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• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

  These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states.

• California As I Saw It First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

• Library of Congress - Business and Labor History: Primary Sources at the Library of Congress

  This guide highlights those special collections at the Library that would be of interest to researchers studying business and labor history with an emphasis on personal and organizations papers and related resources.

• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters

  Digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains.