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Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

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

Distinctive sign of the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

Distinctive sign of the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Te...

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

The old Ponca Motel, whose sign is reminiscent of the original Pontiac automobile hood emblem, in Abilene, Texas

The old Ponca Motel, whose sign is reminiscent of the original Pontiac...

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

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is touting cable television as an amenity

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is tou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, Alabama

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in 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

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, Alabama

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in 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

Distinctive sign of the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

Distinctive sign of the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Te...

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

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is touting cable television as an amenity

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is tou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city no...

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

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

The brain child of Frank Redford. There were originally seven Wigwam Motels. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Title, date, and subjects provided ... More

The weatherbeaten sign for the old Texan Motel in the town of Shamrock, along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

The weatherbeaten sign for the old Texan Motel in the town of Shamrock...

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

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas...

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

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkana, Texas

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkan...

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

The distinctive street sign of the Ponca Motel, reminiscent of the original Pontiac automobile hood emblem, in Abilene, Texas

The distinctive street sign of the Ponca Motel, reminiscent of the ori...

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

Sign for the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Sign for the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Elevated view of Central City, Colorado

Elevated view of Central City, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

The brain child of Frank Redford. There were originally seven Wigwam Motels. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Title, date, and subjects provided ... More

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

Photo shows the Aladdin's lamp (lighted at night) that was installed at the Neon Museum in 1997. Originally designed by Raymond Larsen and installed in 1966 at the Aladdin Hotel. (Source: Historical Marker Data... More

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Pony Express Motel sign, St. Joseph, Missouri

Pony Express Motel sign, St. Joseph, Missouri

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, Alabama

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in 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

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

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

Entrance, beneath a "Jesus Never Fails" sign, at the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

Entrance, beneath a "Jesus Never Fails" sign, at the long-derelict Pal...

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

Retired Maryland contractor Rule Irwin takes a break on his hike across America outside a cottage at the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Retired Maryland contractor Rule Irwin takes a break on his hike acros...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Quonset huts, semicircular buildings made of corrugated steel, are popular throughout rural Colorado for use as barns, garages, or storage sheds. This one, part of a "camper park" and motel in Limon, sported a conventional frame addition out front

Quonset huts, semicircular buildings made of corrugated steel, are pop...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Dream Lodge Motel, which once had a thriving clientele in the 1950s and '60s on the outskirts of Greenville, Texas, was closed and boarded up in 2011

The Dream Lodge Motel, which once had a thriving clientele in the 1950...

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

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

The brain child of Frank Redford. There were originally seven Wigwam Motels. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Title, date, and subjects provided ... More

Sign for an old, now-vanished, motel in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Sign for an old, now-vanished, motel in Marfa, a surprising city in Pr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Imaginative roadside sign for the Wyoming Motel and Cafe in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Imaginative roadside sign for the Wyoming Motel and Cafe in Wyoming's ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The sign for Ritzville, Washington's, Top Hat Motel illustrates the property's name

The sign for Ritzville, Washington's, Top Hat Motel illustrates the pr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Grogan's Tourist Court, a now-abandoned motel, which opened in Madison, North Carolina in 1931. Each guest had his or her own garage

Grogan's Tourist Court, a now-abandoned motel, which opened in Madison...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Colorful Historic Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey

Colorful Historic Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey

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

What remains of the old Welcome Inn, outside Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

What remains of the old Welcome Inn, outside Lamesa, the seat of Dawso...

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

Sign for the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Sign for the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This sign and the motel buildings it advertises remain (in 2018), but the place is long out of business in Tucson, Arizona

This sign and the motel buildings it advertises remain (in 2018), but ...

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

The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona

The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona

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

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas...

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

The Rabbit Ears Motel in Steamboat Springs, Colorado The clever name was not the inspiration of the motel's proprietors. It's borrowed from a nearby mountain pass of the same name

The Rabbit Ears Motel in Steamboat Springs, Colorado The clever name w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona, may once have had the "best view in Kingman," but it was shuttered and empty at the time of this photo in lat 2018. Kingman promotes the former--the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old...

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

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art in Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art in Las Vegas, Nevada

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway in California

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway in California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Sparse roadside sign for the Sands Motel, touting its "clean units" as an amenity in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Sparse roadside sign for the Sands Motel, touting its "clean units" as...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

The brain child of Frank Redford. There were originally seven Wigwam Motels. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Title, date, and subjects provided ... More

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, Alabama

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in 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

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

The long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

The long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

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

An old motel turned art gallery in Kremmling, a town in Grand County, Colorado, that began in 1881 with only a general store run by a Rudolph "Kare" Kremmling on the north side of Muddy Creek

An old motel turned art gallery in Kremmling, a town in Grand County, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old motel, Seligman, Arizona - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Old motel, Seligman, Arizona - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

A most humble, and out of business, cafÚ and motel in La Jara, Colorado

A most humble, and out of business, cafÚ and motel in La Jara, Colorad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city no...

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

An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vinta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Skylark Apartments, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels and motor courts-turned-apartment complexes along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Skylark Apartments, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Sign for the abandoned Shoshoni Motel in Shoshoni, Wyoming

Sign for the abandoned Shoshoni Motel in Shoshoni, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Long-abandoned motel in the town of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the historical attraction of the same name

Long-abandoned motel in the town of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the hi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Whispering Pines Motel, a classic mid-20th-Century cluster of mountain cabins in Estes Park, the eastern entrance to Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park

The Whispering Pines Motel, a classic mid-20th-Century cluster of moun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Retired Maryland contractor Rule Irwin takes a break on his hike across America outside the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Retired Maryland contractor Rule Irwin takes a break on his hike acros...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a small city in western Arizona, near both California and Nevada

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a sma...

Kingman is one of several Arizona towns that enjoys (and profits from) its status as a key stop on old U.S. Route 66, the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles during the heyday of family two-lane road trav... More

An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vinta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A dilipidated, but curved, old sign for the defunct Curve Motel, which indeed happens to be situated on a pronounced curve of U.S. Highway 50 in Rocky Ford, Colorado

A dilipidated, but curved, old sign for the defunct Curve Motel, which...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A dilipidated, but curved, old sign for the defunct Curve Motel, which indeed happens to be situated on a pronounced curve of U.S. Highway 50 in Rocky Ford, Colorado

A dilipidated, but curved, old sign for the defunct Curve Motel, which...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

At this now-closed, adobe-style motel in Evanston, Wyoming, travelers could park their cars in individual garage units next to their sleeping quarters

At this now-closed, adobe-style motel in Evanston, Wyoming, travelers ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Remnants of an old mine sign placed, for no apparent reason, outside the Round-Up Motel in Tucson, Arizona

Remnants of an old mine sign placed, for no apparent reason, outside t...

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

Welcome sign at the Page Boy Motel in Page, Arizona

Welcome sign at the Page Boy Motel in Page, Arizona

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

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the Plains Hotel, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a small city in western Arizona, near both California and Nevada

Motel room entrances plugging U.S. Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, a sma...

Kingman is one of several Arizona towns that enjoys (and profits from) its status as a key stop on old U.S. Route 66, the "Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles during the heyday of family two-lane road trav... More

Gate sign recalling the birthdate of Texas outside an old motel in a weathered neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

Gate sign recalling the birthdate of Texas outside an old motel in a w...

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

Sign for the Circle S motel in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sign for the Circle S motel in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Trail's End Motel in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire River on the northern end of the Raton Pass leading into New Mexico. A number of unaffiliated motels in Colorado carry this name; some, not including this one, earn the title

The Trail's End Motel in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire River o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The defunct Elkton Village Motel in Elkton, Maryland

The defunct Elkton Village Motel in Elkton, Maryland

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

One of several 1950s-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

One of several 1950s-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Color...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Sign for the distressed Hondo Motel in Hondo, the seat of Medina County, Texas

Sign for the distressed Hondo Motel in Hondo, the seat of Medina Count...

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

The Palace Motel, an old motor court-style motel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Route 180 that used to be the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. It features distinctive large cut stones that one sees in many structures throughout the state

The Palace Motel, an old motor court-style motel in Grand Prairie, Tex...

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

Sign for the abandoned Shoshoni Motel in Shoshoni, Wyoming

Sign for the abandoned Shoshoni Motel in Shoshoni, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Las Vegas Motel, Freemont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas Motel, Freemont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Old motel, Route 66, Truxton, Arizona

Old motel, Route 66, Truxton, Arizona

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

The End of the Trail Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The End of the Trail Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage mo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

View of the old Surf-n-Sand Motel in downtown Jackson, Mississippi's capital city

View of the old Surf-n-Sand Motel in downtown Jackson, Mississippi's c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the Plains Hotel, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Units of the old Gateway Motel in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

Units of the old Gateway Motel in the town of Holly, near the Kansas l...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Rampart Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Rampart Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels alon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Office tower of an old motel in Nogales, a city on the Mexican border in the southeast corner of Arizona

Office tower of an old motel in Nogales, a city on the Mexican border ...

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

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, Alabama

Colorful Hillcrest Motel in 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

Units of the abandoned Travelers' Motor Court and Cafe in the Conejos County, Colorado, town of La Jara

Units of the abandoned Travelers' Motor Court and Cafe in the Conejos ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The abandoned Travelers' Motor Court and Cafe in the Conejos County, Colorado, town of La Jara

The abandoned Travelers' Motor Court and Cafe in the Conejos County, C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Motel units that saw their better days years ago in Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the state historical site of the same name

Motel units that saw their better days years ago in Fort Bridger, Wyom...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Long-abandoned motel in the town of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the historical attraction of the same name

Long-abandoned motel in the town of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the hi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Vintage motel in Chandler, Arizona, a southern suburb of Phoenix, Arizona

Vintage motel in Chandler, Arizona, a southern suburb of Phoenix, Ariz...

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

The house-office of Bob's Western Motel in Kremmling, a town in Grand County, Colorado

The house-office of Bob's Western Motel in Kremmling, a town in Grand ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bob's Court, then Bob's Cabin, the motel rooms (not shown) were built built in 1935 using lumber and logs from a demo... More

Remnants of an old, stone tourist court behind the closed-for-business, 1929-vintage Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Remnants of an old, stone tourist court behind the closed-for-business...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Salt Flat served as a stopping place for travelers using the new highway that connected El Paso, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The... More

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the Plains Hotel, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the Plains Hotel, where Neil Goodrich preserved all or part of 40 historic western buildings to construct an operarting western complex in Douglas, Wyoming

The past comes alive at the Plains Trading Post Complex, including the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The sign for the Moorcroft Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming, borrows part of its look from Devils Tower, one of the state's most recognized natural features. The rock formation is 32 miles away, but Moorcroft is a frequently used turn-off point from Interstate Highway 90 to state roads that lead to the tower

The sign for the Moorcroft Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming, borrows part o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Motel units that saw their better days years ago in Fort Bridger, Wyoming, near the state historical site of the same name

Motel units that saw their better days years ago in Fort Bridger, Wyom...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

There are assuredly vacancies in these motel units in Fort Bridger, Wyoming

There are assuredly vacancies in these motel units in Fort Bridger, Wy...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The long-abandoned Lazy S Arrow Motel in Whitewater, Colorado, near Grand Junction

The long-abandoned Lazy S Arrow Motel in Whitewater, Colorado, near Gr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The Space Age Lodge and Restaurant in Gila Bend, Arizona, named for the Gila River, not the large, venomous gila monster lizard

The Space Age Lodge and Restaurant in Gila Bend, Arizona, named for th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The motel was one of five retro space-themed motels designed by Al Stovall throughout the American Southwest in the the 1960s in the y... More

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the old U.S. Highway 66 wound through town

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the ol...

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

Neon sign for the Loveland Heights Cottages, a classic mid-20th-Century cluster of mountain cabins in Estes Park, the eastern entrance to Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park

Neon sign for the Loveland Heights Cottages, a classic mid-20th-Centur...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Sign for the Trail Riders Motel in Granby, Colorado, at the southwestern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park

Sign for the Trail Riders Motel in Granby, Colorado, at the southweste...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

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