The oldest repository of manuscripts, photographs, and sound and video recordings of traditional culture, founded in 1928. Requires a Library of Congress Reader's Card.
As well as the and the Recorded Sound Reference Center. Includes music, theater, and dance. Check the web site for all particulars. Note: A Library of Congress Reader's Card is required to use the Reading Room.
Three collections at the Smithsonian include The Duke Ellington Collection, National Museum of American History Archives and America's Jazz Heritage Project
This library, in College Park, MD, collects manuscripts, sound recordings, letters, programs, scrapbooks, and other archival and primary source materials that deal with Music and the Performin
Readers Cards are required in order to research at the Library of Congress. They are easy to obtain-- just bring your GWID and a current State ID to prove that you are over 18y.o.
