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Aerial view of the Phoenix, Arizona, area, with a focus on Tovrea Castle, a historic structure and landmark that , when built in 1928, was intended as a centerpiece for a resort and later became a private residence

Aerial view of the Phoenix, Arizona, area, with a focus on Tovrea Cast...

Although Tovrea Castle was later purchased by the city with the idea of turning it and its grounds into a pubic park, the building's deteriorated conditions kept the grounds closed to all but limited tours. Its... More

Aerial view of Jackson, Mississippi, focusing on Lake Hico, North of town

Aerial view of Jackson, Mississippi, focusing on Lake Hico, North of t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Hico is a cooling pond reservoir built in the 1950s. Its primary purpose is to provide water for the adjacent Rex Brown Plant, wh... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Bridge, a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1973 Fremont Brid...

The bridge carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second-longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyu... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the surroundings of Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (seen to the far left), serving Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state

An October 2017 aerial view of the surroundings of Portsmouth Internat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The airport is located within the Pease International Tradeport, a result of the ongoing redevelopment of the former Pease Air Force B... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, serving Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state

An October 2017 aerial view of the Portsmouth International Airport at...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The airport is located within the Pease International Tradeport, a result of the ongoing redevelopment of the former Pease Air Force B... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of Cincinnati, Ohio's city hall, designed by renowned Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford and completed in 1893

Aerial view of Cincinnati, Ohio's city hall, designed by renowned Cinc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

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

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Lake Park

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's La...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The lighthouse replaced a previous Cream City brick lighthouse constructed in 1855 that was located too close to the edge of the erodi... More

Aerial view of the Royal Gorge and the bridge that crosses it, near Canon City, Colorado. At 955 feet above the Arkansas River, the bridge held the record of highest such span in the world from its completion in 1929 to 2001, when a new suspension bridge in China surpassed it

Aerial view of the Royal Gorge and the bridge that crosses it, near Ca...

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

Aerial view of Geist Reservoir and surrounding housing developments in Indianapolis suburb of Fishers, Indiana

Aerial view of Geist Reservoir and surrounding housing developments in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The reservoir was constructed in 1943 by damming Fall Creek to provide water for Indianapolis. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Lake Park

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's La...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The lighthouse replaced a previous Cream City brick lighthouse constructed in 1855 that was located too close to the edge of the erodi... More

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Lake Park

Aerial view of the North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's La...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The lighthouse replaced a previous Cream City brick lighthouse constructed in 1855 that was located too close to the edge of the erodi... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, New York, New York

Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

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

Aerial view of the The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. The museum, which opened in 1994, is housed in the 40,000-square-foot Hangar #1, built in 1939

Aerial view of the The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, on...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum preserves the history of Lowry's operations from 1938 to 1994 in its collections, archives, and research library. In 1997, ... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

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

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

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

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More

Aerial view of the Royal Gorge Bridge, outside Canon City, Colorado

Aerial view of the Royal Gorge Bridge, outside Canon City, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The suspension bridge crosses the gorge 955 feet above the Arkansas River. It held the record fpr highest bridge in the world from 192... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of Geist Reservoir and surrounding housing developments in Indianapolis suburb of Fishers, Indiana

Aerial view of Geist Reservoir and surrounding housing developments in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The reservoir was constructed in 1943 by damming Fall Creek to provide water for Indianapolis. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M... More

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the venerable Indianapolis 500 auto race, held every Memorial Day weekend in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of the Indiana capital city of Indianapolis

Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

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

Waikiki Beach aerial, Oahu, Hawaii

Waikiki Beach aerial, Oahu, Hawaii

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Waikiki Beach Aerial, Oahu, Hawaii. Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, Haw... More

Aerial view of industrial area, Honolulu, Hawaii

Aerial view of industrial area, Honolulu, Hawaii

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

Aerial view of pineapple farms, Hawaii

Aerial view of pineapple farms, Hawaii

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

Aerial view of peaks and valleys, Hawaii

Aerial view of peaks and valleys, Hawaii

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

Aerial view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii

Aerial view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (America project). Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchas... More

Alpine lakes and forest, Denali National Park, Alaska

Alpine lakes and forest, Denali National Park, Alaska

Picryl description: Public domain image of a landscape with water, mountains, and sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miles and miles of homes, Las Vegas, Nevada

Miles and miles of homes, 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

Aerial view from helicoptor, Sedona, Arizona

Aerial view from helicoptor, Sedona, 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

Aerial view, Lake Las Vegas Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Aerial view, Lake Las Vegas Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Located 17 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, Lake Las Vegas is a man-made resort for the wealthy. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Cong... More

Aerial view from helicoptor, Sedona, Arizona

Aerial view from helicoptor, Sedona, 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

Aerial view of the complex Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River

Aerial view of the complex Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River

The bridge, actually a pair of virtually identical steel vertical-lift, "Parker type" through-truss bridges, carries Interstate Highway 5 traffic to and from Vancouver, Washington (right), and Portland, Oregon.... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of the Charleston Peninsula in Charleston, South Carolina. The green space in the left foreground is the White Point Garden, and the large white building to its left is the 1924-vintage Fort Sumter Hotel

Aerial view of the Charleston Peninsula in Charleston, South Carolina....

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. Portsmouth connects via the Memorial lift bridge (right) to Badger's Island, which is in Maine waters; that island, in turn connects to Kittery, the southernmost point of mainland Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Memorial Bridge, opened in 2013, replaced one of similar design that existed from 1923 to 2012. A large overhead plaque facing traffic... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge replaces a lift bridge of the same name, carrying the U.S. Highway 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth an... More

An October 2017 aerial view of Kittery, the southernmost city in Maine, across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire

An October 2017 aerial view of Kittery, the southernmost city in Maine...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The large building in the foreground is the Portsmouth Naval Prison, a notoriously stern former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison. The... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, as well as a portion of the dammed river that became Lake Mead, the locus of a widespread national recreation area

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between ...

Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-arch dam was renamed after former U.S. president Herbert Hoover in 1947. Now a popular tourist attraction, the dam's generators provide p... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

The complex Interstate Bridge near the Washington shoreline

The complex Interstate Bridge near the Washington shoreline

The bridge, actually a pair of virtually identical steel vertical-lift, "Parker type" through-truss bridges, carries Interstate Highway 5 traffic across the Columbia River to and from Vancouver, Washington and ... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. Portsmouth connects via the Memorial lift bridge (foreground) to Badger's Island, which is in Maine waters; that island, in turn connects to Kittery, the southernmost point of mainland Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Memorial Bridge, opened in 2013, replaced one of similar design that existed from 1923 to 2012. A large overhead plaque facing traffic... More

Aerial view of Tovrea Castle in Phoenix, Arizona, whose county, Maricopa, at the time of this photograph in 2018 was the fastest-growing in the United States. Originally intended as a centerpiece for a resort and later a private residence, the castle, completed in 1931, is now part of the Phoenix parks system and is designated as one of the "Phoenix Points of Pride" program

Aerial view of Tovrea Castle in Phoenix, Arizona, whose county, Marico...

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

Aerial view focusing on the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, South Carolina

Aerial view focusing on the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, South Car...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1886, the mansion was built as a private residence for Francis Silas Rodgers, a wealthy cotton merchant, in the Second Em... More

Aerial view of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, berthed at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, adjacent to Charleston

Aerial view of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, berthed at Patriots ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War. Yorktown was commissioned in April 1943, and participated... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the Hawthorne Bridge, a 1910 vertical-lift bridge over the Willamette River

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the Hawthorne Bridge,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

The Boardwalk and Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The Boardwalk and Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Begun in 1898, the Steel Pier has been one of the most popular entertainment venues in the United States for the first seven decades o... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse (left), better known as the "Nubble Light," off Wells, Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse (left), bet...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1874 Congress appropriated $15,000 to build a light station on tiny Nubble Island, and in 1879 construction began. It is still in u... More

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses within proximity of each other, on Cape Elizabeth

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1829 as two towers 300 yards apart this station was called Two Lights. Both lights were rebuilt in 1874. One (above), with th... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse, better known as the "Nubble Light," off Wells, Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse, better kno...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1874 Congress appropriated $15,000 to build a light station on tiny Nubble Island, and in 1879 construction began. It is still in u... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse, better known as the "Nubble Light," off Wells, Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse, better kno...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1874 Congress appropriated $15,000 to build a light station on tiny Nubble Island, and in 1879 construction began. It is still in u... More

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses within proximity of each other, on Cape Elizabeth

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1829 as two towers 300 yards apart this station was called Two Lights. Both lights were rebuilt in 1874. One (above), with th... More

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, as well as a portion of the dammed river that became Lake Mead, the locus of a widespread national recreation area

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between ...

Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-arch dam was renamed after former U.S. president Herbert Hoover in 1947. Now a popular tourist attraction, the dam's generators provide p... More

Aerial view of Hammersmith Farm in Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island

Aerial view of Hammersmith Farm in Newport on Aquidneck Island in the ...

Hammersmith Victorian mansion was the childhood home of future First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and the site of the reception for her 1953 wedding to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. During his presidency, it... More

Aerial view of Middletown, Rhode Island, with a focus on St. George's School, a private, Episcopal, coeducational boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island, on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean

Aerial view of Middletown, Rhode Island, with a focus on St. George's ...

The school was founded in 1896 by the Rev. John Byron Diman. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-3)... More

Aerial view of Buffalo, New York, with a focus on the Connecticut Street Armory, also known as the 74th Regimental Armory, a National Guard armory building located in Columbus Park

Aerial view of Buffalo, New York, with a focus on the Connecticut Stre...

The massive castle-like structure was completed in 1899 of Medina sandstone. It was designed by architect Isaac G. Perry. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Ca... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 1... More

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, with a focus on Rough Point mansion, an English Manorial style home built for Frederick William Vanderbilt

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

The city is famous for its rich nautical history and its array of elegant mansions owned by the rich and famous. The 1892 home's last private owner was American heiressand philanthropist Doris Duke, and is curr... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. Portsmouth, to the left in this view, connects via the Memorial lift bridge to Badger's Island, which is in Maine waters; that island, in turn connects to Kittery, the southernmost point of mainland Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Memorial Bridge, opened in 2013, replaced one of similar design that existed from 1923 to 2012. A large overhead plaque facing traffic... More

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, as well as a portion of the dammed river that became Lake Mead, the locus of a widespread national recreation area

Aerial view of massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between ...

Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-arch dam was renamed after former U.S. president Herbert Hoover in 1947. Now a popular tourist attraction, the dam's generators provide p... More

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1966 Marquam Bridge

Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, with a focus on the 1966 Marquam Brid...

The Marquam bridge is a double-deck, steel-truss cantilever bridge that carries Interstate Highway 5 traffic across the Willamette River south of the city. It is (as of 2018) the busiest bridge in Oregon. Title... More

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, with a focus on Ochre Court estate

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

The chateauesque mansion, commissioned by Ogden Goelet, a Gilded Age businessman and yachtsman, was built in 1892 and is the second-largest mansion in Newport after nearby The Breakers. Both were designed by ar... More

Archway through a curved connection between buildings at the Richardson Olmsted Complex, the 1870 Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane Buffalo, New York

Archway through a curved connection between buildings at the Richardso...

The building and surrounding grounds designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, respectively. Over the years, as mental health treatment changed, the complex de... More

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey shore in Ocean City, New Jersey. Gillian's is a historic amusement park founded in 1929 and is mostly famous for its 144-foot Giant Wheel, one of the largest Ferris wheels on the east coast

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey sho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, a resort in Phoenix, Arizona, whose county, Maricopa, at the time of this photograph in 2018 was the fastest-growing in the United States. The resort dates to 1929

Aerial view of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, a resort in Phoenix, Arizon...

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

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge replaces a lift bridge of the same name, carrying the U.S. Highway 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth an... More

The Boardwalk and Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The Boardwalk and Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Begun in 1898, the Steel Pier has been one of the most popular entertainment venues in the United States for the first seven decades o... More

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, with a focus on Seaview Terrace, also known as Carey Mansion

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

Designed in the French Renaissance Revival Chateauesque style and completed in 1925, it was the last of the great "summer cottages" constructed, and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions after The Breakers... More

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the largest city along the shortest coastline (18 miles) of any U.S. state. The focus is on the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a span set to open approximately one month after the date of this photograph

An October 2017 aerial view of the historic seaport of Portsmouth, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge replaces a lift bridge of the same name, carrying the U.S. Highway 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth an... More

Aerial view of downtown Seattle, Washington

Aerial view of downtown Seattle, Washington

The pointed-roof building in the foreground is Smith Tower, a Seattle landmark in Pioneer Square. Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 484-foot tower is the oldest skyscraper in the city. Title, date and keywords b... More

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 1... More

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 milli...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 1... More

Aerial view of the intricate network of support cables at massive Hoover Dam, which straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River

Aerial view of the intricate network of support cables at massive Hoov...

Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-arch dam was renamed after former U.S. president Herbert Hoover in 1947. Now a popular tourist attraction, the dam's generators provide p... More

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, with a focus on The Breakers, the largest and best-known Gilded Age mansion among dozens of them in the city

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

The 1895 mansion was built as the Newport summer "cottage" of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family, in an architectural style based on the Italian Renaissance. It was... More

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses within proximity of each other, on Cape Elizabeth

An October 2017 aerial view of Maine's "Two Lights," two lighthouses w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1829 as two towers 300 yards apart this station was called Two Lights. Both lights were rebuilt in 1874. One (above), with th... More

An October 2017 aerial view of Kittery, the southernmost city in Maine, across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire

An October 2017 aerial view of Kittery, the southernmost city in Maine...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The large building to the left is the Portsmouth Naval Prison, a notoriously stern former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison. The reinf... More

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