Twentieth Century

American Special Collections

• Joseph S. Allen Collection: Photographs of American architecture (3)
• George Grantham Bain: News photographs of New York City, early twentieth century (22)
• Frank C. Brown Collection: Field recordings of North Carolina folk music, late 1910's to early 1940's (36)
• Carnegie Survey of the architecture of the South: Photographs of architecture in the southern states (39)
• Tom Carter and Blanton Owen Collection: Field recordings of instrumental music of North Carolina and Virginia, 1973-74 (42)
• Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection: Recordings, photographs, and related documentation from the 1977 field study of ethnic arts in Chicago (45)
• Comic Book Collection (49)
• Charles Henry Currier Collection: Photographs of middle class life in Boston, 1890's-1910's (54)
• Edward S. Curtis Collection: Photographs of North American Indians by Edward S. Curtis, early twentieth century (55)
• Detroit Publishing Company Collection: Photographic views of points of interest in the United States and foreign countries, early twentieth century (60)
• Early American Statutory Law Collection: Early editions of the laws of American states and territories (65)
• Ex-slave Narrative Collection: Transcribed interviews with former slaves and related WPA research files and recordings (72)
• Ethel M. Fair Collection: Illustrated maps, twentieth century (75)
• Farm Security Administration Collection: Photographs of American life taken by FSA photographers, 1935-42 (76)
• Austin E. Fife Collection: Field recordings of Utah folklore and folk music, 1946-47 (81)
• Thaddeus M. Fowler Collection: Panoramic maps of American cities, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (85)
• Arnold Genthe Collection: Photographs by Arnold Genthe (92)
• Joseph S. Hall Collection: Folklore recordings made in the Great Smoky Mountains, late 1930's-late 1960s (105)
• Historic American Buildings Survey: Measured drawings, photographs, and data sheets documenting works of American architecture (117)
• Historic American Engineering Record: Measured drawings, photographs, and data sheets documenting works of American engineering (118)
• Theodore Horydczak Collection: Photographs of the Washington, D.C., area, 1920's-1950s (120)
• Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection: Photographs and papers of Frances Benjamin Johnston (131)
• Goerge Korson Collection: Field recordings of the music of American coal miners, mid-twentieth century (137)
• National Child Labor Committee Collection: Records and photographs of the National Child Labor Committee, 1904-55 (169)
• National Photo Company Collection: News photographs of Washington, D.C., 1910s-1930s (170)
• New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection: News photographs, 1920-1960s (174)
• The New Yorker Collection: Drawing for The New Yorker magazine, mid-twentieth century (175)
• Office of War Information Collection: Broadcast recording, photographs, and research files assembled by the OWI, early 1940's
• Peabody Museum Collection: Ethnological sound recordings, 1890s-1910s (181)
• Pulp Fiction Collection: Popular American fiction magazines, 1920s-1950s (191)
• Vance Randolph Collection: Vance Randolph's papers, photographs, and field recordings of Ozark folk music, 1930s-1960s
• Resettlement Administration Collection: Field recordings of American folk music made by the RA, 1936-37
• Willard Rhodes Collection: Field recordings of North American Indian music, 1940-1952
• Angelo A. Rizzuto Collection: Photographs of New York City, 1950s and 1960s
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection: Insurance maps of U.S. cities, late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Erwin E. Smith Collection: Photographs of American cowboys, 1905-15
• Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin Collection: Field recording made in California migratory labor camps, 1940-41 (242)
• United Artists Collection: American films, 1913-1948 (246)
• United States Congressional Publications Collection (248)
• University of Arkansas Collection: Recordings of Arkansas folk music, late 1940s-late 1960s (249)
• University of Wisconsin Collection: Field recordings of Wisconsin folk music, 1940-46 (250)
• Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (265)

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