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Library of Congress

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US national library with 170M+ items including books, recordings, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

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https://loc.govNo auth requireddataeducationgovernmentconfidence: 90/1000 discoveries1 contributors

GEThttps://www.loc.gov/search/

Search collections

Parameters

cresults (integeroptional

qsearch keyword (stringrequired

fapartof:collection_name (stringoptional

fojson (stringrequired

Returns

results[] with title, url, date, description, subjects[], contributors[], image_url[], original_format[]

GEThttps://www.loc.gov/item/{id}/

Get item details

Parameters

fojson (stringrequired

iditem ID (stringrequired

Returns

item with title, date, subjects[], contributors[], notes[], language[], rights, image_url[], related_items[]

GEThttps://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/

Search historical newspapers

Parameters

date1start year (integeroptional

date2end year (integeroptional

formatjson (stringrequired

andtextkeyword (stringrequired

dateFilterTypeyearRangeoptional

Returns

items[] with title, date, url, ocr_eng (OCR text), sequence, edition, page