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
A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More
A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is st...
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 frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...
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
Tee Pee Curios Shop, Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, 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
The George Parks Highway Scenic Byway - Denali Country
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Denali country is dominated by the lofty, snow-covered peaks of the Alaska Range, active glaciers, rolling tundra, boggy muskegs, and ha... More
Talimena Scenic Drive - Dwarfs of Rich Mountain
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Stop by this informative plaque to learn more about the vegetation of the area. Location: Arkansas (34.675° N 94.329° W) Status: Publi... More
Great River Road - Entry Arch at the Arkansas-Missouri Border
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A delicate arch graces the border of Arkansas and Missouri. Location: Location: Arkansas-Missouri Border, Arkansas (35.999° N 89.898° W... More
Great River Road - A Forest Service Recreation Site near Helena, Arkan...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Towering trees offer shelter at this recreation site near Helena. Location: Location: Near Helena, Arkansas (34.600° N 90.619° W) Stat... More
Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...
Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
Side exterior, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Laredo, Texas
Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1906-1907 and 1933. The building originally housed the customs service. The 1930's expansion more than doubled the space to the rear of the building. Photographed as part ... More
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More
Sculpture "Contemporary postman," by Attilio Piccirilli at the Ariel R...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 11" x 1' 8" x 1' 2"; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photo... More
"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds b...
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
Mural "Harvest Dance," by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior ...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 96" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More
Auditorium with mural at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washing...
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
The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the bes...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1899, the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House is Fort Worth's premier example of Queen Anne-style Victorian architec... More
Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More
Courtroom ceiling, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, R...
Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More
Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...
Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More
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
Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Bos...
Built in 1931-1933 by Architect Cram & Ferguson. The 16-story main mass rises to a height of 258' on Post Office Square. Restored by General Services Administration in 2009. Photographed as part of an assignmen... More
Courtroom, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Four story building designed in the Beaux Art Classicism style of architecture and clad in buff-colored limestone veneer. Built 1929-1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for ... More
Sculpture "Wisdom and Courage" at the David W. Dyer Federal Building a...
Artist: Alexander Sambugnac, 1938. Cast stone, dimensions: 4' x 6' x 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ... More
Riders enjoy (or endure) a spin on the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Ca...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1902 as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company, where riders traveling between Huntington and nearby ci... More
The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1901 and originally named in honor of J.S. Spencer, a local judge and steamboat-company operator, the hotel was operated by t... More
The George M. Jacobs Building, erected c. 1903, was long one of Fairmo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Interior lobby stairs, Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah
Architect: Hodgson & McClenahan. Built in 1933-34. Art Deco style originally built to provide offices for the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Serv... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929. The building cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution of 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then Ministry of S... More
Oil painting "Ship Propeller" located on lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom Ho...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More
Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More
Truman study, fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the W...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More
Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 266, presents the flags during th...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: STAND DOWN Base: Philadelphia State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Scott ... More
Photograph of President William Jefferson Clinton Placing a Wreath at ...
This item is a photograph of President William Jefferson Clinton placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The image was photographed by Ralph Alswang.... More
A private security guard watches an Alabama National Guardsman, carryi...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Redstone Arsenal State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Dick Christiansen, Civilian Release Status: ... More
The US Navys United States Ship (USS) CAMDEN (AOE 2), a fast combat su...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Port Of Valdez State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Steve Fauli... More
On the Elmendorf Air Force Base flight line, an F-15E Strike Eagle fig...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC Scene Camera Operator: SSGT M... More
US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Jeff Bleile, with the command element, l...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Anchorage (LSD 36) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Antonio J. Vega, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More
US Air Force (USAF) Honor Guardsmen AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Richard H...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Arlington National Cemetery State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Jera T. Stubblefield, USAF R... More
US Army (USA) SPECIALIST (SPC) Adam Alford from the 946th Forward Surg...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Gordon State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSG John Marlow, USA Release Status: Released to ... More
Monument Valley, Arizona
Public domain photograph of a desert, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Two Alaskan moose graze on an open field where a US Army (USA) Blackha...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: PACAF Scene Camera Operator: SRA Joshua Strang, USAF Release Status: Released to Pub... More
Appearing supersonic a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135 Stratotanker air-to-...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: PACAF Scene Camera Operator: SRA Jo... More
Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.
Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More
Aerial view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (America project). Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchas... More
Aerial view of Honolulu, 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
The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More
Kazakhstanian E.O.D. (Explosive Ordance Detachment) Soldiers collect o...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Delta Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Arthur Hamilton, USA Release Status: Released ... More
US Army (USA) STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Pedro Chavez, 2nd Battalion (BN), 1...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT James L. Harper Jr., USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi... More
Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, 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
Aerial, Camden Yards Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is a ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland, which was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium. It is the home field of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. Title, ... More
Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana
Public domain photograph of parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Driver, Mark M...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Worth State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Michael A. Kaplan, USAF Release Status: Release... More
A U.S. Coast Guard HH-60J Jayhawk search and rescue helicopter, from U...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Sitka Sound State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: AET1 William Greer, Uscg Release Status: Released ... More
Architectural art "Cenozoic Codex" at three locations on building exte...
Artist: Keith Sonnier, 1997. Blue, red, and yellow neon tubes. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More
Rose Center for Earth and Space by Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest...
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
Oil painting "Menes," stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, W...
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Great Hall, view of second floor with Minerva in distance. Library of...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Dried flowers from the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Artifact in the mus...
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
[African and Middle Eastern Reading Room (Area Studies). Library of Co...
Carol M. Highsmith made this digital image by scanning a color transparency or negative that she created in the 1990s. Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[North Corridor, Great Hall. Religion mural in lunette from the Family...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Interior detail. Moulding in area between west elevator lobby and mai...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Skyline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Skyline, including PPG Place with the spiked roofline to the far left designed by famous architect Philip Johnson Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's Americ... More
Detail of the coat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated ...
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
Untitled art glass window at entrance to atrium, U.S. Courthouse, Orla...
Artist: Al Held, 2006. Dimensions: 20 x 50 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printer's mark of Cha...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C.
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 from the southwest of the Library of Congress Thomas Jeff...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Removal of Petroleum Contaminated Soil at the Municipal Garage
The original caption reads: Excavation of petroleum contaminated soil at the northwest corner of the former Municipal Garage nearly complete. Location: St. Paul Island, Alaska Site: Non-Two Party Agreement, ... More
Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Mount Foraker, Denali National Park, Alaska
Picryl description: Public domain image of a glacier, arctic landscape, mountains landscape, ice, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Nationals Park, baseball stadium, Washington, D.C.
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
Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, Washing...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a relief sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, 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
Architectural details, Grand Central Station, 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
Seattle Music Project by architect Frank O. Gehry, Seattle, Washington
The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (abbreviation rendered with a pipe as EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fic... More
Exterior eagle detail, Joseph P. Kinnerary U.S. Courthouse, Columbus, ...
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
2009 Inaugural Parade. Michelle and Barack Obama watch the parade from...
Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More
"Gone Fishing" old shack, 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
Full-sized reproduction of the statue of "David" by Michelangelo, Siou...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Nuthin But Fire Records mural, New Orleans, Louisiana
The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, ... More
Industrial site logo in Monroeville, Alabama, showing the bird and the...
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
Twin Sears houses built from kits ordered from the Sears Department St...
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
The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) 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
John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...
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 Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 1... More
A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Rural Alabama in the spring
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporate...
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
Façade of the Ursuline Convent and other buildings in Old 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
Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba
Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More
The Art Deco, 1100 New York Ave., NW., Washington, D.C.
Building was once a Greyhouse Bus depot. 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. Hig... More
The 1908 Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond, Texas, southwest of ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands a statue of Georgia native, later Richmond resident, Mirabeau B. Lamar, who held three offices, including president,... More