Library of Congress Tour

The earliest of the 25 films added to the National Film Registry this year is this film, created by Thomas Edison's film company, of emigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1903. More on the registry class of 2019: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-116/?loclr=fbloc | The Library of Congress

NEWS: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has today added 25 national treasures of cultural, historic & aesthetic importance to our National Film Registry. Watch the announcement, then read more: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-18-144/?loclr=fbloc | The Library of Congress

The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag