Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... More
Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...
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
White House China. Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Se...
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
Confederate and Spanish American war monument at the historic courthou...
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
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... More
Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...
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
The J.W. Otts House, Greensboro, Alabama
Also known as the McCrary-Otts House, Magnolia Hall was built in 1840 by D.F. McCrarry. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... More
Twin Sears houses built from kits ordered from the Sears Department St...
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
The William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhouse built about 1898 ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Set on Sprinkle Road and now part of a wedding and event operation, the mansion was built for cotton merchant Willian Braxton Barr an... More
Historic buildings in Stockton, Alabama
Stockton is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County. It is the nearest community to the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds, a National Historic Landmark. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the ph... More
Historic buildings in Perdue Hill, 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
Historic buildings in Monroeville, 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
Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporate...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More
The 1890s Davis House at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-ac...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Historic houses, North Capitol St., Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Historical interpreter (and actual blacksmith) Robert Swin, at work at...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More
[Historic Bridge built by the WPA, Spring Park, Tuscumbia, 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
The 1890s Davis House at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-ac...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
[Railroad bridge], Decatur, Alabama
Decatur, located along the Tennessee River, was a hub for travelers and cargo between Nashville/Chattanooga, and Mobile/New Orleans. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More
Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...
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Historic houses, North Capitol St., Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Historic buildings, 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Mr. George F. Landegger and Carolyn Haines with her award at the 13th ...
The 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium involves two days of author readings, panel discussions, and literary entertainment, all moderated by some of Alabama's finest literary scholars. The Harper Lee Award f... More
A clock that depicts African Americans and Booker T. Washington in a d...
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
The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folso...
Most of the buildings are original to the site. This is one of Alabama's last active plantations, which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More
House, Eufaula, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Many impressive antebellum homes and businesses attest to the wealth and culture of the period. Politically powerful Eufaula with it's "Eufaula Regency," supported secession of Alabama from the United States as... More
Art museum in historic downtown Gadsden, Alabama [graphic].
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
Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...
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
Historic sign "Old Samples" at U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louis...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Historic architecture in East Granby, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Historical mural, Yreka, California
Artist: Kathleen Boyle Magnuson. 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... More
Interior tools and milling equipment at the Bale Grist Mill, now a Cal...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The adobe home of William Ide at the William B. Ide Adobe State Histor...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Clock at the Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania Avenue i...
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An outdoor cooking and boiling site at the adobe home of William Ide a...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Ide, a Massachusetts native, was a local judge in this northern part of the state. He wrote the proclamation that established the short-lived California B... More
Buildings in Old Sacramento, a 28-acre National Historic Landmark Dist...
Old Sacramento features original and re-created buildings and other exhibits from the time of the California Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad in the mid-19th Century, restaurants, and theaters. Title... More
Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, Californi...
Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean which has caused high levels of salts to accumulate. The lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine... More
Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...
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The site of the historic Empire Mine, now a state historic park in Gra...
Empire Mine was the richest hard-rock mine in the State of California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. H... More
Captain John William Tudor Gardiner's quarters at Fort Tejon, a Califo...
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Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More
A field of Hill Country wildflowers at the section of the Lyndon B. Jo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Exhibition space, The sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book 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 P... More
A look at Mexico from bluffs above Roma, a small but historic city alo...
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
The main house of the Florence Ranch Homestead in Mesquite, Texas
Title and keyword information from K. Baird, Historic Mesquite, Inc., 2015. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
What's left of an old Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on the wall...
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Vivid field of wildflowers in the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historica...
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
An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More
Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birdin...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More
Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns at ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antoni... More
An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More
A small outbuilding on the grounds of the Florence Ranch Homestead in ...
Title and keyword information from K. Baird, Historic Mesquite, Inc., 2015. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Clock tower of the Tarrant County Courthouse and adjacent buildings in...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Entrance to Prude Ranch, a historic guest ranch and summer camp near t...
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
Scene from the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antoni... More
Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More
Exhibit showing the tan suit and orangish shoes worn by James Robert "...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The suit is displayed in sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Oswald was perched above D... More
Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks Sta...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The more than 200 "mask drawings" in the park, the most in North America, are the artistic legacy of different prehistoric peoples wh... More
Cow skull at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a natu...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bird in flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks Sta...
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
The rocky surroundings of Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in th...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "tanks" are rock depressions that collected water, thus becoming attractive to settlers and passersby. For a time the area was ow... More
The A.C. Ruby House in New Martinsville, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built of red brick in the 1890s at the time that the Ohio River town was paving many of its streets with brick. The two-story, Queen A... More
A portion of the historic B&O Railroad bridge over the Potomac River a...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[Historic Guyandotte Methodist Church, Huntington, West Virginia]
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055). Forms... More
House at 916 Juliana Street in the Julia-Ann Historic District of Park...
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
The c. 1853 Charles Deming House, a house in the Julia-Ann Historic Di...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jacob August Riis, 1849-1914 - Public domain portrait print
Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Jacob Riis : Revealing 'How the Other Half Lives'" at the Museum of the City of New York, New York City, N.Y., Oct. 2015 -... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Holter Hydroelectric Facility, Dam & Power House, End of Holter Dam Ro...
Significance: The Holter Hydroelectric Facility is significant for its association with the industrial development of Montana and the consolidation of most of the state's electric industry into The Montana Powe... More
The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap / Wm. Charles, Sc.
Charles's satire attacks the Hartford Convention, a series of secret meetings of New England Federalists held in December 1814. The artist caricatures radical secessionist leader Timothy Pickering and lampoons... More
York Bridge, Federal Aid Secondary Route 280, Helena, Lewis and Clark ...
Significance: As a pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss structure, the bridge is not particularly significant for structural or engineering reasons. It is however, historically associated with the Helena Po... More
Costumed historical intrepeter talks with runners at the Race for the ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, March / Kronheim & Co....
Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, March 1876, with illustration of Faneuil Hall in Boston; description of the role of Faneuil Hall in the American Revolution on verso. Pict... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.
Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
W. C. Child Ranch, State Highway 279, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, ...
Significance: This 740 acre ranch was once part of a spread of nearly 3,000 acres acquired by W.C. Child, an early Montana prospector. He invested his mining fortune here, building a huge stone and wood barn, ... More
Chronological chart of American history--Dedicated to the people of th...
Tree inscribed with historical events and vignettes of three Native Americans on bank, and pilgrims on shore. M20529 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.B. Dalston.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Continental Congress, July-August 1776, Printed Proposals for Articles...
Printed Proposals for Articles of Confederation
Samuel T. Hauser House, 720 Madison Avenue, Helena, Lewis and Clark Co...
Significance: Samuel T. Hauser went up the Missouri River in 1862, to the head of navigation, Ft. Benton, Montana, intending to cross from there to the gold fields in Idaho. Strikes at Gold Creek and Bannack i... More
The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France
Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More
The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France
Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. No. 601. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. No. 601. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
Holter Hydroelectric Facility, House No. 1, End of Holter Dam Road, Wo...
Significance: The Holter Hydroelectric Facility Historic District is significant as one of the most intact hydroelectric generating plants and operators' camps on the Missouri-Madison Project. House No. 1 contr... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0057
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Gunboats shelling the enemy at the battle of Malvern hill sketched fro...
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: General McClellan went aboard while I was sketching to change the position of the gunboats that were shelling our infantry. Gif... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, Or...
Print shows a campaign portrait of Andrew Jackson issued during the presidential election of 1828. An oval bust portrait of Jackson is surrounded by the words "Protector & Defender of Beauty & Booty. Orleans," ... More