Baldassare Franceschini - [Studies for a church]
Inscribed in pencil: Lot no. 8, srB. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Item conserved and/or rehoused. See Supplementary Material for prior mats and mounts. Gift; Kenneth H. Walker; 1999; (DLC/PP-2000:029). Exhibi... More
[First sketch for the chapel of Bonaventura at Potenza (Italy), in (ch...
Inscribed: Primo schizzo p[er] la capella dal Bonaventura a Potenza in S. Francesco. Drawing not signed; attribution to Franceschini (known as "Il Volterrano") based on Walker Collection files. Item conserved ... More
[Alterations to the U.S. Capitol including extensions and new dome, Wa...
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[Design drawing for architectural elements in Gothic style with doves,...
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[Design drawing for stained glass window with Cross]
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Córdoba. La Mezquita. El Mihrab Nuevo
Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Spain. Cordova. The Mezquita. The New Mihrab." Print no. "15494. P.Z." Purchase; Detroit Publis... More
Wien. Schönbrunn. Römische Ruine view, photochrome print postcard.
Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Austro-Hungary. Lower Austria. Vienna. Schoenbrunn. Old Roman Ruins." Print no. "17996. P.Z." P... More
[Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. Library. Study for fireplace and...
At conservation, removed from album HW V1 B2 p.63. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress... More
Baalbek - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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Travel views of the American Southwest
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Bethlehem and surroundings. Colonnade in Church of the Nativity
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Colonnade in Church of Nativity. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Venice, Italy--The new campanile, San Marco
Campanile under construction outside St. Mark's basilica. J152581 U.S. Copyright Office.
[Italian guard at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre]
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PARKS. ACROSS LAFAYETTE SQUARE: WASHINGTON MONUME...
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Washington Monument. Cap stone of Washington Monument without lightnin...
The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States. It was... More
Washington Monument. Aluminum cap of Washington Monument with lightnin...
The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States. It was... More
Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial, seen from the left
J255137 U.S. Copyright Office. Blind stamp in lower left: C[opyright] Horydczak Copyright 1922 June 8 by Theodor Horydczak.
National Archives. Door detail at National Archives
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National Cathedral exteriors. South transept of National Cathedral
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National Archives. Pedestals and steps to entrance of National Archive...
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Wilton, Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia
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36 Hasell Street (door frontispiece), Charleston, Charleston County, S...
Survey number: HABS SC-406 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hanlan Buck Stove Company Building, North Third Street, Saint Louis, I...
Survey number: HABS MO-1650 Building/structure dates: 1940 Demolished Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
10 Limehouse Street (house), Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-813 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. House chamber, pillar and r...
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Armfield House, Jamestown vic., Guilford County, North Carolina
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Shotgun over the door for sake of quick availability in farmer's home....
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
Karnegay House, Mt. Olive vic., Wayne County, North Carolina
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Beach Theatre, Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Auditorium doors
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Mrs. Stanley Martineau, residence in Locust Valley, Long Island. Looki...
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Mrs. Lawrence J. Ullman, business on Prospect Ave., Tarrytown, New Yor...
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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
The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...
Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitutio...
Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More
Gilded entrance doorway at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, h...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Harry Hake, the building began its life in 1932 as an office building for the fast-expanding state government, a... More
West courtroom, entry door, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis,...
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More
Interior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
Exterior lamp post. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge,...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by Architect Moise Goldstein in Neoclassicism... More
[Main Reading Room. Detail of paired column capitals. Library of Congr...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow located in library lobby, Federal B...
Artitst unknown; plaster sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More
Entrance, United States Courthouse, Davenport, Iowa
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This Courthouse is on the National Register. It was renovated in 2007. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. ... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
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3rd Street light fixtures, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Cleve...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, ...
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
Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...
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
Part of a front door of Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
Mural at Amargos Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More
Ornate architectural detail on a building in downtown Asheville, North...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once a summer town of eastern America's wealthy elite, Asheville suffered greater losses per capita than any other American city durin... More
Architectural detail, Government Street United Methodist Church in Mob...
The front of Government Street United Methodist Church, built around 1890, is lavishly decorated with Christian symbols. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Ge... More
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More
Exterior detail of the 1897 Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most ... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and s...
The Capitol building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the House of Representatives. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograph... More
Architecture in downtown Norwich, 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
New London, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Doorway at the Magoffin Home State Historic Site, El Paso, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site explores the stories of a multicultural family who actively participated in U.S. expansion and settlement, military service,... More
Distinctive street art in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More
Doorway to the Alamo, an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, T...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built to be the church for the Mission San Antonio de Valero, which was founded in 1718. The church was built by Spanish F... More
Courtyard wall at Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residenc...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The castle is sometimes opened for weddings. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of limestone, granite, sand, cement, rock and block, wer... More
Chapel doorway at the historic Woodlawn Cemetery in Woodlawn, within T...
The graveyard opened during the U.S. Civil War in 1863, in what was then part of rural Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to New York City in 1874. Itis the final resting place of many American not... More
Design drawing for stained glass window with The Good Samaritan and Th...
Annotations on drawing: MM 32, G 5360. DGS Slide no. 1794. Sticker: Small Early Blue, Gothic Stamp. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Design drawing for stained glass Ascension window "Lo, I am With You A...
Annotations on drawing: AS [1 or 2?], C. Sticker: Gothic, Contemporary. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Design drawing for stained glass window with ship, planting flag, and ...
Annotations on drawing: #20, M 60, G 6146. DGS Slide no. 10. MD? See Lamb #2473-5. America/local-themed. Sticker: Gothic Northvale. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Design drawing for stained glass window "He Was Crucified" for Trinity...
Annotations on drawing: C, 48. DGS Slide no. 1590. Sticker: 20thP. Noted in some Lamb literature without "Episcopal." Lamb card SKETCHES Upstairs, C: CD 32, Sent: 1/13/70/ Trinity Episcopal Church/ Towson, Md./... More
Design drawing for stained glass memorial lancet windows showing Lamb ...
Annotations on drawing: BC 9. DGS Slide no. 1270. Sticker: Small Early Blue. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Design drawing for stained glass window showing Christ, symbols of New...
Annotations on drawing: SA 82, 3A. Sticker: Small Early Blue. Thin paper overlay with labeling of symbols, torn. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Design drawing for stained glass window for St. Paul's Methodist Episc...
Annotations on drawing: LM 2. Sticker: Gothic. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Arka pered vkhodom v Timotis-Ubanskīĭ monasty...
Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire,... More
Al Zifchock signs in Chepachet, Rhode Island
Index data: 1-2, Stage Coach tavern sign carved by Al Zifchock, Chepachet, Rhode Island; 3-8, Town Hall sign for Glocester, carved by Zifchock Chepachet, Rhode Island; 9, Purple Cat Restaurant sign by Zifchock,... More
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North Spring Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Significance: North Spring Street Viaduct is one of the twelve historic bridges over the Los Angeles River determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed to provide a bypass ... More
Richardson-Maxwell-Owen-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn Street, Savannah, C...
Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Theophilus Conrad Home, 1402 St. James Court, Louisville, Jefferson Co...
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Frederick A. E. Meyer House, 929 East Second South Street, Salt Lake C...
Significance: One of Salt Lake City's finest remaining Victorian residences in an area where commercial and medical structures are rapidly replacing the older homes. It was a residence of former official in th... More
Manor House, Batsto Village, Batsto, Burlington County, NJ
Survey number: HABS NJ-40-C Building/structure dates: 1876 Subsequent Work
Thomas Clemence House, 38 George Waterman Road, North Providence, Prov...
Photograph #19 was not digitized along with the rest of the first photo set (#1-19) because it is a duplicate of one of the measured drawings. See sheet 11 instead. Significance: This house, now restored and o... More
Monumental Church, 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, Independent City,...
Significance: Monumental Church (1812-14) was designed by architect Robert Mills to commemorate the deaths of seventy-two persons, including Virginia Governor George William Smith, who perished in an 1811 fire ... More
Mound Plantation, Route 4, Box 166, Cannonsburg, Jefferson County, MS
Significance: Considered from a strictly national viewpoint, the Chamberlain House or Mound Plantation, as an example of early American architecture, is relatively unimportant. It assumes a more important aspe... More
Abingdon Church, U.S. Route 17, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virgin...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-119 Survey number: HABS VA-182 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction
Vendrell,Fernando,Casa, 3 Calle Amor, Ponce, Ponce Municipio, PR
Significance: This building is unique for having two architecturally distinct facades fronting two streets. The north facade is the only example in Ponce of exposed brick, while the south facade is neoclassic a... More
Mineral Hall, 4340 Oak Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO
Significance: Represents the numerous ornate houses built in the South Hyde Park area of Kansas City around 1900. Moreover, it is an important extant example of the work of Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtis... More
Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse, 6299 Kingsessing Avenue, Philadelphia...
Survey number: HABS PA-1634 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Baptist Temple, North Broad Street between Montgomery Avenue & Norris ...
Survey number: HABS PA-6662 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
David Dickinson House, Old Deerfield Street, Deerfield, Franklin Count...
Significance: The home of Major David Dickinson, a man of prominence in this area in post-Revolutionary times. / Built about 1790 for Major David Dickinson, this house is a rare example of its period in Deerfie... More
[Design drawing, color rendering showing architectural elements: Gothi...
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John Hopping House, Ridgedale Avenue & Park Avenue, Florham Park, Morr...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-539 Survey number: HABS NJ-692 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction
Richmond Hill Plantation, Ford Mansion, East of Richmond Hill on Ford ...
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Glenn & Ida May Moore Rowhouse, 6126 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, ...
Significance: This building, commissioned by the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company as a small-scale pre-sold speculative housing in the midst of the commercial center of the town, is one of a group of four rowh... More
U. S. Custom House, 28 Wall Street, New York, New York County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72, FN-326 Survey number: HABS NY-470 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000889
Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, 15 South Main Street, Salt ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jonathan Kirkbride House, 104 Theatre Street, Mobile, Mobile County, A...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS AL-14 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction
Elysian Water Tower & Engine House, Frank Street Northeast, Elysian, L...
Significance: The Elysian water tower is the oldest working wooden municipal water tower in the State of Minnesota. In February 1981, the water tower was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Su... More
Adam N. Schuster House, 703 Hall Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County...
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Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
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Rockland, Mount Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Significance: Rockland, erected ca. 1810, is an excellent example of a Federal style house built by skilled, local carpenters and masons, and exhibiting many similarities to earlier country houses built along t... More
Seelbach Hotel, 500 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson County,...
Significance: Built from 1903 to 1907, the neo-classical hotel includes a Rathskeller, one of only two known ensembles of the famous Rookwood pottery on a large scale. The Rathskeller was patterned after a Ger... More
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...
Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810