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A black and white photo of a desk with a bunch of books. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a mail box. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A large group of people standing in front of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a crowd of people. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of people in a car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

Portrait of a Roman, (terra cotta), Roman, first century B.C

This snowman figure, which some might say bears more resemblance to a frog, stands outside the Mount Washington Valley Children's Museum in North Conway, New Hampshire

A wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwegian influence

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

Participants meet inside the Mustang Pavilion during a 4-H Club "tour" event in Kim, a ranching town with that is a notable success story in a lightly populated section of Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado homes

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Designer Tina Westercamp's combination muraltilework, "The Migration of Tradition" on the Rockwood Pottery Building in Cincinnati, Ohio

Aphrodite marble, Greek - Public domain monumental decor print

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

Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Courtroom, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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

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

Display at the Swiss Historical Village & Museum in New Glarus, Wisconsin, a town largely settled by Swiss settlers that now (2016) calls itself "America's Little Switzerland"

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Arizona

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Holly Springs, Mississippi

Detail inside a cabin at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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

Used bathtubs and sinks, on display and for sale, along a road between Oxford and Batesville in Lee County, Mississippi

Some of the artifacts extracted, cleaned and catalogued, and protected in this "curation room" at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado. These objects eventually are given to the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado, which displays the culture and history of the Ancestral Pueblo people

Uncovered artifacts turned into art at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Head of goddess (marble), Greek, fourth century, B.C

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rustic, one-room cabins at the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in Boone, North Carolina. The backwoods village was assembled by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association with support from the Town of Boone and more than 1,000 local businesses. The museum's re-enactments and craft demonstrations focus on Western North Carolina's settlement period 200 years ago, "when folks who settled into this region had to grow, create, and trade for the necessities of life."

Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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

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

Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site on the outskirts of Durham

Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

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

The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that were used in batteries, phonograph records and other inventions, at The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey

Head from Chios, Greek, 4th century, B.C.

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, learn about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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

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

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

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

The magnificient jewelry of the pharoahs (Queen Anhotep, 17th Century B.C.), Cairo Museum, Egypt

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

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra Quotskuwa Nampeyo, displayed at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona a private, not-for-profit museum to the advancement of American Indian art. The jar is 7.5 inches wide and 10 inches high

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

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

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

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

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Dinsmore Shop Cooperage at the Strawbery Banke outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth

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

Outside wall displaying archaeological artifacts retrieved from digs outside the home of Archie and Mary Hanson, founders of Indian Camp Ranch, a highly unusual development of residential estates atop a plateau in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County, near Cortez

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Hermanville, Mississippi was discovered by the land's owner Spurgeon C. Mangum in 1936 where he discovered human remains and pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture prevalent during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries

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

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

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

Laffon Pettry, Drews Creek, slicing potatoes at the Ramp Supper

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

Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Hermanville, Mississippi was discovered by the land's owner Spurgeon C. Mangum in 1936 where he discovered human remains and pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture prevalent during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries

A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rustic, one-room cabins at the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in Boone, North Carolina. The backwoods village was assembled by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association with support from the Town of Boone and more than 1,000 local businesses. The museum's re-enactments and craft demonstrations focus on Western North Carolina's settlement period 200 years ago, "when folks who settled into this region had to grow, create, and trade for the necessities of life."

Portrait of a Roman, (terra cotta), Roman, first century B.C.

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

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many parts of West Texas. This one stands in little Fabens, near El Paso, Texas

Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

Head of goddess (marble), Greek, fourth century, B.C.

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Greek Manuscripts 1251. Sticherarion, Byzantine

Greek Manuscripts 812. Oktoëchos Oktoechos

Greek Manuscripts 1251. Sticherarion, Byzantine

Asia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Greek Manuscripts 1251. Sticherarion, Byzantine

Greek Manuscripts 812. Oktoëchos Oktoechos

Design drawing for stained glass window with Samuel

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

Design drawing showing St. John the Evangelist in simplified, abstracted Medieval illumination-style framing panels with text "Holy Holy Holy"

[Mural depicting baseball by Frederic C. Martin. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathedral IV

Design drawing for stained glass memorial window with The Resurrection for St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Louisa, Virginia

Design drawing for stained glass window with pastel Nativity

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