Foreign Language Programs
American Memory Collections and Special Features from the LOC
| Library of Congress Subject | Collection Title & Description |
Special Feature | Language |
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Dance Manuals ~ Books ~ 1490-1920
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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals Collection of over 200 social dance manuals, antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. |
Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection Explanation on the importance of dance manuals; Images; Directions Essay on how to read a dance manual; Instructions; Images; Video |
French German Spanish |
Arendt, Hannah ~ Papers ~ 1898-1977
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Over 25,000 items (75,000 digital images) of correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmann's trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career. |
Three Essays: The Role of Experience In Hannah Arendt's Political Thought Biographical information on Hannah Arendt; Essays |
German |
Architecture and Engineering ~ HABS/HAER ~ Multiformat ~ 1933-present |
This online presentation of the HABS/HAER collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials. |
Sampling of the digital collection of great structures |
Latin Modern |
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Hispanic Music, Rio Grande ~ Juan Bautista Rael ~ Multiformat ~ 1940s
| Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern ColoradoThe collection provides insight into the rich musical heritage and cultural traditions of this region. |
Juan Bautista Rael 1900-1993: Folklorista Hispano Biography of folklorist Los Nuevo Mexicanos del Río Grande del Norte: Cultura, Historia y Sociedad Culture, History, and Society of the Nuevo Mexicanos of the Upper Rio Grande La Música Nuevo Mexicana: Tradiciones Religiosas y Seculares de la Colección de Juan B. Rael Religious and secular traditions in music of New Mexico El Teatro Popular Hispano de Nuevo México Folk Theater in New Mexico |
Multiple |
Maps ~ 1500-2004
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Digitized maps of Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. The images were created from maps and atlases. |
Meeting of Frontiers: Collections from the Library of Congress: Maps Maps of Siberia and Russian Far East and American West |
Russian |
| California, First-Person Narratives ~ Books ~ 1849-1900 | "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 |
Early California History: An Overview Overview of Early California; Illustrations; Explanations; Photographs |
Spanish |
Copland, Aaron ~ Multiformat ~ 1900-1990 |
The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990 The multiformat collection spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. |
About Copland's Works by Wayne Shirley Introduction to the work of Aaron Copland; Images Timeline for Aaron Copland; Images Tribute to Aaron Copland from Leonard Bernstein Tributes to Aaron Copland on his birthday; Images |
Spanish |
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Folk Culture, Florida ~ Multiformat ~ 1937-1942
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Florida Folklife: from the WPA Collections 1937-1942 Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections is a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida. . .It features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine camps; children's songs, dance music, and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as "life histories." |
A Florida Treasure Hunt |
Spanish |
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Folk Music, California ~ Sidney Robertson Cowell ~ Multiformat ~ 1930s
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California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. |
Spanish | |
Puerto Rico Books and Pamphlets ~ 1831-1929
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Puerto RIco and the Dawn of the Modern Age Collection 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. |
Maps of Puerto Rico |
Spanish |
