A number of American Folklife Center Digital Collections include photographs, audio recordings, and manuscript materials such as field notes or logs for recordings and photos. Examples of primary documents in their collections are accounts of men and women who were enslaved; documentation about the lives of American cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives; and Native American song and dance traditions.

Through this webpage, you can view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films that are part of over 500 online collections of materials held by the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog is a searchable collection of over one million digital images representing a cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress.

The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress preserves and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans from World War I through the present day.

This site links to digitized collections of primary documents and images from different eras in American history, and is searchable by keyword and subject.

Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. A number of these items contain manuscript annotations not recorded elsewhere that offer insight into the delicate process of creating consensus. In many cases, multiple copies bearing manuscript annotations are available to compare and contrast.