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Oil painting "An Arrest" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "An Arrest" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Depa...

Artist: Louis Bouche, 1937. Dimensions: 11' x 2' 8" approx. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... More

Murals "Louisville Murals - Fox Hunting," by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky

Murals "Louisville Murals - Fox Hunting," by Frank Weathers Long at th...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 4" x 10' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor...

Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Sculpture "The Law" at Robert C. Nix Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sculpture "The Law" at Robert C. Nix Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia,...

Artist: Donald DeLue, 1941. Marble, dimensions: 9' x 16 'x 10'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo Ciampaglia, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Grill in courtroom at the Isaac C. Parker Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Fort Smith, Arkansas

Grill in courtroom at the Isaac C. Parker Federal Building & U.S. Cour...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1936, the building con... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

Exterior detail, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Oil painting "International Signal Code" located on first floor rotunda ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "International Signal Code" located on first floor rotund...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Front facade, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Front facade, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Grille. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Grille. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Oh...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More

Oil painting "Hammurabi," stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "Hammurabi," stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justic...

Artist: Boardman Robinson, 1937. Dimensions: 12' 7" x 4' 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

Exterior details. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in Greensboro, North Carolina

Exterior details. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court ...

Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More

Mural "Ceremonial Shields & Bull's Head," by Stephen Mopope at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Ceremonial Shields & Bull's Head," by Stephen Mopope at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 42" x 576". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

Exterior detail, metalwork "The Mail Plane," U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Exterior detail, metalwork "The Mail Plane," U.S. Post Office and Cour...

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 Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Exterior eagle detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Exterior eagle detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Bingham...

An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

Sculpture "Air" 9th and Pennsylvania Ave. lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Air" 9th and Pennsylvania Ave. lobby, Department of Justice...

Artist: Anthony Di Lorenzo, 1933, limestone sculpture 24" X 38". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More

Oil paintings "Grotius" and "Vitoria," in stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil paintings "Grotius" and "Vitoria," in stairway of Great Hall, Depa...

Artist: Boardman Robinson, 1937. Dimensions, each: 12' 7" x 4' 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More

Exterior. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in Greensboro, North Carolina

Exterior. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in...

Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More

Oil painting "The Past" located in fifth floor, main library, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "The Past" located in fifth floor, main library, Departme...

Artist: Maurice Sterne, 1941. Dimensions: 6' x 4'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More

Oil painting "Communications" on elevator lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Communications" on elevator lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom H...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Stairway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Stairway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

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 Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

One of several Great Depression-era murals mounted in the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates Building, once the Des Moines, Iowa, Public Library

One of several Great Depression-era murals mounted in the World Food P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as W.P.A. murals, because the artists who created them between 1937 and 1941 were paid by the job-creating New Deal ... More

Wooden sculpture "Freemen Prosper" by Sahl Swarz, in the courtroom lobby at the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Statesville, North Carolina

Wooden sculpture "Freemen Prosper" by Sahl Swarz, in the courtroom lob...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: R. Stanley Brown, 1939. Neoclassical design. Cre... More

Exterior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Exterior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

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

Detail inside the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Detail inside the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas C...

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 Ph... More

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First National Bank Building, now (as of 2014) abandoned, in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Details on the building celebrate Beaumont industry and depict various workers and professionals in carved limestone

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First Nationa...

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 Ph... More

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ruled all or much of the territory of Texas

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ru...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fair Park is the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas Credit line: T... More

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The small, triangular building dates to 1935. Two men, Franklin Bryant and Lynn Fuller, who specialize in restoring gas pumps and vin... More

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

Art deco-style sign for an unnamed hotel (at least on the sign) in Tucson, Arizona. It belongs to a vintage property that now (2018) is a Quality Inn property

Art deco-style sign for an unnamed hotel (at least on the sign) in Tuc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Mural "Sorting the Mail," by Reginald Marsh at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Sorting the Mail," by Reginald Marsh at the Ariel Rios Federal ...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 6' 7" x 12' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor...

Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Painting "Contemporary Justice and Man," second floor stairway, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Painting "Contemporary Justice and Man," second floor stairway, Depart...

Artist: John Ballator, 1937. Tempera, dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael at the Department...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 114 1/2" x 234 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloste...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

Small, aviation-themed bas-reliefs on the exterior facade of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, designed by architect Joseph Finger (who also designed Houston's City Hall) and housed in the original art-deco Houston Municipal Airport building at present-day William P. Hobby Airport

Small, aviation-themed bas-reliefs on the exterior facade of the 1940 ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2014, the terminal and nearby 1928 Carter Field Hangar are being restored and operated by the nonprofit Houston Aeronautical He... More

Small, aviation-themed bas-reliefs on the exterior facade of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, designed by architect Joseph Finger (who also designed Houston's City Hall) and housed in the original art-deco Houston Municipal Airport building at present-day William P. Hobby Airport

Small, aviation-themed bas-reliefs on the exterior facade of the 1940 ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2014, the terminal and nearby 1928 Carter Field Hangar are being restored and operated by the nonprofit Houston Aeronautical He... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Artist name from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-30087. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being the only ... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

The 1939 Crim Theater in Kilgore, Texas, once the flagship of a chain of movie theaters, was abandoned in the 1950s during the ascendancy of television and devolved into a glorified storage facility. Preservationists saved the building, and it has since been used for special events, including Halloween hauntings

The 1939 Crim Theater in Kilgore, Texas, once the flagship of a chain ...

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

Executive suite corridor detail, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Executive suite corridor detail, EPA East and West, located on 12th an...

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

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Artist name from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-30087. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being the only ... More

Art Deco Cavalier Hotel. Miami Beach, Florida

Art Deco Cavalier Hotel. Miami Beach, Florida

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

Interior lamp, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Interior lamp, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Isl...

Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Exterior, street view of Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Exterior, street view of Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria...

Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Exterior details, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Trenton, New Jersey

Exterior details, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U.S. Courthous...

Built in 1932 and designed by architect James Wetmore. The exterior of the Trenton Federal Building is a well executed design with a "Stipped Neo-Classical" form, with both Classical and Art Deco terra cotta de... More

Courtroom columns, detail, U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida

Courtroom columns, detail, U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida

Architect: Eric Kebbon. Built between 1935-1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office ...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Sculpture "Eagle," by Gifford MacGregor Proctor at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building in New Orleans, Louisiana

Sculpture "Eagle," by Gifford MacGregor Proctor at the F. Edward Heber...

Date: 1941; dimensions: 4' 8" x 6' 11"; medium: granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Cr... More

William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More

Mailboxes in lobby. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Mailboxes in lobby. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louis...

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 Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

Light fixtures. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in Greensboro, North Carolina

Light fixtures. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court Ho...

Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More

Sculpture "Spirit of Justice" Great Hall, 2nd floor, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Spirit of Justice" Great Hall, 2nd floor, Department of Jus...

Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimension: 12' 6" x 48". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the pho... More

Executive suite elevator lobby, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Executive suite elevator lobby, EPA East and West, located on 12th and...

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

Courtroom gate at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Courtroom gate at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Stained glass window, Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stained glass window, Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Ok...

Photo shows a native american in prayer with quotation "thy sins are forgiven." Formerly misidentified as a window at the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Source: B. Reed at the Boston ... More

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First National Bank Building, now (as of 2014) abandoned, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Relief, carved by Herring Coe, on the facade of the 1937 First Nationa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Details on the building celebrate Beaumont industry and depict various workers and professionals in carved limestone. Credit line: The... More

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the ...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Paramount Theatre building detail, Oakland, California

Paramount Theatre building detail, Oakland, California

Oakland's Paramount Theatre is one of the finest remaining examples of Art Deco design in the United States. Designed by renowned San Francisco architect Timothy L. Pflueger and completed in late 1931, it was o... More

Interior view of the Garden Room at Taliesin West, renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, from 1937 until his death in 1959

Interior view of the Garden Room at Taliesin West, renowned architect ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today Taliesin West is the main campus of the School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Open to... More

An art deco-style bas relief on the 1932 Buffalo City Hall building in Buffalo, New York

An art deco-style bas relief on the 1932 Buffalo City Hall building in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

Centennial Hall at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration in Dallas, Texas

Centennial Hall at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today's Centennial Hall is actually the amalgam of different buildings constructed at different times. One stage of the structure, whi... More

The San Jacinto Monument, a 567-foot-high column located near the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas

The San Jacinto Monument, a 567-foot-high column located near the Hous...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas ... More

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

Built in 1935, Greenville's first genuine "movie palace" was the brainchild of local attorney Calvin Poole. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lande... More

The Tower Building, now park headquarters but once the Federal Building at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

The Tower Building, now park headquarters but once the Federal Buildin...

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 Ph... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surrounding area

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the ...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Close up of "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Close up of "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor lobby, Depar...

Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Oil painting "Commerce of the East" located at center of Lobby, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Commerce of the East" located at center of Lobby, U.S. C...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Mural: "Science," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: "Science," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 107"x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael Newell at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael Newell at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 114 1/2" x 234 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Exterior detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Exterior detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Te...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Art Deco Cavalier Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

Art Deco Cavalier Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

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

Intricate Art Deco bas relief in Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Intricate Art Deco bas relief in Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D...

Photo shows Public Works Administration frieze: "The Progress of the Negro Race," by Daniel Olney, located in the courtyard of the Langston Terrace Dwellings near Benning Road, N.E., Kingman Park neighborhood, ... More

Sculpture "The Southwest" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "The Southwest" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of ...

Artist: Henry Kreis, 1933. Plaster, 48" x 88" x 1.5". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Sculpture "Pacific Coast" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Pacific Coast" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of ...

Artist: Henry Kreis, 1933. Plaster, 48" x 88" x 1.5". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Close up of painting "Law Guides Florida Progress" at David W. Dyer Federal Building and Courthouse, Miami, Florida

Close up of painting "Law Guides Florida Progress" at David W. Dyer Fe...

Artist: Denman Fink, 1941. Oil, dimensions: 25' 3" x 11' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

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

Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusettsachusetts

Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Bos...

Built in 1931-1933 by Architect Cram & Ferguson. The 16-story main mass rises to a height of 258' on Post Office Square. Restored by General Services Administration in 2009. Photographed as part of an assignmen... More

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