Street performers on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
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The decrepit Willard Hotel, once the "Hotel of Presidents," during a g...
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Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans, Louisiana
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A 143-foot-long, walk-through, fiberglass-and-steel muskie, and a less...
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High in the Cascade Mountains, Washington
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Buildings at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
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Pacific Ocean view from the California Coast
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Carol M. Highsmith - Office interior
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Skyline, Houston, Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Preparing the floor beneath what will be a new balcony restaurant leve...
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Neon sign, Reno, Nevada - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Cow barn in rural Tennessee - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Row-house neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Texas Blue and Red Bonnets - Drawing. Public domain image.
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"City of the Dead," in which tombs must be above ground because of the...
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Statue of Liberty, New York, New York
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Yerba Buena Gardens, built atop Moscone Convention Center, San Francis...
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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
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Dixieland jazz band on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Franconia Notch and Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire
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Carol M. Highsmith - Olympic rain forest, Washington
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Lincoln Memorial statue by Daniel Chester French, Washington, D.C.
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Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Körner's Folly, a home built by Jule Gilmer Körner, labelled by many o...
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Washington's Union Station great hall before the restoration. Washingt...
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Lake Powell, Page, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.
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A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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First Parish Church, built in 1809, Bailey's Island, Maine
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Art of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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Neon signs shine in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1980s
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[Restoration work at the Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pe...
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Ropsley Estate in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Designed in 1916 as a "small country estate" when Chestnut Hill was open countryside, the estate declined over decades before architect John P.A. Todd began a meticulous restoration. Digital image produced by C... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Norwegian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Pat Nixon's beloved rose garden frames the birthplace of her husband, ...
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Pig farm and stys near Lynn Center, Illinois
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Carol M. Highsmith - Turreted houses, San Francisco, California
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Historic interpreters on the farm at George Washington's former estate...
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Panorama of construction during the restoration of the Willard Hotel, ...
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Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada, with a half-scale replica of the Eif...
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Aerial view of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, connecting Annapolis with Ma...
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Jefferson Memorial taken from an open window in the Washington Monumen...
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Christian Science's "Mother Church," part of the faith's world headqua...
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Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset, left, at its test site in Pueblo,...
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Manse George cabin on grounds of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennes...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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The Disney empire began at Disneyland in Orange County, California, in...
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In far-away Roanoke, Virginia, a miniature model of Elvis Presley's Gr...
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Modern office building - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Dedication of the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1987. W...
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Aerial view of skyline, with a focus on Willis Tower, long known as Se...
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A wintertime view of the Yellowstone River in the Wyoming portion of Y...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...
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
Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming, small ad...
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
Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
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Reconstruction of the Reading Terminal and Market in Philadelphia, Pen...
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It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellows...
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Glowing people mover and porte-cochere at Bally's, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Stainless-steel troopers on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memori...
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Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More
Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealo...
Artist: Paul Housberg, 1999. Glass blocks. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More
A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. Both Paris of Texas and Paris of Tennessee dedicated their Eiffel Tower replicas i... More
Oil painting "China Pattern" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, ...
Artist: Deborah Oropallo, 1999. Dimensions: 9 feet x 76 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More
Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...
Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More
Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...
Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More
Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...
Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More
Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestria...
Founded in 1999, this three-day event began at the historic McMenamins Hotel in memory of the celebrated 1950 "Trent sighting" and photographs of a purported flying saucer at a nearby farm. Skeptics have conclu... More
The massive Anschutz Medical Center campus in Aurora, Colorado. The ca...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The vast medical center is located on a portion of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower was... More
Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...
Formerly the National Bank of Washington which was the oldest bank in Washington, D.C. It closed around 1999 when it was taken over by the FDIC. It was designed by Alfred C. Bossom and Jules-Henri de Sibour. Pl... More
[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thom...
Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More
Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M...
Artist: Diana Moore, 1999. Cast concrete, dimensions: 5' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More
Ferris wheels, giant vertical revolving wheels with passenger cars sus...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbi... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Hampden Branch Library, Baltimore, Maryland
Opened to the public on July 2, 1900 as the seventh branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Robert Poole, a resident of Hampden, provided the funds for construction and the initial book collection. The architec... More
Water fountain, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey
Architect: James A. Wetmore, 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More
Exterior view of the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, an 18-acre complex of ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Color... More
John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...
Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More
Scene from one of the almost-daily parades through downtown Cheyenne d...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Western celebration that is viewed by an estimated 200,000 onlookers and throngs of tourists each year in a city of 62,000 people ... More
John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...
Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Historic courthouse front door, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...
Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More
The French Gothic Revival-style, Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacre...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, with its soaring steeple, was built on this site as a parish church in 1913, replacing a church that burned elsewhere in... More
The Kunst House, built in 1900 in what is now the Julia-Ann Historic D...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The designer of the house, William Howe Patton, placed a full-page ad illustrating this house, which was occupied, in part, by a denti... More
Statue, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Fe...
Built between 1928-1936 by architect Louis Simon. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building
Built in 1933 and located on the State line between Texas and Arkansas. It is a courthouse for both states. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keyword... More
Postal window detail, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New Yo...
Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
A "Mail Pouch Barn" in Stark County, Ohio, near Brewster, featuring on...
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
Escalator at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
The 1906 S. P. Norton House, one of several fine houses designed by ar...
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
Oil painting "International Signal Code" located on first floor rotund...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
Sculpture "Seafaring Nations, Belgium" on façade, Alexander Hamilton U...
Artist: Albert Jaegers, 1907. Marble, measuring 11' x 7' x ? Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
Light fixture at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, Londo...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.
This beautiful room, once used when congress was in session, now sits empty and unused. The Havana Capitol was built from April 1, 1926-1929; the building cost 17 million pesos and is bigger than the U.S. Capit... More
Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...
Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More
The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The heart of the site is the largest of the Adena people's burial mounds. A massive undertaking, the effort required the movement of m... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...
Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1909; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More