Title Guarantee Land and Trust Bldg., Birmingham, Ala.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-product...
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Panorama of Birmingham, Ala. panoramic photo
Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Sloss Furnaces, now abandoned, which burned for 90 years during Birmin...
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 site is now a National Historic Landmark. Title, da... More
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama
Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More
Architectural detail in Birmingham, 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
Interior, box office, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama
The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for Paramount films. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pagent ... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Tallulah Bankhead star on Alabama Movie Star Walk of Fame in front of ...
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was from Huntsville, Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. ... More
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
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Bogue's Restaurant sign in Birmingham, 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
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Wanda Newman and Teresa Phillips and their dog Cammi pose in Batman ou...
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Stairway. The Robert S. Vance Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is ...
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
Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A....
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Noon hour, Avondale Mills. The next day, Nov. 24th, I went through the...
Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... More
Birmingham, Alabama. Historic map, Library of Congress
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes col. illus., location map, and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 4 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More
George Meadows, murderer & rapist, lynched on scene of his last crime
Photograph shows African American man with hands bound hanging from a tree. Photo by L. Horgan, Jr., Birmingham.
20th Street, looking north, Birmingham, Ala. / Arbiter Bros.
Commercial street with trolley car and horse drawn carriages. Photoprint heavily retouched.
[Unidentified store, Birmingham, Ala.]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jefferson County Court House and St. Paul's Church, Birmingham, Ala.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Ala.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Col. Roosevelt giving public address N.C.L.C. Conference Birmingham. ...
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Coal miners, Birmingham, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmi...
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Right...
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Detail at the Sloss Furnaces, now abandoned, which burned for 90 years...
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 site is now a National Historic Landmark. Title, da... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Five Points South Fountain, Birmingham, 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
Statue of Fred Shuttlesworth, former civil rights activist, Birmingham...
Fred Shuttlesworth (born Freddie Lee Robinson on March 18, 1922) is a former civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama, and was a... More
Statue of James Alexander Bryan, known as Brother Bryan, a well-loved ...
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
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Alabama welcomes the newest addition to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Tr...
Beautifully carved into the rolling terrain of Shannon Valley, Ross Bridge has 18 holes and hosts major golf tournaments each year. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
A dog is brushed so that the hair can be used to soak up the oil in a ...
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More
Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama
The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for Paramount films. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pagent ... More
Courtroom. The Robert S. Vance Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is...
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
Post Office, Birmingham, Ala. - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...
Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Noon hour at Avondale Mills. The youngest boy (on left end) said he ha...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
All these (except the baby) work in Avondale Mills. Location: Birming...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Waiting for the whistle to blow, Avondale Mills. Location: Birmingham...
Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Col. Roosevelt giving public address at Birmingham, N.C.L.C. Conferenc...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photo...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coming out of the mine, Birmingham, Alabama
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FSA photog...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A group of men standing next...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
[Bomb-damaged trailers at the Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama] / [MS...
Photograph showing the wreckage of a bomb explosion near the Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr., and leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were staying during the Birmingham campaign o... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama
Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
Statue of Fred Shuttlesworth, former civil rights activist, Birmingham...
Fred Shuttlesworth (born Freddie Lee Robinson on March 18, 1922) is a former civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama, and was a... More
Colored Masonic Temple located in downtown Birmingham, 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
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
Skyline at dusk, Birmingham, 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
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
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The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
One of the young wagon boys. There are a good many of these at certain...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A....
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Skyline east from Southern Bell Telephone Co. Bldg., Birmingham, Alaba...
J211964 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. F. Knox; February 12, 1916.
To arms ye sons of victory - Public domain World War One sheet music
words and music by J. W. Lambert. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)
Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
A.D.T. Boys. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: "Vestavia" Temple, built by Geor...
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Coal miners, Birmingham, Alabama
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. Two men sitting next to each...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of m...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmi...
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama
Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More
Wanda Newman and Teresa Phillips and their dog Cammi pose in Batman ou...
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama
Rickwood Field is the oldest surviving professional baseball park in the United States. It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home pa... More
Views of Birmingham, Alabama, from Vulcan Statue
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
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Houses that will soon be gone located at 5th and 3rd Avenue in Birming...
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
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...
The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More