The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More
A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is st...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...
Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
The George Parks Highway Scenic Byway - Denali Country
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Denali country is dominated by the lofty, snow-covered peaks of the Alaska Range, active glaciers, rolling tundra, boggy muskegs, and ha... More
Talimena Scenic Drive - Dwarfs of Rich Mountain
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Stop by this informative plaque to learn more about the vegetation of the area. Location: Arkansas (34.675° N 94.329° W) Status: Publi... More
Great River Road - Entry Arch at the Arkansas-Missouri Border
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A delicate arch graces the border of Arkansas and Missouri. Location: Location: Arkansas-Missouri Border, Arkansas (35.999° N 89.898° W... More
Great River Road - A Forest Service Recreation Site near Helena, Arkan...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Towering trees offer shelter at this recreation site near Helena. Location: Location: Near Helena, Arkansas (34.600° N 90.619° W) Stat... More
Sculpture "Contemporary postman," by Attilio Piccirilli at the Ariel R...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 11" x 1' 8" x 1' 2"; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photo... More
"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds b...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Mural "Harvest Dance," by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior ...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 96" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More
Auditorium with mural at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washing...
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is stripped classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the bes...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1899, the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House is Fort Worth's premier example of Queen Anne-style Victorian architec... More
Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More
Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...
Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Riders enjoy (or endure) a spin on the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Ca...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1902 as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company, where riders traveling between Huntington and nearby ci... More
The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1901 and originally named in honor of J.S. Spencer, a local judge and steamboat-company operator, the hotel was operated by t... More
The George M. Jacobs Building, erected c. 1903, was long one of Fairmo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929. The building cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution of 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then Ministry of S... More
Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More
Industrial site logo in Monroeville, Alabama, showing the bird and the...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Twin Sears houses built from kits ordered from the Sears Department St...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) in...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Rural Alabama in the spring
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporate...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More
Façade of the Ursuline Convent and other buildings in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba
Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More
The Art Deco, 1100 New York Ave., NW., Washington, D.C.
Building was once a Greyhouse Bus depot. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Hig... More
The 1908 Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond, Texas, southwest of ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands a statue of Georgia native, later Richmond resident, Mirabeau B. Lamar, who held three offices, including president,... More
This small taxi was an inexpensive way to get around 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
Details on the Folger Shakespeare Library, East Capitol St. at interse...
William Shakespeare books and illustrations The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Compl... More
Three grouped stained-glass windows at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many of the church's windows were produced by Tiffany Studio of New York, and others by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey. Left to right: ... More
Architectural detail on a 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
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
Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...
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
Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...
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
Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landcaping, ampitheatre and art at ...
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
[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
Mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks nei...
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
Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Gr...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More
Scenic downtown 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
FAME Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, 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
In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More
Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama
Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More
The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...
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
Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, 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
Purple Martin bird gourd houses, Hamilton, 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
Views of Birmingham, Alabama, from Vulcan Statue
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 Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed offi... More
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
The Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where state and local lawmen attacked civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery. Named ... More
Fountain and front view of Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, Californ...
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
Adventureland Theme Park Miniature Golf, Dothan, 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
A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Neighborhood along the Malecón 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
Cast iron fountain with acanthus leaf motif, Bienville Square, Mobile,...
Bienville Square is a historic city park, built in 1842, in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The square was named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. It takes up the entire ... More
Order of Myths, Mobile's first and oldest Mardi Gras society, Mobile, ...
One of Mobile's most secretive, the OOMs (Double-Ohh-Mms) secret society was founded in 1867, one year after Joe Cain's fateful first ride through the streets of Mobile in the guise of Chief Slacabamorinico, an... More
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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
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 and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... More
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
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... 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
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More
Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landcaping, ampitheatre and art at ...
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
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
View of Havana, Cuba, from Morro Castle
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
Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More
Mural, Georgia Ave. near Keefer Pl., 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
The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...
The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More
The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...
The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More
Building right off the Melacón 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
Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More
Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
Public domain image of carnival, parade, celebration, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Fire Station 4, Columbus, Indiana
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Steam train, Essex, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
[Looking out over the marshes in Long Island Sound near Westport, Conn...
Date provided by the photographer. Title from information photographer provided for related adjacent image LC-DIG-highsm-18895. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the ... More
New England Carousel Museum, Bristol, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Tobacco barns in Suffield, Connecticut
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.
New England Air Museum (NEAM) at Bradley International Airport, Windso...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Stamford Cone at the UBS building in Stamford, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
East Jesus Art project located in Slab City, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. East Jesus Art project is located in the Colorado Desert of Southeastern California.Slab City. It consists of the forlorn remnants of the WWII-era Camp Du... More
Close up of sculpture located in César Chávez Plaza is a park in downt...
The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith and Welcome sign in Mojave Desert, Cal...
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
Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town
The town was the setting for Mark Twain's 1865 short story,"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More
View of Sacramento California's Old City Cemetery
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Established in 1849 with an initial donation of 10 acres by John Sutter, the famous local entrepreneur on whose land, up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, o... More
Sather Tower, University of California at Berkeley, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Visible for miles, the tower is the third tallest bell and clock-tower in the world. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs... More
A living sno-globe scene and winter wonderland, created by a sudden mo...
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
The Sundial Bridge, which crosses the Sacramento River at Turtle Bay i...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Opened July 4, 2004, the bridge links the north and south campuses of Turtle Bay Exploration Park and serves as a new downtown entrance for ReddingÆs exte... More
Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the n...
The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley settler. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photograp... More