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The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skyscraper

The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... More

Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona

Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, 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-201... More

Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California

Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... More

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Francisco, California

Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton, Pennsylvania

Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...

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-201... More

Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California

Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

This snowman figure, which some might say bears more resemblance to a frog, stands outside the Mount Washington Valley Children's Museum in North Conway, New Hampshire

This snowman figure, which some might say bears more resemblance to a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store...

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

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rustic, one-room cabins at the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in Boone, North Carolina. The backwoods village was assembled by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association with support from the Town of Boone and more than 1,000 local businesses. The museum's re-enactments and craft demonstrations focus on Western North Carolina's settlement period 200 years ago, "when folks who settled into this region had to grow, create, and trade for the necessities of life."

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rust...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Nook inside the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Nook inside the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More

Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site on the outskirts of Durham

Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...

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

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art in the historic Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art i...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that were used in batteries, phonograph records and other inventions, at The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey

The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that ...

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

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...

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 Ph... More

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout Texas. This one stands just outside the university town of Alpine in southwest Texas

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

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

One section of the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

One section of the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. For more than a half-century, low-rent houseboats have inhabited Richardson Bay, just north of Sausalito. The inhabitants of 38 houseboats at Gates Co-op ... More

A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra Quotskuwa Nampeyo, displayed at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona a private, not-for-profit museum to the advancement of American Indian art. The jar is 7.5 inches wide and 10 inches high

A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...

Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...

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

Blacksmith shop at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

Blacksmith shop at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of sav...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Unlike actual settlers' cabins on the site that were moved from their orig... More

Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Hermanville, Mississippi was discovered by the land's owner Spurgeon C. Mangum in 1936 where he discovered human remains and pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture prevalent during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries

Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona

A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rustic, one-room cabins at the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in Boone, North Carolina. The backwoods village was assembled by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association with support from the Town of Boone and more than 1,000 local businesses. The museum's re-enactments and craft demonstrations focus on Western North Carolina's settlement period 200 years ago, "when folks who settled into this region had to grow, create, and trade for the necessities of life."

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rust...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...

Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More

Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Arizona

Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Ari...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Holly Springs, Mississippi

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sisters of Mercy at St. Joseph's Catholic Church were front and center in the care of victims of a virulent yellow fever outbreak in 1... More

Some of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

Some of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in...

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

Used bathtubs and sinks, on display and for sale, along a road between Oxford and Batesville in Lee County, Mississippi

Used bathtubs and sinks, on display and for sale, along a road between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Uncovered artifacts turned into art at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Uncovered artifacts turned into art at Boone Hall Plantation and Garde...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More

Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of California

Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast o...

The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More

Tile heraldic sign on a building in New Braunfels, Texas, evincing a touch of the city's German heritage

Tile heraldic sign on a building in New Braunfels, Texas, evincing a t...

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

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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

Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...

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

Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pit" at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

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

Miscellaneous pots and pans at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Miscellaneous pots and pans at the general store that is part of the S...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

Dinsmore Shop Cooperage at the Strawbery Banke outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth

Dinsmore Shop Cooperage at the Strawbery Banke outdoor history museum ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Strawbery Banke features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Fede... More

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...

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 Ph... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Hermanville, Mississippi was discovered by the land's owner Spurgeon C. Mangum in 1936 where he discovered human remains and pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture prevalent during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries

The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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

A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas

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

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

Religious illustration above the doorway to Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Texas

Religious illustration above the doorway to Santa Teresa de Jesus Cath...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Time and the elements have taken their toll on this ancient Sheffield, Massachusetts cemetery (by American standards) that includes headstones dating to the late 1700s

Time and the elements have taken their toll on this ancient Sheffield,...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC... More

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna (also Mission Concepcion), established in 1716 as Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de los Hainais in East Texas

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna (also Missio...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Franciscan friars, the mission was originally meant to be a base for converting the Hasinai Indians. In 1731 it relocated ... More

Room interior at Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury, New Hampshire

Room interior at Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury, New Hampshir...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The historic site and museum preserves a site that was one of a number of Shaker communities founded in the 19th century. The United S... More

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, which is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

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

Grounds at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

Grounds at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas,...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More

Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...

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

Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and...

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

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed in 1939 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of a Carnegie Grant study of the South

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed in 1939 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of a Carnegie Grant study of the South

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More

One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford, depicting historic scenes and local culture in Vicksburg, Mississippi

One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one depicts the moment in 1799 that is considered the founding of Vicksburg, when Rev. Newitt Vick, a Virginia-born preacher, and... More

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed in 1939 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of a Carnegie Grant study of the South

The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Moses Austin(1761-1821) was a pioneer settler of Texas who, in 1808, founded the town of Herculaneum, MO, the first Anglo American to... More

A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier V...

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 Ph... More

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of France kept a mission for two years during the period when Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846. As the name suggests, it is now a historical house museum

The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of Fran...

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

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama

The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama

Located 23 miles from Mobile and surrounded by 300-year-old oak trees, the Grand Hotel was originally built in 1847 as a two-story building with 40 rooms. The Grand has since expanded to include more than 400 g... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the first Gothic Reivival churches in the American South

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

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