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The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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, Texas

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 still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

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 Jamieson at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

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 Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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 Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

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

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 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

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

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, Arkansas

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 Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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 building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

"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 Building, Washington, D.C.

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, Washington, D.C.

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 best-preserved examples of Victorian architecture left in Texas

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

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 completed in 1895 in Galveston, Texas

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 monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

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 United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

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 Camden Park, an amusement park on the outskirts of Huntington, West Virginia

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 on the Ohio River in West Virginia

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 Fairmont, West Virginia's elite business addresses. No longer

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 downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

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 in 1897 by industrialist James Nelson Vance in honor of his parents

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

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, Grand Junction, Colorado

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 old Monroe County Courthouse used in the play "To Kill a Mockingbird" by resident Harper Lee

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 Store catalog. Tuscumbia, Alabama

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 Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

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 of Tom Green County, Texas. It depicts an early stagecoach of the type that brought pioneers to the city in the 1840s

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

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 unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

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

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, 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.

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 Houston

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

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 intersection with 2nd St., NE, Washington, D.C.

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 in Wheeling, West Virginia

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

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

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." Located in historic downtown Monroeville, Alabama

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-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

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 the University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama

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]

[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 neighborhood of Houston, Texas

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 Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

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

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

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 El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

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

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, 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 Orange Beach, Alabama

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

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

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

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, 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

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, California

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

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 Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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 Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

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

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

Neighborhood along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

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, Alabama

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, Alabama

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

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, 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 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

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama

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 is right outside of Montgomery, Alabama

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

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

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, 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 the University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama

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

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

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

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.

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 Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

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 Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Connecticut]

[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

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

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, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

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

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

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

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 downtown Sacramento, California's capital city, on the site of the old city plaza

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, California

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

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

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

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 mountain blizzard along California Highway 36, south of Lassen Volcanic National Park

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 in the heart of Redding, California

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 northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

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

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