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Copyright Search
- The Copyright Office is pilot testing a new user interface designed for first-time or occasional users of their three databases: registered works, serials, and documents. Their Telnet system LOCIS will still be available, but this site should help novices search for copyrights more effectively.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search
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Omaha Indian Music
- Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat
ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice
Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest
celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of
Congress.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html
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Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
- Includes more than two hundred sheet-music compositions from the
Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, representing Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music
from 1859 through 1909.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
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America's Library [timeline] [uncommon instruments]
- Here, you can discover what Abraham Lincoln
had in his pockets on the night he was
assassinated. (You will be surprised.) Or you
can read about other "Amazing Americans" such
as Buffalo Bill Cody and his "Wild West" show;
the heroism of Harriet Tubman, who helped
many slaves escape bondage; the music of jazz
great Duke Ellington; or the inventions of
Thomas Edison. (You will even be able to see
his first motion picture!)
URL: http://www.americaslibrary.gov
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