Graffiti and an old pay telephone on a streetcorner in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The graffiti's message had originally read, "Time 4 Change," with a reference to candidate (later president) Barack Obama

A rare sight in America late in 2012: a working payphone in a rural setting, minus any graffiti. This one stood along U.S. 395 in the tiny settlement of Ravendale, north of Susanville, California

engraving from "The Voters and Tax-Payers of Bureau County, Illinois. Containing, also, a biographical directory ... a history of the County and State [by N. Matson], etc. [With plates and a map.]"

Port Gibson, Mississippi. Facsimile of a letter written by President Roosevelt to a resident painted on the side of a building

Political graffiti scrawled on the corner of a building by a protester in a previous demonstration states "Peacebreaker". Security police are preparing the base for another scheduled mass demonstration against the construction of an American cruise missile base at nearby Wuescheim

[Picketers at White House with sign: "4 Years Since I Saw My Daddy." etc. Washington, D.C.]

Graffiti and an old pay telephone on a streetcorner in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The graffiti's message had originally read, "Time 4 Change," with a reference to candidate (later president) Barack Obama

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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