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General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Shaft House Pueblito was one such refugee... More

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Shaft House Pueblito was one such refugee... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Spruce Tree Point, Administrative Building, Mesa Verde Administrative District, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

Spruce Tree Point, Administrative Building, Mesa Verde Administrative ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N395 Survey number: HABS CO-132-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001410

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mile point 18.6, along State Route 65, Ambridge, Beaver County, PA

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mi...

Significance: Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock and Dam No. 4, HAER No. PA-227-A was part of the fifty-two slackwater locks and dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Ohio River, between 1877-191... More

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mile point 18.6, along State Route 65, Ambridge, Beaver County, PA

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mi...

Significance: Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock and Dam No. 4, HAER No. PA-227-A was part of the fifty-two slackwater locks and dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Ohio River, between 1877-191... More

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mile point 18.6, along State Route 65, Ambridge, Beaver County, PA

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mi...

Significance: Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock and Dam No. 4, HAER No. PA-227-A was part of the fifty-two slackwater locks and dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Ohio River, between 1877-191... More

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mile point 18.6, along State Route 65, Ambridge, Beaver County, PA

Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock & Dam No. 4, East bank of Ohio River at mi...

Significance: Ohio Slack Water Dams, Lock and Dam No. 4, HAER No. PA-227-A was part of the fifty-two slackwater locks and dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Ohio River, between 1877-191... More

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swamp Road), Northwest of East Court Street, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swamp Road), Northwest of East Court Street, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A gateway in the wall of San Juan, Puerto Rico

A gateway in the wall of San Juan, Puerto Rico

A man and five children stand at gateway. D10773 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young.

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River, 0.25 mile Northeast of Ninth Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River...

Significance: The Allegheny Locks were among the few canal-related structures surviving in Pittsburgh. The locks are near the western terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal which has been determined to be of natio... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Petra, tomb in storeys. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph.

Petra, tomb in storeys. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph...

Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century vintage travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Plaster models of electrical history at Potomac Electric Power Co. VIII

Potomac Electric Power Co. Plaster models of electrical history at Pot...

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Petra. Lower Siq. Nabatean Assyrian type monument with double crowfoot frieze

Petra. Lower Siq. Nabatean Assyrian type monument with double crowfoot...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. A subterranean dwelling. Used of old to escape the summer heat

Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. A sub...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Indian Creek, Indian Creek, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Indian Creek, Indian Creek, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The Indian Creek community centers on two sandstone structures - Casa Cielo (Sky City) and Case Abajo (Lower House) - associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in... More

At Caesars Palace's Magical Empire in a catacomb far below the resort, "wizards" entertain diners before a full-scale magic show, Las Vegas, Nevada

At Caesars Palace's Magical Empire in a catacomb far below the resort,...

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

Sphynx entry portal to the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sphynx entry portal to the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Designed by Las Vegas architect Veldon Simpson and opened in 1993. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digi... More

Charles' Gift, State Routes 2 & 4, Lusby, Calvert County, MD

Charles' Gift, State Routes 2 & 4, Lusby, Calvert County, MD

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charles' Gift, State Routes 2 & 4, Lusby, Calvert County, MD

Charles' Gift, State Routes 2 & 4, Lusby, Calvert County, MD

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

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The upper Kin Klizhin community centers on a rectangular sandstone structure associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American ... More

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The upper Kin Klizhin community centers on a rectangular sandstone structure associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American ... More

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The upper Kin Klizhin community centers on a rectangular sandstone structure associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American ... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Spruce Tree Point, Administrative Building, Mesa Verde Administrative District, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

Spruce Tree Point, Administrative Building, Mesa Verde Administrative ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N395 Survey number: HABS CO-132-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001410

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swamp Road), Northwest of East Court Street, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA

Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Southwest side of State Route 313 (Swam...

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes drawings, photographs & written data. Significance: Designed by anthropologist and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer as a factory to reproduce the deco... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Drainage Canals, Along Davis Avenue & at intersection of Humphreys & Cromwell Avenues, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Drainage Canals, Along Davis Avenue & at ...

Significance: The stone-lined drainage canals have been identified as a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in t... More

Pueblitos of Dinetah, South of Navajo Reservation, north of Largo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Pueblitos of Dinetah, South of Navajo Reservation, north of Largo Cany...

Significance: The Pueblitos of Denetah or small pueblos of the Navajo homeland are important structures which yield substantial information about the origins and evolution of the Navajo culture. Located in nor... More

Eli Whitney Armory, Forge Building, Mill River, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, Forge Building, Mill River, Hamden, New Haven Coun...

Significance: An important part of Whitney's early manufacturing process. Archeological excavation of this building revealed the early water-power system, several original forge bases, and two large machinery ... More

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Branch of Susquehanna River South bank, 500 feet East of Jay Street Bridge, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Bran...

Significance: Lock No. 35 is a historically significant remnant of the Pennsylvania state-built canal system. The lock is the sole surviving structure of the Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal, a lateral line construc... More

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Branch of Susquehanna River South bank, 500 feet East of Jay Street Bridge, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Bran...

Significance: Lock No. 35 is a historically significant remnant of the Pennsylvania state-built canal system. The lock is the sole surviving structure of the Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal, a lateral line construc... More

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Branch of Susquehanna River South bank, 500 feet East of Jay Street Bridge, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA

Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Bran...

Significance: Lock No. 35 is a historically significant remnant of the Pennsylvania state-built canal system. The lock is the sole surviving structure of the Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal, a lateral line construc... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River, 0.25 mile Northeast of Ninth Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Allegheny Lift Lock No. 4 & Weigh Lock, North shore of Allegheny River...

Significance: The Allegheny Locks were among the few canal-related structures surviving in Pittsburgh. The locks are near the western terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal which has been determined to be of natio... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

Haleakala National Park Roads, Pukalani, Maui County, HI

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Haleakala National Park road system provides access to the summit and crater of the dormant volcano, Haleakala, showcasing striking views and native Hawaiian... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Blossom Point Farm, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Significance: Although architecturally simple in design, the Ballast House contains exceptionally fine, attractive 18th century style interior woodwork in remarkably good condition. The original kitchen, once ... More

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Ruines Romaines de Thamugas. Voie triumphale / ND Phot.

Ruines Romaines de Thamugas. Voie triumphale / ND Phot.

Ruins of Roman triumphal street in city of Thamugadi (Timgad), Algeria. No. 367.

Petra (Wadi Musa). El-Habis area. The unfinished tomb. Showing method of beginning from the top and working downward. El-Habis

Petra (Wadi Musa). El-Habis area. The unfinished tomb. Showing method ...

Public domain photograph of Egypt, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). The ziggurat from the N.W.

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). The ziggurat from the N.W.

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petra. Petra hills. Hillock opposite Ed Deir

Petra. Petra hills. Hillock opposite Ed Deir

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Caption continues from catalog: Cyclorama in 9 sections. On negative sleeve: III. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming

American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... More

[Exterior view. Detail. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Exterior view. Detail. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washi...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Exterior view. Doorway detail. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Exterior view. Doorway detail. Library of Congress John Adams Buildin...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The upper Kin Klizhin community centers on a rectangular sandstone structure associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American ... More

Interior of Chief Klart-Reech's house. Chilkat, Alaska. Chief in dancing costume

Interior of Chief Klart-Reech's house. Chilkat, Alaska. Chief in danci...

Inscribed on lower right: Copyright 1895 by Winter & Pond. Public domain reproduction of artwork related to ancient civilizations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

General John Mason House, Analostan Island or Theodore Roosevelt Islan...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the home of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More

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