A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in A...
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
For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...
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 portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More
Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba
The square took definitive shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Cathedrals construction was begun around 1748 as a temple to the Jesuit fathers. This order was expelled in 1767, the half-fin... More
Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More
Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama
Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More
Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
An untitled 1932 oil painting by George Sanderson Bickerstaff, display...
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
Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built an...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More
Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More
Scenes from Alabama on bronze doors at Alabama Department of Archives ...
The Alabama Department of Archives and History was established by an act of the legislature on February 27, 1901. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F.... More
West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More
Marble carving of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne at Aspect, the e...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The family summered in Cornish, often surrounded by students and admirers in a "Cornish Colony," including his brother Louis St. Gaude... More
Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeas...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York
Artist: Kenneth Washburn. An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title infor... More
Fresco painting above room 5138 entrance, Department of Justice, Washi...
Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More
Mural showing Native Americans by artist Gerald Nailor at the Interior...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
Oil painting "Immigration Scene" located on fifth floor, elevator no. ...
Artist: Louis Bouche, 1937. Dimensions: 11' x 2' 8". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... More
Mural: "Winter Roundup," by Ernest Fiene at the Department of Interior...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 94" x 69 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit ... More
Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...
GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' ; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
Mural "Religion," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 107" x 77"; 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
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Mural "The Security of the People" by Seymour Fogel located in the Wil...
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 Rialto Theatre building in Alamosa, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Rialto opened in 1925 as an American Legion Hall. Within two years it became a movie house seating about 1,000, and also featured ... More
Sculptor James Rice's statue of the outlaw Billy the Kid, firing his g...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is a somewhat controversial statue, for this is the figure of Ollie P. Roberts, usually known as Ollie L. Roberts, "Brushy Bill" ... More
Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More
Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More
Sculpture "Harvesting Sugar Cane," by Armin Alfred Scheler at the F. E...
Date: 1941; dimensions: 8' x 9'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit ... 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
The Reynolds-Secor House is one of many mansions on Toledo, Ohio's, Ol...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Also known as Mansion View, the house, designed by local architect Edward Fallis for Charles Reynolds, a successful banker and merchan... More
Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...
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
Wall paintings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, Cali...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district i... More
William Kistler "Bill" Coors, grandson of Coors Brewery founder Adolph...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A chemical engineer, Bill Coors himself worked as a company executive for more than six decades. He is credited with pioneering the re... More
Exterior doorway detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the...
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
Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the...
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
American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More
Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...
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
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
Sculpture "The Voice of Reason, Oscar S. Straus Memorial Fountain," by...
Date: 1947; dimensions: 5' 4" x 11' 5" x 5'; medium: bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer... More
American vintage cars line up near the Havana, Cuba, Capitol and China...
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
Neon sign from the Floridita Bar, Havana, Cuba
Ernest Hemingway frequented the Floridita Bar when he lived in Havana in the 1950s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More
Old cars and old façades 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
Log barn at the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo herds in the United States. The... More
Yale University, New Haven, 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
Side and rear view of the Isaac C. Parker Federal Building & U.S. Cour...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1936, the building con... More
The Milwaukee Public Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. After several moves and several fires, the city library moved into this block-long limestone building in 1898. A national competition ... More
The Hogback Bridge, one of six remaining covered bridges (of 19) in Ma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named after a nearby limestone ridge, the Hogback Bridge was built in 1884 by Benton Jones over the North River. The 106-foot bridge, ... More
The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-...
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
Booth and mementos at Johnnie's Drive-in restaurant, a frequent hangou...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059).... More
Abandoned cars, Route 66, 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
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the Zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... 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
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Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information from the Yale University website. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M... More
The former governors' mansion, known locally as the Historic Governors...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Architect Charles Murdock designed the Georgian-style buiding, which served from 1905 to 1976. Rooms have been decorated to represent ... More
The Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O to house travelers and imp...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, reaching 30 passenger trains a day by the 1920s. The old Grafton House, containing both ho... More
Tailfins of a 1961 Studebaker Hawk automobile at the Studebaker Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is connected to and shares an entrance with the city's history museum. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith A... More
Detail view of oil painting "Life Before the Pioneer Era" at C. Clifto...
Artist: Richard Guy Walton, 1966. Dimensions: 6.5' x 24.5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... More
The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
"Flying Monkey" sculptures atop a building on the Burlington, Vermont,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The steel sculptures were created in the 1970s by artist Steve Larrabee to expand upon the Wizard of Oz theme of a now-defunct local w... More
The Kanawha Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia, was open until the m...
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
A fairly unusual double rainbow appears over the similarly unusual lev...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Explanations for this phenomenon are best provided by a meteorologist, but note that the order of colors is reversed in the two rainbo... More
A rainbow appears over the unusual levee along the Arkansas River in P...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The long and eclectic mural on the levee walls first appeared as whimsical graffiti in the 1970s and is said to be the longest, if not... More
A fairly unusual double rainbow appears over the similarly unusual lev...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Explanations for this phenomenon are best provided by a meteorologist, but note that the order of colors is reversed in the two rainbo... More
Zodiac-theme grill decoration at the National Academy of Sciences, Was...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Balsams Hotel, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The first votes of the New Hampshire Primary are cast h... More
Architectural detail in the Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Cape Neddick Light Station, York, Maine, known as the "Nubble Light" a...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Memorial Bridge with Rosslyn, Virginia, in the background
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Historic interpretors make bricks from scratch at Mount Vernon, George...
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Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author's home in Hartford, ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Las Vegas, Nevada's headlining illusionists Siegfried & Roy (Siegried ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This was prior to the mauling of Roy, left, by a white ... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Downtown, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Vines in winter - Drawing. Public domain image.
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The Riviera Hotel sign. The Riviera was the first high-rise resort in ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Rocky coast, Maine - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Ballet dancers limber up in the lobby of the War Memorial Opera House,...
Designed by G. Albert Lansburgh and modeled after Garnier's Paris Opera. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and th... More
Elegant dining room at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, once the west's reno...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Dodona Manor, weekend retreat of George C. Marshall and his wife in Le...
Avid gardeners, in 1941 they bought this retreat from their public life at Quarters Number One at Fort Myer, Virginia. In buying the residence they sought a quiet place to retire. Digital image produced by Caro... More
City of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana
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An old lighthouse stands on a spit of land at the Marina, San Francisc...
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Administration building of the Arthurdale planned community, a communa...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Airplane displayed at the offices of BAE Systems, a leading defense co...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The company traces its lineage to the earlier British A... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Islamic Center, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Two key figures responsible for saving and restoring the grand Willard...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Desolate view of the Utah desert from an Interstate highway
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More