geographic location index to locate maps of Alabama.
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
This collection consists of over 62,000 pieces of sheet
music registered for copyright during the nineteenth century.
Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music,
sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental
music, method books and instructional materials, and music
for band and orchestra.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
The books in this collection are nineteenth-century American
imprints, dating mainly from between 1850 and 1880. They
have been digitized by the University of Michigan as part
of the Making of America project, a major collaborative
endeavor to preserve and provide access to historical texts.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
This collection comprises periodicals published in the
United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during
the second half of the century. The materials selected illuminate
the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology.
"Now
What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music
Festivals, 1938-1943
This collection consists of approximately 100 sound recordings,
primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation
from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now
Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.
Prosperity
and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
This collection assembles a wide array of Library of Congress
source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread
prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition
to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in
this transition.
- Better
Homes in America, Publications no. 11, Guidebook
for Better Homes Campaigns in Rural Communities and Small
Towns, and no. 12, Guidebook for Better Homes
Campaigns in Cities and Towns; A Machine-readable
Transcription. Tuscaloosa
County, Alabama.
Quilts
and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996
This collection showcases materials from the Blue Ridge
Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the Lands'
End All-American Quilt Contest Collection (1992, 1994, 1996).
Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording
Trip
A multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes
approximately 700 sound recordings, as well as photographic
prints, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts
documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern
United States collecting folksongs. Search
the bibliographic records or the full-text
option to locate items related to Alabama.
Taking
the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately
4,000 images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes,
and group portraits. Browse
the collection by place to locate images of Alabama.
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit
Publishing Company, 1880-1920
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing
Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives
and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph
prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Browse
the collection by place to locate images of Alabama.
Traveling
Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures,
promotional advertisements, and talent circulars for some
4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit.
Voices
from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
The recordings of former slaves in this collection come
from several collections held in the American
Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture. They were
made by various interviewers working in nine Southern states
between 1932 and 1975. Browse
the collection by place to locate interviews from Alabama.
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