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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

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

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

The carriage house of 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 carriage house of the Reynolds-Secor House is one of many mansions...

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... 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

The Lower Shell School (Shell is a nearby small settlement), one of the first structures NOT built of logs in the Big Horn Valley of what is now Big Horn County, Wyoming

The Lower Shell School (Shell is a nearby small settlement), one of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1903, the school functioned as a church and Sunday school, and as a community meeting place. It was used as a school until th... More

The Hyart Theater in Lovell, Wyoming

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

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

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

Arriving in what there is of Punkin Center, a dot of an unincorporated town in Lincoln County, Colorado. John Stevens built the first store at the farmers crossroads in 1920. He painted each new building a pumpkin color, inspiring the name. Everything burned in the 1950s. Two communication towers are the towns principal landmarks today (in 2016)

Arriving in what there is of Punkin Center, a dot of an unincorporated...

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

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

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

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 and her husband, industrial designer Louis Nelson, prior to Collins's 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 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado

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

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

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 he Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo, herds in the United States

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) on the Laramie Plain, a vast grassland south of Laramie, Wyoming. A sign taped to the window noted that the car had "died" but would soon be retrieved by its owner

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

Most of the buildings other than the main receiving building on Ellis Island were abandoned and left to the elements after the immigration station closed in 1954. Jersey City, New Jersey

Most of the buildings other than the main receiving building on Ellis ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Sign advertising lodging behind a building where human activity long-ago ceased in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

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, long the flagship office and canning factory for a company that made pork and beans and introduced the sports-drink craze with its Gatorade product

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 Flora in Carroll County, Indiana

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, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass; the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

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 Hogback Bridge, one of six remaining covered bridges (of 19) in Madison County, Iowa, made famous in the 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman living in 1960s Madison County

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

The Milwaukee Public Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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 Madison County, Iowa, made famous in the 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman living in 1960s Madison County

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

The old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station in Grafton, West Virginia, built in 1911, a year before 30 passenger trains a day passed through this B&O junction town

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

Old schoolhouse in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

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 mighty-big boots of lumberjack Paul Bunyan, a giant (literally) of American folklore, in Muncie, Indiana

The mighty-big boots of lumberjack Paul Bunyan, a giant (literally) of...

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

Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barn sign in Petersburg, West Virginia

Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barn sign in Petersburg, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mail Pouch barns, as they were often called, were barns with one or more sides painted from 1890 to 1992 with an advertisement for the... More

The old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station in Grafton, West Virginia, built in 1911, a year before 30 passenger trains a day passed through this B&O junction town

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

Palisade Park, but not the one in the up-tempo 1960s rock song performed by Freddy Cannon (that one is Palisades Park, an amusement park on New Jersey's Atlantic shore). This one is downtown in the agricultural town of Palisade in Mesa County, Colorado

Palisade Park, but not the one in the up-tempo 1960s rock song perform...

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 old Wild Horse Mercantile building in Kit Carson, a town named for the legendary western scout, in Cheyenne County, Colorado. Built after the 1917 fire that destroyed the community's entire business block, the Wild Horse Mercantile was the longest, continuously operating commercial establishment in town. The small brick and stucco building served local customers until the late 1960s

The old Wild Horse Mercantile building in Kit Carson, a town named for...

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

Structural remains in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

Structural remains in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort ...

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' Mansion, in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

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 Mount Horeb Lutheran Church, with its signature extra-tall steeple, completed in 1960 in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin

The Mount Horeb Lutheran Church, with its signature extra-tall steeple...

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

Al Kicking Bull McAllister, a Navajo and Apache, photographed at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo

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) in Madison County, Iowa, made famous in the 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman living in 1960s Madison County

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 purpose in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

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' Mansion, in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

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 important railroad employees, and, to its left, the old B&O terminal in Grafton, West Virginia

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 folklore, in Muncie, Indiana

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 close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

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 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

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

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Architectural details. Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Architectural details. Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico

Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More

This landmark 177-foot tower in Casper, Wyoming, built in 1968 was designed by Casper architect Harold Engstrom

This landmark 177-foot tower in Casper, Wyoming, built in 1968 was des...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was built as a time-and-temperature display, the world's tallest pylon-type display at the time, for what was then Wyomin... More

This landmark 177-foot tower in Casper, Wyoming, built in 1968 was designed by Casper architect Harold Engstrom

This landmark 177-foot tower in Casper, Wyoming, built in 1968 was des...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was built as a time-and-temperature display, the world's tallest pylon-type display at the time, for what was then Wyomin... More

Boettcher Mansion, an Arts-and-Crafts-style home high above Golden, Colorado, inside the Lookout Mountain Nature Preserve, was built in 1917 as a summer home and seasonal hunting lodge for Charles Boettcher

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 from a nearby, demolished smelter were used in its construction in 1924

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 Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

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

Arched windows with a mountain view inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

Arched windows with a mountain view inside Bishop's Castle, a most ecl...

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

A large menorah, a candalabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, stands above the entrance to the Agri-Star meat-processing plant in the eastern Iowa small town of Postville

A large menorah, a candalabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish celebra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Following the plant's closing during the 1970s, Jews from Brooklyn, New York, in sidelocks and black hats and other Orthodox attire st... More

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Sherrill, Iowa

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 installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

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

Pathway in the Shake Rag Alley artists' compound in Mineral Point, Wisconsin

Pathway in the Shake Rag Alley artists' compound in Mineral Point, Wis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The area began in the early 1800s as crude lead miners' cabins, many later deteriorated but restored, around Federal Spring. In the 19... More

Old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, Wes...

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

Kayakers Kris Bjornson (in red) and Daniel Rottinghaus get some late-afternoon exercise in the Arkansas River, in front of a most unusual levee in Pueblo, Colorado

Kayakers Kris Bjornson (in red) and Daniel Rottinghaus get some late-a...

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

Llamas at the petting zoo of the Heritage Farm Museum and Village in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Llamas at the petting zoo of the Heritage Farm Museum and Village in H...

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

A rocky, somewhat risky, twist and turn along a soaring tower of Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

A rocky, somewhat risky, twist and turn along a soaring tower of Bisho...

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 Arkansas River, in front of a most unusual levee in Pueblo, Colorado

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

Stained glass windows inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

Stained glass windows inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art inst...

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

A statue that locals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, call the "Bronze Fonz"

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

Gazebo at Boettcher Mansion, an Arts-and-Crafts-style home high above Golden, Colorado, inside the Lookout Mountain Nature Preserve, was built in 1917 as a summer home and seasonal hunting lodge for Charles Boettcher

Gazebo at Boettcher Mansion, an Arts-and-Crafts-style home high above ...

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

The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware store owner John V. Lathrop. Before returning to single-family ownership, the dwelling served as a boarding house in the 1930s and a restaurant in the 1970s

The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...

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

While having a piece of deep-dish pie from the Norske Nook Bakery across the street, one can read all about the history of Osseo, Wisconsin, and wonder about the little fellow in overalls next to them

While having a piece of deep-dish pie from the Norske Nook Bakery acro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Osseo is a farm town settled in 1857 at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Buffalo River. Credit line: Photographs in ... More

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