Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia
Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 36". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... More
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
Tiffany stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Ala...
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
A colorful illustration on a building in the Stockyards District of Fo...
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
Painting "Science" in west atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pe...
Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More
Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More
East courtroom mural in Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Ind...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More
Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Fra...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More
West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More
Mural on the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California
Mural: Ghosts of Pantages Dedication, 1930. Created July-September 2000 by James Hamblin, Jim Piper, and Matthew Witmer. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace ... More
Mural "The Meaning of Social Security" by Ben Shahn located at the Wil...
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
Interior grill detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More
Exterior detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey
Architect: James A. Wetmore, 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 Caro... More
Oil painting "Progress of Industry" located in entrance lobby of Clark...
Artist: Charles Ward, 1934. Dimensions: 7' x 12'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
Mural showing Native Americans on horseback by artist Crumbo at the In...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Sculpture "A rural free delivery mail carrier," by Gaetano Cecere at t...
Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 2' 1" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograp... More
Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the In...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Oil painting "An Arrest" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Depa...
Artist: Louis Bouche, 1937. Dimensions: 11' x 2' 8" approx. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... More
Murals "Louisville Murals - Fox Hunting," by Frank Weathers Long at th...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 4" x 10' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More
Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor...
Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More
1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P...
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
Ben Shahn mural located at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washi...
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
A 1940s-vintage quonset building at the Porter Farm, also known as Wal...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The farm was the site of the first cooperative farm demonstration, organized by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture... More
A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was a featured route for that railroad as early as 1872, though this advertisement probably dates to the 1930s or 1940s, when pa... More
Flatbed truck loaded with pumpkins for sale in the early fall season a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More
Sculpture "The Law" at Robert C. Nix Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia,...
Artist: Donald DeLue, 1941. Marble, dimensions: 9' x 16 'x 10'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More
Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town 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
Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one honors the Miss Mississippi beauty pageant, which Vicksburg has hosted since 1958. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC... More
Abandoned one-room schoolhouse in a mostly abandoned town: Aroya, in C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...
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
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Cabin in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluste... More
Statue of lumberjack Paul Bunyan, a giant (literally) of American folk...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statue, which stands outside of the Timbers Lounge, dates from the mid-1960s, when it was created to advertise Kirby Wood Lumber C... More
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Grill in courtroom at the Isaac C. Parker Federal Building & U.S. Cour...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1936, the building con... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jackson...
Artist: Albert Vrana, 1966. Dimensions: 16' x 550' x 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
An old farm truck and a vintage school bus at Heritage Farm Museum and...
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
Boettcher Mansion, an Arts-and-Crafts-style home high above Golden, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boettcher called it the ôLorraine Lodge,ö which the family later donated to Jefferson County in the 1970s for public use and enjoyment... More
White tiger at the Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida
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Constantino Brumidi art detail on the U.S. Capitol walls, Washington, ...
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A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Na...
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Exhibits at the Fire Museum of Maryland in Lutherville, Maryland
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Tourist barge on the old C&O Canal in the Georgetown section of Washin...
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The State of Texas raises longhorn cattle at Abilene State Historical ...
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Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, Ponce Inlet, Florida
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Aerial view of the central California coast
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Carol M. Highsmith - Marina city overlook, Chicago, Illinois
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Barn with an oversized cupola, which helps with ventilation
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Rear view of Oatlands mansion, now a property of the National Trust fo...
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Tunnel on North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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World Trade Center, New York, New York
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George Reed II House, built in 1804, New Castle, Delaware
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Carol M. Highsmith - Utah's Zion National Park
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Louisiana "Steamboat House," New Orleans, Louisiana
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Interior of Moana Hotel in Hawaii
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Old City Cemetery, where slaves and slaveholders, Union and Confederat...
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Manse George cabin on grounds of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennes...
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The historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois
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[Aerial view of the historic Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New ...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Office building boardroom
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Carol M. Highsmith - Panorama aerial of Washington, D.C.
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Cacti break the monotony of the Nevada desert
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The luxury Hay-Adams Hotel, on Lafayette Square across from the White ...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Shakertown, South Union, Kentucky
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Aerial view of the Willard Hotel during restoration, Washington, D.C.
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Aerial view of downtown San Francisco, California
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Front bedroom at the Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
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Frederick Douglass House in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, ...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Texas Capitol dome, Austin, Texas
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Interior of Philip Johnson's Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
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Carol M. Highsmith - Shopping mall food court stands
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Owl's Head Light, at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobs...
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Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former home, stands high above the Ke...
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Little Italy neighborhood, New York, New York
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Reenactors pose at Fort Washington State Park in Maryland
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Attractive barn in Louisiana's Cajun country
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State House and Capitol, Boston, Massachusetts
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Carol M. Highsmith - Structures in Stevensville, Maryland
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Mount Vernon garden under snow, Mount Vernon, Virginia
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Exterior of the Tucson Federal Building, Tucson, Arizona
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Carol M. Highsmith - The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Model of the nearby New Dungeness Lighthouse, Sequim, Washington
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Edward Kemeys' guardian lions stand before the Art Institute of Chicag...
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A large apple represents the town symbol, Winchester, Virginia
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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A large metal sculpture in front of a tall building Carol M. Highsmith...
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