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Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

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

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic road runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

North slope of Lookout Mountain, from the west

North slope of Lookout Mountain, from the west

No. B1302. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

A black and white photo of a house in the snow, Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains

A black and white photo of a house in the snow, Mountain farmhouse in ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

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

A black and white photo of an old log house, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an old log house, North Carolina. Farm Secu...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

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

A black and white photo of a field with mountains in the background, possibly related to: Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains

A black and white photo of a field with mountains in the background, p...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Bv't. Maj. General D.C. McCallum, Lookout Mountain

Bv't. Maj. General D.C. McCallum, Lookout Mountain

Photograph shows General D.C. McCallum and Capt. Hurlbut seated on top of Lookout Mountain . No. B175. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Lookout Mountain - A black and white photo of a field with a mountain in the background

Lookout Mountain - A black and white photo of a field with a mountain ...

No. B1304. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Scottsboro, Alabama

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of...

Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens. 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 Ameri... More

Misty scene in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Misty scene in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Row of residences in Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain town high above the city of Bluefield in McDowell County, West Virginia

Row of residences in Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain to...

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

Bv't. Maj. General D.C. McCallum, Lookout Mountain

Bv't. Maj. General D.C. McCallum, Lookout Mountain

Photograph shows General D.C. McCallum and Capt. Hurlbut seated on top of Lookout Mountain . No. B175. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

A black and white photo of an old house, possibly related to: Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

A black and white photo of an old house, possibly related to: Mountain...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Overview of the railroad line below Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain town high above the city of Bluefield in McDowell County, West Virginia

Overview of the railroad line below Capels, an unincorporated Appalach...

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

General McCallum on Lookout Mountain. American Civil War 1861-1865.

General McCallum on Lookout Mountain. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Genl. Daniel C. McCallum and Capt. Hurlbut, seated on top of Lookout Mountain, full-length

Red barn along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Red barn along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Fo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Terracing and cotton patch with Appalachian Mountains in the distance. Near Cornelia, Georgia

Terracing and cotton patch with Appalachian Mountains in the distance....

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Terracing and cotton patch with Appalachian Mountains in the distance. Near Cornelia, Georgia

Terracing and cotton patch with Appalachian Mountains in the distance....

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Scottsboro, Alabama

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of...

Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens. 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 Ameri... More

Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.A.

Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.A.

Man standing on edge of precariously balanced rock. No. 6213. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old apple barn near Pembroke, Virginia

Old apple barn near Pembroke, Virginia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic road runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A black and white photo of an old cabin, possibly related to: Mountain home, Appalachian Mountains, housed two white families

A black and white photo of an old cabin, possibly related to: Mountain...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Franklin--Tenn. profield [sic] June 1863 /

Franklin--Tenn. profield [sic] June 1863 /

Sketch map showing troop positions, roads, railroads, streams, and location of the "Cherry tree where was [sic] hung the rebel spies Col. Williams and Lieut. W.G. Peter--June 10, 1863". Relief shown by hachures... More

A black and white photo of an old house, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an old house, North Carolina. Farm Security...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sims Pond at the Julian Price Memorial Park, along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Sims Pond at the Julian Price Memorial Park, along the southern reache...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Fall scene along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Fall scene along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Winter quarters 1864 : [vicinity of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee] /

Winter quarters 1864 : [vicinity of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee] /

Sketch map showing Union troop positions, "Confederate Picket Post" on Lookout Mountain, roads, railroads, settlements, farms, and streams. Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and landform drawings. Signed ... More

Along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, Nor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Harvest Farm in Valle Crucis, a town in the far-western Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, advertises its corn maze, to be tested out back in the farm's cornfield. Mazes cut through the corn are a fall tradition in much of rural America

Harvest Farm in Valle Crucis, a town in the far-western Appalachian Mo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A black and white photo of a river with mountains in the background Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a river with mountains in the background Fa...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, North Carolina

Interior of mountain farmhouse, Appalachian Mountains near Marshall, N...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Scottsboro, Alabama

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of...

Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens. 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 Ameri... More

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic road runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic road runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Fall scene on a stretch of roadway along the southern reaches of the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Rivulets on the rocks alongside the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Rivulets on the rocks alongside the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

View of Green Mountain Creek along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Globe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

View of Green Mountain Creek along the southern reaches of the Blue Ri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Winter quarters 1864 : [vicinity of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee] /

Winter quarters 1864 : [vicinity of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee] /

Sketch map showing Union troop positions, "Confederate Picket Post" on Lookout Mountain, roads, railroads, settlements, farms, and streams. Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and landform drawings. Signed ... More

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, fall 1863

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, fall 1863

Drawing shows a military camp at the base of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. "N.20" upper left corner. "Lookout Mountain[?]" written bottom left side. Code on mat (so... More

A black and white photo of a farm with mountains in the background, possibly related to: Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains

A black and white photo of a farm with mountains in the background, po...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Moss-covered stone picnic tables at a campsite along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

Moss-covered stone picnic tables at a campsite along the southern reac...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

The road curves on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains

The road curves on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Foscoe, North Carolina...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Franklin--Tenn. profield [sic] June 1863 /

Franklin--Tenn. profield [sic] June 1863 /

Sketch map showing troop positions, roads, railroads, streams, and location of the "Cherry tree where was [sic] hung the rebel spies Col. Williams and Lieut. W.G. Peter--June 10, 1863". Relief shown by hachures... More

Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee November 24th, 1863.

Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee November 24th, 1863.

Oriented with the Tennessee River to the top and the East Tennessee Railroad to the east, image gives details of the difficult terrain surrounding the Confederate position on Lookout Mountain. Dotted lines sho... More

A black and white photo of a snowy road, possibly related to: Mountain farmhouse in Appalachian Mountains

A black and white photo of a snowy road, possibly related to: Mountain...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Overview of the railroad line below Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain town high above the city of Bluefield in McDowell County, West Virginia

Overview of the railroad line below Capels, an unincorporated Appalach...

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

Eight-year-old Bristol and three-year-old Brielle Watson pose amid the fall pumpkin display at Harvest Farm in Valle Crucis, a town in the far-western Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina

Eight-year-old Bristol and three-year-old Brielle Watson pose amid the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More