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Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival

Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestria...

Founded in 1999, this three-day event began at the historic McMenamins Hotel in memory of the celebrated 1950 "Trent sighting" and photographs of a purported flying saucer at a nearby farm. Skeptics have conclu... More

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton Jenna Morgenstein, Rich Perkins, Tory Michener and J.T. Schmidt, 1999. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thom...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. 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 s... More

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. Both Paris of Texas and Paris of Tennessee dedicated their Eiffel Tower replicas i... More

Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...

Formerly the National Bank of Washington which was the oldest bank in Washington, D.C. It closed around 1999 when it was taken over by the FDIC. It was designed by Alfred C. Bossom and Jules-Henri de Sibour. Pl... More

Edward Francis McCartan's 1936 sculpture, "Dionysus," at Brookgreen Gardens, a vast complex of sculpture gardens, ecosystem trails, a wildlife preserve and a small zoo on four former rice plantations in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Edward Francis McCartan's 1936 sculpture, "Dionysus," at Brookgreen Ga...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brookgreen, which opened in 1932, was founded by Archer Milton Huntington, stepson of railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington, and h... More

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

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

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

Elizabeth Shoumatoff's "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin Roosevelt on a wall in the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which he sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president

Elizabeth Shoumatoff's "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin Roosevelt on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal ... More

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical bui... More

Courtyard and signage outside the Arizona Copper Art Museum in Clarkdale, Arizona, near some of the state's richest lodes of copper during the early-20th-Century heyday of Clarkdale and the mountain mining town of Jerome. So important was the mineral that Arizona was long nicknamed The Copper State (before the appeal to tourism prompted a change to The Grand Canyon State)

Courtyard and signage outside the Arizona Copper Art Museum in Clarkda...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

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

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

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising the Texas and Pacific Railroad's passenger service to Saint Louis in what at the time was apparently the expeditious time of 23 hours

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

Artist Lisa Perry's statue honoring W.M. "Bill" Pickett in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Artist Lisa Perry's statue honoring W.M. "Bill" Pickett in the Stockya...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Pickett, an African-American cowboy who originated the rodeo event of bulldogging, later better known as steer wrestling. He became t... More

This looks, at first glance, like an industrial chimney, but it's a water tower, looking quite unlike the usual version that supports a large tank at the top

This looks, at first glance, like an industrial chimney, but it's a wa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's a remnant of the Crystal Springs Bleachery Company, part of an array of textile mills above Crawfish Springs and Crystal Springs ... More

Forks of Cypress, also known as Forks of the Cypress, a Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama

Forks of Cypress, also known as Forks of the Cypress, a Greek Revival ...

Designed by William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson with construction completed in 1830. It features a two-story colonnade around the entire house, composed of twenty-four Ionic colu... More

The 10-story Ziggurat, a pyramidal state office building along the Sacramento River, across from downtown Sacramento, California's capital city

The 10-story Ziggurat, a pyramidal state office building along the Sac...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Designed to resemble the massive, ancient ziggurats in the Mesopotamian Valley, the building was constructed by the Money Store in 1997 and was subsequent... More

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

The building, Alabama's tallest, is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo Ciampaglia, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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

Vintage automobile at the Hopson Plantation site on the outskirts of Clarksdale, in Mississippi's Delta region

Vintage automobile at the Hopson Plantation site on the outskirts of C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. An old spread on which cotton was picked by black tenant farmers and mules, Hopson became one of the Old South's first mechanized cott... More

Located on the side of the Roadhouse Relics building on 1st Street in the South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas, this vintage-looking "Greetings From Austin" postcard mural, originally painted in 1998, is a favorite tourist "photo op"

Located on the side of the Roadhouse Relics building on 1st Street in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist and owner: Todd Sanders, with Rory Skagen (Source: austinot.com/best-murals-in-austin, 2014) Credit line: The Lyda Hill ... More

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

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

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

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

Dusk shot of the old Tucson International Airport control tower, in Tucson, Arizona, which includes a neon version of the city name. Largely empty, the building, constructed in the 1950s, is now part of a small general-aviation facility at the airport

Dusk shot of the old Tucson International Airport control tower, in Tu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

Sculpted horse head in the "Little Studio" at Aspect, the estate of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's greatest sculptors, now the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire

Sculpted horse head in the "Little Studio" at Aspect, the estate of Au...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The family summered in Cornish, often surrounded by students and admirers in a "Cornish Colony," including his brother Louis St. Gaude... More

Here are "Matilda Sorrell" (real name Crystal Higgins) and "Fannie Kimble" (real name Amie Schultz), who work for Old Savannah Tours, where they visit Savannah hotels and greet visitors to the city. What would the elegant southern town of Savannah, Georgia, be without matrons and belles in their finest?

Here are "Matilda Sorrell" (real name Crystal Higgins) and "Fannie Kim...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

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

A colorful illustration on a building in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

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

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum located in NE, Washington, D.C.

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum locat...

The National Capitol columns originally supported the old East Portico of the United States Capitol (1828). The columns were removed during expansion of the Capitol in 1958, and placed at the National Arboretum... 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

Mural on the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

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

One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford, depicting historic scenes and local culture in Vicksburg, Mississippi

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

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded hilltop, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...

The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 185...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1854, it was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook and has been the home of every Texas governor since 1856. Credit lin... More

One of several intricate murals by artist William de Leftwich Dodge in the governor's reception room, often called the "war room" because of its decorations' largely military theme, at the New York Capitol in Albany. This small panel protrays a young Theodore Roosevelt in his "rough rider" uniform during his service in the Spanish-American War

One of several intricate murals by artist William de Leftwich Dodge in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 80 years of productions in 2017 in Manteo, a community on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 8...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The play describes the late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, in North ... More

Flatbed truck loaded with pumpkins for sale in the early fall season at Harvest Farm in Valle Crucis, North Carolina

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

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

Mel's, a classic American diner, in Grandy, North Carolina

Mel's, a classic American diner, in Grandy, North Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1920s to the 1940s, diners, like many mobile homes, were usually prefabricated of aluminum in factories and delivered to the ... More

Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chicago, Illinois; and Andi Dema of Bloomington, Indiana, are three members of the company of the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chi...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tiffany stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

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

Charles Buckney, a childhood friend of singing legend Elvis Presley, rests a spell outside Johnnie's Drive-in restaurant, a frequent hangout of Presley's in Tupelo, Mississippi

Charles Buckney, a childhood friend of singing legend Elvis Presley, r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Buckney's dog, a Jack Russell terrier, is named "Jackson... More

Artistic detail above the entryway to the original 1913 Italian Renaissance-style building at what became a far larger Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York

Artistic detail above the entryway to the original 1913 Italian Renais...

The gallery is part of the University of Rochester and occupies the southern half of the University's former Prince Street campus. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Pur... More

A portion of the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont

A portion of the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is the same family made famous in the musical The Sound of Music. In the early 1940s, the von Trapp family toured the United Stat... More

Street performer Henry Jamie "plays" the typewriter in Buffalo, New York's, revitalized Allentown district, now replete with live-music bars, neighborhood art galleries, and eclectic restaurants and shops

Street performer Henry Jamie "plays" the typewriter in Buffalo, New Yo...

Renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright lived here during the period in which he designed a boathouse, a mausoleum, a filling station, and several of his Prairie-style houses in the first decade of the 2... More

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

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

The B.C. Scranton Library built in 1900 by architect Henry Bacon in Madison, Connecticut

The B.C. Scranton Library built in 1900 by architect Henry Bacon in Ma...

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

A 1940s-vintage quonset building at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

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

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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

Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California

Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Sutro Baths were a large, privately owned swimming pool complex in San Francisco, California, built in the late 19th century. The building housing the... More

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ruled all or much of the territory of Texas

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ru...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fair Park is the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas Credit line: T... More

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

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

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Photograph shows an outdoor mural on the former Café Lautrec building at 2431 8th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center ... More

An untitled 1932 oil painting by George Sanderson Bickerstaff, displayed at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

An untitled 1932 oil painting by George Sanderson Bickerstaff, display...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

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

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

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

Forest of trees, Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Forest of trees, Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Old tractors along the road, Montana

Old tractors along the road, Montana

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

Aerial view of resort on the north shore, Hawaii

Aerial view of resort on the north shore, Hawaii

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

Beach scene on the island of Oahu, Hawaii

Beach scene on the island of Oahu, Hawaii

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

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, 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

Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park is truly a gem in our nation's capital. It offers visitors an opportunity to reflect and soothe their spirits through the beauty of nature. Fresh air, majestic trees, wild animals, and the ebb a... More

Masonic symbols - Masonic Temple, Alexandria, Virginia

Masonic symbols - Masonic Temple, Alexandria, Virginia

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

Philip Johnson's Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

Philip Johnson's Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

Philip Johnson's Glass House. The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an ... More

Mr. D'z Diner, Route 66, Kingman, Arizona

Mr. D'z Diner, Route 66, Kingman, 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

Philip Johnson's Pavillion, New Canaan, Connecticut

Philip Johnson's Pavillion, New Canaan, Connecticut

Built in 1962. 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; 200... More

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. National World War II Memorial is a National Memorial dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of arches surroundi... More

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. National World War II Memorial is a National Memorial dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of arches surroundi... More

Aerial view of White House and downtown, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of White House and downtown, Washington, D.C.

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-p... More

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

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

Aerial view of White House, Old Executive Office Building, Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of White House, Old Executive Office Building, Washington ...

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

Apple Store, 5th Avenue, New York, New York

Apple Store, 5th Avenue, New York, New York

Designed by San Francisco based design firm Eight Inc. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its upper reaches are almost three vertical miles (4.8 km) below the summit of Mount McKinley. Title, date, and subjec... More

Howard Street Bridge, Baltimore, Maryland

Howard Street Bridge, Baltimore, Maryland

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 for the old Dreamland mobile-home park in Phoenix, Arizona

Sign for the old Dreamland mobile-home park in Phoenix, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Established in 2002 on Historic Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, The Pig on Beale quickly became a local favorite for "Memphis Style" Hickory Smoked BBQ pork shoulder and BBQ ribs. Title, date, and subjects p... More

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsu... More

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain...

Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. The coastline is convoluted, with many islands and fj... More

Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi

Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi

Mississippi became a state in 1817. The territorial legislature met on the grounds of Historic Jefferson College, a few miles north of Natchez in Washington. Many intriguing visitors arrived at Natchez during t... More

Ruth Glacier, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Glacier, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its upper reaches are almost three vertical miles (4.8 km) below the summit of Mount McKinley. Title, date, and subjec... More

National Archives building detail, Pennsylvania Avenue façade, Washington, D.C.

National Archives building detail, Pennsylvania Avenue façade, Washing...

The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with ... More

Mural above the J.H. Conrad & Company General Store, Sheridan, Wyoming

Mural above the J.H. Conrad & Company General Store, Sheridan, Wyoming

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Chain of Rocks bridge, Route 66, St. Louis, Missouri

Chain of Rocks bridge, Route 66, St. Louis, Missouri

The bridge is for walking only and is one mile long. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift... More

Historic Cottage Hotel, Route 66, Seligman, Arizona

Historic Cottage Hotel, Route 66, Seligman, 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

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

Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

This museum preserves a wide range of military artifacts in memory of fallen soldiers who served in the United States military. Featuring artifacts of all branches of the military, it serves as a constant remin... More

The garden at Chesterwood looking toward the studio of Daniel Chester French, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The garden at Chesterwood looking toward the studio of Daniel Chester ...

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

Train near Casper, Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain image.

Train near Casper, Wyoming - Carol M. Highsmith photo. Public domain i...

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

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

House, Route 66, Seligman, Arizona

House, Route 66, Seligman, 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

Pops Restaurant, Route 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Restaurant, Route 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

This sculptural take on a soda bottle and straw soars 66 ft. into the sky. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Old house, rural Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Old house, rural Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

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