The original 'Arirang' wax cylinder recording at the Library of Congress
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The original 'Arirang' wax cylinder recording at the Library of Congress
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The Founding of the Library of Congress
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The Founding of the Library of Congress
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Making maps accessible to the blind at the Library of Congress
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Making maps accessible to the blind at the Library of Congress
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The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag
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The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag
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What's Hiding on the Library Ceiling?! 💡🤫 #History #LibraryOfCongress #Secrets
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What's Hiding on the Library Ceiling?! 💡🤫 #History #LibraryOfCongress #Secrets
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Something you may not know about the Library of Congress: The Preservation and Testing Division has labs where staff research how to best support the preservation, interpretation and research of manuscripts, books and other Library materials. They study paper, inks, adhesives, sound recordings, storage conditions, and much, much more! Here, conservation scientist Cindy Connelly Ryan is making reconstructions of historic artists’ colors using recipes from a Revolutionary War-era document held in
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Something you may not know about the Library of Congress: The Preservation and Testing Division has labs where staff research how to best support the preservation, interpretation and research of manuscripts, books and other Library materials. They study paper, inks, adhesives, sound recordings, storage conditions, and much, much more! Here, conservation scientist Cindy Connelly Ryan is making reconstructions of historic artists’ colors using recipes from a Revolutionary War-era document held in
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In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the crucial and important work performed by the Library of Congress staff, the heart of the institution, for Public Service Recognition Week. The staff will continue to serve the United States Congress, the American public, and users across the world as the caretakers of our nation’s treasures and our collective history. | The Library of Congress
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In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the crucial and important work performed by the Library of Congress staff, the heart of the institution, for Public Service Recognition Week. The staff will continue to serve the United States Congress, the American public, and users across the world as the caretakers of our nation’s treasures and our collective history. | The Library of Congress
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It’s our birthday! On this day 225 years ago, President John Adams signed an act of Congress that appropriated $5,000 for the purchase of books and maps to be used by members of Congress. The rest, as they say, is history! | The Library of Congress
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How the Library of Congress unearthed a famous, presumed-lost silent film
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The Library of Congress has three buildings on Capitol Hill but that’s STILL not enough space to store all of the collection items in the world’s largest library. Here’s a look at one of the off-site Library storage facilities in Fort Meade, Maryland. | The Library of Congress
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Library of Congress has selected 25 films for the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. The oldest inductee is an 1896 film titled “The Tramp and the Dog,” a silent film from Chicago's Selig Polyscope Company that is recognized as the first commercial film made in Chicago. It is one of six silent films being added to the registry this year. The newest inductee is Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest
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In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 162 years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history, extolling the sacrifices of the men who died in the battle there. There are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. The Library of Congress has two of those. | The Library of Congress
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Sound of Music Tour: Von Trapp Singers at Library of Congress
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Listen to one of the first recorded interviews of formerly enslaved people. After you've watched this, let us know your thoughts in the comments! These recordings were compiled by the Library of Congress and are available online, including over 2,000 interviews from the 1930s. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #History #Education Music credit: Son House, American Folklife Center, and the Library of Congress
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Country music legend Dolly Parton died Tuesday at the age of 80. Here she is in 2018 at the Library of Congress explaining what inspired her to create the Imagination Library, which has now gifted more than 325 million books. #dollyparton #rip #countrymusic #imaginationlibrary #cspan
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Best (most insane) side quest ever. | dunkin in library of congress
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C-SPAN’s “America’s Book Club” — Presidential historian Jon Meacham talks about Andrew Jackson’s legacy as a “complicated figure.” Watch the entire interview, filmed at the Library of Congress, at c-span.org/abc #booktok #books #president #cspan #cspanabc
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Kowboj na rowerze brzmi jak coś, co ktoś wymyślił dla żartów. A jednak pod koniec XIX wieku rowery dotarły również na amerykański Zachód. I jak widać, niektórzy mieli wobec nich naprawdę ambitne plany XD Źródła w materiale pochodzą m.in. z amerykańskiej prasy z epoki, Library of Congress i archiwów Wyoming. #dc #historia #ciekawe #ciekawostki #western
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Replying to @Jamietravels The more you know ☺️ #fyp Sources: • Civil Rights Act of 1964 voting records — U.S. House & Senate Clerk archives • U.S. National Archives — Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) historical records • Library of Congress — Civil Rights legislation history and presidential archives • U.S. Senate Historical Office — Party voting statistics on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • American Presidency Project — presidential speeches and election data • Office of the Historia
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