Collections with Manuscripts
The Library of Congress holds approximately sixty million manuscript items in eleven thousand separate collections, including some of the greatest manuscript treasures of American history and culture.
General Manuscripts Collections
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American Colony In Jerusalem, 1870 2006
American Colony In Jerusalem, 1870 2006
This electronic presentation features selected materials from the physical American Colony in Jerusalem Collection. The full collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress represents well over 16,600 items stemming from the history of the American Colony, a non-denominational utopian Christian community founded by a small group of American expatriates in Ottoman Palestine ...More about this collection...
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Civil War Soldier In The Wild Cat Regiment : Sel
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Civil War Soldier In The Wild Cat Regiment : Selections From The Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 items (359 digital images), this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. ...More about this collection...
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Frederick Douglass Papers At The Library of Cong
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Frederick Douglass Papers At The Library of Congress
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material ...More about this collection...
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Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 193
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Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939 1953
Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953, contains a selection of 209 letters, memoranda, photographs, and publications (1,176 images) documenting a momentous period in the history of the Library of Congress when the institution underwent a myriad of changes that established it as one of America’s foremost citadels of intellectual freedom. During and shortly after ...More about this collection...
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Poet At Work: Recovered Notebooks From The Thoma
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Poet At Work: Recovered Notebooks From The Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman notebooks and his cardboard butterfly that were among 10 notebooks which went missing from the Library of Congress after a 1942 wartime evacuation of treasures. The five items were returned on February 24, 1995, leaving six notebooks remain missing. The Thomas B. Harned collection of the ...More about this collection...
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Washington During The Civil War: The Diary of Ho
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Washington During The Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861 1865
Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 presents three manuscript volumes that document daily life in Washington, D.C., through the eyes of U.S. Patent Office examiner Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), including Taft's connection with Abraham Lincoln and his family. Of special interest is Taft's description of Lincoln's assassination, based on ...More about this collection...
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