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Thanks to funding by Congress and
private sector donors, the Library of
Congress now offers access to millions
of new users through its virtual doors
by way of the Internet. Through the
American Memory Historical
Collections and the Online Exhibitions,
the Library is able to share the richness
of the Library’s unique holdings,
featuring a broad spectrum of
multimedia content.
Screen shot of the Library of Congress World Wide
Web home page, June 2001.
http://www.loc.gov/
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Portraits of
Lincoln,
Washington,
and Jefferson
These online materials include the
papers of Presidents Washington,
Jefferson and Lincoln…
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(left to right):
Detail of “Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length
portrait, standing, facing left.
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington,
D.C.), photographer.”
From collection: Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Detail from: “Color halftone print of the portrait by
Gilbert Stuart,” from Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress. c1929.
Reproduction#: (color) LC-USZC4-2968
Used on the home page for the collection:
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
(Click the web page image for another version.)
Detail of “Th. Jefferson, photomechanical print,”
created/published [between 1890 and 1940(?)]. Library
of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division,
Presidential File. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC42474. This print is a reproduction of the 1805
Rembrandt Peale painting of Thomas Jefferson held by
the New-York Historical Society.
Used on the home page for the collection:
Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
(Click the web page image for another version.)
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Images of
Declaration of
Independence
and
Gettysburg
Address
…with landmark documents such as
rough drafts of the Declaration of
Independence and the Gettysburg
Address…
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Print of
Burgoyne's
surrender at
Saratoga
…images from the battlefields such as
Saratoga…
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Dead at
Gettysburg
photograph
…Gettysburg…
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Col. T.R.
Roosevelt &
Rough Riders
image.
…and San Juan Hill.
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3 baseball
players: Cy
Young, Connie
Mack, &
Jackie
Robinson
American Memory includes heroes
from the fields of dreams such as Cy
Young, Connie Mack, and the
groundbreaking Jackie Robinson.
(left to right):
Declaration of Independence: in online exhibition,
“American Treasures of the Library of Congress” Top
Treasures gallery.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt001.html
Gettysburg Address: in online exhibition,
“American Treasures of the Library of Congress”
Top Treasures gallery.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt034.html
In addition, is part of a separate online exhibition:
The Gettysburg Address drafts section:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/gadrft.html
The Gettysburg Address exhibition home page:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
“Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga,” Percy Moran, 18621935, artist., from Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress. c1911. Reproduction#: (color)
LC-USZC4-2912
Featured on Today in History for Sept. 19.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep19.html
Also in “Items in High Demand” section,
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
“Incidents of the war. A harvest of death” Gettysburg,
July, 1863,” O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882,
photographer, Washington, D.C. : published by
Philp & Solomons, c1865. From collection:
Selected Civil War Photographs.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
“Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the top of
the hill which they captured, Battle of San Juan” by
William Dinwiddie (1867-1934), photographer. Created
1898.
From collection:
By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and
First Ladies, 1789-Present
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/
(left to right):
“Cy Young,” alternate title: “Gold Borders (T205)”
Issued by: American Tobacco Company, 1911.
“Connie Mack,” alternate title: “Old Judge (N172)”
Issued by: Issued by: Goodwin & Company. 1998-90.
Both baseball cards (above) from collection:
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html
“Front cover of Jackie Robinson comic book,”
Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, c1951, v. 1,
no. 5, front cover. 1 photomechanical print : halftone,
color. (note: copyright not renewed)
From collection:
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other
Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
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Yellowstone
image
From the majesty of America’s
West in Yellowstone…
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Yosemite
sunset
…Yosemite…
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B&W Alaska
Panorama
photo
Buckaroos
image
…and Alaska, …
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Two Indian
Panorama
group portraits
…and Indians…
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3 images:
two Indians
Sod house
family
Woman &
plow
…and the sod-busting homesteaders
who settled the…
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Buy Land
poster
American Memory brings the lives
of cowboys…
“Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone” 18371926, L. Prang & Co., ca.1875. LC-USZC4-3246.
From collection:
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
“Sunset (California scenery)” AB '64 ; chromolithograph.
published by L. Prang & Co. 1864. LC-USZC4-683 DLC.
From collection:
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
“Mt. McKinley and the Alaska Range, Mt. McKinley National
Park, Alaska.” National Photo & News Service; January 17,
1958. LC-USZ62-125614 DLC (note: copyright not
renewed).
“Branding, Ninety-Six Ranch,” Carl Fleischhauer, American
Folklife Center, photographer, Ninety-Six Ranch, Paradise
Valley, Nev., October 1979. AFC Call Number:
NV9-CF35-12
From collection:
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern
Nevada, 1945-1982
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
Image Sources (top to bottom):
"The Round-Up Band," Pendleton, Ore., 1911. DLC/PP1911:44357
“Indian War Dancers at the ‘Round-Up’,” Pendleton, Ore.,
1911. DLC/PP-1911:44357
Both from collection:
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html
Image Sources (clockwise from upper left):
“Descendants of the original inhabitants of Dakota Territory”
190?, Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection,
NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota.
“In the good old days, when owning a pair of shoes was a
great luxury.” 190?, Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures
Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota.
…millions of acres across the Great
Plains.
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“A Pause to give the horses a rest : Miss Hanson operating the
binder, Milton, North Dakota.” 190?, Fred Hultstrand History
in Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota.
All three from collection:
The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the
Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/
“Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10
years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. at 6
per ct interest and low prices ...” Buffalo. N. Y. Commercial
advertiser printing house [1872].
Library of Congress Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio
134, Folder 13.
From collection:
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides
and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
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Detail from
map of New
Orleans
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Ellis Island
film clip
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Sojourner
Truth carte de
viste
(aka calling
card)
Susan B.
Anthony in
chairr
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American Memory offers panoramic
maps that chart the growth of
America’s great cities. As example,
you may explore this mid-nineteenth
century view of New Orleans that can
be seen in great detail as if viewed
through a magnifying glass.
It also includes our ancestors who
came to America with their dreams of
a better life…
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Note: click image to play video.
…and the courageous ones who…
…struggled to make that…
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Women at
suffrage
parade
…dream possible…
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Hayes,
Marshall,
Nabritt
congratulating
…for all Americans.
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Detail from: “Birds' eye view of New-Orleans drawn from
nature on stone by J. Bachman” [i.e., Bachmann].
New York : Published by the agents A. Guerber & Co.,
c1851 (Printed by J. Bachman [i.e., Bachmann]).
From collection:
Panoramic Maps 1847-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
Still image and clip from motion picture: “Emigrants [i.e.
immigrants] landing at Ellis Island.” Thomas A. Edison,
Inc., 1903.
Alternate Title: “Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island”
From collection:
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html
“I sell the shadow to support the substance.” 1864.,
photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-6165 DLC
From Collection/Online Exhibition:
African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/index.html
“Susan B. Anthony, full-length portrait, seated, facing left,”
S. A. Taylor, photographer, created between 1880 and
1906. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-23933 DLC.
From Collection:
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage
Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
“Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912,” May 6,
1912. American Press Association.
LC-USZC4-5585 DLC (color film copy transparency), LCUSZ62-10845 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
From Collection:
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage
Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit,
congratulating each other, following “Supreme Court
decision declaring segregation unconstitutional,” 1954.
Copyprint. New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-111236 (9-11).
Courtesy of AP/Wide World Photos.
From collection/exhibition:
African American Odyssey
Presentation, “The Civil Rights Era, Part 2.”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart9.html”
Collection/Exhibition Home Page:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/
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Bell’s
notebook
American Memory brings us the
visionary inventors who dared to
dream such as Alexander Graham
Bell…
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Early plane
flying
…the Wright brothers…
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Edison with
phonograph
image;
…and Thomas Edison, whose
phonograph made possible recordings
such as this Verdi aria from 1916…
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Note: click on speaker icon on bottom
right to play the aria.
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Rappold in
costume
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Vitascope
print
…and whose motion picture
camera…
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Early
animation
video clip
…that brought the magic of film into
our lives.
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Note: click image to play video
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Alexander Graham Bell’s Scientific Notebook, 10 March
1876.
From exhibition:
American Treasures of the Library of Congress, “Reason”
section.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html
Also in collection:
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
In special presentation:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bell1.html
“First Flight, December 17, 1903,” John T. Daniels (d.
1948), photographer. Modern gelatin silver print from glass
negative.
From Exhibition:
American Treasures of the Library of Congress,
“Reason” section.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr019.html
Thomas Edison:
From special sound recordings presentation,
“History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html
See also:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/phono1.jpg
Marie Rappold:
From special sound recordings presentation,
“Overview of the Edison Diamond Discs Recordings by
Genre (1912-1929)”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edgenre.html
See also: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/marie.jpg
Audio source:
“O patria mia—Aida.” Verdi ; [performed by] Marie
Rappold. (soprano with orchestra in Italian). Orange, N.J. :
Edison, [ca. 1916].
Both images and the sound recording are from the
collection:
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound
Recordings of the Edison Companies
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
“Edison’s Greatest Marvel: The Vitascope” From special
motion picture presentation,
“History of Edison Motion Pictures: The Shift to Projectors
and the Vitascope (1895-1896)”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edshift.html#T
See also:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/vitampbg.jpg
From collection:
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound
Recordings of the Edison Companies
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
Image (film) Source:
Still image and clip from “The enchanted drawing,”
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, J. Stuart Blackton,
Albert E. Smith. United States : Edison Manufacturing
Co., 1900.
From collection:
Origins of American Animation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
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Walt Whitman
handwriting &
portrait
American Memory brings us the
poets…
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Louis
Armstrong:
Duke
Ellington:
Marian
Anderson and
Leonard
Bernstein:
…the musicians…
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FDR portrait
& speech
…and the words and voices of leaders
who inspired us.
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Note: click on speaker icon on bottom
right to play the speech.
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Image sources:
“Earliest" Notebook (Holloway No.1), LC #80 (detail of
online image #25 of 128)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwcoll.html
Collection:
Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt
Whitman Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html
“Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, facing left,
right hand under head.” Mathew B. Brady, 1823 (ca.)1896, photographer. Prints and Photographs Division LCUSZ62-89959.
Featured in Today In History, for February 27.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb27.html
Also available in “items in high demand” section,
Prints and Photographs Online catalog
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html.
(clockwise from upper left)
Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Carnegie Hall, New York,
N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947.” William Gottlieb, photographer.
LC-GLB23-0021 DLC.
From collection:
William P. Gottlieb - Photographs from the Golden Age of
Jazz
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
“Portrait of Duke Ellington, Paramount Theater, New
York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946.” William Gottlieb,
photographer. LC-GLB13-0229 DLC.
Also featured in special presentation:
“In His Own Words Photos and Commentary by William
Gottlieb”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wgpres.html
From collection:
William P. Gottlieb - Photographs from the Golden Age of
Jazz
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
“Bernstein rehearsing with singer Marian Anderson at
Lewisohn Stadium, New York. June 1947.” Photographer:
Ruth Orkin © 1977. Made available on-line with
permission from The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park
West, New York, N.Y. 10023.
From collection:
The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html
Image Source:
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait,
facing slightly left.” Photographer unknown, c1920.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-11190.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfexpe.html#fdr
http://memory.loc.gov/image/nfor/9000024p.jpg
Audio Source:
"Americanism," from sound disc : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in.
U.S. State Department Committee on Public Information
with the Columbia Graphophone Company.
Image is also shown within the audio file’s item record in
the collection:
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I
and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
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See America
poster
It brings us the cultural record of the
Great Depression and the New Deal
era as captured in the Federal Art
Project…
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Photo and
costume
drawing from
MacBeth
…Orson Welles’ work with the
Federal Theater Project…
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Migrant
Mother
And the landmark work of the Farm
Security Administration
photographers such as Dorothea
Lange…
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Juke Joint &
Fish Market
photos
…Marion Post Walcott and Walker
Evans…
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King Family
photo and
Cripple Creek
audio clip
…as well as the songs of the dust bowl
farmers.
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Note: click on speaker icon on bottom
right to play the performance.
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“See America” Alexander Dux. [between 1936 and 1939].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4243.
From collection:
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 19361943
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
(left to right):
Detail from: “Photographic Print from New York production of
Macbeth. Finding Aid Box 1179.
Image #82 via photographic prints link, here:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftmb1.html
Also:
http://memory.loc.gov/music/ftp/fprph/1179/11790131/0001r.jpg
Costume Design from New York production of Macbeth (Sketch
#1 (front). Finding Aid Box 1107.
Image #1, via “costume design” link here:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftmb1.html
Both images in collection:
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre
Project, 1935-1939
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
“Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.” Dorothea Lange, Dorothea,
photographer, Feb. 1936., LC-USZ62-95653. (also known as
“migrant mother.”)
From collection:
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-andWhite Photographs from the FSA-OWI,
1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
(left to right)
“Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside
Clarksdale, Mississippi.” 1939. Marion Post
Wolcott, Photographer. LC-USF34-52594-D
“Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama.” 1936. Walker
Evans, Photographer. LC-USF342-8253-A
Both from Collection:
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-andWhite Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
Image Source:
“King family playing music.” no date. Robert Hemmig,
Ventura, CA, Photographer.
People in photograph: Thompson, Syd; King, Charles; King,
Mr.; King, Harlen; King, Billy; and unidentified others. Note:
handwritten on reverse: “a) From movie "Grapes of Wrath" King
Family (L-R)f Mr. King, Syd Thompson (friend), Charles,
Harlen & Billy.” AFC call number: AFC 1985/001:P5.
Audio Source:
“Cripple Creek,” King Family performing. Visalia FSA Camp,
California. Recorded Sept. 02, 1941 by Charles L. Todd and
Robert Sonkin. AFC Call Number: AFS 5143a1.
Both from collection:
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert
Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
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Three sheet
music covers
In American Memory, you can find a
new tune to play…a song to sing…
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Dance manual
cover
…or a new step to dance the hours
away.
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Waltz film clip
(no script for this slide)
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Note: to play video, click on image.
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Bell family
flying a kite
Bell quote.
Just months before he died,
Alexander Graham Bell told a
reporter, “ There cannot be mental
atrophy in any person who continues
to observe, to remember what he
observes and to seek answers for the
unceasing hows and whys about
things.”
The Library hopes that resources on
its web site will help Americans seek
their own answers to some of the
hows and whys about things.
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Image Sources (left to right):
Sheet music cover: Van Alstyne, Egbert, In the shade of the
old apple tree. New York, New York, Jerome H. Remick
and Company, 1905.
Sheet music cover: Sousa, John Philip, Stars and Stripes
Forever. Cincinnati, Ohio, John Church, 1898.
Sheet music cover: Paull, E. T., Charge of the Light
Brigade March. New York, New York, E.T. Paull Music
Co., 1896.
All from the collection:
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/
Image Source:
Dance instruction manual cover:
How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide.
Containing all the latest figures, together with oldfashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a
guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful
information for dancers. New York, Tousey & Small,
1878.
From collection:
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction
Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
Clip from American Memory special presentation,
ballroom dance video Clip #10 "The Eugenie" and Waltz
Cotillion selected from footage of the "Society Dances and
Parlor Amusements in The Great Hall," which took place at
the Library of Congress on October 15, 1997.
From video presentation:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html
Image Source:
“Alexander Graham Bell, his grandson Melville Bell
Grosvenor, and others pulling on rope attached to
tetrahedral kite at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.” Gilbert H.
Grosvenor, photographer. August 21, 1908. Forms part of:
Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the
Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Call
Number: LOT 11533-A56-16; Reproduction Number: LCG9-Z3-116, 837-AB.
In “Miscellaneous Items in High Demand” section, Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Quote Source:
Featured in the last paragraph of the American Memory
special presentation, “Alexander Graham Bell as Inventor
and Scientist.”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellinvent.html
American Memory Collection:
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of
Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
Original source: Bell, Alexander Graham, quoted on page
68 of the following magazine article:
Mullett, Mary B. “How to Keep Young Mentally,” The
American Magazine, volume 42, no. 6, December 1921,
pages 5-7 and 64-68.