American Memory Collections
Some American Memory presentations have items that relate to the Spanish-American
War:
- African American
Perspectives: 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.
- American Life
Histories:Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
Typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project
offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.
- The American Variety
Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Multiformat collection of selected materials from the popular
stage and allied arts. Photographs and memorabilia of Houdini; English playscripts;
Yiddish playscripts; a selection of playbills and program books; motion
pictures; and sound recordings.
One particular play from the English playscripts deals directly with
Cuba and the Spanish-American War: A
brave coward : vaudeville sketch in one act / by Bennet Woodley Musson.
- Inventing Entertainment:
The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound
impact on mo dern life. In his lifetime, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" patented
1,093 inventions, including the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture
camera), and the kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer). Edison managed to
become not only a renow ned inventor, but also a prominent manufacturer
and businessman through the merchandising of his inventions. The co llections
in the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Division contain an extraordinar y range of the surviving products of Edison's
entertainment inventions and industries. This site features 341 motion pictures,
81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs
and original magazine articles.
- By Popular Demand:
Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
When Jackie Robinson took the field as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947,
he became the first African American to play major league baseball in the
twentieth century. Materials that tell his story, and the history of baseball
in general, are located throughout the Library of Congress. There is a high
quality photo of baseball
players who went down on the U.S.S. Maine exists in this exhibit commemorating
the U.S. "national pasttime."
- Poet At Work: Recovered
Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
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.
- Puerto Rico at
the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
This collection portrays the early history of Puerto Rico through
first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the
Library of Congress's General Collections. Among the topics it highlights
are the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among
political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the
Spanish-American War.
- Theodore Roosevelt:
His Life and Times on Film
Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career
and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies. This presentation
features 104 films which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American
War in 1898 to his death in 1919. The majority of films (87) are from the
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection, while the remainder are from
the Paper Print Collection. Besides containing scenes of Roosevelt, these
films include views of world figures, politicians, monarchs, and friends
and family members of Roosevelt who influenced his life and the era in which
he lived.
- The Spanish-American
War in Motion Pictures
This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and
1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution.
The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture
camera played a role. These films were made by the Edison Manufacturing
Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and consist of actualities
filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships,
notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other
war-time events.
The Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division houses
an impressive collection of motion pictures related to the Spanish-American
War. A number of these films
have been digitized for this presentation.
- Taking the Long
View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991.
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately 4,000
images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These
panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests,
with a focus on the start of the 20th century when the panoramic photo format
was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural
life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals
and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially
during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports,
and transportation.
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century
America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
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 of turn-of-the-century America.
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