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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Instrument Landing System (ILS) Middle Marker, Off Perimeter Road at North end of Runway, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Instrument Landing System (ILS) Middle Mar...

Significance: Building 9700 housed navigational equipment that supported the instrument landing of aircraft at Plattsburgh AFB. Survey number: HAER NY-326-AK

Cowboy Boots. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Cowboy Boots. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Pedroli, Pete Typical western riding boots made ca. 1960; note the decorative stitching and undercut heel employed by the manufacturer Maker: Leddy, Fort Worth, Texas The Paradise Valley Folklife Proje... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building 14, South Broadway, on Hudson River, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building 14, South Broadway, on Hudson River, Wate...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HAER NY-218 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/s... More

Watson company picnic ca. 1960s. Paterson New Jersey

Watson company picnic ca. 1960s. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More

[Portrait of Lotte Lenya] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Lotte Lenya] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: III TT 14. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Somerville, Somerset County, NJ

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Som...

Significance: The Route 206 Raritan River Bridge is a well-preserved example of a concrete open-spandrel, barrel-arch bridge, representative of the early work of New Jersey State Highway Department Chief Bridge... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Ku Tree Reservoir, Spillway, Kalakoa Stream, East Range, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Ku Tree Reservoir, Spillway, ...

Significance: The spillway is significant as an element of the Ku Tree Reservoir and as a good example of a spillway constructed for an earth-fill dam in Hawaii in the 1920s. The spillway embodies the distinct... More

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Somerville, Somerset County, NJ

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Som...

Significance: The Route 206 Raritan River Bridge is a well-preserved example of a concrete open-spandrel, barrel-arch bridge, representative of the early work of New Jersey State Highway Department Chief Bridge... More

Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge, Lake Park Drive (North entrance to Lake Park), Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge, Lake Park Drive (North entrance to Lake P...

Significance: The Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge is located in one of Milwaukee's early public parks designed by the notable Boston landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. The span is Wisconsin's only remaini... More

Aaron Copland and William Warfield, ca. 1963

Aaron Copland and William Warfield, ca. 1963

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Ku Tree Reservoir, Spillway, Kalakoa Stream, East Range, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Ku Tree Reservoir, Spillway, ...

Significance: The spillway is significant as an element of the Ku Tree Reservoir and as a good example of a spillway constructed for an earth-fill dam in Hawaii in the 1920s. The spillway embodies the distinct... More

Aaron Copland conducting; with William Warfield, ca. 1963

Aaron Copland conducting; with William Warfield, ca. 1963

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines, Providence, Providence County, RI

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...

Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph of railway map, railroad tracks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bobbie Thompson of the Hollow Rock String Band playing on guitar and talking with her daughter, Jessica, with Henry Reed looking on. Narrows (Virginia) Fiddlers Contest, summer 1967.

Bobbie Thompson of the Hollow Rock String Band playing on guitar and t...

Public domain photograph of music band, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kahului Cannery, Quonset Hut Grouping, 120 Kane Street, Kahului, Maui County, HI

Kahului Cannery, Quonset Hut Grouping, 120 Kane Street, Kahului, Maui ...

Significance: The Quonset hut grouping is associated with the last operating pineapple cannery in Hawaii. The pineapple industry is significant as one of Hawaii's two great agricultural industries of the 20th c... 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

Cisqua School, Mount Kisco, New York. Exterior, east facade

Cisqua School, Mount Kisco, New York. Exterior, east facade

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Richard Derby (Ethel Roosevelt), residence on Lexington Ave., Oyster Bay. Portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter Ethel

Mrs. Richard Derby (Ethel Roosevelt), residence on Lexington Ave., Oys...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American residential architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henry Reed playing the fiddle, accompanied by Bobbie Thompson of the Hollow Rock String Band on guitar, at the Narrows (Virginia) Fiddlers Contest, summer 1967

Henry Reed playing the fiddle, accompanied by Bobbie Thompson of the H...

Photograph by Kit Olson, reproduced with permission. Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 is significant because it is a representative example of NIKE batteries in New England and in Rhode Island. PR-79 is an intact, physical manifestation of Ame... More

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, ...

Significance: This hangar complex is the best preserved and most directly related to Selfridge's Cold War Air Defense Command mission of any facility on base: its aircraft bays still include "Scrambia" monitors... More

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, ...

Significance: This hangar complex is the best preserved and most directly related to Selfridge's Cold War Air Defense Command mission of any facility on base: its aircraft bays still include "Scrambia" monitors... More

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north of Dickman Road, east of Clark Road, Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Sazerac Building, 131 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Sazerac Building, 131 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: Built 1853 on site of Gem Saloon, and served as Sazerac Saloon through 1850s and 1860s. Many other uses later. Survey number: HABS CA-172 Building/structure dates: ca. 1853 Initial Construction

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Lewisite Reactor & Distilled Mustard Distillation Building, 420 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1070 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Lewisite Reactor & Distilled Mustard Distillat...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BM Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Untitled mural by Lango located in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California]

[Untitled mural by Lango located in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, S...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorat... More

[Portrait of Donald Madden, as Hamlet]

[Portrait of Donald Madden, as Hamlet]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VII SS 4. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Henry Reed playing the fiddle in his living room, Glen Lyn, Virginia, ca. 1967.

Henry Reed playing the fiddle in his living room, Glen Lyn, Virginia, ...

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

Henry Reed with Bobbie Thompson of the Hollow Rock String Band playing guitar, Narrows (Virginia) Fiddlers Contest, summer 1967

Henry Reed with Bobbie Thompson of the Hollow Rock String Band playing...

Photograph by Kit Olson, from the collection of Jessica Thompson Eustice. Reproduced with permission.

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, ...

Significance: This hangar complex is the best preserved and most directly related to Selfridge's Cold War Air Defense Command mission of any facility on base: its aircraft bays still include "Scrambia" monitors... More

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north of Dickman Road, east of Clark Road, Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Power Plant, Salt River, Tortilla Flat, Maricopa County, AZ

Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Power Plant, Salt River, Tortilla Flat, Marico...

Survey number: HAER AZ-6-A Building/structure dates: 1906- 1908 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100001454

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Laboratory, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141 & San Miguel River, Naturita, Montrose County, CO

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Laboratory, 3 mil...

Significance: The VCA Naturita Mill Office Building was constructed in 1960-61 as part of an effort to reconstruct the facility as an experimental uranium and vanadium ore concentrating facility. Between 1958 (... More

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison R...

Significance: The four story front office block with its clock tower is the symbolic "face" of the factory. The building contained most of the non-production functions of the factory such as executive offices,... More

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test Stand D-1, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test S...

Significance: By providing a facility where the Titan I and Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles could be "flown on the ground" under controlled conditions prior to actual launch, Captive Test Stand D-1... More

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Batch Plant, Clay Avenue Extension, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Batch Plant, Clay Avenue Extensio...

Survey number: HAER PA-221-A Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of George Shirley, tenor, Metropolitan Opera]

[Portrait of George Shirley, tenor, Metropolitan Opera]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVII SS 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

Ortona Lock, Lock No. 2, Machinery and Control Houses, Caloosahatchee River, Cross-State Canal, Okeechobee Intracoastal Waterway, Ortona, Glades County, FL

Ortona Lock, Lock No. 2, Machinery and Control Houses, Caloosahatchee ...

Significance: The five control houses are significant for their role in the operation of the lock and spillway gates. Survey number: HAER FL-19-B Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge, Lake Park Drive (North entrance to Lake Park), Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge, Lake Park Drive (North entrance to Lake P...

Significance: The Lake Park Brick Arch Bridge is located in one of Milwaukee's early public parks designed by the notable Boston landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. The span is Wisconsin's only remaini... More

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 71 & 91, Corona, Riverside County, CA

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highwa...

Significance: The construction of Prado Dam was a significant event in the history of flood control in southern California and specifically Orange County. The Dam has played a vital role in the economies and d... More

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 71 & 91, Corona, Riverside County, CA

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highwa...

Significance: The construction of Prado Dam was a significant event in the history of flood control in southern California and specifically Orange County. The Dam has played a vital role in the economies and d... More

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington County, OH

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...

Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More

Mrs. Patricia Cadwell - Public domain portrait print

Mrs. Patricia Cadwell - Public domain portrait print

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

[Representative Martha Griffiths (D-Mich.), Washington, D.C.]

[Representative Martha Griffiths (D-Mich.), Washington, D.C.]

Martha Griffiths, half-length portrait, standing in front of the Capitol, facing front, holding paper. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Published in: American women : a Library of Congre... More

[Portrait of Hernan Baldrich, dancer from Chile, in a dance called At the Beach]

[Portrait of Hernan Baldrich, dancer from Chile, in a dance called At ...

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII TT 4. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Portrait of James V. Lowe, baritone and member of the Fisk University Music Department]

[Portrait of James V. Lowe, baritone and member of the Fisk University...

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII VV 15. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

Black Ridge Cabin. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Black Ridge Cabin. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Builder: Stewart, Leslie Balloon frame construction, covered with roofing paper, ca. 1965 The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at... More

Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 35, Milepost 176.62, Yuba Pass, Nevada County, CA

Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 35, Milepost 176...

Significance: The Central Pacific First Transcontinental Railroad is a segment of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California to Promontory Summit, Utah between 18... More

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at State Route 4006, Willow Hill, Franklin County, PA

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at Sta...

Significance: Keggereis Ford Bridge is a multiple-span reinforced concrete arch bridge built by a regionally significant bridge contractor. It is of engineering interest for its rib arch design and its relativ... More

Oxon Hill Manor, Manager's Residence, Garage & Greenhouse, 6701 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, MD

Oxon Hill Manor, Manager's Residence, Garage & Greenhouse, 6701 Oxon H...

Survey number: HABS MD-301-B Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, Wellpinit, Stevens County, WA

Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...

Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Significance: A significant part of the Serralles family empire. Typical of the sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico which underwent considerable technological change and became a full-mechanized producer of ... More

Vermont Bridge No. 48, Spanning Winooski River at U.S. Route 2, Waterbury, Washington County, VT

Vermont Bridge No. 48, Spanning Winooski River at U.S. Route 2, Waterb...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of bridges constructed in the early 20th Century. During this time, the use of trusses dominated the bridge industry, replacing the variety o... More

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison R...

Significance: The four story front office block with its clock tower is the symbolic "face" of the factory. The building contained most of the non-production functions of the factory such as executive offices,... More

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Drawing Room & Laying-Out Floor Building, 525 Central Avenue, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Drawing Room & Laying-Out Floor Bui...

Survey number: HAER PA-271-A Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, Germantown, Montgomery County, OH

Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, G...

Significance: The bridge is a composite wood and iron rigid suspension truss. It is an early work of David H. Morrison, founder of the Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton, Ohio, and one of the most important bridg... More

Susquehanna River Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River, Havre de Grace, Harford County, MD

Susquehanna River Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River, Havre de Grace, ...

Significance: The Susquehanna River Bridge was constructed in 1908 to replace an older, timber Howe truss structure. The first bridge built by the B&O Railroad on this site consisted of twelve 250 foot spans, ... More

Cape Creek Bridge, Spanning Cape Creek at Oregon Coast Highway, Florence, Lane County, OR

Cape Creek Bridge, Spanning Cape Creek at Oregon Coast Highway, Floren...

Significance: The Cape Creek Bridge is an example of an ancient bridge design combined with early twentieth-century use of reinforced concrete construction techniques. While reminiscent of Roman stone aqueduct... More

Hot Springs National Park, Bathhouse Row, Hale Bathhouse: Mechanical & Piping Systems, State Highway 7, 1 mile north of U.S. Highway 70, Hot Springs, Garland County, AR

Hot Springs National Park, Bathhouse Row, Hale Bathhouse: Mechanical &...

Significance: The Hale Bathhouse is part of Bathhouse Row, which represents a typical American Spa. The spring piping, heating and ventilation systems are examples of early twentieth century state-of-the-art t... More

American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...

Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington County, OH

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...

Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington County, OH

Putnam Street Bridge, Spanning Muskingum River, Marietta, Washington C...

Significance: The bridge, built in 1800, was the first free bridge crossing the Muskingum River is Marietta, Ohio. That bridge was swept away in the 1913 flood. The present Putnam Street Swing bridge was built ... More

Sweater. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Sweater. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Pedroli, Pete Button-front, navy-blue "Sportswear," ca. 1960 Public domain photograph of a coat, clothing, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valle... More

[Roger and Karen Reynolds, Paris, June 1964]

[Roger and Karen Reynolds, Paris, June 1964]

Photograph supplied to Library of Congress by Roger Reynolds. (acquisition) Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut. New library exterior I

Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut. New library exterior I

Public domain photograph of library building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 is significant because it is a representative example of NIKE batteries in New England and in Rhode Island. PR-79 is an intact, physical manifestation of Ame... More

Loux Covered Bridge, Carversville-Wisner Road across Cabin Run, Pipersville, Bucks County, PA

Loux Covered Bridge, Carversville-Wisner Road across Cabin Run, Pipers...

Significance: Example of Town lattice truss. Survey number: HAER PA-198 Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80003442

Armour's Warehouse, Williams Street, Seneca, La Salle County, IL

Armour's Warehouse, Williams Street, Seneca, La Salle County, IL

Significance: Armour's Warehouse is the largest and oldest of the remaining grain elevators on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Grain elevators such as this one served as storage facilities for grain brought b... More

Hughes Aircraft Company, Prototype Manufacturing Building, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, Prototype Manufacturing Building, 6775 Centin...

Significance: The last of the research and development buildings completed at HAC's Culver City plant, Building 21 is starkly industrial in appearance. Nearly square in plan, the 50,000 sq ft, two story struct... More

Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, Germantown, Montgomery County, OH

Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, G...

Significance: The bridge is a composite wood and iron rigid suspension truss. It is an early work of David H. Morrison, founder of the Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton, Ohio, and one of the most important bridg... More

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test Stand D-1, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test S...

Significance: By providing a facility where the Titan I and Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles could be "flown on the ground" under controlled conditions prior to actual launch, Captive Test Stand D-1... More

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Batch Plant, Clay Avenue Extension, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Batch Plant, Clay Avenue Extensio...

Survey number: HAER PA-221-A Public domain photograph of manufacturing workers, factory building, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Embroidery Mill, Paramus, Bergen County, NJ

Embroidery Mill, Paramus, Bergen County, NJ

Survey number: HAER NJ-147 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Silver Bridge, Spanning Bitterroot River at U.S. Highway 93, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Silver Bridge, Spanning Bitterroot River at U.S. Highway 93, Hamilton,...

Survey number: HAER MT-129 Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction

Pamelia Creek Bridge, Spanning Pamelia Creek at Milepoint 62.78 on North Santiam Highway (OR22), Marion Forks, Linn County, OR

Pamelia Creek Bridge, Spanning Pamelia Creek at Milepoint 62.78 on Nor...

Significance: The Pamelia Creek Bridge #06805 is located on the North Santiam Highway within the boundaries of the Willamette National Forest. The bridge was designed in 1933 by the Bureau of Public Roads and b... More

City Market, 118 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

City Market, 118 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: Typical 1880s commercial structure of old Sacramento. Built on site of one of city's first meat markets (1849). Survey number: HABS CA-199 Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 71 & 91, Corona, Riverside County, CA

Prado Dam, Outlet Works, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highwa...

Significance: The construction of Prado Dam was a significant event in the history of flood control in southern California and specifically Orange County. The Dam has played a vital role in the economies and d... More

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, High House, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, High House, Along Lehigh River, North of ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N31 Survey number: HAER PA-186-C

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Somerville, Somerset County, NJ

Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Som...

Significance: The Route 206 Raritan River Bridge is a well-preserved example of a concrete open-spandrel, barrel-arch bridge, representative of the early work of New Jersey State Highway Department Chief Bridge... More

Vintage cars are everywhere on the Paseo de Martí (del Prado)

Vintage cars are everywhere on the Paseo de Martí (del Prado)

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Short Stirrup Covers. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Short Stirrup Covers. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Stewart, Leslie and Marie Maker: Capriola, J.M., Elko, Nevada Snouted taps made ca. 1960; these shorter stirrup covers have largely replaced the longer types used formerly The Paradise Valley Folklife ... 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

[Portrait of Violette Verdy, in Serenade]

[Portrait of Violette Verdy, in Serenade]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVII SS 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

Portrait photo of [Portrait of Durward Collins, Jr.]

Portrait photo of [Portrait of Durward Collins, Jr.]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IX TT 18. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 is significant because it is a representative example of NIKE batteries in New England and in Rhode Island. PR-79 is an intact, physical manifestation of Ame... More

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north of Dickman Road, east of Clark Road, Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 is significant because it is a representative example of NIKE batteries in New England and in Rhode Island. PR-79 is an intact, physical manifestation of Ame... More

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, MI

Selfridge Field, Building No. 3566, Ammo Road northeast of Taxiway A, ...

Significance: This hangar complex is the best preserved and most directly related to Selfridge's Cold War Air Defense Command mission of any facility on base: its aircraft bays still include "Scrambia" monitors... More

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north of Dickman Road, east of Clark Road, Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Old Croton Aqueduct, Harlem River Crossing, Spanning Harlem River, Bronx, Bronx County, NY

Old Croton Aqueduct, Harlem River Crossing, Spanning Harlem River, Bro...

Significance: The Old Croton Aqueduct was New York City's first municipal water supply project, and is an outstanding example of early 19th century civil engineering. High Bridge best exemplifies this. Upon c... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-H Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mounds Bridge, County Road 115 Spanning Price River, 12 miles Northeast of Elmo, Elmo, Emery County, UT

Mounds Bridge, County Road 115 Spanning Price River, 12 miles Northeas...

Significance: The Mounds Bridge is a steel Warren pony truss bridge. Survey number: HAER UT-90 Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison R...

Significance: The four story front office block with its clock tower is the symbolic "face" of the factory. The building contained most of the non-production functions of the factory such as executive offices,... More

Watervliet Arsenal, Building 14, South Broadway, on Hudson River, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Watervliet Arsenal, Building 14, South Broadway, on Hudson River, Wate...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HAER NY-218 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/s... More

Anderson-Christofani Shipyard, Innes Avenue & Griffith Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Anderson-Christofani Shipyard, Innes Avenue & Griffith Street, San Fra...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: This shipyard is most notable for retaining the last steam powered winch on the West Coast. The winch powers the marine railway and allows ships to be "pulled" f... More

Big Lake Dam, Fourth Street, South of Atlantic Avenue, Marietta, Cobb County, GA

Big Lake Dam, Fourth Street, South of Atlantic Avenue, Marietta, Cobb ...

Significance: This straight-crested gravity storage dame demonstrates an early use of concrete construction in Georgia and is perhaps the earliest identified concrete dam in the state. The dam measures some 55... More

New Block, Dutton Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

New Block, Dutton Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Silver Bay-Reserve Mining, Magnetic Concentration Plant, Dump Car Building, Babbitt, St. Louis County, MN

Silver Bay-Reserve Mining, Magnetic Concentration Plant, Dump Car Buil...

Survey number: HAER MN-28-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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