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Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Lobby, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Lobby, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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

Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, Colbert County, Alabama

Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, Colbert County, 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

Tuscaloosa Children's Theatre presents the Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa Children's Theatre presents the Adventures of Tom Sawyer in...

Public domain photograph of theatrical performance, theater, play, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

José Martí statue in located in the Capitol building in Havana, Cuba

José Martí statue in located in the Capitol building 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

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...

The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... More

Historic Harrison Brothers Hardware, located on South Side Square, Huntsville, Alabama

Historic Harrison Brothers Hardware, located on South Side Square, Hun...

Harrison Brothers Hardware is the oldest operating hardware store in Alabama. Founded in 1879 by brothers James and Daniel Harrison as a tobacco store on Jefferson Street, the business was moved to its present ... 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

A.G. Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama

A.G. Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama

A.G. Gaston, the millionaire black businessman, bailed Martin Luther King, Jr., out of a Birmingham jail in 1963. Reverend King stayed at the A.G. Gaston Motel during his visits to plan the Civil Rights protest... More

What's left of an old Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on the wall of a vintage gas station at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

What's left of an old Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on the wall...

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

Revolutionary soldiers carved in concrete located in a park in Havana, Cuba

Revolutionary soldiers carved in concrete located in a park in Havana,...

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

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian girls by Weinert with the central disc displaying the mural Letters by Edward J. Holslag. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian g...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Murals are painted on abandoned building on lower Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama

Murals are painted on abandoned building on lower Dexter Avenue in Mon...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural artists: names not given. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Libr... 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

View from the top of the Ellington Building, 1301 U St., NW, Washington, D.C.

View from the top of the Ellington Building, 1301 U St., NW, Washingto...

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

Empire State Building looms above Manhattan, New York, New York

Empire State Building looms above Manhattan, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More

The Smithsonian Castle, Independence Ave. near 9th St., SW, Washington, D.C.

The Smithsonian Castle, Independence Ave. near 9th St., SW, Washington...

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

Cross in a church yard in rural Alabama

Cross in a church yard in rural 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

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Caring for both small and large animals, these students have hands-on training at Tuskegee College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health, Tuskegee, Alabama

Caring for both small and large animals, these students have hands-on ...

This College is the only one of its kind in USA where Animal Health (Veterinary Medicine) and Human Health (Nursing & Allied Health) are interlinked and merged under one College within the framework of the One ... More

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office ...

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

The Old Depot Museum, Selma, Alabama

The Old Depot Museum, Selma, Alabama

The Old Depot Museum is the original train depot in Selma, Alabama, which is the second oldest city in the State of Alabama. This interpretive museum, built inside an original railway depot that was constructed... More

Red wooden barn, Sheffield, Alabama

Red wooden barn, Sheffield, 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

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

University Chapel, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

University Chapel, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Tuskegee's University Chapel, with its awe-inspiring sanctuary, was constructed between 1967 and 1969, on the same location as the first edi... More

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Aerial view of Montgomery, 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

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: ... More

Rural Alabama scene - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Rural Alabama scene - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Row house roof details, NW, Washington, D.C.

Row house roof details, 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

Buildings at the intersection of 14th and Q St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Buildings at the intersection of 14th and Q St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows the John Wesley AME Zion Church at 1615 Fourteenth Stree, N.W., in the background. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More

Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connecticut Ave. near intersection with Sedgwick St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...

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

[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_023_2.jpg

[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_023_2.jpg

The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Rain garden recycles urban runoff before it enters local waterways. USEPA Photo by Eric Vance Date Pictur... More

Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats

Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ski trail signs on mountain, Mammoth Lakes, California

Ski trail signs on mountain, 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

Statue detail, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Statue detail, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Designed by Daniel Chester French. 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; Car... More

Wintertime view of the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort in the White Mountains, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Wintertime view of the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort in the White ...

Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Aerial view of Montgomery, 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

Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park, 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

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's ol...

First known as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insane Hospital, the building is considered an architectural model. The facility was planned from the start to utilize the "mora... More

The Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, Texas

The Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The courthouse dates to 1919, but it was drastically remodeled and "modernized" with a completely new facade in 1955 to the extent th... More

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights movement, Selma, Alabama

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...

Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... More

Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama

Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama

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

Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville, Alabama

Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville, Alabama

Public domain photograph of church building, Christianity, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Camellias, which are the Alabama state flower, bloom in profusion on the Capitol grounds in Montgomery, Alabama

Camellias, which are the Alabama state flower, bloom in profusion on t...

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

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... More

Historic church in Burnt Corn, Alabama

Historic church in Burnt Corn, 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

The Peace Monument located in Peace Circle on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, First St. and Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.

The Peace Monument located in Peace Circle on the grounds of the U.S. ...

The Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailor's Monument, is a 44 foot high white marble memorial erected in 1877-1878, to commemorate the naval deaths at sea during the American Civi... More

[EPA Science Aspect 2] 412-DSP-2-ASPECT_080.jpg

[EPA Science Aspect 2] 412-DSP-2-ASPECT_080.jpg

The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Mark Thomas, ASPECT Tem Leader points out sampling target areas during mission briefing. Date Picture Tak... More

Rickard's Mill historic marker, Monroe County, Alabama

Rickard's Mill historic marker, Monroe County, 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

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Bladensburg Road, NE, Washington, D.C.

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Bladensburg Road, NE, 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

Constitution Village, Huntsville, Alabama

Constitution Village, Huntsville, 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

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1867 along the anks of the Concho Rier, the fort's 40 buildings supported up to infantry and cavalry troops, sent to T... More

Economy Inn historic sign in Cullman, Alabama

Economy Inn historic sign in Cullman, 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

Sixth Presbyterian Church, 5400 block of 16th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Sixth Presbyterian Church, 5400 block of 16th 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

Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park, 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

Founders Library, Howard University, NW., Washington, D.C.

Founders Library, Howard University, NW., Washington, D.C.

Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark. It is named for the seven founders of Howard University. Title, date, subject note, a... More

Gator Alley at the D'Olive Boardwalk Park in Daphne, Alabama, is filled with alligators sunbathing in the spring warmth

Gator Alley at the D'Olive Boardwalk Park in Daphne, Alabama, is fille...

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

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroeville, Alabama

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...

This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More

Committee of the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) hand painted murals are everywhere in Havana, Cuba

Committee of the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) hand painted murals a...

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

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States is right outside of Montgomery, Alabama

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States ...

This $1.4 billion automotive plant is one of the most advanced assembly plants in North America. This plant is spotless. Not one speck of dust anywhere. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

Courtroom, James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Courtroom, James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Built 1970-1974. Modern style. 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

[Informal Portraits 2] 412-DSP-2-PaulAnastasInformal_006.jpg

[Informal Portraits 2] 412-DSP-2-PaulAnastasInformal_006.jpg

The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Paul Anastas. USEPA Photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2010-04-14T18:39:13.00-04:00 Byline: Vance, ... More

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into 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

"Uncle Bob" Beringer, a historical interpreter, is photographed on an authentic early-Texas sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

"Uncle Bob" Beringer, a historical interpreter, is photographed on an ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine tr... More

The Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

The Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Elijah E. Myers and completed in 1888 as the winning design from a national competition, features structural ex... More

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroeville, Alabama

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...

This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Aus...

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

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park, 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

Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 16th St. near intersection with Park Road, NW, Washington, D.C.

Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 16th St. near intersection...

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

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

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

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

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

Shepherd Market, at the corner of 13th and Shepard St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Shepherd Market, at the corner of 13th and Shepard St., N.W., Washingt...

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

Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama

Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama

Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More

Boats at a marina at the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam on the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway, Pickensville, Alabama

Boats at a marina at the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam on the Tennessee-Tomb...

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

[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_091.jpg

[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_091.jpg

The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: USEPA Photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2010-04-02T09:17:10.058-04:00 Byline: Vance, Eric, EPA chi... More

Once the main branch of the Palm Springs, California, public library system, the 1940 Welwood Murray building became a private, non-profit library run by volunteers and is one of 10 libraries in the Coachella Valley

Once the main branch of the Palm Springs, California, public library s...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Dr. Welwood Murray, one of Palm Springs's earliest white residents, was attracted to the curative powers of the sun and mineral waters in the area at the ... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Historic downtown Cordova, Walker County, Alabama

Historic downtown Cordova, Walker County, Alabama

Cordova was originally a settlement on the Warrior River Called "Dent" or "Dent's Place." The city was dubbed "Cordova" by Captain Benjamin M. Long in 1859. He named the city after a city in Mexico in which he ... More

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreographed dance team that first formed in 1940

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Kilgore College Rangerettes perform not only at football and other sports events at the small college in East Texas, but also at ... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opelika, Alabama

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

View from the top of The Cairo apartment building, 1615 Q St., NW, Washington, D.C.

View from the top of The Cairo apartment building, 1615 Q St., NW, Was...

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

Narrow street in Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

Narrow street in Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

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