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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

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow 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

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

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

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room French Renaissance chateau, Asheville, North Carolina

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Interior hall and doorway at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Revival villa on the Kensington Plantation, Eastover, South Carolina

Interior hall and doorway at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Rev...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The house had at one time fallen into such disrepair th... More

Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...

The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, 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

The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia

The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More

"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian-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

Revolutionary War-themed mural inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Revolutionary War-themed mural inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort H...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... More

Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... More

Rough sketch of a paddlewheel steamboat on a wall of what was the library for the Virginia Court of Appeals building in Lewisburg, West Virginia

Rough sketch of a paddlewheel steamboat on a wall of what was the libr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Drawn in the early 1860s by a recuperating Civil War soldier, whether Union or Confederate is not certain, since several buildings in ... More

The North Chancel Window, a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

The North Chancel Window, a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Epis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is a 1962 replacement by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey of a window originally given by the congregation in 1871 in memory of the ch... More

Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado

Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Frank V. Newell and built by Puebloans Henry Thatcher and Mahlon Thatcher in the Richardsonian Romanesque style ... More

Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More

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

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Center visible

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More

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

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 Century, the trumpeter swan was hunted almost to extinction for its skin, feathers, meat, and eggs. The Migratory Bird Act of 1918 was passed in order to protect these and other endangered birds

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia

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 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

Vintage America car rolls out of the narrow street in Old Havana, Cuba

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the colors of nearby blossoms this time of year, in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

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 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

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

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

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

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 automobile appeared by happenstance, more than 60 years later

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

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

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