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 ...
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
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 ...
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 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,...
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, 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
Sculpture "Young American Woman" at Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Artist: Henry Kreis, 1939. Aluminum, dimensions: 4' 6" x 18" x 12". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photo... More
Exterior eagle detail, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia,...
Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Mural: National Park Service, North Country, Gifford Beal at the Depar...
Date: 1941; dimensions: 105" x 224 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credi... More
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
Rear door, 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
Mural "National Park Service: Tropical Country," by Gifford Beal at th...
Date: 1941; dimensions: 105" x 224 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Interior clock, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More
Interior details at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... 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
Stairway at the Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinoi...
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
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 "The Eastern States" located in fifth floor lobby, Departmen...
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
Exterior detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey
Architect: James A. Wetmore, 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More
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
[Detail above elevator in lobby of 2nd Street entrance. Library of Con...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Exterior detail, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, Connect...
Public domain reproduction of art nouveau poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Royal Palm Art Deco Hotel, Miami, Florida
The Art Deco-style Royal Palm Hotel overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and is located two blocks from Ocean Drive. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Li... More
The "woofus" at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Expositio...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The creature above is a re-creation of the "Texas Woofus," a whimsical figure from the exposition. The woofus combines Texas longhorns... More
Bas relief architectural detail on building, Lincoln, Nebraska
The building was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and constructed between 1922 and 1932. The Indiana limestone structure draws on both Classical and Gothic architectural traditions, but represents major in... More
In 1937, after fire destroyed two previous El Paso locations of the S....
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
Organ in Avalon theater at the Catalina Casino, built on the site form...
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
The Texas Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennia...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Eventually designed by Donald Barthelme, the building is a premier example of Cret's Modernism, a reference to noted designer Paul Cre... More
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
Detail of the 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the ...
According to the National Park Service, its architecture "expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. . . . architects Melvi... More
Glass medallion inside a meeting room at the Tower Building, now park ...
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
The 1936 art deco-style Rogers Theater in Shelby, North Carolina, is a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The theater was closed in 1985. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Hig... More
Elaborate doorway of what was built as the Science Building for the 19...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library o... More
The 1930 Times Square Building in Rochester, New York
The 12-story, Art Deco skyscraper, originally called the Genesee Valley Trust Building supports four aluminum wings 42 feet high, known as the "Wings of Progress." Each weighs 12,000 pounds. Title, date and key... More
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
Mailboxes at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas
Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.
War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.
The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....
Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More
Security First National Bank, 5207-5209 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angele...
Significance: A single floor bank structure, externally sheathed in glazed black terracotta, with bright gold accented terracotta detailings. In a reserve fashion Zigzag Moderne (Art Deco) ornament has been int... More
Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...
Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667
The modern poster - Art nouveau public domain poster
Poster shows a peacock. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Don't kill our wild life - Art Deco public domain image
Poster showing two deer crossing road in front of approaching car. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1940. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Poster design attributed to John Wagner. Work Projects A... More
Photographs, second annual exhibition, Sioux City Camera Club
Poster for the Sioux City Camera Club's second annual exhibition of photographs at the Community Federal Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, showing stylized man at a camera. Date stamped on verso: Mar 9 1939. Work P... More
U.S. Coast Guard Support Center Alameda, Warehouse, Spencer Road & Ica...
Significance: According to a HABS survey prepared by Ana Beth Koval in 1992: "This building is one of the fourteen 1930s buildings on Coast Guard Island which appear to be eligible to the National Register as ... More
Studenten seid Propagandisten des Führers Hoch-u. Fachschulen bekennen...
Poster shows a man with left arm raised calling out to students to become propagandists for the Führer; a large swastika in the lower left corner mirrors that on his lapel. The man also asks that universities a... More
Mural by Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1...
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
Oil painting "Exports: Port of Philadelphia" located on east wall of l...
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
Please keep the park clean - Art Deco public domain image
Poster encouraging conservation of a natural resource area, showing a boy holding a butterfly net, sitting against a tree. Date stamped on verso: Oct 18 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Lib... More
Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., makes torpedo boats and ot...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...
12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, wa...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Garage, 1910 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Auto related. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More
Fresco paintings above entrance to room 5138, Department of Justice, W...
Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More
Lobby detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Isla...
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
Fresco paintings at U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida
Artist: Edward "Buk" Ulreich, 1939. Dimensions: each 51" x 110". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More
Library, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Ma...
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
Pittsburgh panorama at U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pe...
Artist: Van Veen Stuyvesant, 1937. Oil painting, dimensions: 10' 6" x 17'". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Clock at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Fresco paintings at U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida
Artist: Edward "Buk" Ulreich, 1939. Dimensions: each 51" x 110". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More
Architectural detail at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Te...
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More
Courtroom clock, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alban...
Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More
Hallway, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Oil painting "Signal Flag" on first floor rotunda ceiling, U.S. Custom...
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
Interior, fifth floor lobby, Department of State, Harry S. Truman Buil...
Architect: Underwood & Foster. Built between 1939-1941. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More
Fresco paintings above entrance to room 5114, Department of Justice, W...
Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More
Front entrance detail, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, C...
Architect: Adams & Malfeldt & Prentice. Built in 1933. Stripped Classical/Art Deco style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by... More
Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida
Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More
Grille of a 1931 Cord L-29 Speedster on one of about 125 classic autom...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Invented by William G. Woods, the lights were a stunning Art Deco addition. However, they were dim and inferior to conventional headla... More
Lobby door. 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
Corridor, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, M...
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
Exterior, 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
Oil painting "Nautical Signal Flag" located on first floor rotunda cei...
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
Corridor. 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
A portion of a huge mural, depicting Texas history, inside the Hall of...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gigantic columns close to the north wall on which the mural appears make a photograph of the painting in toto impossible. The park, w... More
Art Deco Column Capital details, Mississippi War Memorial Building, Ja...
Built in 1939 beside the Old Capitol. A Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Print... More
The landmark Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi's...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the classic ar...
According to the National Park Service, its architecture "expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. . . . architects Melvi... More
Details of 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 in Oakland, California
Designed by Timothy Pfleger in 1931, the landmark features a resplendent Art Deco auditorium with bas-relief sculptural panels, a grand ceiling, and a 1931 Wurlitzer organ. Title, date and keywords based on inf... More
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
Blue Swallow Motel, Route 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico
Blue Swallow Motel was built in 1939 by W.A. Higgins. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gif... More
Architectural details at the Catalina Casino, built on the site former...
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
Medallion on the exterior entrance of the Tower Building, now park hea...
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
The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
First floor detail of Art deco, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, Ca...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Depression-era bas-relief on the facade of Centennial Hall at Fair Par...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the site of the Texas Centennial of 1936, when artists and artisans from around Texas, the nation, and the world created rema... More
"The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW Adolph Trei...
Poster showing a woman ordnance worker, holding wrench, gazing up at a soldier with a rifle in the clouds in the background. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1943. Promotional goal: U.S. J44.J2. 1943.
Merritt Parkway, South Avenue/Route 124 Bridge, Spanning Merritt Parkw...
Significance: The bridges of the Merritt Parkway were predominately inspired by the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural style of the 1930s. Experimental forming techniques were employed to create the orname... More
Couple lighting cigarettes - Public domain dedication image
A fashionably dressed man and woman smoke cigarettes. The man, standing behind the woman, bends to light her cigarette with his.
[WPA poster design on red background showing the head and hands of a w...
Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941. Stamped on verso: "New York State WPA Art Program." Forms part of: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Works Progress Administr... More
Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667