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American Memory historical collections contain documents, motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings of important events in the history of the United States.

These Topic Pathfinders will take you to the "front door" of collections that contain information about the keywords below. For further help searching the American Memory collections, see the Focused Searching guide.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z

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A    Advertising; African-Americans; Agriculture; Airplanes; Amusement Parks; Animals; Architecture; Automobiles

B    Ballet; Baseball (see Sports); Battlefields; Battleships; Beaches; Biographies; Bridges; Buildings; Burlesque; Business

C    Capitols; Cars (see Automobiles); Celebrations; Churches; Circuses; Cityscapes; Civil War; Classrooms (see Schools); Clothing; Colleges (see Universities); Colonies; Comedy; Congress, U.S.; Constitution; Continental Congress; Costumes; Crime

D     Dance; Depression, Great; Disasters; Diseases; Drama

E    Economics; Education; Elections; Entertainment; Ethnic Groups; Exploration

F    Factories; Families; Farms/Farming; Fashion; Federal Government; Floods; Food; Football (see Sports); Forts; Freedom; Frontier

G    Games; Geology; Government (see Federal Government)

H    Historical Eras, Holidays; Humor

I    Immigration; Indians, American; Industry; Invention

J    Journalism

L    Labor; Landscapes; Language; Laws and Legislation; Leisure; Library of Congress; Literature

M    Magic; Manufacturing; Manuscripts; Medicine; Migration; Mining; Monuments; Motion Pictures; Mountains; Museums; Music; Musical Instruments

N    National Parks

O    Occupations; Opera

P    Photography; Plantations; Poetry; Political Parties; Politics; Portraits; Poverty

R    Railroads; Ranches; Recreation; Religion; Romance; Ruins; Rural USA (see Farms/Farming)

S    Schools; Segregation; Ships; Skyscrapers; Slavery; Smithsonian Institution; Social Life; Songs; Sports; Stories; Suffrage; Supreme Court; Synagogues

T    Taxation; Technology; Temperance; Territories; Theater (or Theatre); Tourism; Transportation; Travel; Treaties; Trucks

U    Underground Railroad; Unemployment; Universities; Urbanization

V    Vaudeville; Violence

W    War; Wealth; Weather; White House

Y    Yiddish; Youth

Z    Zoos

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