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Collection of various road signsCreated by: LOC's Public Domain ArchiveDated: 2005
Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California
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French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Signs in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Signs in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the n...

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 settler. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photograp... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

Sign at the entrance to the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market district in Fort Worth, Texas

Sign at the entrance to the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market di...

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

Route 66 restaurant, 1819 Will Rogers Drive, Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Route 66 restaurant, 1819 Will Rogers Drive, Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

1722 55th St., Oakland, CA, 2006

1722 55th St., Oakland, CA, 2006

Photograph shows the "Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church." Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Neon sign on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California

Neon sign on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California

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

Street sign for Peters Brothers "Texas Hat" shop in Fort Worth, Texas

Street sign for Peters Brothers "Texas Hat" shop in Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was founded by Jim and Tom Peters in 1911. They were Greek immigrants who began their business shining shoes in Waco, Tex... More

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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

Salmon Jerky sign in Northern California

Salmon Jerky sign in Northern California

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Neon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the n...

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 settler. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photograp... More

Street sign for the Thunderbird Lodge in Redding, California

Street sign for the Thunderbird Lodge in Redding, California

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

Sign at Motel, Lee Vining, California

Sign at Motel, Lee Vining, California

Lee Vining was named after Leroy Vining, who founded the town in 1852 as a mining camp. Previous names for the town include "Lakeview" and "Poverty Flats." The economy of Lee Vining relies largely on tourism, s... More

Neon sign at the Buffalo Club, a sophisticated restaurant where movie stars and famous people dine. Santa Monica, California

Neon sign at the Buffalo Club, a sophisticated restaurant where movie ...

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

Red Coca Cola sign in San Francisco, California

Red Coca Cola sign in San Francisco, California

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

Hotel marquee for Hotel Texas in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Hotel marquee for Hotel Texas in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth...

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

[The Border Theatre, Mission, Texas]

[The Border Theatre, Mission, Texas]

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054)... More

Restaurant sign above the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio, a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio, Texas

Restaurant sign above the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is a free gathering place attraction that loops under bridges as two parallel si... More

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

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

Old Coca-Cola and local restaurant signs on a wall in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia

Old Coca-Cola and local restaurant signs on a wall in downtown Morgant...

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

Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site, Memphis, Tennessee

Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site, Memph...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dating to 1939. In 1969 it moved to this location, which had operated as Sammie's Drive-In, Eli's Lounge, and Picante's Mexican restaurant

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...

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

Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, Califo...

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords b... More

Motel sign in Northern California along the Pacific Coast Highway

Motel sign in Northern California along the Pacific Coast Highway

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

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway in California

Old neon motel sign on King's Highway in California

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

Rancho Super Car Wash neon sign in Rancho Mirage, California

Rancho Super Car Wash neon sign in Rancho Mirage, California

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

Neon sign at Rossetti's Bar in Valley Springs, California

Neon sign at Rossetti's Bar in Valley Springs, California

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

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at...

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eat Beef sign along the road in Northern California

Eat Beef sign along the road in Northern California

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

[Old sign for Fireside Inn Motel, Santa Cruz, California]

[Old sign for Fireside Inn Motel, Santa Cruz, California]

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Neon sign "Indian Jewelry" Northern California Redwood attraction

Neon sign "Indian Jewelry" Northern California Redwood attraction

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

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

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

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Road in Austin, Texas

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Roa...

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

14849 Livernois Ave., Detroit, 2000

14849 Livernois Ave., Detroit, 2000

Photograph shows a storefront church with the sign "Pure in heart."

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, N...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachi...

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

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Ken's Sporting Goods sign in Bridgeport, California, on the eastern slope of Sierra Mountains, and the county seat of Mono County

Ken's Sporting Goods sign in Bridgeport, California, on the eastern sl...

Located near the ghost town Bodie on the eastern slope of the Sierra Mountains, it is the county seat of Mono County. Formerly known as Big Meado, the town attracts tourists, many of whom come to the area for w... More

Motel sign, Yreka, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

Motel sign, Yreka, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Road signs on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of California

Road signs on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of C...

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

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, California

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, California

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

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western Store on Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western St...

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

Beer sign ("Jax Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Jax Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stocky...

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Texas" sign on an old building in Stanton, Martin County, Texas

"Texas" sign on an old building in Stanton, Martin County, Texas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beer sign ("Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas") inside Lil' R...

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

Sign in daytime, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sign in daytime, Las Vegas, Nevada

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachi...

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

Sports Tahoe sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County, California, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe

Sports Tahoe sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County,...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

Several forms of signs and statues invite customers to the Willo Steakhouse and saloon, an authentic California roadhouse located on Historic Hwy 49 between Nevada City and the Sierra Buttes country along the South Fork of the Yuba River

Several forms of signs and statues invite customers to the Willo Steak...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant was established in 1969. The saloon dates to 1946. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsm... More

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Californ...

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Welcome sign on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of California

Welcome sign on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of...

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

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

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

Colorful liquor-store sign in North Hollywood, California

Colorful liquor-store sign in North Hollywood, California

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

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longh...

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

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas...

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

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkana, Texas

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkan...

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

Beer sign ("Pearl Lager Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Beer sign ("Pearl Lager Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in th...

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

Sign, El Capitan Hotel, Van Horn, Texas

Sign, El Capitan Hotel, Van Horn, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by famed architect Henry C. Trost, the El Capitan Hotel was one of five "gateway hotels" built in New Mexico and West Texas ... More

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

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

Entryway sign at the Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia

Entryway sign at the Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cemetery, in which graves date as far back as the Revolutionary War, is built on, and around, a Hopewellian mound, known as the Ro... More

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

Dolles Salt Water Taffy sign, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Dolles Salt Water Taffy sign, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

Bell Gas sign, Truxton, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Established in 2002 on Historic Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, The Pig on Beale quickly became a local favorite for "Memphis Style" Hickory Smoked BBQ pork shoulder and BBQ ribs. Title, date, and subjects p... More

Stock yards sign, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

Stock yards sign, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in L...

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

Beverly Hills sign in Los Angeles, California

Beverly Hills sign in Los Angeles, California

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

Neon sign advertising chop suey at an Asian cafe in downtown Napa, California

Neon sign advertising chop suey at an Asian cafe in downtown Napa, Cal...

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

Old motel sign in Lee Vining, California, the closest town to the east entrance of Yosemite National Park

Old motel sign in Lee Vining, California, the closest town to the east...

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

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County, California, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

One of what are fairly common bear-crossing signs in California's Sierra Mountains

One of what are fairly common bear-crossing signs in California's Sier...

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

Sign for Motel and Cafe Hi-Lo in Northern California

Sign for Motel and Cafe Hi-Lo in Northern California

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood sect...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant, part of a small California chain of diners, is located in the historic Max Factor building that includes a beauty salon whose client list ... More

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

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

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Abe Lincoln sits on a wagon, Route 66, Lincoln, Illinois

Abe Lincoln sits on a wagon, Route 66, Lincoln, Illinois

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... More

Greyhound Bus sign, South Carolina

Greyhound Bus sign, South Carolina

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blake's Lotaburger sign, New Mexico

Blake's Lotaburger sign, New Mexico

More than fifty years ago Blake Chanslor opened his first hamburger stand in Albuquerque. From the start, Blake was committed to using only high quality products for all his made to order menu items. Sometimes ... More

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Built in 1940 by United Artists, the theater is famous for its Art Deco architecture and illuminated, 70-foot tower. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Coll... More

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Sign for Del Oro Theatre in Nevada City, California

Built in 1940 by United Artists, the theater is famous for its Art Deco architecture and illuminated, 70-foot tower. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Coll... More

Roof sign, visible for miles, of the Hotel Grim, which was the "Crown Jewel" of Texarkana, Texas, in its heyday

Roof sign, visible for miles, of the Hotel Grim, which was the "Crown ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened on Wednesday, July 15, 1924, it was designed by architects George Mann and Eugene Stern and named after William Rhodes Grim, a... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Sign for Willow Springs Motel and Trailer park in Bridgeport, California

Sign for Willow Springs Motel and Trailer park in Bridgeport, Californ...

Located near the ghost town Bodie on the eastern slope of the Sierra Mountains, it is the county seat of Mono County. Formerly known as Big Meado, the town attracts tourists, many of whom come to the area for w... More

Signs in Coleville located in northern Mono County in California's Antelope Valley

Signs in Coleville located in northern Mono County in California's Ant...

Coleville is named after California's first congressman, Cornelius Cole. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M.... More

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California

The Hollywood sign, a landmark and American cultural icon located in L...

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

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, which (as of 2014) is booming thanks to the influx of thousands of high-tech, music, and corporate employees, many of them under 30

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, whi...

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

Neon sign for Billy Bob's western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for Billy Bob's western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort ...

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

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, Texas, at the time of this photograph, at least. The name is a takeoff on the 1971 movie "The Last Picture Show," about a dying Texas town

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, ...

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

Neon sign for the Leddy's boot company in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for the Leddy's boot company in the Stockyards District of 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

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

Way of Holiness Church, 5258 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, 2003

Way of Holiness Church, 5258 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, 2003

Photograph shows a hand-made sign, "When everything fails, try prayer."

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada County, California, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe

Flying A Service sign in Truckee, an unincorporated town in Nevada Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

Beware of bears crossing the road sign in Northern California mountains

Beware of bears crossing the road sign in Northern California mountain...

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

Motel 66, Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Motel 66, Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Settlement of Barstow began in the late 1840s in the Mormon Corridor. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Hi... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

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