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In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm.
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Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas State Historic Site in Washington County that is considered the "Birthplace of Texas." The event marks the March 2, 1836 adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas ...

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

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trees in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest along White Mountain Road east of Bishop, California

Trees in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest along White Mountain Road...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Scene in Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Scene in Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scenic view in Northern California

Scenic view in Northern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Twisted tree in the desert near the Salton Sea, California

Twisted tree in the desert near the Salton Sea, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biolog... More

View the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County, West Virginia

View the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Philip Johnson's Glass House and Pavillion, New Canaan, Connecticut

Philip Johnson's Glass House and Pavillion, New Canaan, Connecticut

The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. Title, date, and subjects provided by th... More

Monument Valley, Arizona

Monument Valley, Arizona

Public domain photograph of a desert, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image...

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (Alabama project). Credit line: ... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Palm trees in Barstow, California

Palm trees in Barstow, California

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a ...

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

Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas State Historic Site in Washington County that is considered the "Birthplace of Texas." The event marks the March 2, 1836 adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine tr... More

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... More

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine tr... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Train in front of a grain elevator in California

Train in front of a grain elevator in California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More

Motel 66 sign in Barstow, California

Motel 66 sign in Barstow, California

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biolog... More

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biolog... More

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biolog... More

Rural scene near the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site in Washington County, Texas

Rural scene near the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site in W...

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

Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch tha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Monument Valley, Arizona

Monument Valley, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barn, rural Montana. Public domain image.

Barn, rural Montana. Public domain image.

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

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image...

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Ranch in Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Ranch in Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

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

Barn, rural Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Barn, rural Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

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

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More

Scenic images from rural Monroe County, Alabama

Scenic images from rural Monroe County, Alabama

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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

Scenic view in Northern California

Scenic view in Northern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

View of Half Dome formation located in Yosemite National Park which spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

View of Half Dome formation located in Yosemite National Park which sp...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "tanks" are rock depressions that collected water, thus becoming attractive to settlers and passersby. For a time the area was ow... More

Manuel Gonzalez-Ortega, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member attending a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, month-long Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Manuel Gonzalez-Ortega, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The asociacion sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to prepare horses and riders f... More

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch tha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of liturgy, ceremony, church, Christianity religion, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Icon Monument Valley, Arizona, public domain photograph

Icon Monument Valley, Arizona, public domain photograph

Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast and iconic sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor." Title, date, and subjects provi... More

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image...

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Barn, upper Michigan - A black and white photo of an old barn

Barn, upper Michigan - A black and white photo of an old barn

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana

The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, ... More

[Grave stone for James Sauter Monroe County, Alabama]

[Grave stone for James Sauter Monroe County, Alabama]

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Tourist Attraction - Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Tourist Attraction - Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Scenic images from rural Monroe County, Alabama

Scenic images from rural Monroe County, Alabama

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More

Philip Johnson's Ghost House - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Philip Johnson's Ghost House - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

The Ghost House, built in 1984, is an open structure of chain-link fencing that refers to the separate work of architects Frank Gehry and Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Title, date, and subjects provided ... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Branding day for heifers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Branding day for heifers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a work...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Canopied dirt road through the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Canopied dirt road through the Polk County portion of Big Thicket Nati...

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

Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Civil War, Spanish Fort, Alabama

Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...

The Battle of Blakeley was fought at Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865 at 5:30 p.m. Historic Blakeley State Park was created in 1981 to preserve the National Register Site and its 5 1/2 miles of pristine breastwor... More

Barn, Route 66, near Staunton, Illinois

Barn, Route 66, near Staunton, Illinois

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

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Statue on grave in Cities of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana

Statue on grave in Cities of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch features historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock, a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum A... More

Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama

Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More

View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama

View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama

Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More

View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama

View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama

Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More

Rural scene, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Rural scene, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More

Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Civil War, Spanish Fort, Alabama

Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More

Santa Fe train in Barstow, California

Santa Fe train in Barstow, California

Public domain photograph of train car, engine, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

"Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of Old West town, an audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video venue at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country. The locale contains more than 40 movie facades or original buildings moved from remote locations in the surrounding hills

"Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of O...

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

Forest of trees, Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Forest of trees, Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More

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