The American Memory Historical Collections are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
A "selection of some of the most significant and``compelling documents from the National Archives``holdings." These include the full text of the Louisiana``Purchase agreements, a police report on the assassination``of Abraham Lincoln, the 1868 treaty with the Sioux``Indians recognizing the Black Hills of Dakota as part of``the Great Sioux Reservation, reportage of the collision of``the Titanic with an iceberg, and more.
"The American Treasures of the Library of Congress exhibition is an unprecedented permanent exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner of the world's largest library."
