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Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

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

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

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

Outside wall displaying archaeological artifacts retrieved from digs outside the home of Archie and Mary Hanson, founders of Indian Camp Ranch, a highly unusual development of residential estates atop a plateau in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County, near Cortez

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

A wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwegian influence

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" event in Kim, a ranching town with that is a notable success story in a lightly populated section of Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado homes

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 students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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 the center's visiting residential program for young people, learn about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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 unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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 students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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 of Tradition" on the Rockwood Pottery Building in Cincinnati, Ohio

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

Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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 students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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 in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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 in this "curation room" at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado. These objects eventually are given to the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado, which displays the culture and history of the Ancestral Pueblo people

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

Display at the Swiss Historical Village & Museum in New Glarus, Wisconsin, a town largely settled by Swiss settlers that now (2016) calls itself "America's Little Switzerland"

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

Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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

One of 16 tempura-on canvas murals from Thomas Hart Benton's mural "A Social History of the State of Indiana" that Benton painted for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

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

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, which one swarmed with silver prospectors and prosperous mines that, in the late 1800s, made Silverton a boomtown

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, which one swarmed with silver prospectors and prosperous mines that, in the late 1800s, made Silverton a boomtown

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

"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian-style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas

"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. "Buffalo Bill" Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming

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 Juan Mountains of southern Colorado

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

The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on John Wayne Drive in Winterset, Iowa, was built in the 1880s

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 John Wayne Drive in Winterset, Iowa, was built in the 1880s

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 former Bovee Flats "castle" apartment building in Waterloo, Iowa, dates to the early 1900s, when it was built as one of several rental properties owned by D.W. Bovee, owner of plants that made hot-air furnaces and feed mills

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, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. Called "Slim's Tree"Ø after homesteader Slim Hopkins, who lived down i what else"Slim's Draw" in the 1800s, it is has been dated to at least 1610

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, suggesting Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals during the Great Depression

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

The Higgins Hotel, which opened in 1916 in Glenrock, Wyoming

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

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

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

One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar Falls Ice House, a historic structure in Cedar Falls, Iowa

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 in 1921

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 known as Will Rogers Shrine, a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain high above Colorado Springs, Colorado

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 Kenneth Gale, depicting Texas history, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

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 Kenneth Gale and depicting Texas history, on the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

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 Kenneth Gale, depicting Texas history, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

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, Indiana

"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

Portrait inside the Lilly House at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana's capital city

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Goshen County, Wyoming

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Goshen County, Wyoming

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Goshen County, Wyoming

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

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 to as "Jacobs I," a single-family home in Madison, Wisconsin

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Goshen County, Wyoming

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, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 South Bend, Indiana

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

Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in Goshen County, Wyoming

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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

A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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 Goshen County, Wyoming

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 Indiana's capital city

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 automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio

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," mounted inside the Indiana University Auditorium, which opened in Bloomington that year

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," mounted inside the Indiana University Auditorium, which opened in Bloomington that year

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

View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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

Entryway of the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Entryway of the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Note the distinctive door-pulls. The Chief was once a single-venue theater offering live performances and events from the late 1920s t... More

American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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

Display at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana, that presents a variety of automobiles, wagons, carriages, and military vehicles related to the Studebaker Corporation, which was based in the Northern Indiana city

Display at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana, that presents...

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

Remarkable bench, collected on one of the family's overseas trips, at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Remarkable bench, collected on one of the family's overseas trips, at ...

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

The distinctive door-pulls of the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

The distinctive door-pulls of the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chief was once a single-venue theater offering live performances and events from the late 1920s through the late 1950s. The theate... More

American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison, or buffalo, herds in the United States

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, Old West End neighborhood of fine Victorian and Edwardian homes from the early 1900s, when Toledo was booming as a manufacturing city and gaining its nickname as America's "Glass City" for its array of fine-glass factories

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 House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 the sole purpose of making flour and was essentially been closed from the 1950s to 2008, when it was opened as not only a public meeting space but also a yoga and meditation center

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 Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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, completed in 1950 in Quasqueton, Iowa

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 Brooks Stevens, under consideration for future models, on display the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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 performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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

View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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

William Kistler "Bill" Coors, grandson of Coors Brewery founder Adolph Coors, photographed three months shy of his 100th birthday in 2016

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

American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performance at the Boettcher Concert Hall, one of the venues at the Denver Performing Arts Center in downtown Denver, Colorado

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

View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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

View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley, in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

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

William Kistler "Bill" Coors, grandson of Coors Brewery founder Adolph Coors, photographed three months shy of his 100th birthday in 2016

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

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