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Introduction | Articles and Essays | American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 … Mrs. Hannegan (right) runs a boarding house for girls working in war plants.
American Memory is an Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content. Published by the Library of Congress, the archive launched on October 13, 1994, after $13 million was raised in private donations. [1]
These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government. Books on the law formed a major part of the holdings of the Library of Congress from its beginning. In 1832, Congress established the Law Library of Congress as a separate department of the Library.
Many American Memory collections contain sound recordings, video, high-resolution images, and enhanced text that require special viewers. Most viewers can be downloaded free from vendor sites. The links below explain the various formats used and how to access them.
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The American Memory historical collections at the Library of Congress are the product of a permanent commitment to explore and establish the best practices of digitization, online presentation and access, and digital preservation of historical materials.
American Memory has been assimilated into the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Project, and many of the original collections developed by American Memory (including these early films) are now accessible via the World Wide Web at the American Memory Home Page.