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Aerial view looking north, with the National Gallery of Art in the for...

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

Horseshoe Art. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the Ame... More

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...

Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Despite its name, this is ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Widely referred to as "The Modern," the museum collects and displays post-World War II art in various media. The buildi... More

The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More

Architectural art "Swimmers" at U.S. Courthouse, Jacksonville, Florida

Artist: Susan Kaprov, 2003. Fired ceramic pigments on float glass; 18 glass panels, 33 3/16 x 40 9/16 inches each. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title informatio... More

Architectural art "Cenozoic Codex" at three locations on building exte...

Artist: Keith Sonnier, 1997. Blue, red, and yellow neon tubes. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art in Las Vegas, Nevada

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Architectural art "Poplar and Iris (Garden of Justice)" interior of Ja...

Artist: Michele Oka Doner, 2001. Gilded bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Mural, Juneau, Alaska - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Art at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Art at the Frank T. Bow Federal Building, Canton, Ohio

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. Highsmith Archive, Library of Con... More

Art in the U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Artist: Ed Carpenter. Architectural Arts: aluminum, stainless steel, dichronic glass, and stone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subje... More

Mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California

Balmy Alley is located in the Mission District in San Francisco, California. The block long alley is the best place to see the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco. The murals began in the mi... More

Mural, Mission District, San Francisco, California

The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission," is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, named after the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date, and subj... More

Artist Nall poses with his art, Fairhope, Alabama

A Southern artist with an international following, Nall has a unique style that has captivated the attention of the world. The gifted artist grew up in Troy, Alabama and began drawing, arts, and crafts at his f... More

Hay bale art in a field of hay near Forkland, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

The Palm Springs Art Museum, formerly the Palm Springs Desert Museum, ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Founded in 1938, the museum is a regional art, natural science and performing arts institution for the city and the Coachella Valley. This building, the m... More

Pigs for sale at the Fairhope, Alabama Art Festival

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

This prehistoric aboriginal art petroglyph shows carved footprints and...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre statue, at the Smithsonian Donald Reynold...

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

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Detail on the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, Missouri

The Kiel Opera House is a civic performing arts building in St. Louis, Missouri. It opened it 1934 and operated until 1991, when it and the adjacent Kiel Auditorium were closed so the auditorium could be demoli... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Mural "Sugaring Off" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Art at the Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture near Sacramento, California

After Stockton veterinarian Kresimir Luckars, a self-taught sculptor and metal artist, and mosaic artist Denise Mayfield purchased the park, artists begin to dot the property with outdoor art, and eventually in... More

Sculptural mural building by artist Brian Goggin on the corner of 6th ...

The piece consists of tables, chairs, lamps and even a grandfather clock, all hanging precariously out of the building's windows. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. ... More

East Jesus is an experimental, habitable, extensible artwork in progre...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Imaginative road art above a small store in Weaverville, a popular tou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Art murals on the exterior of the Fox Warfield Theatre, a 2,300 seat m...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The building is the art: Two Boots Pizza, Downtown LA, Los Angeles, Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Wall art in Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angel...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of Cal... More

This is art of a sort, but not exactly either private or public. It wa...

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wall art by Gilbert "Magu" Lujan inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subwa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More

An art installation in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Te...

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

An art installation in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The district, whic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Lunt. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Con... More

Small businesses in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The dis...

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

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

Pooch-themed art at the Deep Ellum "bark park," an off-leash dog park ...

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

Entrance to the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas

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

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South ...

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

Distinctive urban art (mural) in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed l...

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

Allan Hauser's 1978 "Earth Spring" sculpture at the Heard Museu, a pri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Art outside the Heard Museum's auditorium in Phoenix, Arizona. The pri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Yugoslav Naive Art Exhibition opening at the Cultural Center, Chicago ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 6, Mayor Michael Anthony Bilandic, center, at the Yugoslav Naive Art ... More

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 711-721 Catharine Street, Philadelphi...

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

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 711-721 Catharine Street, Philadelphi...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 711-721 Catharine Street, Philadelphi...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /

Picryl description: Public domain image of printed material, catalog page, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /

Picryl description: Public domain image of composite portrait page, or group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript, folio, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Full-length portrait of a woman identified as Emma Cochran?] / from B...

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Philadelphia Art Club, 220 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelp...

Survey number: HABS PA-1529 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Macy Warehouse, Straight Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: A large brick warehouse for ships' stores built immediately after the Great Fire of 1846 during Nantucket's whaling prosperity. / All buildings in the vicinity of this building were destroyed by t... More

The Art of modulation - Public domain American sheet music, 1873

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-02-19 update (1 card)

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Char...

Significance: Beginning with the end of World War II and continuing to the present, the Cold War and the resulting arms race between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) has form... More

Exhibition WPA Federal Art Project Pennsylvania / / Milhous.

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Greek figure holding print. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Signed in pencil by the artist.

South gallery, Toledo Museum of Art

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Kilo...

Significance: Beginning with the end of World War II and continuing to the present, the Cold War and the resulting arms race between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) has form... More

[Portrait of Nesuhi Ertegun, Herb Abramson, Ahmet M. Ertegun, Mezz Mez...

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

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Articles, undated

French cookery : the modern cook : a practical guide to the culinary a...

Public domain cooking book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Revue bimestrielle pour l'art appliqué́ / J. Thorn Prikker.

Advertising poster for publication by H. Kleinmann et Cie., Harlem, Holland, showing the crucifixion of Christ.

[Portrait of Art Hodes, Ole South, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1946]

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb In: The Record Changer, v. 5, no. 10 (Dec. 46, 1946), p. 11. Forms part of:... More

' Tis of her thou art speaking - Ah! mi parla di lei

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Art of cookery. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 8-2-48 LAC scc 2019-03-20 update (1 card)

[Art Devlin, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Building 513, Between Secon...

Survey number: HAER ND-13-C Building/structure dates: 1982 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1990 Subsequent Work

[Full-length portrait of an African-American man, possibly a Buffalo s...

Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV51 ;Buffalo soldiers. "Pictures copied and enlarged to any size" printed on back of the mount. "8095" printed on back o... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Delt...

Significance: Beginning with the end of World War II and continuing to the present, the Cold War and the resulting arms race between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) has form... More

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...

Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More

WPA paintings by children under Federal Art Project, New York

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of childrens' paintings, showing a hand painting a horse. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Bonnet House, Art Studio & Tower, 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdal...

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-42 Survey number: HABS FL-366-A Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction

Des Moines Art Center, Greenwood Park, Des Moines, Polk County, IA

Significance: The earlier portion of the building is a major work of Eliel Saarinen near the end of his career. The construction of this building provided the City of Des Moines with an excellent art gallery. ... More

Indian art of the United States Prehistoric art living tradition - Ind...

Poster announcing exhibition of Native American art at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City, showing large hand. An exhibition prepared by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board U.S. Dept. of Th... More

Indian art of the United States Prehistoric art living tradition - Ind...

Poster announcing exhibition of Native American art at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City, showing large hand. An exhibition prepared by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board U.S. Dept. of Th... More

[Art Fromme, Cincinnati Reds, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Georgievskie kavalery imieiushchie znaki otlichiia voennago ordena. Za...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 34.

[John N. A. Griswold house (now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Is...

Inscribed in pencil J. Griswold [?]. Faint sketch in pencil on verso. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collectio... More

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770. An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece,... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Capt. R. Headen / Ball & Thomas, Photographic Art Gallery, 120 W. 4th ...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Capt. Robert Headen, Company E, 12th U.S. Colored Infantry. Title from ink inscription on front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52; Capt. Robert Hea... More