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Thompson, east Custer County, Nebraska.

Lawr Farm, House, Port Oneida, Glen Arbor, Leelanau County, MI

The trail to Zekiah Swamp, leading away from The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

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The assassinaton of Abraham Lincoln turned Dr. Mudd's mid-19th-century farmhouse into a historic site, when presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth sought medical treatment here on his escape route into Virginia.

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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maryland charles county waldorf abraham lincoln assassination dr samual a mudd john wilkes booth zekiah swamp david herold historic houses digital photographs color carol m highsmith mudd house museum high resolution carol m highsmith america project united states history country farm library of congress
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01/01/2017
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label_outline Explore Mudd House Museum, Dr Samual A Mudd, Abraham Lincoln Assassination

Havasu Creek flows past a campground between Mooney Falls and Havasu Falls, two of the five Havasupai waterfalls deep in Arizona's Havasu Canyon, an offshoot of Grand Canyon National Park but on lands administered by the Havasupai Indian Tribe

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

Fossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

The Loring family vault in central Phoenix, Arizona's, Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, a historic but bleak and sandy cemetery near the Arizona Capitol. This was once seven separate cemeteries honoring military veterans and civic notables, the first of which was opened in 1884, 28 years before what was then Arizona Territory became the 48th U.S. state

Cornfield. Grundy County, Iowa. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Jack Delano - Farm landscape near Springfield, Vermont

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Cattle on the Julien H. Case farm

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Longview Farm, North Dairy Barn, Longview Road, Lees Summit, Jackson County, MO

Colonel John Tysowski, Cobbler Mountain Farm, Delaplane, Virginia. View of field and house

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Houses along road

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maryland charles county waldorf abraham lincoln assassination dr samual a mudd john wilkes booth zekiah swamp david herold historic houses digital photographs color carol m highsmith mudd house museum high resolution carol m highsmith america project united states history country farm library of congress