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An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pit" at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The square took definitive shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Cathedrals construction was begun around 1748 as a temple to the Jesuit fathers. This order was expelled in 1767, the half-fin... More

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, which is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputedly one-armed) fisherman on the acade of the Champion Building, Port Isabel, Texas

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

Old cars and old façades in Havana, Cuba

Old cars and old façades 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

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information from the Yale University website. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M... More

An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, ...

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

Man with a message in Houston, Texas

Man with a message in Houston, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, foreground, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, top right, at spring cherry blossom time, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, foreground, and...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Altar and stained glass window at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Morristown, New Jersey

Altar and stained glass window at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Morris...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Modern office building, photographed in the 1980s

Modern office building, photographed in the 1980s

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

View of the Willard Hotel from Pershing Park, Washington, D.C.

View of the Willard Hotel from Pershing Park, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Robert E. Lee's onetime home, Arlington House, looms above the Kennedy Family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery

Robert E. Lee's onetime home, Arlington House, looms above the Kennedy...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Residents of Parrot Jungle and Gardens, south of Miami, Florida

Residents of Parrot Jungle and Gardens, south of Miami, Florida

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Interior view, looking upward inside the Statue of Liberty, New York, New York

Interior view, looking upward inside the Statue of Liberty, New York, ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Hallway and parlor at the Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Hallway and parlor at the Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Art in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Art in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Great Hall, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washingto...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Dinosaur bones, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Dinosaur bones, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Garden at the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium at the home once known as Baker's Acres in Washington, D.C.

Garden at the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium at the home once ...

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 in 1931 by architect, Horace Trumbauer. Title, da... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Wicker or rattan furniture scene

Carol M. Highsmith - Wicker or rattan furniture scene

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Central Park and New York's Upper West Side

Central Park and New York's Upper West Side

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Old North Point water tower, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Old North Point water tower, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Dreary hallway in the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, which operated between 1829 and 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dreary hallway in the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, which oper...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Plimoth Plantation is a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plimoth Plantation is a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts

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 original settlement of the Plymouth Colony establis... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Northern Boulevard, Houston, Texas

Carol M. Highsmith - Northern Boulevard, Houston, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The government of Spain donated this statue of Juan Ponce de Leon in downtown Miami, Florida

The government of Spain donated this statue of Juan Ponce de Leon in d...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Famous Bookbinders Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Famous Bookbinders Restaurant, Philadelphia, Penn...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Mesa Verde pueblos, Cortez, Colorado

Carol M. Highsmith - Mesa Verde pueblos, Cortez, Colorado

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Kate Carter, on her 90th birthday, poses in the log cabins where photographer Carol M. Highsmith's great-grandfather, Pleasant Jiles Carter (1847-1931) and grandfather, Yancey Ligon Carter (1873-1947) were born and lived in Wentworth, North Carolina

Kate Carter, on her 90th birthday, poses in the log cabins where photo...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Country road in rural America - Drawing. Public domain image.

Country road in rural America - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer ... More

Self portrait of photographer Carol M. Highsmith, via a broken mirror that she photographed during the Willard Hotel restoration. Washington, D.C.

Self portrait of photographer Carol M. Highsmith, via a broken mirror ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Santa at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Santa at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Willard Hotel lobby after cleanup, before restoration, 1984 / C.M. Highsmith.

Willard Hotel lobby after cleanup, before restoration, 1984 / C.M. Hig...

Photograph showing the lobby of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. stripped of furnishings in preparation for restoration. Corresponding color transparency for this print: LC-HS503-39. Title from caption pro... More

President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in th...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title and keywords provided by the photographer. Date f... More

Willard Hotel bull's eye window from interior of 12th floor suite / C.M. Highsmith.

Willard Hotel bull's eye window from interior of 12th floor suite / C....

Photograph shows a view of the Washington Monument as seen through a bull's eye window at the Willard Hotel. Title from photographer caption pages. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 1992; (DLC/PP-1992:189). Forms part ... More

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento...

Artist: Holley Junker, 1999. Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 75 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

Exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Geo...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1931-1933; architect: Albert Ted Eyck Brown; st... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Judging from its license plate, and its general condition this once-fashionable Chrysler hasn't hit the road since 1942, though its tires look good as new

Judging from its license plate, and its general condition this once-fa...

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

Korean War veteran Lee Goldburn, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Korean War veteran Lee Goldburn, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In addition to a Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action flag, Mr. Goldburn carries a prayer staff honoring Navajo Code Talker Robert Walley... More

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1931-1933; architect: Albert Ted Eyck Brown; st... More

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahom...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Interior lobby, William O. Douglas Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Yakima, Washington

Interior lobby, William O. Douglas Federal Building and U.S. Courthous...

Architect: James Knox Taylor. First constructed as the U.S. Post Office for North Yakima. Built in 1911-12. Second Renaissance Revival. First constructed as the U.S. Post Office for North Yakima. Photographed a... More

Interior corridor, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Interior corridor, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Fe...

Building constructed in 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More

Interior grille, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Interior grille, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More

Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of...

Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 1997. 10 life size portrait busts made of painted hydrocal (plaster). Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, ... More

Sculpture "Life in the Community" in two separate installations of six, located at the exterior of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Sculpture "Life in the Community" in two separate installations of six...

Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 1997. 12 life size figures made of pigmented fiberglass resin. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, a... More

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Located just off Interstate 90 in the South Dakota Drift Prairie, about 25 miles west of Sioux Falls. Many of the sculptures, in the style of industrial art, were made with scrap metal, old farm equipment, or r... More

West courtroom, entry door, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio

West courtroom, entry door, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Clev...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More

Mona Lisa Mural, Columbus, Ohio

Mona Lisa Mural, Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio Mona Lisa Mural in the Short North Arts District. Located at the corner of Lincoln and High Streets. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's Amer... More

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, place where Lincoln conspirators met. 604 H St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, place where Lincoln conspirators met. 6...

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

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, 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

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

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

Alabama River, Monroe County, Alabama

Alabama River, Monroe County, 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

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

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

Skiers on ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

Skiers on ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More

The Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, a Beaux Arts-style building has been the home of Mississippi's state legislature since 1903

The Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, a Beaux Arts-style building ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As the third capitol building in Jackson, it was designed to house all branches of the Mississippi state government, although now (201... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mission San Juan Capistrano was a Spanish mission in Southern California, located in present-day San Juan Capistrano. It was founded on All Saints Day Nov... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

W.C. Handy was born in this small log cabin in Florence, Alabama on November 16, 1873

W.C. Handy was born in this small log cabin in Florence, Alabama on No...

Handy became famous for his blues compositions such as "Memphis Blues" & "St. Louis Blues." He was also a musician, band conductor, and author. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograph... More

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

This house, an American architectural treasure, was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state o... More

View of Lake Havasu from the London Bridge, the real one, or at least most of it, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona

View of Lake Havasu from the London Bridge, the real one, or at least ...

London Bridge was once very much in England, spanning the River Thames. It was built in 1830, but in 1967 it was dismantled and purchased by Robert P. McCulloch, who had exterior granite blocks from the origina... More

Street scene, corner of L and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, corner of L and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

A vintage truck, part of a local landowner's display of old-time vehicles and mining equipment near the settlement of Bangor, south of Oroville in Butte County, California

A vintage truck, part of a local landowner's display of old-time vehic...

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

The Trader Joe's Company "Recipe for Adventure" float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

The Trader Joe's Company "Recipe for Adventure" float in the 124th Ros...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Lu...

Established on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. Title, date,... More

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, constructed in 1895 by Charles I.D. Looff, a master carver and builder of amusement rides

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ...

The carousel was originally located at Lee Funland in upstate New York and in 1910 it was relocated here, at Pawtucket's Slater Memorial Park, where (as of 2018) it continues to operate. The carousel features a... More

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

Dedicated on August 14, 1929 in with the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Love... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, 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

Apartment building, 6600 Luzon Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Apartment building, 6600 Luzon Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963

The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Os...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sign is displayed in sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Oswald was perched above D... More

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

Built in 1935, Greenville's first genuine "movie palace" was the brainchild of local attorney Calvin Poole. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lande... More

Cemetery, Stonington, Connecticut

Cemetery, Stonington, 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

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Title information, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038-6). Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice for the Public Library System in Baltimore County, Maryland

Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice ...

The buses travel to senior citizens as well as children. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Fake horses in Old Lyme, Connecticut

Fake horses in Old Lyme, 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

Orleans Street Branch Library located on Central Avenue at Orleans Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Orleans Street Branch Library located on Central Avenue at Orleans Str...

Opened on August 20, 2007, it replaces the second Broadway Branch that was on the corner of Broadway and Orleans Street for 36 years. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, 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

Historic architecture in East Granby, Connecticut

Historic architecture in East Granby, 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

First Congregational Church, Litchfield, Connecticut

First Congregational Church, Litchfield, 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

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More

[History of San Francisco mural by Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California]

[History of San Francisco mural by Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Pos...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. The Rin... More

Scene near Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California

Scene near Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County...

Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean which has caused high levels of salts to accumulate. The lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine... More

Rabbits Graphixs poses in front of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

Rabbits Graphixs poses in front of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, ...

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

Courtyard at the historic Napa Mill shopping and restaurant complex in downtown Napa, California

Courtyard at the historic Napa Mill shopping and restaurant complex 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

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