Newspaper pictorials World War I rotogravures.

During the World War I era (1914-18), leading newspapers took advantage of a new printing process that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce images. Rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations, even on inexpensive newsprint paper, was used to create vivid new pictorial sections. Publishers that could afford to invest in the new technology saw sharp increases both in readership and advertising revenue. The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and advertisements touting products of the day, creating a pictorial record of both the war effort and life at home. The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war.Title from Web page (viewed on Oct. 28, 2004).Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

Meeting of frontiers

Multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.Title from home page as viewed on Oct. 15, 1999.Offered as part of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.Features the collections of the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, the National Library of Russia, the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, St. Herman's Theological Seminary, and other libraries and cultural institutions in Siberia and the Russian Far East.In English and Russian

American notes travels in America, 1750-1920 : from the general collections, Library of Congress.

"American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 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. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites."Title from home page (viewed on Oct. 3, 2003).Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

Prosperity and thrift the Coolidge era and the consumer economy 1921-1929.

Chronicles the economic period of the 1920's in the United States through books, pamphlets, legislative documents, selections from consumer and trade journals, photographs, short films, and audio selections of Coolidge speeches.Title from opening screen (viewed April 27, 2000)

Voices from the days of slavery former slaves tell their stories.

Provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. The former slaves discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, how slaves were coerced, their families, and, of course, freedom. They have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond. All known recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center are included in this online collection together with transcriptions of the recordings. Includes biographies of many of the interviewers; "Faces and Voices from the Presentation," a special presentation; and a section of Related Resources.Title from home page (viewed on Feb. 2, 2004).Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

American variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment, 1870-1920 /

Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini.Title from title screen dated Oct. 31, 1996."Groups of theater posters and sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future."Houdini -- Theater playbills and programs -- Sound recordings (coming soon) -- Motion pictures -- English playscripts -- Yiddish playscript

American women a gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States.

A slightly expanded and fully searchable version of American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (2001) that has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site, including 36 items newly digitized especially for American Women.Title from home page (viewed on June 20, 2003).Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

African-American sheet music, 1850-1920 selected from the collection of Brown University.

oai:lcoa1.loc.gov:lccn/00528551Selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.Copyright and other restrictions: Permission to copy in any form or to publish material from the Collection must be obtained from Brown University Library.Title from home page as viewed on Nov. 9, 1999.Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress."LC/Ameritech Award Winner

The evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920

Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage. The collection consists of approximately 60 books and pamphlets, over 140 Federal statutes and Congressional Resolutions, and additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and a two-part motion picture. Numbers are subject to change with site updates.Title from home page as viewed on Sept. 18, 2000

Puerto Rico at the dawn of the modern age nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century perspectives ; from selected divisions of the Library of Congress.

Portrays the early history of the commonwealth 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. Materials in the collection were published between 1831 and 1929 and consist of thirty-nine political pamphlets, eighteen monographs, and one journal.Title from home page as viewed on Apr. 4, 2000.A collaborative project of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and the National Digital Library Program in recognition of the centennial of the Spanish-American War.Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress's Humanities and Social Sciences Division, General Collection, Hispanic Division, and Geography and Map Division.Offered as part of the American Memory online resource