storytelling

The long story. Dry plate negative. Museum object.

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting signed "W.S. Mount, 1837" atCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "Long Island Rail Road" on sign on wall. Detroit Publishing Co.... More

[Oral tradition, mural at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Oral tradition, mural at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Title from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of mural in the series "Evolution of the Book" at the Library of Congress. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 028016. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Edward S. Curtis - Storytelling

Group of Apache men, two on horseback, others seated, listening and looking on as one member of the party is marking the ground with a stick. Curtis no. 131(?). Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Libr... More

Coal river. Cuba Wiley, Peytona, WV. Southern West Virginia.

Cuba Wiley grew up in Honey Bottom at the mouth of Shumate's Branch and Hazy Creek, and worked in coal and timber much of his life. His CB handle, "the Trading Post," relates to his prolific trade in second han... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

"A thrilling story". Public domain reproduction.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Frederick Warde's superb production of Runnymede by William Greer Harr...

A249578 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Friar Tuck's love story. Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6725. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Sweetening for English tea - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The mysterious stranger's story, Political Cartoon

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Bird Center Cartoons / J.T. McCutcheon. Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904.

Jewish children listening to A Legend of the Northern Lights (N. Ameri...

Photograph showing a librarian telling an Ojibwa legend to a roomful of children at the Queens Borough Public Library. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2008:111.02

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Stonewall Jackson's prayer, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Confederate side

Stand by the Union - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Frederick Warde's superb production of Runnymede by William Greer Harr...

A249578 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Friar Tuck's love story. Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6725. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Thinking of the story] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Good Story," Harper's Weekly, 34:75 (Jan. 25, 1890).

[The punch line, both men laughing]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Good Story," Harper's Weekly, 34:75 (Jan. 25, 1890).

Coal river. Cuba Wiley, Peytona, WV. Southern West Virginia.

Cuba Wiley grew up in Honey Bottom at the mouth of Shumate's Branch and Hazy Creek, and worked in coal and timber much of his life. His CB handle, "the Trading Post," relates to his prolific trade in second han... More

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Night before Petersburgh, burlesque military fantasia

Skedaddle, musical notation - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Telling the story of Gettysburg

Photograph shows man in uniform seated outdoors reading to a boy and a girl. Copyright by Heininger, Unger & Co., 310 Broadway, New York.

The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in the The last of the Rohans by Ram...

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wounded soldier telling story to young woman and older man

Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of a drawing signed "F.O.C. Darley." "House" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 118. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 33-36

Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette two women look at a newspaper headline about the pilot, Paulhan. One women wishes to marry him, but her companion tells her that he is already married and offer... More

[Man in peruke smiling and ending story while three men sleep]

Title devised by cataloger. Cf. CAI - Herford, no. 46 (A size). Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpiece for... More

We must have knocked seven bells out of 'em; and we didn't lose a sing...

(DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Sure Shield" by Bartimeus, Metropolitan magazine, 47:34 (Feb. 1918).

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

[Making a point, touching other man]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Good Story," Harper's Weekly, 34:75 (Jan. 25, 1890).

[Wounded soldier telling story to young woman and older man]

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

What has happened is droll beyond imagining

(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Recrudescence of Madame Vic" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's magazine, 112:524 (March 1906).

Relating an experience, Native Americans

Two Navajo Indians and horse. 196377 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph copyrighted by Pennington (William M.) and Rowland (Wesley R.), 1914.

Howard Miller telling a story about his 'coon hounds

In the mountains and elsewhere, hounds have long been used for hunting a variety of game, including fox, raccoon, squirrel, rabbit, and bear. Several well-known American breeds have developed in the mountains, ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

"Scene in the throne room as Theodore relates his adventures"

Roosevelt stands in the Kaiser's palace, rolling up his sleeves and brandishing a sword, while relating his exploits to the excited German ruler, perched on the edge of his throne. Inscribed, lower left: Behind... More

We were once young ourselves, said Martha with a touch of tenderness :...

(DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Casting out of Jacob" by Charles Moreau Harger, Housekeeper, 35:15 (Oct. 1912).

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

From the ranks / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows American soldiers sitting around a campfire listening as one tells a story through verse of getting kissed by his girlfriend just before boarding the train. Includes a poem by Edwin L. Sabin. Illus... More

Killing time. Boys and men (many of them workers) hanging around Swift...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Oral history with 77 year old female, Grand Junction, Colorado (Transc...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO Ms. Bryant - 77 year old female born in Pickrell (G... More

[One-hundred-tale ghost story gathering]

Ukiyo-e print illustration showing people gathered around a charcoal brazier to tell ghost stories, as a man creeps towards a lamp to extinguish one wick after each story, making the room darker and darker. Ill... More

[The beginning of the story] - Public domain dedication image

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Good Story," Harper's Weekly, 34:75 (Jan. 25, 1890).

[Oral Tradition mural in Evolution of the Book series, by John W. Alex...

Photo of one part of a six-part mural on the history of the book; after conservation of the mural. Depicts Arabian storyteller recounting tales to a group of Arabs. Mural marked at bottom left: Copyright by Joh... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

"Scene in the throne room as Theodore relates his adventures"

Roosevelt stands in the Kaiser's palace, rolling up his sleeves and brandishing a sword, while relating his exploits to the excited German ruler, perched on the edge of his throne. Inscribed, lower left: Behind... More

[Man standing and gesticulating with pipe to seated man]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Good Story," Harper's Weekly, 34:75 (Jan. 25, 1890).

This is it, Johnny on the spot a "Bill Nye" musical farce.

"Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: A funny story. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin, U.S.A." Direction of Charles Marks. Lower right corner is missing. No. 3497. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

[The hero returned] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Then, at last, Monsieur Poverel saw daylight

(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Recrudescence of Madame Vic" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's magazine, 112:525 (March 1906).

At the home of Cuba Wiley. (L-R) Cuba Wiley, Dave Bailey, Mary Wiley (...

Cuba Wiley grew up in Honey Bottom at the mouth of Shumate's Branch and Hazy Creek, and worked in coal and timber much of his life. His CB handle, "the Trading Post," relates to his prolific trade in second han... More

Coal river. Jim Michael Wills. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Interview with Quentin and Ann Barrett. Jim Michael Wills is Vicky Jarrell's uncle.

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Jim Wills, Vicky Jarrell, Anne Barrett, and Quentin Barrett laughing o...

Event: Interview with Quentin and Ann Barrett. Quentin Barrett is descended from R.E. Barrett, who opened Raleigh County's oldest general store at the mouth of Dry Creek in the 1800s. Both Quentin and his wife,... More

The Union, a national song - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

The Union, a national song - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Strike for the flag - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We are going on to Richmond - American Civil War sheet music

Heard ye the news - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Beauregard's retreat from Shiloh, American march music

Music associated with the Union side

Wait love until the war is over

Music associated with the Union side

Passing down the line - American Civil War sheet music

An Ode to Washington (A Song for my countrymen)

Music associated with the Union side

Beauregard's retreat from Shiloh, American march music

Music associated with the Union side

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

When mother lets us tell stories,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore,

Also available in digital form.

Stick together - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Battle of Richmond - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side