literature, manuscripts

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger and Mattie V. Oblinger to Thomas Family,...

number of pages: 8 p.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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[Civil War envelope showing Columbia holding American flag and cornuco...

Addressed to Miss Julia A. Barnes, Granville, Bradford Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Verse from song Starry Flag by John Savage: We must keep that flag where it e'er has stood; In front of the free, the wise, ... More

[Civil War envelope showing eagle with American flags, shield, arrows,...

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[Civil War envelope showing soldier with woman in stars and stripes dr...

Addressed to Mr. G.C. Merrifield, Mishamaka, Ind.; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation on recto: Bremen, Ind., Nov. 21, 1863. Verse from song A Soldier's Tear by Thomas Haynes Bayly: He turn'd and left the spot - O! ... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

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Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Press Release No. 468, "Robert Frost, Noted American Poet, to Give Rea...

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Portrait of Allen Tate, undated

Allen Tate, Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with sword floating above marchin...

Addressed to Miss Mary J. Chambers, Toledo, Tama County, Iowa; illegible postmark. Handwritten poem on verso: In years agone, when quiet reigned, throughout this happy land. Before rebellion had attained, so g... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain"...

Reproduction number: A83 (color slide of letter); A84 (color slide of poem reprint); LC-MSS-77909-1 (B&W negative of poem reprint) Inspired by the death of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Walt Whitman (1... More

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June ...

Reproduction number: A57 (color slide; first and second drafts); A58 (color slide; final draft) Langston Hughes (1902-1967), known for his lyric poetry, often wrote insightful commentaries about African-America... More

Poems, undated - Public domain document scan

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[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with sword floating above marchin...

Addressed to Miss Mary J. Chambers, Toledo, Tama County, Iowa; illegible postmark. Handwritten poem on verso: In years agone, when quiet reigned, throughout this happy land. Before rebellion had attained, so g... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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William Blake - Photograph of a page from William Blake's Milton, unda...

Transcribed from item: "Los and Enitharmon Regard With Horror the Flaming Orc. Blake's Milton. 1804." Item is from the Rosenwald Collection.

Photograph of Robert Penn Warren, undated

Robert Penn Warren, Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Unknown, no date, Hope Told a Flattering Tale (song verse)

Poems (various authors) - Public domain document scan

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Letter from Archibald MacLeish to T. S. Eliot, October 7, 1944

Archibald MacLeish expresses disappointment that T.S. Eliot has declined his invitation to take the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Poems, undated - Public domain document scan

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[Portraits engr. by William Blake and J. Chapman].

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1839 Plate 1 (Edmund Pitts, Esq.) also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with eagle, American flag, and co...

Addressed to Mr. Thos. Van Sichin, Metuchin [i.e. Metuchen], New Jersey; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked in Washington, D.C. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

Hathaway, Samuel - Douglass Frederick collection

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Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Portrait of Allen Tate, undated

Allen Tate, Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; Un...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Portrait of Joseph Auslander, undated

Joseph Auslander, Consultant in Poetry (1939-1944). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Memorabilia - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Memorandum from Archibald MacLeish to Allen Tate, June 24, 1944

Archibald MacLeish asks Allen Tate how he should respond to T. S. Eliot's letter of May 29, 1944.

Memorabilia - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Memorabilia - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Memorabilia - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Memorabilia - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Luther Harris Evans, February 6, 194...

Archibald MacLeish advises Luther Harris Evans about the appointment of the Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Douglass, Frederick (General) - Folder 7 of 9

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass, Frederick (General) - Folder 7 of 9

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass, Frederick (General) - Folder 7 of 9

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Kalevala: Finnish National Epic

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poems - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poems - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poems - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poems - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poems - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Letter from Luther Harris Evans to Robert Lowell, June 25, 1947

Luther Harris Evans' letter to Robert Lowell welcoming him to the Library of Congress as Consultant in Poetry and summarizing his range of activities.

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Notebook LC #86 - "Perceptions or Senses"

Notebook LC #86 - "Perceptions or Senses"

Notebook LC #86 - "Perceptions or Senses"

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; Un...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; Un...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; Un...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Marianne Moore, March 10, 1944

Archibald MacLeish asks Marianne Moore to accept the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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