Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Schlein, Miriam. Illustrated by Tom Newsom. I sailed with Columbus. Illustrated
by Tom Newsom. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, c1991.
Summary: Written in journal format by a twelve-year-old ship’s boy, the entries
describe Columbus' first voyage of discovery.
Setting: Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean, 1492
Subjects: Christopher Columbus, Canary Islands, America – Discovery and Exploration
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Exhibition) 1492: An Ongoing Voyage http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
 (Prints and Photographs) Images of Christopher Columbus and His Voyages
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html
 (Prints and Photographs) Pictorial America – Christopher Columbus
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paColumbus.html
 (Prints and Photographs 1892 print) Christopher Columbus
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a10965))
 (American Treasures exhibitions) Columbus’ Three Voyages
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt036.html
 (American Treasures exhibitions) Columbus’ Book of Privileges
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt029.html
 (American Treasures exhibitions) Early Image of the Americas
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm029.html
 (American Treasures exhibitions) Columbus Reports on Discovery of Islands of
India http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt038.html
 (America’s Library) Christopher Columbus Saw Land
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/columbus_1
 (Today in History) October 12 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct12.html
 (Hispanic Reading Room) Columbus’ Coat of Arms
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/coat.html
 (African-American Experience in Ohio 1892 periodical article) Christopher
Columbus http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/aaeo:@field(DOCID+@lit(o364))
Outside Resources:
 (Edsitement lesson plan) Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=322
 (Read Write Think lesson plan) Cyberspace Explorer: Getting to Know
Christopher Columbus http://readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=126
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1958.
Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan
household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and
suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
Setting: Connecticut, 1687
Subjects: Barbados, Connecticut, Wethersfield, witchcraft, Quakers, Puritans, pillory
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Portals to the World) Barbados
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/barbados/barbados.html
 (1770 map from Maps Collection) To His Royal Highness. George Augustus
Frederick. Thos. Bowen, sculpt. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4390+ar169900))
 (1639 map from Maps Collection) De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien /
bischrytven door Joan Vingboons. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3300+lh000029))
 (1685 map of North America from Maps Collections) Amérique septentrion.lle
[i.e. septentrionale]. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3300+ct000667))
 (Words and Deeds Collection) Petition for bail from accused witches, ca. 1692.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/003))
 (1885 periodical article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) Witchcraft
in Connecticuthttp://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABQ0722-0044-101_bib))
 (Photograph of Wethersfield house built in 17th century from Built in America
collection ) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(CT0368))
 (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic exhibition) Persecution in
America http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html
 (Prints and Photographs) Stocks and pillory outside the restored public gaol,
Williamsburg, Virginia http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b43973))+@field(C
OLLID+cph))
 (1894 periodical article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) A Puritan
Maiden’s Diary http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFJ3026-0017-5_bib))
 (American Treasures exhibition) A Quaker Book of Discipline
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr032.html
Outside Resources:
 (Midge Frazel Web Resources for Educators) Hunting for Witches Intolerance,
Persecution and Injustice in Salem and Beyond http://midgefrazel.net/salem.html
 (Study Guide) Witch of Blackbird Pond by Glencoe
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/witch_of_blackbird_pond.pdf
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, c1990.
Summary: In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother
Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of
Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300
miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.
Setting: Boston, Fort Ticonderoga, 1775-1776
Subjects: United States – History – Revolution, Henry Knox, soldiers, Continental Army
Library of Congress Resources:
 (American Memory Collection) The American Revolution and It’s Era: Maps and
Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
o (1775 map) The seat of war in New England http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3721s+ar0
81300))+@field(COLLID+armap))
o (1777 map) A Map of Ticonderoga http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3804t+ar117500))
 (Collection Guide) Primary Documents in American History: The American
Revolution and the New Nation
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/NewNation.html
 (American Memory Collection) George Washington Papers at the Library of
Congress, 1741-1799 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
o (Special Presentation) Time Line: American Revolution
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwtimear.html
o (Letter) George Washington to Henry Knox, November 16, 1775
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw040096))
o (Letter) Henry Knox to George Washington, November 27, 1775
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw4/034/0900/0953.jpg
 (Prints and Photographs) Pictorial America: The Revolution
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paRevol.html
 (I Hear America Singing) Yankee Doodle
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000025/default.html
 (photograph of Stuart Gilbert painting from Touring Turn-of-the-Century
Photographs Collection) Major-General Henry Knox http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/detr:@field(NUMBER+@band(det+4a26205))
 (1862 portrait from The First American West Collection) H. Knox
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/fawbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(apc0013))
Outside Resources:
 (George Washington’s Mount Vernon)
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/index.cfm/
 (lesson plan from Discovery School) Early America
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/earlyamerica/
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Mitchell, Elizabeth. Illustrations by Kellyn Alder. Journey to the Bottomless Pit:
The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth Cave. NY: Viking, 2004.
Summary: In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old
Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends
his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
Setting: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1838
Subjects: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, slavery, caves
Library of Congress Resources:
 (1820 document from First American West: The Ohio River Valley collection )
The Western review and miscellaneous magazine : a monthly publication,
devoted to literature and science, volume 3 (page 118 and 119) Includes
description of mummy found in cave http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=icufaw&fileName=cbc0001c/icufawcbc0001c.db&recNum=1
17
 (1839 map from Maps Collection) Map of Kentucky & Tennessee exhibiting the
post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c.; by David. H. Burr
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3950+rr002240))
 (Built in America collection) Mammoth Cave Saltpeter Works, Mammoth Cave,
Edmonson County, KY (entry includes drawings, images, data pages)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(KY0272))
 (1915 photo from Panoramic Photographs collection) Mammoth Cave Hotel
Grounds http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a13157))
 (1880 magazine article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals collection)
One Hundred Miles in Mammoth Cave. (Scribner’s monthly, an illustrated
magazine for the people. / Volume 20, Issue 6, October 1880)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABP7664-0020-144_bib))
 (1898 magazine article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals collection)
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. [The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume
55, Issue 5, Mar 1898 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABP2287-0055-148_bib))
Outside Resources:
 Mammoth Cave National Park (National Park Service)
http://www.nps.gov/maca/home.htm and
 Mammoth Cave Learning Place (for teachers)
http://www.nps.gov/maca/learnhome/learnhome.htm
 Stephen Bishop, Cave Guide http://www.nps.gov/maca/stephen.pdf
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.
Summary: Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during
the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the
author's great-great-grandfather.
Setting: Civil War period, Georgia
Subjects: Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Ohio 24th Regiment; Forty-eighth Colored,
Andersonville
Library of Congress Resources
 (Learning Page Community Center) Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_civilwar.php
 (American Memory collection) Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
o (1862 photograph) Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and
Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; another view. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a40254))
o (1860s photograph) Portrait of a Federal soldier from Ohio.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a40872))
o (1860s photograph) Portrait of Pvt. Levi Miller, Ohio Regiment, U.S.A.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a40873))
 (American Memory collection) Civil War Treasures from the New York
Historical Society
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
o (1862 stereograph) Group at Mr. Foller's farm, Cumberland.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(ad10009))
o (1860s drawing) Andersonville prison, Georgia. Group of prisoners.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(aa02056))
 (1860s map from Map Collections) Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864..
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(gvhs01+vhs00039))
Outside Resources:
 (Author Web site) Patricia Polacco
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/pink_and_say/ps_story.html
 An Abbreviated History of the 48th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Regiment Organized March 11, 1864, from 10th Louisiana Infantry (African
Descent). http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/8usct/48usct_history1.html
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. NY: Harper & Row, 1985.
Summary: When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their
prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will
stay.
Setting: Midwestern state, prairie, late 1800s
Subjects: prairie, plains, Maine, mail-order bride, shells, wildflowers, letter writing
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html
o (Early 1900s photograph) In the good old days when owning a pair of
shoes was a great luxury http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b046))
o (1896 photograph) Rural school in Alma Township, Cavalier County
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b358a))
 (Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
o (1887 Solomon Butcher photograph) Orson Cooley in northeast Custer
County http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p2882))
o (1890 Solomon Butcher photograph) Sod house, Custer County, Nebraska
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p10658))
 (WPA Life Histories) Nebraska Titles
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/necat.html
 (National Book Festival 2004 cybercasts) Patricia MacLachlan and others
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/cybercasts/index.html
 (National Book Festival 2001 cybercast) Patricia MacLachlan
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/01/authors/MacLachlan.html
 (Learning Page Feature) Women Pioneers: Westward
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/women/women.html
 (Learning Page Lesson Plan) Journeys West
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/west/index.html
Outside Resources:
 (Score lesson plan) Sarah, Plain and Tall
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sarah/sarahtg.htm
 (Education World lesson plan) A Letter to Sarah, Plain and Tall
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp281-03.shtml
 (Reading Rockets Interview with Sarah MacLachlan)
http://www.readingrockets.org/books/authorbio.php?ID=69#books
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Hest, Amy. Illustrated by P.J. Lynch When Jessie Came Across the Sea.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997.
Summary: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and
immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning
money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Setting: Eastern Europe, shipboard across ocean, Ellis Island, New York City, 1890searly 1900s
Subjects: immigration, Jews, New York City, orphans, grandmothers
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Learning Page Community Center) Immigration
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_immigration.php
 (Learning Page Feature) Immigration
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
 (Learning Page Collaborative Activity) Interviews With Today’s Immigrants
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/interv/index.html
 (Prints and Photographs) Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/070_immi.html
 (Prints and Photographs) Selected Views of the Statue of
Libertyhttp://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/077_stat.html
 (Exhibition) From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/
 (Early Motion Pictures Collection) Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a10987))
 (Life of a City: Early Films of New York Collection) New York City “ghetto”
fish market (filmed on the Lower East Side) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a2700
7))+@field(COLLID+newyork))
 (Life of a City: Early Films of New York Collection) Move on (another Lower
East Side film) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a29915))
 (An American Time Capsule Collection) Immigration Figures for 1903
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+07902500))
 (Lewis Hine photograph from Prints and Photographs) Mrs. Palontona and 13
year old daughter, Michaeline, working on "Pillow-lace"
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+04111)) Explore other
images in the National Child Labor Committee Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcabt.html
Outside Resources:
 (Ellis Island home page) http://www.ellisisland.org/
 (Urban Log Cabin) Discover what New York City tenement life was like for
many immigrants between 1870 and 1970.
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/logcabin.html
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses. NY: H. Holt, 2002.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds
work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in
which 146 employees died.
Setting: New York City, 1911
Subjects: immigration, Irish Americans, Ellis Island, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, child
labor, labor unions
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Panoramic Photographs) A scene in the ghetto. Hester Street.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a12044))
 (Prints and Photographs) National Child Labor Committee Collection (search
“flower making” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcabt.html
 (Prints and Photographs) Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street, New
York City. See Photos of flower makers working here (2778 and 2816).
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+04148))
 (Prints and Photographs) Flower Making. A night scene (Photo at 10:30 P.M. and
not finished, Jan 29, 1912) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+04139))
 (Prints and Photographs) Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest
child working is 5 years old. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+05346))
 (Prints and Photographs) Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a35470))+@field(C
OLLID+ggbain))
 (Prints and Photographs) Front page of The New York World newspaper for
March 16, 1911 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c22315))+@field(C
OLLID+cph))
 (Prints and Photographs) Triangle Waist Co. fire, N.Y.C.--Crowds outside pier
morgue http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b37414))+@field(C
OLLID+ggbain))
 (Prints and Photographs) Firemen searching for bodies http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b30440))+@field(C
OLLID+ggbain))
Outside Resources:
 Teachers @ Random Teaching Guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=044023851X
&view=tg
 PBS Kids: Learning Adventures in Citizenship – Triangle Tragedy
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode4/topic5/e4_t5_s5-tt.html
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Rabin, Staton. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Casey Over There. San Diego: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1994.
Summary: After his older brother Casey goes off to fight in World War I, Aubrey and
his family are so worried that Aubrey writes a letter to Uncle Sam asking him to send
Casey home.
Setting: Brooklyn, NY: Broussey, France
Subjects: World War, 1914 – 1918 (Great War), Brothers, Uncle Sam, Woodrow
Wilson, Coney Island, letter writing, Mary Pickford, trolley, Armistice Day
Library of Congress Resources:
 (1917 Prints and Photographs poster) I want you for the US Army
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a10889))+@field(C
OLLID+pos)) and entry from (American Treasures exhibition)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html
 (1918 photograph from Prints and Photographs) Ready!
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b39912))+@field(C
OLLID+cph))
 (Today in History) November 11 Veterans Day
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov11.html
 (1917 sheet music from Historic American Music Collection) Over There
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.n0967))
 (Variety Stage Collection) Recording of “Over There”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vssnde.html
 (Learning Page Activity) On the Homefront: America During World War I and
World War II http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/homefront/index.html
 (American Memory Collection) Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/index.html (see
December 31, 1919) and image of Woodrow Wilson http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&agg=sgpwar&iss=19191231&page=3
 (American Memory Collection) Stars and Stripes: The American Soldier’s
Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
 (Prints and Photographs lithograph) Coney Island http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/var:@field(NUMBER+@band(var+2117))
 (Veteran’s History Project) Handwritten Bound Diary from WWI
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/pageturner?I
D=pm0001001&page=1 Home page of Vincent Reed’s accounts http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/
 (Veteran’s History Project) Search for other veteran’s stories from this page:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/html/search/search.html
Outside Resources:
 (United Kingdom National Archives exhibition) The Great War 1914-1918
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/
 (4 to Explore resources) World War I http://www.42explore2.com/ww1.htm
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Cohen, Barbara. Thank You, Jackie Robinson. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.,
1974.
Summary: A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for
the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman, Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by
Jackie to his elderly friend's deathbed.
Setting: Winter Hill, New Jersey, 1947
Subjects: Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, friendship
Library of Congress Resources:
 (American Memory Collection) Baseball and Jackie Robinson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/
 (American Memory Collection) Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/
 (Special Presentation) Baseball, the Color Line and Jackie Robinson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jr1860s.html
 (Today in History) October 15 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct15.html
 (Learning Page) Baseball Community Center
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_baseball.php
 (American Treasures) The Jackie Robinson Story
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri086.html
 (American Treasures) “This I Believe”
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri070.html
 (American Treasures) A Letter From Jackie Robinson
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri067.html
 (Cybercast) Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Nine Values to Live By
http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/robinson/
 (Learning Page Lesson Plan) Jackie Steals Home
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/robinson/intro.html
Outside Resources:
 (Lesson Plan) Thank You, Jackie Robinson
http://www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/Mutert2/index.html
 (Lesson Plan) A Comparison of In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson and
Thank You, Jackie Robinson
http://www.usd230.k12.ks.us/NLBM/lessonplans/lesson8comparison.htm
 (Lesson Plan) Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Beyond the Playing Field Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robins
on.html
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Bunting, Eve. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. So Far From the Sea. NY:
Clarion Books, 1998.
Summary: When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the
Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special
symbol.
Setting: Site of Manzanar Relocation Camp, 1972
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Manzanar War Relocation Center, Sierra Nevada
Mountains, Executive Order 9066; song (Don’t Fence Me In);
Library of Congress Resources:
 (Panoramic Photographs collection) War Relocation Center, Manzanar,
California. 1943 panoramic photograph. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c34794))
 (American Memory Collection) Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams
Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html
o (1943 photograph) Manzanar Relocation Center from tower Bird's-eye
view of grounds from guard tower; view west, showing buildings, roads,
and Sierra Nevada mountains in background. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g05617))
o (1943 photograph) Relocation departure II, Manzanar Relocation Center.
Group of people standing, facing right, near the open door of an
automobile, buildings in the background. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00189))
o (1943 photograph) School children http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00456))
o (1943 photograph) Yonemitsu Family, son - Michael, sister - Lucy
Toshiko, father - Francis, Manzanar Relocation.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00198))
o (1943 photograph) Monument in cemetery, Manzanar Relocation Center,
California Marble monument with inscription that reads, "Monument for
the Pacification of Spirits," with mountains in the background, including
Mt. Williamson http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00210))
 (Source article from the Learning Page) Using an Adams Photograph of
Manzanar as a Primary Source
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/am_newsletter/article.php?id=36&catna
me=feature
 (Learning Page American Memory Timeline) Japanese American Internment
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/wwarii/japanam.html
Other Resources:
 (National Archives) Our Documents– Executive Order 9066 – Japanese
Relocation Order 1942 http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=74
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Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Gerstein, Mordecai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Brookfield,
CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2003.
Subject: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World
Trade Center towers.
Setting: New York City, August 7, 1974
Subjects: aerialist, street entertainer, tightrope walking, 911, World Trade Towers
Library of Congress Resources:
 (American Memory Collection) September 11, 2001 Documentary Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/
 (Exhibition) Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of
Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/
o Carol M. Highsmith. Manhattan skyline, August 2001.
Photographer Carol Highsmith unexpectedly donated to the Library a
stunning panoramic photograph she took of lower Manhattan and the
World Trade Center from a helicopter on a clear day in early August
2001.http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/02016v.jpg
o Tamara Beckwith, View of World Trade Center towers, New York, New
York, with tower #2 exploding in a ball of fire after the September 11th
terrorist attack,
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/01810r.jpg
o Brian Niemann, "In Memory" 9/11/01, 2002. Color offset lithograph Gift
of Griffith Phillips Creative Prints and Photographs Division
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/02026r.jpg
o Hannah Beach, third grader Sequoyah Elementary School, Knoxville,
Tennessee. Twin Towers--"I Can't Take It", 2001. American Folklife
Center http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/sep0177s.jpg
 (1898 Edison movie from Early Motion Pictures collection) A street Arab
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a32868))
Outside Resources:
 (PBS American Experience) Center of the World. Interview with Philippe Petit,
high wire artist - High wire artist Philippe Petit electrified New York City -- and
the world -- with his early morning walk between the twin towers on August 7,
1974. He has also performed on a high wire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and
the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/sf_interviews.html
 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) To Reach the Clouds – home page of Philippe Petit’s
book – includes video and audio files
http://www.fsgbooks.com/fsg/toreachclouds.htm
Gail Petri - Education Research Specialist, Library of Congress – 4/28/05
Book Backdrops – Bringing Historical Fiction to Life With Primary Sources
Title: Peck, Richard. Fair Weather. New York: Dial Books, 2001
Summary: Thirteen-year old Rosie and members of her family travel
from their Illinois farm to attend the World’s Columbian Exposition.
Setting: Chicago, 1893
Photographs and Prints
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Opening of the World's Fair / The Knapp Co. lith., N.Y. (1893 color lithograph from Prints and
Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g03270))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Grand birds-eye view of the grounds and buildings of the great Columbian exposition at Chicago,
Illinois, 1892-3 In commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America
by Christopher Columbus.(Currier and Ives color print from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a24025))+@field(COLLID+pga))
World’s Fair 1893 (Panoramic Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c28873))
Birdseye of World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893 panoramic photo)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c24133))
Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893 photograph by Frances
Johnston from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c04795))+@field(COLLID+fbj))
Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (another 1893 photograph by
Frances Johnston from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c04794))+@field(COLLID+fbj))
Woman's Building, World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. View from across water (1893
photograph from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b21392))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Palace of Mechanic Arts and lagoon at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
(another 1893 photograph by Frances Johnston from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c16999))+@field(COLLID+fbj))
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Administration Building, Administration building and
Bridge, Chicago, IL (American Landscape) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h15370))
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Transportation Building, interior, Chicago, IL (American
Landscape) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h42990))
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World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Administration Building, Administration building and
Bridge, Chicago, IL (American Landscape) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h15370))
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Japanese Pavilion : Ho-o-den, general view, Chicago, IL
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h19220))
The Grand Basin (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b44762))+@field(COLLID+cph))
World's Columbian Exposition 1893, general view, Chicago, IL http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h118071))
Columbus caravels in a line on Lake Michigan near Jackson Park (1909 photograph)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n054846))
Opening day, 1893 (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c25751))+@field(COLLID+cph))
World's Fair dedication / J.W. Taylor, Chicago. (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b45702))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Columbian Exposition--the grand court at night--electrical illumination of MacMonnies's fountain
and the administration building / drawn by Charles Graham. (1893 drawing from Prints and
Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c00741))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Four boys posed at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (Frances Johnston photograph from
Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c04793))+@field(COLLID+fbj))
Captive balloon and Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893 photograph from
Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b35866))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Crane for placing exhibits, Mines and Mining Building (1893 photograph from Prints and
Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b21122))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Interior view of exhibit hall at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. (Prints and
Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b39928))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (Prints and Photographs – not
enlarged outside of LOC) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b35771))+@field(COLLID+cph))
The great ferris wheel - first erected Chicago 1893 - now at World's Fair, St. Louis (1905
stereograph from Prints and Photographs) -- http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b33135))+@field(COLLID+stereo))
Magnificent home of Mrs. Potter Palmer, on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago (1909 stereograph from
Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c07952))+@field(COLLID+stereo))
Maps and Plans
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Bird's eye view of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. (Map Collections)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4104c+pm001522))
Bird’s eye view of Chicago, 1893 (Maps Collections) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4104c+pm001511))
World's Columbian Exposition 1893, plan, Chicago, IL (American Landscape)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h1203))
World's Columbian Exposition 1893, map, Chicago, IL (American Landscape)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h15369))
World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, Ill., U.S.A (print from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a37845))+@field(COLLID+pga))
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Advertisements
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Take a Kodak With You to the World’s Fair (1893 advertisement from Emergence of Advertising
Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa:@field(DOCID+@lit(K0529))
The Worlds Fair (advertisement for a book from Emergence of Advertising Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa:@field(DOCID+@lit(A0255))
Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893, showing two people from Portugal with Singer sewing machine (Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g02765))+@field(COLLID+cph))
and from Zululand http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a12883))+@field(COLLID+cph))
and from Ceylon http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g02764))+@field(COLLID+cph))
George Thatcher's Minstrels allied with Rich & Harris' Comedy Co. in Tuxedo by Ed. Marble
(1893 advertisement from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/var:@field(NUMBER+@band(var+1788))
Movie Files Showing Fair Performers and Chicago
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Annie Oakley / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4030))
Arabian gun twirler / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (Cheriff was apparently a performer on the Midway
Plaisance of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, perhaps in the "A Street
in Cairo" or Turkish village exhibits) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/varstg:@field(NUMBER+@band(varsmp+1301))
Armour's electric trolley / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+1013))+@field(COLLID+mi
-edison))
Buffalo Bill's wild west parade (1902 movie) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2b31268))
Buffalo dance / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, W.K.L. Dickson. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4025))+@field(COLLID+mi
-edison))
Corbett and Courtney before the Kinetograph (1894 movie of boxing fight)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4022))
Corner Madison and State streets, Chicago / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+0024))+@field(COLLID+mi
-edison))
Performers, Personalities and People at the Fair
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Altgeld, John P., portrait photograph (1892 portrait of Governor of Chicago)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/haybib:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichihay+48V0340))
Harrison, Carter H., portrait photograph (1893 portrait of Mayor of Chicago)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/haybib:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichihay+27V0600))
Mrs. Potter Palmer dressed in costume (1906 photograph) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n004306))
Frederick Law Olmsted (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a37268))+@field(COLLID+cph))
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Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world (1899 color lithograph)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a25408))+@field(COLLID+cph))
William Frederick (Buffalo Bill) Cody sitting in a chair in front of grandstand seating in Cub's
ballpark (photograph from Photographs from the Chicago Daily News) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n066930))
William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") (1911 portrait from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a21252))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Annie Oakley poster (History of the American West) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00105245))
Lillian Russell (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs) - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b02771))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Lillian Russell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front in lace dress with bouquet of roses
behind her head (1893 photograph from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c04486))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Pugilist, James J. Corbett, standing in a boxing stance in a gymnasium, looking to the side (1902
photograph) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+s001029))
Egyptian dancing girl, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (Prints and
Photographs)http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c05070))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Parade of Arabian circus, at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893 photograph
from Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c06655))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Group of Lions, Hagenbach's (1905 stereograph from Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a49426))+@field(COLLID+stereo))
Mary Cassatt (drew murals) Gathering Fruit http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/awhbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(cph+3a44410))
Edith Cavell - Photograph of British nurse Edith Cavell - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n065283))
John Phillip Sousa - Sousa and his band (1901 program) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/tccc:@field(DOCID+@lit(tc6784))
Susan B. Anthony, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left (Prints and Photographs)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c11423))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Frances Willard, portrait bust (Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ggbain+02864))+@field(COLLID+ggbain)
)
Eadweard Muybridge - The Horse in motion. "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; driven
by C. Marvin, trotting at a 2:24 gait over the Palo Alto track, 15th June 1878 / Muybridge. (Prints
and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c05000))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Music at the Fair
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After the ball. 1892 (sung by Lillian Russell) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.n0353))
Original Rags, 1899 (Scott Joplin played cornet in a band at the fair) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.b0940))
Anton Dvorak (inspired to write the New World Symphony)
Hello Central, give me heaven. 1901 (sheet music from Historic American Sheet Music)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.n0311))
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Periodical Articles
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Artist's Impressions Of The World's Fair. I. Foreground And Vista At The Fair. [Scribner's
magazine. / Volume 14, Issue 1, July, 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFR7379-0014-6_bib))
Artist's Impressions Of The World's Fair. II. Types And People At The Fair. [Scribner's magazine.
/ Volume 14, Issue 2, August, 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFR7379-0014-26_bib))
Artist's Impressions Of The World's Fair. III. The Art Of The White City. [Scribner's magazine. /
Volume 14, Issue 4, October, 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFR7379-0014-63_bib))
Artist's Impressions Of The World's Fair. IV. The Picturesque Side. [Scribner's magazine. /
Volume 14, Issue 5, November, 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFR7379-0014-74_bib))
Columbian Exposition, What It Will Do for America. [The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume
44, Issue 6, Oct 1892] (Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABP2287-0044-206_bib))
Columbian Exposition: The World's Fair and Landscape-Gardening. [The Century; a popular
quarterly. / Volume 45, Issue 6, Apr 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABP2287-0045-208_bib))
A Condensed Architectural History of the World's Columbian Exposition. [Manufacturer and
builder / Volume 25, Issue 10, October 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-597_bib))
The Ferris Wheel at the World’s Fair [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 8, August
1893] (Article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-457_bib))
Household Inventions at the World's Fair. [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 10,
October 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-627_bib))
Musical Societies Of The United States And Their Representation At The World's Fair. [Scribner's
magazine. / Volume 14, Issue 1, July, 1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(AFR7379-0014-11_bib))Side Shows at the
World's Fair. [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 7, July 1893]
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025419_bib))
Sights at the Fair [The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume 46, Issue 5, Sept 1893] 12 page
article with illustrations http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABP2287-0046-154_bib))
World's Fair Attendance. [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 8, August 1893] (article
from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-501_bib))
World's Fair Statistics. [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 12, December 1893]
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025765_bib))
A Yankee's Impressions of the World's Fair. [Manufacturer and builder / Volume 25, Issue 7, July
1893] (article from Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-429_bib))
Broadsides, Letters, News Articles, Speeches and Related Documents
 Lecture on Haiti. The Haitian pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's fair, in
Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893. By the Hon. Frederick Douglass ... Introductory by Prof.
David Swing. Response of the Director-General Geo. R. Davis ... (African American Perspectives)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/murraybib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcrbmrp+t2109))
 The Java village Midway plaisance. World's Columbian exposition ... [Chicago? Ill., 1893].(An
American Time Capsule) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+01803700))
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John Brown Souvenir of the World's Columbian exposition. Chicago. 1893. (An American Time
Capsule) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+01803800))
Letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz, August 29, 1893 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=215/21500147/bellpage.db&recNum=0
Letter from Helen Keller to Mabel Hubbard Bell, August 20, 1893 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=124/12400303/bellpage.db&recNum=0
The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition Ida B. Wells
(From Frederick Douglass Papers) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=25/25023/25023page.db&recNum=0
To-day's events. A publication diffusing important information in the interest of the World's fair
visitors, concessionaires and exhibitors. Chicago, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1893. (American Time
Capsule) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0180370d))
United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner, summary of brief
for defendants, pleadings, brief, argument of Frederick P. Fish, Esq., for defendants, the American
Bell Telephone Co.'s exhibit at the Columbian Exposition… http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/berl:@field(NUMBER+@band(berl+04020301))
World’s Fair Watermelons (news article from African American Experience in Ohio)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aaeo:@field(DOCID+@lit(o17825))
New Jersey building ... (1893) (An American Time Capsule leaflet) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0180370a))
Maryland day World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, Tuesday, September twelfth. Programme
of ceremonies at Music Hall, three thirty P. M. ... [1893] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0180370b))
Additional Resources Outside the Library of Congress
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World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Illinois Institute of Technology)
http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/
World’s Columbian Exposition – Chicago, 1893 (Chicago Historical Society)
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo.html
Chicago’s Great Ferris Wheel of 1893 (Hyde Park Historical Society)
http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/newsletter.html
Interactive Guide to the World’s Columbian Exposition
http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html
Web-Book of the Fair http://fly.hiwaay.net/~shancock/fair/1893.html
Richard Peck’s Interview Transcript (Scholastic)
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorhome.jhtml;jsessionid
=4D5KDRQH4T0UICQVALDSFFAKCUBJWIWA?authorID=5557&collateralID=10418&displa
yName=Interview+Transcript&displayName=Interview Transcript
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Activity Ideas
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Create a scrapbook with the primary sources you find.
Learn more about the author.
Richard Peck uses figurative language throughout this story. Look for similes and metaphors.
Think of some that are used today.
Research what life was like in Chicago in 1893. What was the population, modes of
transportation, industries, and famous buildings? What were some "firsts" introduced at the
World's Fair?
Postcards were first sold at the World's Fair in 1893. Research the first postcards and create your
own from one of the Beckett's experiences.
Richard Peck refers to many songs. Research the songs and their origins. Locate sheet music for
these songs.
The Fair was an inspiration for American creativity. Research people who were inspired to create
something new as a result of the Fair (John Philip Sousa wrote an Exhibition march, the
magnificent buildings inspired L. Frank Baum to create his Emerald City, Scott Joplin developed
Ragtime while playing on the grounds, Dvorak composed the New World Symphony, and the
Pledge of Allegiance and Columbus Day were introduced.)
World’s Fair, 1893 – Panoramic Photograph – Library of Congress
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Picture Books as Hooks to Primary
Sources
Primary Sources Workshop - Chicago, IL – August 3, 2005
The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George - Colonial Settlement
Connections
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The Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock (America’s Library) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgibin/page.cgi/jb/colonial
Thanksgiving (Learning Page Feature) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/thanks/thanks.html
Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymoth (Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a52570))+@field(COLLID+pga))
Pictorial Americana: Settlement and Colonial Life (Prints and Photographs)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paSettle.html
Thanksgiving (American Treasures Exhibition) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm125.html
The First Thanksgiving (Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a17442))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Thanksgiving Turkey (Prints and Photographs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ggbain+11155))+@field(COLLID+ggbain))
1782 Proclamation on Thanksgiving Observation (George Washington Papers)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw4&fileName=gwpage088.db&recNum=279
The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully - Women’s Suffrage Connections
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America’s Library) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgibin/page.cgi/aa/activists/stanton
1895 Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Women’s Bible (Words and Deeds in American
History Collection) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/049))
One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage (By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures
1850-1920 Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html
The Seneca Falls Convention (American Treasures Exhibition)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr040.html
Declaration of Sentiments (Votes for Women Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=rbnawsa&fileName=n7548/rbnawsan7548.db&recNum= 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Today in History, November 12)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov12.html
Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies (Learning Page Lesson Plan)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/suffrage/index.html
Dandelions by Eve Bunting - Moving West Connections
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Explore the States: Nebraska (America’s Library) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgibin/page.cgi/es/ne
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Northern Great Plains: Sod Homes (American Memory Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/hult_sod.html
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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters (American Memory Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska (1855 map) (Maps Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4200+ct000891))
Kate Dunlap’s Diary (1865 diary) (Pages From Her Story - Learning Page Activity)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/pages_herstory/civilwar.html
Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska (1872 broadside from An American Time Capsule
Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+13401300))
White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman - Civil Rights Connections
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Civil Rights (Learning Page Community Center)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_civilrights.php
With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty (Exhibition) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/
From Slavery to Civil Rights (Learning Page Activity)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/flash.html
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It’s No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoons (Learning Page Activity)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/political_cartoon/index.html
Voices of Civil Rights (Collaborative Activity) http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/
Voices of Civil Rights (Exhibition) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/
From Jim Crow to Linda Brown (Learning Page Lesson)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/crow/crowhome.html
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination (Prints and Photographs)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
America the Beautiful by Wendell Minor - Poetry and Song Connections
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America the Beautiful (Patriotic Melodies from I Hear America Singing)
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000001/default.html
Holmes Reaches Pikes Peak (Today in History) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug05.html
Katharine Lee Bates (2001 House remarks from Thomas) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgibin/query/z?j107:I00900:j107BANGLADESH.html
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Music in America (Learning Page Community Center)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_music.php
Literature and Poetry (Learning Page Community Center)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_literature.php
Explore the States (America’s Library) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es
Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America (Exhibition) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/land/
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(Image 1) Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska (1872 broadside) Library of Congress
(Image 2) A sod home on the prairie (early 1900s photograph) Library of Congress
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