Additional Resources in the Library of Congress

• Asian Division

  The Asian Division houses special format materials from the Philippines, as well as reference specialists.

• Geography and Map Division

  G&M has numerous maps of the countries we have highlighted that were published around the time period of the war.

• Manuscript Division

  The Manuscript Division holds the papers of various personalities important to the history of the Spanish-American War such as:

  • Clara Barton
  • Grover Cleveland
  • John Hay
  • William McKinley
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Walt Whitman

• Motion Picture and Television

  The Edison material resides in this section.

• Performing Arts Reading Room

  The Music Division has sheet music from various countries involved in the war.

• Prints and Photographs Division

  Many of the items from P&P have been digitized in conjunction with American Memory here at the Library. There are also many treasures in the division that may be found from the P&P Online Catalog or from various finding aids available on their web page or physically located in the Reading Room.

• Rare Book and Special Collections Division

  A number of Broadsides were published around the turn of the century that have topics related to the war.

• Recorded Sound Reference Center

  Sound recordings

• Special Collections

  Roswell Randall Hoes Collection -- materials relating to the Spanish-American War, gathered by Hoes, who was a Chaplain in the United States Navy.

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