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 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
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, 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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride Plan psychiatric hospital operated from 18... 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
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 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
Vintage America car rolls out of the narrow street in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
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 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...
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
Log barn at the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo herds in the United States. The... More
This looks like 1950s downtown Casper, Wyoming. But the vintage automo...
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
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride Plan psychiatric hospital operated from 18... 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
The Hyart Theater in Lovell, Wyoming
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The movie theater was built in 1950 by Hyrum "Hy" Bischoff, who was part of a Mormon group sent from Fountain Green, Utah, to settle i... More
William Kistler "Bill" Coors, grandson of Coors Brewery founder Adolph...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A chemical engineer, Bill Coors himself worked as a company executive for more than six decades. He is credited with pioneering the re... More
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
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 and her husband, indu...
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
One of several 1950s-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Color...
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
Log barn at the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo herds in the United States. The... More
An early 1950s Ford Crown Victoria, left to the elements (temporarily)...
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
Sign advertising lodging behind a building where human activity long-a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More
Entrance to the c. 1925 terra cotta-covered Stokely Van Camp Building,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the 1960s, Stokely Van Camp, whose roots go back to the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s, owned and operated more than seventy plants in... More
One of the westernmost surviving "Mail Pouch barns," near the town of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. These barn advertisements were painted from 1890 to 1992 of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company, based in Wheeling, West Virginia. At t... More
Overview of Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More
The Milwaukee Public Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. After several moves and several fires, the city library moved into this block-long limestone building in 1898. A national competition ... More
The Hogback Bridge, one of six remaining covered bridges (of 19) in Ma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named after a nearby limestone ridge, the Hogback Bridge was built in 1884 by Benton Jones over the North River. The 106-foot bridge, ... More
Old schoolhouse in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More
The old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station in Grafton, West Virginia, b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the 1960s, passenger traffic had dwindled to a trickle, and the station (and the big Willard Hotel that once accommodated travelers... More
Al Kicking Bull McAllister, a Navajo and Apache, photographed at a gat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. He is the lead male singer for the group Inter Tribal Spirit Drum. He is wearing aprons passed down from his uncle, Two Feathers Dave ... More
The Cutler-Donahoe Bridge, one of six remaining covered bridges (of 19...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 79-foot-long Cutler-Donahoe Bridge, built in 1870 by Eli Cox, originally crossed the North River near Bevington, Iowa. In 1979, th... More
Old degenerating structure that later apparently served some artistic ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More
The former governors' mansion, known locally as the Historic Governors...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Architect Charles Murdock designed the Georgian-style buiding, which served from 1905 to 1976. Rooms have been decorated to represent ... More
The Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O to house travelers and imp...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, reaching 30 passenger trains a day by the 1920s. The old Grafton House, containing both ho... More
Statue of lumberjack Paul Bunyan, a giant (literally) of American folk...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statue, which stands outside of the Timbers Lounge, dates from the mid-1960s, when it was created to advertise Kirby Wood Lumber C... More
Cabin in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluste... More
Tailfins of a 1961 Studebaker Hawk automobile at the Studebaker Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is connected to and shares an entrance with the city's history museum. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith A... More
Boettcher Mansion, an Arts-and-Crafts-style home high above Golden, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boettcher called it the ôLorraine Lodge,ö which the family later donated to Jefferson County in the 1970s for public use and enjoyment... More
Old St. Mary's School in Pueblo, Colorado, for which bricks salvaged f...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The local Catholic parish closed the school in the 1970s. It is now a Slovenian library, serving that large immigrant community in the... More
Chickens at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Sherrill, Iowa
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1889 the original wooden church was replaced by this large, brick and stone Romanesque Revival structure, which remains in use toda... More
Stone stairway and arch at Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art instal...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The creation of Jim and Phoebe Bishop, though the heavy lifting was all Jim's, began in the late 1970s as a simple mountain cabin and ... More
Kayaker Kris Bjornson gets some late-afternoon exercise in the Arkansa...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The long and eclectic mural on the levee walls first appeared as whimsical graffiti in the 1970s and is said to be the longest, if not... More
A statue that locals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, call the "Bronze Fonz"
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It depicts the 1970s television character Arthur "the Fonz" Fonzarelli, portrayed by Henry Winkler in the hit series "Happy Days." The... More