Happy Valentine's Day from the Conservation Division at the Library of Congress! 🩵💛🧡💚🩷 | The Library of Congress

Garth Brooks' music fits into a tradition of songwriting & storytelling that is preserved at the Library of Congress. Watch the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize concert Sunday night, March 29 9/8c on PBS or streaming: https://www.pbs.org/gershwinprize | The Library of Congress

The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag