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The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
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Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
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The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
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African American Odyssey
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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
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African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
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After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews
Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
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The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
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America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
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America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
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America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
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America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862
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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
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American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
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American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
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American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
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The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
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An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
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American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources
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Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner , 1935-1955
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Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
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The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
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Band Music from the Civil War Era
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Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
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Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
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By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
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By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
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By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
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By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
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"California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
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California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties. Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
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The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925
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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
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Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
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The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
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The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
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A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C.
Reynolds Papers
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Civil War Maps
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Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
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Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
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Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
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Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
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Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
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Early Virginia Religious Petitions
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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
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The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
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Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
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First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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France in America
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The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
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Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
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From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
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George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
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The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
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Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
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Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
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History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
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The Hotchkiss Map Collection
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"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
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Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
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Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
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The Irving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962
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Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
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The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress
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The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
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The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
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The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
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Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
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The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
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Map Collections:
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Mapping the National Parks
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Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
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Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West
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Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
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The Moldenhauer Archives
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Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
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Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860
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Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
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The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
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Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures: 1913-1919
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
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The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
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"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
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Omaha Indian Music
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Origins of American Animation
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Panoramic Maps
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Parallel Histories: Spain, United States and the American Frontier
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Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
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Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
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Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
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Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
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Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
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Quilts
and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996
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Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
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Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
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Rochambeau Map Collection
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Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919
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Selected Civil War Photographs
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Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
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Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
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September 11 Documentary Project
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Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
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Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
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The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
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Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
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Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939
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The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
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The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
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"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
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Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
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The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
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Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920
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Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
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Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
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The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
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Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
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Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
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Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
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Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
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Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
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Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890
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William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
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Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950
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Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
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World War II Military Situation Map Collection
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in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
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The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress
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The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
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