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French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the n...

The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley settler. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photograp... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

1722 55th St., Oakland, CA, 2006

1722 55th St., Oakland, CA, 2006

Photograph shows the "Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church." Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Neon sign on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California

Neon sign on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, 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

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway in California

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway 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

Eat Beef sign along the road in Northern California

Eat Beef sign along the road 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

[Old sign for Fireside Inn Motel, Santa Cruz, California]

[Old sign for Fireside Inn Motel, Santa Cruz, California]

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

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

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Road in Austin, Texas

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Roa...

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

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloste...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

Historic Shell gas station, Raleigh, North Carolina

Historic Shell gas station, Raleigh, North Carolina

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign "Welcome to ths world famous wine growing region, Napa Valley," California

Sign "Welcome to ths world famous wine growing region, Napa Valley," C...

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

Neon sign advertising the services of "Madam Sophia," a palm reader in the town of Fowler, south of Fresno, California

Neon sign advertising the services of "Madam Sophia," a palm reader in...

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

Red Coca Cola sign in San Francisco, California

Red Coca Cola sign in San Francisco, 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

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

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

Restaurant sign above the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio, a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio, Texas

Restaurant sign above the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is a free gathering place attraction that loops under bridges as two parallel si... More

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, N...

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

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Motel sign, Yreka, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

Motel sign, Yreka, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, California

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, 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

Beer sign ("Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas") inside Lil' R...

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

Beer sign ("Jax Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Jax Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stocky...

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign in daytime, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sign in daytime, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Colorful liquor-store sign in North Hollywood, California

Colorful liquor-store sign in North Hollywood, 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

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

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

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old 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 Ph... More

Beer sign ("Pearl Lager Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Pearl Lager Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in th...

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

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkana, Texas

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkan...

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

Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longh...

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

Abe Lincoln sits on a wagon, Route 66, Lincoln, Illinois

Abe Lincoln sits on a wagon, Route 66, Lincoln, 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-201... More

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

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

Greyhound Bus sign, South Carolina

Greyhound Bus sign, South Carolina

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blake's Lotaburger sign, New Mexico

Blake's Lotaburger sign, New Mexico

More than fifty years ago Blake Chanslor opened his first hamburger stand in Albuquerque. From the start, Blake was committed to using only high quality products for all his made to order menu items. Sometimes ... More

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Built in 1940 by United Artists, the theater is famous for its Art Deco architecture and illuminated, 70-foot tower. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Coll... More

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in L...

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

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, Texas, at the time of this photograph, at least. The name is a takeoff on the 1971 movie "The Last Picture Show," about a dying Texas town

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, ...

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

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

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

Dolles Salt Water Taffy sign, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Dolles Salt Water Taffy sign, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

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

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County, California, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

Sign for Motel and Cafe Hi-Lo in Northern California

Sign for Motel and Cafe Hi-Lo in Northern California

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

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in L...

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

Beverly Hills sign in Los Angeles, California

Beverly Hills sign in Los Angeles, 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

Old motel sign in Lee Vining, California, the closest town to the east entrance of Yosemite National Park

Old motel sign in Lee Vining, California, the closest town to the east...

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

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood sect...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant, part of a small California chain of diners, is located in the historic Max Factor building that includes a beauty salon whose client list ... More

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County, California, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

Motel 66, Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Motel 66, Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Settlement of Barstow began in the late 1840s in the Mormon Corridor. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Hi... More

Beware of bears crossing the road sign in Northern California mountains

Beware of bears crossing the road sign in Northern California mountain...

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

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

Old Dr Pepper advertising mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Old Dr Pepper advertising mural on a building in the town of Hico in H...

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

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, 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

Here it is! Jackrabbit Trading Post, Route 66, Joseph City, Arizona

Here it is! Jackrabbit Trading Post, Route 66, Joseph City, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Jack Rabbit Trading Post was started in 1949 by Jim Taylor and his wife. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photog... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in L...

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

A neon sign from Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

A neon sign from Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Califor...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, became famous in the 1920s for its concentration of radio and movie-related businesses. The Holly... More

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of historic U.S. Route 66 still runs through town

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of hist...

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

Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton, Pennsylvania

Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...

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-201... More

Lollipop Motel sign, Wildwood, New Jersey

Lollipop Motel sign, Wildwood, New Jersey

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

Fun House sign, Seattle, Washington

Fun House sign, Seattle, Washington

Located right inside the shadow cast by the Space Needle, the Funhouse is Seattle's oldest surviving punk rock club. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's Ame... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Neon sign outside a bar, not Billy Bob's, which is a separate night club and dance hall nearby, in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign outside a bar, not Billy Bob's, which is a separate night cl...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the n...

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

Grain Belt Beer sign, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain Belt Beer sign, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

The Torches Motel, Barstow, California

The Torches Motel, Barstow, California

Settlement of Barstow began in the late 1840s in the Mormon Corridor. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Hi... 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

Old Dr Pepper mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Old Dr Pepper mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Libr... More

Sign on the lawn of Rose Hill Manor, also called the Woodworth House, in Port Arthur, Texas

Sign on the lawn of Rose Hill Manor, also called the Woodworth House, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1906 by Rome Hatch Woodworth, an early mayor. Bequeathed the home to the city in 1948, it has served as a meeting place for ... More

Signs in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Signs in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Neon sign at the Willo Steakhouse and saloon, an authentic California roadhouse located on Historic Hwy 49 between Nevada City and the Sierra Buttes country along the South Fork of the Yuba River

Neon sign at the Willo Steakhouse and saloon, an authentic California ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant was established in 1969. The saloon dates to 1946. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsm... More

An old billboard in remote Presidio County, Texas, for the Motel Thunderbird, up ahead in the town of Marfa, Texas

An old billboard in remote Presidio County, Texas, for the Motel Thund...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sign would lead one to believe that the hotel, like the sign, would be a decrepit shell of its former self from the days of roman... More

Horse statue advertising sign in the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market district in Fort Worth, Texas

Horse statue advertising sign in the Stockyards, a historic livestock-...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More

Sign at the entrance to the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market district in Fort Worth, Texas

Sign at the entrance to the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market di...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More

Route 66 restaurant, 1819 Will Rogers Drive, Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Route 66 restaurant, 1819 Will Rogers Drive, Santa Rosa, New Mexico

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

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Signs for Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Signs for Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site, Memphis, Tennessee

Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site, Memph...

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

Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, Califo...

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords b... More

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dating to 1939. In 1969 it moved to this location, which had operated as Sammie's Drive-In, Eli's Lounge, and Picante's Mexican restaurant

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...

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

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at...

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

Neon sign at Rossetti's Bar in Valley Springs, California

Neon sign at Rossetti's Bar in Valley Springs, 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

Rancho Super Car Wash neon sign in Rancho Mirage, California

Rancho Super Car Wash neon sign in Rancho Mirage, 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

Motel sign in Northern California along the Pacific Coast Highway

Motel sign in Northern California along the Pacific Coast Highway

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

Neon sign "Indian Jewelry" Northern California Redwood attraction

Neon sign "Indian Jewelry" Northern California Redwood attraction

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

Roosevelt Hotel sign, Seattle, Washington

Roosevelt Hotel sign, Seattle, Washington

Built in 1929 during the onslaught of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt Hotel provided first class high rise accommodations in the very new and burgeoning city of Seattle. Title, date, and subjects provided b... More

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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

Hand painted revolutionary signs in Havana, Cuba

Hand painted revolutionary signs in 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

Memphis Music neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Music neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Beale Street has been playing the blues for more than half a century. Named after an unknown military hero in 1841, it acted as General Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters during the Civil War. But, Beale Street's ... More

Neon sign for the Grotto Fish Market, Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Neon sign for the Grotto Fish Market, Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey,...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Constructed before the turn of the century, it was purchased by the City of Monterey in 1913 and has been reconstructed several times... More

Chop Suey sign in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento/San Joaqin River Delta in California

Chop Suey sign in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento...

Also known as the Locke Historic District, it was established after a fire broke out in the Chinese section of nearby Walnut Grove. Chinese merchants approached landowner George Locke and inquired if they could... More

[Sign for deep fried Hostess Twinkies in Santa Cruz, the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California]

[Sign for deep fried Hostess Twinkies in Santa Cruz, the county seat a...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer for similar group of images: LC-DIG-higsm-21615 thru LC-DIG-highsm-21624. Chartered in 1866 and located on the northern edge of the Mo... More

Sign for El Rancho motel in Barstow, California

Sign for El Rancho motel in Barstow, 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

Sign: Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Sign: Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

One of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collect... More

A merchant's clever and creative advertising sign in Shingletown, a small community east of Redding, California

A merchant's clever and creative advertising sign in Shingletown, a sm...

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

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

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

Old motel sign in northern California

Old motel sign in northern California

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

Klamath sign in Northern California

Klamath sign in Northern California

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

Although this looks for all the world like a theater marquee, it is instead an unusually bold neon sign for a bank in Amarillo, Texas

Although this looks for all the world like a theater marquee, it is in...

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

This looks like one of the funky artistic neon signs that are everywhere in the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It is that, perhaps, but it also directs one to the actual Deep Eddy municipal pool

This looks like one of the funky artistic neon signs that are everywhe...

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

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