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Photographer
To search all photographic collections: Photographs, Prints, and Drawings
Architecture and Interior Design ~ Gottscho and Schleisner ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1955 Baseball and Jackie Robinson ~ Multiformat ~ 1860-1969 Daguerreotype Photographs ~ 1839-1864 Depression Era to World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945 Great Plains ~ Photographs ~ 1880-1920 Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest ~ Multiformat Panoramic Photographs ~ 1851-1991 Prairie Settlement, Nebraska ~ Photographs and Letters ~ 1862-1912 Ranching Culture, Nevada ~ Multiformat ~ 1945-1982 Turn-of-the-Century America ~ Detroit Publishing Company ~ Photographs ~ 1880-1920 Washington, D.C. ~ Theodor Horydczak ~ Photographs ~ 1923-1959 Western U.S. ~ Photographs ~ 1860-1920 Woman Suffrage ~ Photographs and Prints ~ 1850-1920
Lawyer
To search all text collections: Manuscript and Broadside Collections/Books and Pamphlets
Broadsides and Printed Ephemera ~ ca. 1600-2000 Manuscript Division ~ Selected Highlights U.S. Congress ~ Documents ~ 1774-1873 Woman Suffrage ~ Books and Pamphlets ~ 1848-1921
Brief Reporter
Poet
California, First-Person Narratives ~ Books ~ 1849-1900 Folk Music, Dust Bowl ~ Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin ~ Multiformat ~ 1940-1941 Hispanic Music, Rio Grande ~ Juan Bautista Rael ~ Multiformat ~ 1940s Life Histories, Federal Writers' Project ~ Manuscripts ~ 1936-1940 Upper Midwest ~ Books ~ ca. 1820-1910 Whitman, Walt ~ Notebooks ~ 1850s
Politician
Arendt, Hannah ~ Papers ~ 1898-1977 Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention ~ Documents ~ 1774-1789 Manuscript Division ~ Selected Highlights U.S. Congress ~ Documents ~ 1774-1873 Washington, George ~ Papers ~ 1741-1799 World War I and 1920 Election ~ Recordings
Producer
To search early Motion Pictures: Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1916
Coca-Cola Advertising ~ Films ~ 1951-1999 Factories, Westinghouse ~ Films ~ 1904 Film, Animated ~ 1900-1921 McKinley, William, and Pan-American Exposition ~ Films ~ 1901 New York City ~ Films ~ 1898-1906 San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake ~ Films ~ 1897-1916 Work and Leisure ~ Films ~ 1894-1915
Comedian
No general file to search.
Federal Theatre Project ~ Multiformat ~ 1935-1939 Life Histories, Federal Writers' Project ~ Manuscripts ~ 1936-1940 Upper Midwest ~ Books ~ ca. 1820-1910 Variety Stage ~ Multiformat ~ 1870-1920
Musician
To search all sheet music collections: Sheet Music
To search all sound recording collections: Sound Recordings
African-American Music, Southern U.S. ~ Recordings ~ 1938-1943 Bernstein, Leonard ~ Multiformat ~ ca. 1920-1989 Civil War Era ~ Band Music ~ Multiformat Copland, Aaron ~ Multiformat ~ 1900-1990 Folk Fiddle Music, Southern Appalachian ~ Henry Reed ~ Multiformat ~ 1966-1967 Folk Music, California ~ Sidney Robertson Cowell ~ Multiformat ~ 1930s Folk Music, Dust Bowl ~ Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin ~ Multiformat ~ 1940-1941 Jazz ~ William P. Gottlieb ~ Photographs ~ 1938-1948 Sheet Music ~ 1850-1920 Sheet Music ~ 1820-1885 Song Sheets ~ ca. 1800-1880
Reporter
Alexander Graham ~ Papers ~ 1862-1939 California, First-Person Narratives ~ Books ~ 1849-1900 Broadsides and Printed Ephemera ~ ca. 1600-2000 Life Histories, Federal Writers' Project ~ Manuscripts ~ 1936-1940 Nineteenth-Century Books ~ 1850-1877 Nineteenth-Century Periodicals ~ 1850-1877 Posters, WPA ~ 1936-1943 Upper Midwest ~ Books ~ ca. 1820-1910
