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1. Chronicles of America photoplays papers, 1920s

   approximately 9,400 items. 88 containers. 23.2 linear feet. -- Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Chronicles of America photoplays were a series of motion picture adaptations of select books from the Chronicles of America book series from Yale University Press. The collection includes correspondence, sketch books, research notes, script and continuity documents, photostats, stills, and other production materials.

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2. Bess Lomax Hawes collection, 1894-2009

   13,480 items. 45 containers. 394 folders in 31 boxes. 33 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.. 68 sound cassettes : analog.. 1 sound disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. circa 2,000 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.. circa 500 photographs : film negatives.. circa 200 drawings.. 8 videocassettes (VHS) : color, sound ; 1/2 in.. 2 video discs (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. approximately 20 items ; various sizes.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Papers and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax Hawes, most from 1960-2001. Includes work produced by Hawes in her work as a professor at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California, and as head of the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program in Washington, DC. The collection includes writings, correspondence, business records, musical transcriptions and photographs. Also includes artwork produced by her husband, Baldwin "Butch" Hawes.

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3. Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000

   15,686 items. 42 containers. 15.5 linear feet (31 containers).. 638 sound cassettes : analog.. 251 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.. 89 sound discs : analog ; various sizes.. 2 sound discs (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 71 videocassettes (VHS and U-Matic) : color, sound ; 1/2 in and 3/4 in.. 5 videodiscs (DVD).. 10 film reels.. approximately 660 photographs : film negatives.. approximately 1200 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.. 730 slides ; color ; 35 mm.. 1177 half frame slides, mostly color.. 3 slides ; color ; 126.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and films mainly of her work with the Usarufa and numerous other people in Papua New Guinea, but culture groups from other places are also represented, including Vanuatu, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands New Zealand, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and the United States. Includes work done by her students at Wheaton College and colleagues at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Includes recording logs, analysis, song transcriptions, song texts, theses, correspondence, Chenoweth's diaries (1980s), and field notes. Sound recordings include music and spoken word from various provinces in Papua New Guinea, such as Eastern and Western Highlands, Madang, Morobe, East New Britain, New Ireland, and Irian Jaya provinces. Moving images include Chenoweth family films, as well as documentation about music and practices from throughout Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, and other regions. They also include content from the South Pacific Festival of the Arts in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

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4. Visual materials from the Edward L. Bernays papers

   782 photographic prints & drawings and 10 photograph albums. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection contains photographic materials that depict Edward L. Bernays, his family, and associates. The photographs depict parties, public events, news snapshots, and professional activities related to his career in public relations.

5. Visual materials from the Janet Flanner and Solita Solano papers

   1,070 items (chiefly gelatin silver and albumen prints) : b&w, some color ; 25 x 38 cm. or smaller. . -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Photographs from scrapbooks chronicling the lives and careers of American writers Janet Flanner and Solita Solano. The album includes many individual and group portraits, mostly informal. Many images document the years Flanner and Solano lived together in Paris as American expatriates, particularly between World Wars I and II. Also documented are prominent literary and artistic individuals, close friends and associates, and many images of Flanner and Solano taken by noted photographers.

6. Visual materials from the Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection

   ca. 1,010 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection contains portraits of Walt Whitman, images of his friends and associates, and places associated with Whitman collected by Charles E. Feinberg and others. Includes works by Baskin, Boardman, Brady, Eakins, Gutekunst, T. Johnson, Kruell, Partridge, and many others.

7. Donald E. Schomacker courthouse photography collection

   751 color photographic prints in 4 albums : color prints ; prints 9 x 13 cm, albums 27 x 35 cm.. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Photographs show the exteriors and grounds of hundreds of different county courthouses around the United States. Courthouses from 30 different states are present in the collection. Also included are several pages of written history on courthouses and hand-drawn maps recording locations of them within states. One 1911 black and white postcard of the courthouse in Marshall County, Lewisburg, Tennessee is also included.

8. Photograph album on early aviation owned by the family of Ian Hornak

   1 album containing 172 photographs, 8 newspaper clippings, 5 autographed papers, 1 photomechanical print, 1 pin, and 1 baseball ticket ; album 21 x 56 cm.. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The album documents early aviation and includes photographs of aviators Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart as well as other well-known figures of the twentieth century including Henry Ford, President Calvin Coolidge, President William H. Taft, Jack Dempsey, Albert Einstein, Lowell Thomas, the 1934 Detroit Tigers baseball team, and others. Multiple images of the Spirit of St. Louis plane and other aircraft and airfields are also present.

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9. Visual materials from the Moral Re-armament records

   68,302 items including mostly B&W photographs as well as color photographs, prints, clippings, albums, B&W negatives, color transparencies, and slides. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Moral Re-armament (MRA) was a global social and spiritual movement organized by Reverend Frank Buchman. The collection documents MRA activities, facilities, and visits with the public, royal dignitaries, celebrities, and political figures for events and productions around the world. The group included members of numerous denominations and races. Supporters of the organization included prominent African American civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune and the group's membership also included celebrities such as tennis star H.W. "Bunny" Austin and various figures of political and international prominence such as Burmese President and Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant and former first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Adenauer. MRA was prolific in its production of film, theatrical, radio, and print entertainment thanks to members like Peter Howard and Alan Thornhill who scored, wrote, and directed many of the MRA productions. MRA produced many feature films such as The Crowning Experience, Decision at Midnight, and Freedom that featured actors and singers such as Martin Landau, Muriel Smith and Cecil Broadhurst, as well as many theatrical productions such as Space Is So Startling, The Drugstore Revolution, and The Tiger. MRA's international presence included regional offices, production studios, and headquarters across the country and the world, primarily on Mackinac Island, Michigan where the organization filmed and produced many of their productions. MRA also hosted large events at its estate in Caux, Switzerland.

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