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1. Reader's collection, Library of Congress Copyright Office drama deposits, 1863-1928

   600 items. 39 containers. 15.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Typewritten or handwritten play scripts deposited with the United States Copyright Office as unpublished and subsequently transferred to the Manuscript Division.

2. Emile Berliner collection, 1871-1965

   41 boxes (approximately 1,000 items). 232 photographic prints : . 29 negatives : . over 400 sound discs, including zinc, copper, celluloid, rubber, shellac, and vinyl pressings and masters, in various speeds, and in sizes ranging from 5 to 12 inches in diameter. 1 film reel of 1 (12 feet) : . over 100 items, chiefly telephone, gramophone, and laboratory equipment, with 7 acoustic insulating panels and material samples, all made of various materials and in various sizes. -- Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Unpublished and published textual materials, photographs, sound recordings, scrapbooks, artifacts, and a motion picture documenting the life and work of the German-born immigrant to America who invented the gramophone, the flat disc recording, the radio microphone, acoustic tile, and an early version of the helicopter. Included are unpublished and experimental gramophone records dating from the 1890s, some of them featuring the voices of Berliner and various family members, as well as recordings published by Berliner's gramophone companies in the U.S., Canada, and Germany.

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3. W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection, 1936-1991

   7 boxes 4.5 linear feet.. manuscripts: 115 folders.. 239 sound discs (35 hours) : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.. 170 photographic prints : black and white ; various sizes.. 24 drawings.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The California Folk Music Project of the California Work Projects Administration (WPA) was conceived and directed by Sidney Robertson Cowell and co-sponsored by the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Music Division, Library of Congress from 1938 to 1940. Additional support was provided by the New Music Society of California and the Society of California Pioneers. The resulting collection of sound recordings, photographs, correspondence, field notes, and drawings documents the musical culture, including religious music and folk song, of many ethnic and English-language performers in northern California. The collection includes the documentation of the music of Anglo Americans, Armenians, Assyrians, Basques, Croatians, English, Finns, Hungarians, Icelanders, Italians, Norwegians, Russian Molokans, Scots, Portuguese, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Spaniards and Spanish Americans from 1938 to 1940. The sound recordings were deposited in the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1940. The collection also includes a few instantaneous sound discs made by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Missouri and Iowa for the Farm Security Administration in 1936-1937, and includes folk music research, writing, photographs, and technical drawings and sketches of the musical instruments, generated by Cowell and by the WPA staff who worked for her, plus related documents to 1991.

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4. Rhoda Métraux papers, 1837-1997

   90,000 items. 224 containers plus 1 classified and 20 oversize. 101 linear feet. 802 digital files (2.2 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Anthropologist and author. Correspondence, lectures, and writings in both physical and digital format. Physical materials also include field diaries, field notes and notebooks, reports, proposals, minutes, programs, interview transcripts, questionnaires, statistical analyses, artwork and drawings, photographs, maps, census data, projective testing materials, financial records, and printed matter pertaining to Métraux's career as an anthropologist and her professional and personal relationship with anthropologist Margaret Mead.

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5. Benjamin C. Gruenberg and Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg papers, 1878-1972

   45,000 items. 137 containers plus 2 oversize. 55.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Benjamin C. Gruenberg, author and educator. Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, author and child study specialist. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, notes, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to the Gruenbergs' personal lives and professional careers.

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6. Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944

   10,070 items. 74 containers plus 3 oversize. 18.6 linear feet. 36 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the telegraph, lawsuits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph.

7. Chosŏn Sangsa Chusik Hoesa collection, 1947-1950

   3,400 items. 20 containers. -- Asian Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   First international trading company by the North Korean government. Correspondence, reports, invoices, statistics, meeting and planning notes, agendas, memoranda, personnel records, and other organizational records documenting the activities of Chosŏn Sangsa Chusik Hoesa (Archive of a North Korean corporation). Also includes material relating to Pukchosŏn Hwagyo Yonhaphoe (North Korea Overseas Chinese Federation) which document the experiences of overseas Chinese in North Korea.