Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
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
Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
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
A wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was largely settled by Norwegian immigrants, but an arrival from England, George Wright, gave it its name Credit line: Photographs ... More
Participants meet inside the Mustang Pavilion during a 4-H Club "tour"...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the early 2000s, Kim was, in the words of one resident, "about dried up and blowed away." But then a group of residents and area ra... More
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
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
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in ...
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
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
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
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
Detail inside a cabin at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
Some of the artifacts extracted, cleaned and catalogued, and protected...
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
Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
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
Designer Tina Westercamp's combination muraltilework, "The Migration o...
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
Display at the Swiss Historical Village & Museum in New Glarus, Wiscon...
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
Outside wall displaying archaeological artifacts retrieved from digs o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1,200-acre development is comprised of 32 parcels atop more than 210 archaeological sites from the Anasazi period more than 2,000 ... 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
Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, 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
Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...
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
Interior hall and doorway at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Rev...
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 house had at one time fallen into such disrepair th... More
One of 16 tempura-on canvas murals from Thomas Hart Benton's mural "A ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This piece of the Benton work is one of four Great Depression-era murals mounted in the historic Indiana University Auditorium, built ... More
Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...
The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... 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
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More
"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
Peter Vandenberge's wood and earthenware sculpture of William F. "Buff...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
View from the Molas Pass Overlook, almost 11,000 feet high in the San ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Of this and nearby scenes, William Henry Holmes, a U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey explorer, wrote in 1876: "If you should, in... More
Revolutionary War-themed mural inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort H...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... More
Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... More
Rough sketch of a paddlewheel steamboat on a wall of what was the libr...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Drawn in the early 1860s by a recuperating Civil War soldier, whether Union or Confederate is not certain, since several buildings in ... More
The North Chancel Window, a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Epis...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is a 1962 replacement by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey of a window originally given by the congregation in 1871 in memory of the ch... More
The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Cly... More
The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Cly... More
Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Frank V. Newell and built by Puebloans Henry Thatcher and Mahlon Thatcher in the Richardsonian Romanesque style ... More
Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More
The former Bovee Flats "castle" apartment building in Waterloo, Iowa, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property declined along with the neighborhood, and the building closed some time after 2007. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol... More
This ponderosa pine is a venerated object at the A Bar A guest ranch, ...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
Harvest Time, artist Brad Godell's 2011 mural in Cortez, Colorado, sug...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural depicts the gathering of peaches, a delicacy so renowned in the Montezuma County area that they won a gold medal at the 1904... More
Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
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 photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
The Higgins Hotel, which opened in 1916 in Glenrock, Wyoming
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Swans swim in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Early in the 20th C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... 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
The 1936 Cord 810 Westchester sedan is one of about 125 classic automo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This Cord is an authentic re-creation of the one-off (or built one time only) show car Cord built by the Auburn Automobile Company. Th... More
One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
The Rialto Theater in Casper, Wyoming, built as the New Lyric Theater ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was constructed with 800 seats by Henry Brennan, who had run a successful Vaudeville house on which he based the design of the new ... More
One of several murals inside the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also k...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The shrine is named for Will Rogers, the American humorist who died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935 during construction, and is als... More
Part of a ceramic-tile mural, by Works Project Administration artist K...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More
Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More
Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More
"Loggers" mural inside the United States Post Office in Pendleton, Ind...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1939 mural, by artist William Kaiser, was part of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, or WPA, Public Works of Art Pr... 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
A classic neon Packard advertising sign hangs on the corner of America...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Photo shows, left to right, a 1941 LeBaron Sport Brougham, a 1941 Darrin Convertible, and an otherwise unidentified 1932 model. (Source: C. Seavey, 2017) Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... 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
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... 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
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
A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs "First House," also commonly referred...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by acclaimed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it was constructed in 1937 and is considered by most to be the first Uson... More
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More
A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
A 1940 President Club sedan, in green, at the Studebaker Museum in Sou...
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
A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
The former dealership general manager's office at America's Packard Mu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More
Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More
An old car-salesman's office at America's Packard Museum, an automotiv...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
A classic automobile at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... 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
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
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
Portrait inside the Lilly House at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in I...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 22-room mansion, part of the Oldfields Estate, was built between 1909 and 1913 by architect Lewis Ketcham Davis for the family of ... 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
Desk inside the Lilly House at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in India...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 22-room mansion, part of the Oldfields Estate, was built between 1909 and 1913 by architect Lewis Ketcham Davis for the family of ... More
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the... More
Robert Laurent's 1949 limestone sculpture, "Allegory of the Dance," mo...
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
Robert Laurent's 1949 limestone sculpture, "Allegory of Music," mounte...
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
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
Covered stone veranda at the Miller House, considered a modern-archite...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... 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
Approach to the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch was established in 1907 when 28 bison were moved from Fort Yellowstone in another part of the park. The herd was maintained ... 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
Small art wall and bookcases near the front entrance of the Miller Hou...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... 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
Lander Mill in Lander, Wyoming. The grain mill was built in 1888 for t...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo R...
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
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
Cabins at the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo...
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
Airy living room at Castle Rock, the Lowell and Agnes Walter House, co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house is one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's most complete "Usonian" homes. In addition to the building design and framewo... 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
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
A 1962 sedan prototype (in black) commissioned by Studebaker designer ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. During wartime, the automobile manufacturer produced military vehicles of various kinds. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. High... 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