A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More
Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Com...
Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More
Aerial view of Tybee Island, Georgia, and the Tybee Island Lighthouse
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Pho... More
Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Fra...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More
Small stained-glass window in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More
West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More
Stained glass windows, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Po...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York
Artist: Kenneth Washburn. An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title infor... More
Art at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York
An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject ... More
Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More
Mural by Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Mural "Irrigation," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior ...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 92" x 68". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs... More
Oil painting "Exports: Port of Philadelphia" located on east wall of l...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More
Mural. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More
Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...
GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' ; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...
GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
Art at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
Bas relief "Transportation & Distribution of the Mail," by Raymond Bar...
Date:1940; dimensions: 3' x 4-1/2' x 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photo... More
A portion of the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is the same family made famous in the musical The Sound of Music. In the early 1940s, the von Trapp family toured the United Stat... More
The old company-town movie theater in the "ghost town," some of which ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
[Old truck,] rural Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
"One is Man Controlling Trade," 1942 statue by Michael Lantz, at Feder...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Vintage cars are everywhere on the Paseo de Martí (del Prado)
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride Plan psychiatric hospital operated from 18... More
View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo R...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo herds in the United States. The... More
Statue of former Dallas mayor and state-fair president Robert Lee Thor...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Vintage cars are everywhere in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Vintage America car rolls out of the narrow street in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Display at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana, that presents...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is connected to and shares an entrance with the city's history museum. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith A... More
Remarkable bench, collected on one of the family's overseas trips, at ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More
American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Photograph shows the main entry to the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photogra... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francis...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More
Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jackson...
Artist: Albert Vrana, 1966. Dimensions: 16' x 550' x 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Graveyard at Old Tucson, a movie studio and theme park just west of Tu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, Old Tucson has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns sinc... More
Old St. Mary's School in Pueblo, Colorado, for which bricks salvaged f...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The local Catholic parish closed the school in the 1970s. It is now a Slovenian library, serving that large immigrant community in the... More
Chickens at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
Mock gunfight at Old Tucson, a movie studio and theme park just west o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, Old Tucson has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns sinc... More
Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...
The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More
Father and daughter at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, Lake Tahoe, Califo...
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Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Office building interior in Washington, D.C.
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Part of an informal memorial to the victims of United Flight 93, which...
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Birthplace of Astrophysics, the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observa...
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Zodiac-theme grill decoration at the National Academy of Sciences, Was...
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Farmer Burr Morse collects maple syrup from one of his thousands of tr...
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland
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Two rural cabins, Madison, North Carolina
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Construction worker cleans the mosaic floor during restoration of the ...
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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The lavishly decorated Chicago Importing Company office is on West Ran...
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Longhorn cattle in rural Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Panorama aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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Interior statue, Belgian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Entrance hall statue at the home of Luxembourg's ambassador to the U.S...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Portland, Oregon, beneath Mount Hood
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Balsams Hotel, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The first votes of the New Hampshire Primary are cast h... More
Elephants at the Washington National Zoo, Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Haceta Head Lighthouse, Yachats, Oregon
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Lighthouse is located on the Oregon coast 13 miles nort... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Deadwood, South Dakota
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Architectural detail of the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium, Wa...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built by architect Horace Trumbauer in 1931. Title, dat... More
Georgetown apartment building in Washington, D.C.
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Parrot poses on a tree in Florida
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Salt marsh near Beaufort, South Carolina
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Dolls in a rural home in Madison, North Carolina
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Carol M. Highsmith - Abandoned home in rural Maryland
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Chestnut Hill College, a coeducational Roman Catholic college in the C...
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Dome of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington,...
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Amtrak Acela train doing a test run in New England before going into s...
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Architectural detail in the Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Amish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Clear Creek Canyon, near Central City in Colorado's Rocky Mountains
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Spaghetti-like intersections of highways outside Las Vegas, Nevada
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Looking for clams on Lincolnville Beach, Camden, Maine
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[Aerial view of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California]
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Side table at the residence of Belgium's ambassador to the United Stat...
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Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, New York
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Cape Neddick Light Station, York, Maine, known as the "Nubble Light" a...
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View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Ari...
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View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Ari...
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Straight-on view of the Aladdin mining tipple, which carried coal down...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Indoor shopping mall
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Aerial view of San Francisco, California, with a focus on Point Bonita...
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Long-abandoned hospital building, used to quarantine sick arriving imm...
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Cove Pont Light at the entrance to the Patuxent River on the Chesapeak...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Chicago Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois
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