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

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

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

Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California

Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California

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

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

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

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

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

A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in A...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

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

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

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

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

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

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

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

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

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

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

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

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

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

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

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

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

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

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

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

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

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

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

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

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

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

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jeffers...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+columns. View of mural between printers' marks of Francois Regnault and Simon Vostre. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+columns. View of mural between...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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

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

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

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

Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

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

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

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

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Frasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Frasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The square took definitive shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Cathedrals construction was begun around 1748 as a temple to the Jesuit fathers. This order was expelled in 1767, the half-fin... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

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

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

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

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

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

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

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

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

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural by Martyl Schweig, at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural ...

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

"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural by Ethel Magafan, at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photo... More

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste De Frasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste De Fra...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFrasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFras...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

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

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

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

"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

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

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

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

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

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

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

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama

The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama

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

A view of the south fork of the American River at Coloma in El Dorado County, California

A view of the south fork of the American River at Coloma in El Dorado ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Approximately 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in California, at Su... More

Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More

Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Grass Valley, California

Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Gra...

Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A.A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "O... More

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Architectural detail, interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail, interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception...

When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the architectural skills of Claude Beroujon, the cornerstone for the new Cathedra... More

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual use as a public market

The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today the market is a small, crowded park surrounded by municipal buildings and the cityÆs local bus terminal. Credit line: The Lyda ... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, A...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Detail of mosaic, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Detail of mosaic, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alab...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

[North Corridor, Great Hall. Religion ural in lunette from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[North Corridor, Great Hall. Religion ural in lunette from the Family ...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More

View of the Rotunda looking straight up. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

View of the Rotunda looking straight up. State Capitol, Montgomery, Al...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and wascompleted in 1851. The building has grown over ... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

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