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Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, 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 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

Medallion on the exterior entrance of the Tower Building, now park headquarters but once the Federal Building at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Medallion on the exterior entrance of the Tower Building, now park hea...

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 Ph... More

Building at the intersection of U St. and Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Building at the intersection of U St. and Vermont Ave., NW, 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

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

Street scene in downtown Montgomery, Alabama

Street scene in downtown Montgomery, 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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

[Leland Stanford Mansion, Sacramento, California]

[Leland Stanford Mansion, Sacramento, California]

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a golf field, park, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Funnel cakes are available in many flavors at the Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Alabama

Funnel cakes are available in many flavors at the Mardi Gras celebrati...

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

[Goggles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore.] Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

[Goggles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through...

; part of title from Ford's Theater Collection website. 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

Scene from the Texas Cavaliers River Parade on the San Antonio River, which winds through the River Walk beneath the streets of San Antonio, Texas

Scene from the Texas Cavaliers River Parade on the San Antonio River, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The water-borne parade is one event in month- long Fiesta San Antonio festival. Every year, the floating parade features more than 45... More

The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, is a large settlement of Mississippian culture on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama

The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, i...

At the time of Moundville's heaviest residential population, the community took the form of a three hundred-acre village built on a bluff overlooking the river. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More

Blind Boys of Alabama Group at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Blind Boys of Alabama Group at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame conc...

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

Aerial view of buildings, northern Virginia

Aerial view of buildings, northern Virginia

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

Recently expanded in 2002, the Mobile Museum of Art in beautiful Langan Park, Mobile, Alabama

Recently expanded in 2002, the Mobile Museum of Art in beautiful Langa...

The 95,000 square foot facility is the setting for a permanent collection of over 8,000 works of art spanning two centuries of culture. Designed by The Architects Group. Title, date, subject note, and keywords ... More

Tule Lake Refuge in California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Tule Lake Refuge in California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Established in 1928, the Refuge encompasses 39,116 acres of mostly open water and croplands. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Pho... More

Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Allie Victoria Tennant's "Tejas Warrior" statue outside the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Allie Victoria Tennant's "Tejas Warrior" statue outside the Hall of St...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Hall of State (originally the State of Texas Building) commemorates the history of Texas. Built in 1936 at the astronomical (espec... More

Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama

Main Street, Greensboro, 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

Court Square Fountain, Montgomery, Alabama

Court Square Fountain, Montgomery, Alabama

The Court Square Fountain was erected in 1885. This well was the original watering site for Montgomery and the surrounding communities. On top of the fountain is "Hebe, goddess of youth and cup bearer to the Go... More

Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California

Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan ord...

Founded in 1791 and named for the feast of the Exultation of the Cross, the name that the explorer Gaspar de Portola gave to the area when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769, an... More

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... 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

The Prime Time Express mounted drill team passes in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

The Prime Time Express mounted drill team passes in the 124th Rose Par...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... 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

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

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

Old Coca-cola machine at a gas station in historic Stockton, Alabama

Old Coca-cola machine at a gas station in historic Stockton, 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

Historic buildings in Cullman, Alabama

Historic buildings 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

Display in virtual body lab showing how each organ works at My BodyWorks, an interactive exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, Alabama

Display in virtual body lab showing how each organ works at My BodyWor...

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 - 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

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... 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

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, 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 grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller grew up, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller g...

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

Performance of "The Flying Dutchman" Opera in Mobile, Alabama

Performance of "The Flying Dutchman" Opera in Mobile, Alabama

Mobile Opera Guild Auxiliary (affiliated with the Metropolitan Opera Guild) presents mainstage productions and opera excerpts throughout a five-state area. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by th... More

President Lincoln's cottage at Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C.

President Lincoln's cottage at Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C.

Located on a picturesque hilltop at the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C., President Lincoln's Cottage is the most significant historic site directly associated with Lincoln's presidency aside from the White ... More

Mr. George F. Landegger (far left), sponsor of the 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama, stands with Carolyn Haines and Ralph Voss, and other leaders of the event

Mr. George F. Landegger (far left), sponsor of the 13th Annual Alabama...

The 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium involves two days of author readings, panel discussions, and literary entertainment, all moderated by some of Alabama's finest literary scholars. The Harper Lee Award f... More

Scene from the Texas Cavaliers River Parade on the San Antonio River, which winds through the River Walk beneath the streets of San Antonio, Texas

Scene from the Texas Cavaliers River Parade on the San Antonio River, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The water-borne parade is one event in month- long Fiesta San Antonio festival. Every year, the floating parade features more than 45... More

Dining room at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

Dining room at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More

Store fronts on Calle Obispo in Havana, Cuba

Store fronts on Calle Obispo 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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...

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 Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas

The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More

Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alabama

Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alab...

Started in 1958 by Jim Adams, J. Ernest Lambert, W.O. Crawford, E. Ham Wilson, Aubrey H. Fleming, C. Ed Teague, Edward Wadsworth and W.H. Gregory, The Southeastern Livestock Exposition was formed to promote the... More

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, 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

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... 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

Interior kitchen of a small home in Old Havana, Cuba

Interior kitchen of a small home 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

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...

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

Statue in a business park in Huntsville, Alabama

Statue in a business park in Huntsville, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Buildings, H St. between 7th and 8th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Buildings, H St. between 7th and 8th St., 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

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States...

Designed by Alexander Doyle and built in 1886, the monument commemorates the 122,000 Alabamians who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and sits on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Title, date, subject ... 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

Glencairn Plantation, Greensboro, Alabama

Glencairn Plantation, Greensboro, Alabama

Built in 1831 by Col. John Erwin. 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, Li... More

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Hanceville, Alabama

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monaste...

Just over an hour from Huntsville in Hanceville, Alabama near Cullman, you can witness a magnificent shrine with an unusual story. A cloistered community, where the nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, and obed... More

LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street ...

Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park. The Square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. Originally planned as part of the pleasure grounds surround... More

Historic downtown Cordova, Alabama

Historic downtown Cordova, Alabama

Cordova is in Walker County. It 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 cit... More

March from Selma to Montgomery recreating the important Civil Rights event that happened in 1965, ended with this walk up to the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery and passed by the Dexter Avenue Memorial King Baptist Church where Martin Luther King preached

March from Selma to Montgomery recreating the important Civil Rights e...

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

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Hanceville, Alabama

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monaste...

Just over an hour from Huntsville in Hanceville, Alabama near Cullman, you can witness a magnificent shrine with an unusual story. A cloistered community, where the nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, and obed... More

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, Mobile, Alabama

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, Mobile, Alabama

Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous c... 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

Beautiful communities and rural scenes in Baldwin County, Alabama. Pecan trees are abundant

Beautiful communities and rural scenes in Baldwin County, Alabama. Pec...

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

Architectural details on the Colorado Building, 14th and G St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on the Colorado Building, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...

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

Rural Studio architecture, Greensboro, Alabama

Rural Studio architecture, Greensboro, Alabama

The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More

Playground designed by the Rural Studio, Newbern, Alabama

Playground designed by the Rural Studio, Newbern, Alabama

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

Skier on ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

Skier on ski slope, 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

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama

Old Live Oak Cemetery has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, mausoleum of Vice President William Rufus King, a... More

Tivoli Theater, 14th and Monroe St., Columbia Heights, NW, Washington, D.C.

Tivoli Theater, 14th and Monroe St., Columbia Heights, NW, 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

Two of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas, from the mid-1850s to 1910

Two of 11 grand Victorian homes erected in the "Bremond Block" in down...

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama

Public domain image of carnival, parade, celebration, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Sphinx, Scottish Rite Temple, Mobile, Alabama

Sphinx, Scottish Rite Temple, Mobile, Alabama

Completed in 1921 to serve as the meeting place for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the building was designed by George Bigelow Rogers, a local Mobile architect who also designed the Bellingrath Home and the ... More

Aerial view of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of the Jefferson Memorial, 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

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

The cheerleaders are amazing to watch. The boys throw the girls into the air as they cheer on their winning team. University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The cheerleaders are amazing to watch. The boys throw the girls into t...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... 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

2000 block of Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington, D.C.

2000 block of Rhode Island Ave., 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

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel California

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Destroyed ... More

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States...

Designed by Alexander Doyle and built in 1886, the monument commemorates the 122,000 Alabamians who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and sits on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Title, date, subject ... 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

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. Title, date, subject n... More

The courthouse for Brewster County, the largest county in Texas (because it includes most of the land within the massive Big Bend National Park), was built in 1887

The courthouse for Brewster County, the largest county in Texas (becau...

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

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washing...

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

Map of Alabama sculpted by Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews in 2005 located in front of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Map of Alabama sculpted by Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews in 2005 ...

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

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Late summer at the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Late summer at the United States Capitol, 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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Prattville, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prattville, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prattville, founded in 1839 by Daniel Pratt who purchased land for his manufacturing facilities. The location on the banks of the Autauga creek was chosen because the creek could supply power to cotton gin manu... More

Bronze equestrian statue of Major General George Brinton McClellan located in the triangular traffic island formed by the intersection of Connecticut Ave., Columbia Road, and California St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Bronze equestrian statue of Major General George Brinton McClellan loc...

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

Court Square Fountain, Montgomery, Alabama

Court Square Fountain, Montgomery, Alabama

The Court Square Fountain was erected in 1885. This well was the original watering site for Montgomery and the surrounding communities. On top of the fountain is Hebe, goddess of youth and cup bearer to the God... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Cemetery at Confederate Memorial Park, Marbury, Alabama

Cemetery at Confederate Memorial Park, Marbury, 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

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