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The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990—American Memory features music manuscripts, diaries, photos, and biographical materials of this 20th century composer who created distinctive "American" music. (Library of Congress)

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Adoration of the Magi is a streaming slideshow that lets viewers hear an explanation while viewing this Renaissance painting of thee kings bearing gifts for the Christ Child. (National Gallery of Art)

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African Voices explores the diversity and global influence of Africa's cultures on work, family, community, and the natural environment. Sculptures, textiles, and other objects are included, as are video and audio interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics. (National Museum of Natural History, supported by Smithsonian Institution)

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African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920—American Memory contains 1,300 pieces of sheet music including songs from antebellum blackface minstrelsy, the abolitionist movement, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, African-American soldiers in the Civil War, emancipated slaves, Reconstruction, and the northern migration of African Americans. (Library of Congress)

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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting is the first comprehensive exhibit devoted to paintings of scenes from daily life, real and imagined, in French art of the 18th century. A brochure, available online, presents 13 pieces from the exhibit and a narrative describing each painting and artist. The paintings include lyrical pastorals, Paris street scenes, and dignified representations of bourgeois life. (National Gallery of Art)

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Alfred Stieglitz: New Perspectives includes the Gallery's 1983 book, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings and a series of presentations. Few individuals have exerted as strong an influence on twentieth-century American art and culture as the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). The multi-year project culminates in the publication of a scholarly catalogue of the Gallery's collection of Stieglitz photographs and an exhibition of the art of this seminal American photographer. (National Gallery of Art)

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America at the Centennial -– Lesson, Learning Page uses images and texts from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 to help students learn what the Exposition said about America at that time. Students work as historians using primary sources to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era. (Library of Congress)

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America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945—American Memory contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of War Administration's photographs look at the mobilization effort for World War II. (Library of Congress)

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America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets—American Memory provides "song sheets" (lyrics without music) for 4000 songs that were popular before the advent of the phonograph and radio. During this time (1850 - 1870), song sheets were the way that many Americans learned the latest songs. (Library of Congress)

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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864—American Memory consists of more than 650 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864. Portrait daguerreotypes produced by the Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of the collection. The collection also includes early architectural views by John Plumbe, several Philadelphia street scenes, early portraits by pioneering daguerreotypist Robert Cornelius, and copies of painted portraits. (Library of Congress)

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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1600-1920—American Memory presents a collection of 200 social dance manuals and related materials. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. (Library of Congress)

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American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936™American Memory consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936. These photographs show a wide range of American topography and its forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses. Comparisons of early photographs with later views highlight changes resulting from natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from industry and development, and effective natural resource usage. (Library of Congress)

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American Folklife Center features a directory of folklife resources in the U.S., migrant worker interviews and photos, ethnic folk music from Northern California in the 30s, Brazilian music, and more. (Library of Congress)

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American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s offers seven paintings that help show how the invention of collapsible tin tubes to hold premixed oil paints (John Rand, 1841) freed the artist to leave the studio and explore the subject matter first-hand. The Americans built on the masterful work done by French impressionists, but focused on different subjects. (National Gallery of Art)

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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest—American Memory features more than 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest: the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. (Library of Congress)

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American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920—American Memory contains approximately 2,800 photographs, plans, maps, and models of American buildings and landscapes built during this period. The collection offers views of cities, buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. Hundreds of private estates from all over the United States are shown in contemporary views of their houses, formal gardens, terraces, and arbors. (Library of Congress)

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American Masters: Alfred Stieglitz presents an essay, timeline, video clips, and interviews examining this photographer, artist, and art impresario. Stieglitz was a powerful force in the arts of the early 20th century and an important interpreter of emerging modern culture. This web site is a companion to first full-length film biography of the photographer, "Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye." (WNET, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)

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American Masters: Edward Curtis offers an essay, timeline, and other information about this photographer who took more than 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over 80 American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. This is the companion website for a PBS film about Curtis, "Coming to Light." (WNET, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)

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American Memory presents the photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures that are part of the historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress. The learning section contains research tools, lesson plans, and activities for students. (Library of Congress)

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American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s features paintings by Charles Willson Peale, Mather Brown, Thomas Sully, Edward Savage, and others. The site includes information on the pieces' provenances, exhibition histories, and related bibliographies. (National Gallery of Art)

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