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.
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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...
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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 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
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, 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
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, 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...
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,...
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 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 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 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, 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
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...
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
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
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
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
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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 ...
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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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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.
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.
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, 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
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-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
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.
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 ...
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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.
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 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
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 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
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Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville, Alabama
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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 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
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
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. ...
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
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
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 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.
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
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 ...
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
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...
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.
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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 ...
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 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
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
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,...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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
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 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 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
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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...
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 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
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, 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 ...
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., 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 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-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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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, 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, 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.
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