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[Partial border design for a page with birds, cherries, and other fruit]

[Partial border design for a page with birds, cherries, and other frui...

Inscribed in pencil: 4 x 4 birds, 3 x 5 leaves, 4 times 2 cher[ries], 1 x 7 peaches, 2 x 6 duck[s]. Title devised. Inscribed in pencil upper left: =8. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.110) Forms part o... More

Phelps & Watson's historical and military map of the border & southern states.

Phelps & Watson's historical and military map of the border & southern...

Shows locations of battles and skirmishes, 1861 to May (?) 1864, with red dots or by red underlining of place names. Also shows population statistics for each state; statistics positioned near blue dots. Relief... More

Mexico - U.S. campaign against Villa - 1916. U.S. soldiers on Mexican border

Mexico - U.S. campaign against Villa - 1916. U.S. soldiers on Mexican ...

10th Cavalry (African American) waving hats. 213130 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. See LC-USZ62-26809. Caption card t... More

[Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. Flower border pathway]

[Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. Flower border ...

On sleeve (handwritten): no. "511." Title and date based on similar view in the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, negative LC-J7-VA- 2015. Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series... More

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King cooperative seed exchange at Williams, Minnesota. This test is to determine purity and quality of the seed before a price can be set on it

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King coopera...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chile-Peru border region. 9-75. - Public domain map

Chile-Peru border region. 9-75. - Public domain map

Scale 1:900,000. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "Soundings in fathoms." "502432." Includes location map, "Area of main map," and "Generalized profile of northern Chile." Available also through the Li... More

"Fiesta-Jarabe" sculpture at the Otay Mesa Border Station southwest of San Diego, California

"Fiesta-Jarabe" sculpture at the Otay Mesa Border Station southwest of...

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

China-Vietnam border area. - Public domain map

China-Vietnam border area. - Public domain map

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Relief shown by shading. "800918 (A06009) 9-88."

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, on the border of Conecuh County

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community ...

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

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, on the border of Conecuh County

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community ...

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

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, on the border of Conecuh County

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community ...

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 Flora-Bama bar located on the Florida-Alabama border line

The Flora-Bama bar located on the Florida-Alabama border line

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

A most unusual justice of the peace office in no discernible town just outside Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which is split between Hudspeth and Culberson counties in Texas, along the New Mexico border. It is unclear whether the justice of the peace presided from the bathtub in front of his or her "office"

A most unusual justice of the peace office in no discernible town just...

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

One of many Mexican-themed structures at South of the Border, an unapologetically tourist-centered shopping extravaganza, with a theme-park flair but minus the rides, near Dillon, South Carolina. The referenced border is the one with North Carolina, just to the north

One of many Mexican-themed structures at South of the Border, an unapo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window tondo group with Hand of God, Alpha/Omega, Pentecost, with angels as border for St. Mary's Church in Amityville, New York]

[Design drawing for stained glass window tondo group with Hand of God,...

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

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Tenth, Mount Ephraim, Border & Newton Avenue, Camden, Camden County, NJ

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Tenth, Mount Ephraim, Border & Newton Avenue, Camden, Camden County, NJ

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Tall ship with full sails and border of compass rose, fish, foliage and blowing Four Winds putti; Brandywine Valley illustration-style]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Tall ship with full sail...

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

Eagle Creek Overlook Shelter, Columbia Gorge,Oregon-Washington Border, Bonneville, Multnomah County, OR

Eagle Creek Overlook Shelter, Columbia Gorge,Oregon-Washington Border,...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Overlook Shelter, built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, is located in the Columbia Gorge and sits atop a flat knoll above the Columbia River o... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with transparent round arch and pastel floral border, tassels]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with transparent round arch a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a stained glass window, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Christ Before Pilate, with domed architecture, carpet, throne, soldier with sword and pike, border with quotes and crown for Washington Street Methodist Church in Petersburg, Virginia]

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Christ Befor...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Semiahmoo Cannery, On Boundary Bay near Canadian border, Blaine, Whatcom County, WA

Semiahmoo Cannery, On Boundary Bay near Canadian border, Blaine, Whatc...

Significance: A representative example of an early 20th-century fish packing and canning facility. The Semiahmoo Cannery survives with most of its buildings and machinery intact. Survey number: HAER WA-11

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

U. S. Border Inspection Station, 103 Cherry Street, Sumas, Whatcom County, WA

U. S. Border Inspection Station, 103 Cherry Street, Sumas, Whatcom Cou...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Sumas is one of the early small buildings built by the federal government in Washington State. It is also an example of a prototypical "northern type" United Stat... More

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/Oregon border, Hood, Skamania County, WA

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/O...

Significance: The Broughton flume was one of the last working cant flumes in the United States. Spanning nine miles from Willard to Hood, Washington, it operated from 1923-1986. / The Broughton Flume was built... More

[Earth, the sun, and moon carried on dragon's back below title in decorative border]

[Earth, the sun, and moon carried on dragon's back below title in deco...

Title page in: Astronomicum caesareum / Petrus Apianus. [Ingolstadii, 1540] Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p.43.

[Title page of Elementa geometrie; with decorated border and initial P and geometric diagrams]

[Title page of Elementa geometrie; with decorated border and initial P...

Title page in: Elementa geometria / Euclides. Venice : E. Ratdolt, 1482. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 225.

Lithograph of Abraham Lincoln on horseback within a border of furled U. S. flag and symbolic illustrations. "After a little while."

Lithograph of Abraham Lincoln on horseback within a border of furled U...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Memento mori. [Portrait of Lincoln within a black border containing 13 stars.]

Memento mori. [Portrait of Lincoln within a black border containing 13...

Portrait of Lincoln within a black mourning border containing 13 stars.

[Devin and the Danube River, southwest Slovakia, near Austrian border, Austro-Hungary]

[Devin and the Danube River, southwest Slovakia, near Austrian border,...

Title in Detroit Publishing Company, catalogue J foreign section: Theben, Schneeberg, Lower Austria, Austro-Hungary. Print no. "9216". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom prin... More

[Dr. Peter Brown Wyckoff house, Gin Lane, Southampton, New York. Flower border]

[Dr. Peter Brown Wyckoff house, Gin Lane, Southampton, New York. Flowe...

Site History. House Architecture: Barney & Chapman, built circa 1900. Landscape: Hicks Nursery, Jericho, New York, circa 1900. Associated Name: Cora Dillon (Mrs. Peter B.) Wyckoff. Other: Later known as "Wooldo... More

Texas -- troops on border - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Texas -- troops on border - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. Army Punitive Expedition after Villa, Colonia Dublan, Mexico, 1916. American Headquarters: Unloading supplies from train which has come from Juarez on the border]

[U.S. Army Punitive Expedition after Villa, Colonia Dublan, Mexico, 19...

Photoprint by William Fox, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 203872. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

["Glen Oaks," James Hobart Moore house, East Valley Road, Montecito, California. Pyrethrum border]

["Glen Oaks," James Hobart Moore house, East Valley Road, Montecito, C...

Site History. House Architecture: Unknown, possibly Stanford White. Landscape: W. Stanley Davis, gardener until 1916. Associated Name: Lora Small (Mrs. James H.) Moore. Other: James Hobart Moore acquired the ho... More

["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Newport, Rhode Island. Blue Garden flower border]

["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Newport, Rhode Islan...

No. 4a. Handwritten on back: "1920 Sept."; "(4)"; and "Copy 1 5x7, 1 4x5." Stamped: "Frances Benjamin Johnston, 161 Lexington Avenue, New York." Title and date information provided by Sam Watters, 2012. Forms p... More

["Indian Ridge," Dr. Francis Bishop Harrington house, 166 Argilla Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Flower border]

["Indian Ridge," Dr. Francis Bishop Harrington house, 166 Argilla Road...

Site History. House Architecture: Built circa 1903. Associated Name: Josephine Ruggles (Mrs. Francis B.) Harrington. On slide: Unprinted paper mask has the type of gold-border boxes used by slide manufacturer T... More

Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Edfu, showing the newer town, Nile, and fields beyond

Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Edfu, showing the...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio, Texas. Came to Carrizo Springs during Civil War with white men seeking new range for their cattle. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. He knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border

Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of...

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

China-North Vietnam border area. - Public domain map

China-North Vietnam border area. - Public domain map

"52597 11-65." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 730B. Mounted on cloth and laminated.

Carol M. Highsmith - Sign, Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee border

Carol M. Highsmith - Sign, Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee border

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

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More

Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Gr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More

Trees draped with Spanish moss within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

Trees draped with Spanish moss within the Santa Ana National Wildlife ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

One of many Mexican-themed structures at South of the Border, an unapologetically tourist-centered shopping extravaganza, with a theme-park flair but minus the rides, near Dillon, South Carolina. The referenced border is the one with North Carolina, just to the north

One of many Mexican-themed structures at South of the Border, an unapo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

[Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt, head-and-shoulders portraits cut in the shape of overlapping hearts with rose border; drawing of cupid in lower right and of the U.S. Capitol which is visible between the hearts]

[Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt, head-and-shoulders portraits c...

J209468 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Press Association. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the C... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Tenth, Mount Ephraim, Border & Newton Avenue, Camden, Camden County, NJ

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebraska border, Hanover, Washington County, KS

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing St. George slaying dragon before crenellated castle; Tudor roses in border]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing St. George slaying dr...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description St. George Conquering the Dragon is a popular subject in Christian art, representing... More

Semiahmoo Cannery, On Boundary Bay near Canadian border, Blaine, Whatcom County, WA

Semiahmoo Cannery, On Boundary Bay near Canadian border, Blaine, Whatc...

Significance: A representative example of an early 20th-century fish packing and canning facility. The Semiahmoo Cannery survives with most of its buildings and machinery intact. Survey number: HAER WA-11

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highway 93, immediately south of U.S.-Canadian border, Eureka, Lincoln County, MT

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highway 93, immediately south of U.S.-Canadian border, Eureka, Lincoln County, MT

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

[Design drawing for stained glass translucent round-arched window with asymmetrical floral and tassel border]

[Design drawing for stained glass translucent round-arched window with...

Public domain photograph of stained glass design, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U. S. Border Inspection Station, 103 Cherry Street, Sumas, Whatcom County, WA

U. S. Border Inspection Station, 103 Cherry Street, Sumas, Whatcom Cou...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Sumas is one of the early small buildings built by the federal government in Washington State. It is also an example of a prototypical "northern type" United Stat... More

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/Oregon border, Hood, Skamania County, WA

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/O...

Significance: The Broughton flume was one of the last working cant flumes in the United States. Spanning nine miles from Willard to Hood, Washington, it operated from 1923-1986. / The Broughton Flume was built... More

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/Oregon border, Hood, Skamania County, WA

Broughton Flume, Hood River Junction on Columbia River at Washington/O...

Significance: The Broughton flume was one of the last working cant flumes in the United States. Spanning nine miles from Willard to Hood, Washington, it operated from 1923-1986. / The Broughton Flume was built... More

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More

[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regiomontanus, seated beneath an armillary sphere and surrounded by decorated border]

[Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regio...

Frontspiece in: Epytoma in Almagestum / Regiomontus. Venice : J. Hammam, 1496. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 29.

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians"

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop shield with message "Love one another" and border of stars with state names]

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop shield with message "Love one a...

Addressed to Mr. Benj. Carpenter, Esq., Lockport, Niagara Co., N.Y.; postmarked Baltimore, Sep. 29; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Ober's Island, One of the Review Islands on Rainy Lake, bounded on the south by The Hawk Island and on the north by The Crow Island. These islands are located seven miles east of Ranier, Minnesota, three miles west of Voyageur National Park, and one mile south of the international border of the United States of America and Canada. The legal description of Mallard Island is Lot 6, Section 19, T-17-N, R-22-W, Koochiching County, Minnesota, Ranier, Koochiching County, MN

Ober's Island, One of the Review Islands on Rainy Lake, bounded on the...

Significance: The Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Historic District is nationally significant under national register evaluation criteria B, recognizing the contributions of Ernest Oberholtzer as a pioneer in ... More

U.S. troops, on border, El Paso / Bain Coll.

U.S. troops, on border, El Paso / Bain Coll.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[General William Crozier house, 1735 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. Hyacinth border and lawn]

[General William Crozier house, 1735 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washingto...

Site History. Associated Name: Mary Williams (Mrs. William) Crozier. Other: The house in the background was completed in 1909 at 1746 Massachusetts Avenue and is now an embassy. On slide: Blue star sticker On s... More

Receiving wireless messages from the border near Casas Grandes, Mexico - Mexican-U.S. Campaign after Villa, 1916

Receiving wireless messages from the border near Casas Grandes, Mexico...

U.S. Army Signal Corpsman at wireless on wagon. Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. Blue Garden, flower border]

["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Ne...

Site History. House Architecture: Howells & Stokes, 1910. Landscape: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Henry Hill Blossom, Olmsted Brothers, 1908-1913, 1915-1916; Hempsted of Boston, contractors; John Greatorex, garde... More

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler control building. Windows on three sides and overlook terrace adjoining offer complete view of plant and surroundings. Fourth wall used for description of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program. Floor: gray-brown terrazo, divided into large squares by white metal strips. Wainscot, window sills, trim around doorway and curb at footlights brownish-red precast terrazo. Walls burlap covered, painted subdued tan. Windows aluminum. Ceiling and upper part of walls, plaster painted warm gray with warm off-white reflecting circles and cove across end (ceiling acoustic plaster). Lighting indirect. Lights in cove across end of room also throw downward, directed by lenses toward wall display and shielded by aluminum louvers. Behind curb inclined contol lens footlights and louver (aluminum) shielding air exhaust. Supply through ceiling grilles which border ceiling on two sides. Deep trim around doorway intended as shield while passing footlights. Display in gray, black and tan, keyed with general color scheme. Guard's desk of natural oak and ebomized birch, with raised ledge for visitor's registration

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler contro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Edfu. Old town showing Temple of Horus

Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Edfu. Old town sh...

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Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Abou Simbel showing monuments by river's edge

Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Abou Simbel showi...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Sudan. Juba to southern border of Sudan. The hotel

Sudan. Juba to southern border of Sudan. The hotel

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King co-op seed exchange at Williams, Minnesota. This test is to ascertain purity and quality of seed before the price is set on it

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King co-op s...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sunnyside Restoration, Washington Irving House, Tarrytown, New York. House over border

Sunnyside Restoration, Washington Irving House, Tarrytown, New York. H...

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View from the surroundings of Soda Butte Creek of the majestic Absaroka Mountain Range of the Northern Rockies in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. The Absarokas stretch about 150 miles across the Montana-Wyoming border, forming the eastern border of the national park

View from the surroundings of Soda Butte Creek of the majestic Absarok...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The closed-for-business, 1929-vintage Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

The closed-for-business, 1929-vintage Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop alon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Salt Flat served as a stopping place for travelers using the new highway that connected El Paso, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The... More

Power lines near Athens, Alabama, 15 miles from the Tennessee border

Power lines near Athens, Alabama, 15 miles from the Tennessee border

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

A giant spark plug, mounted for reasons unknown, at South of the Border, an unapologetically tourist-centered shopping extravaganza, with a theme-park flair but minus the rides, near Dillon, South Carolina. The referenced border is the one with North Carolina, just to the north

A giant spark plug, mounted for reasons unknown, at South of the Borde...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A rabbit figure, mounted for reasons unclear at South of the Border, an unapologetically tourist-centered shopping extravaganza, with a theme-park flair but minus the rides, near Dillon, South Carolina. The referenced border is the one with North Car

A rabbit figure, mounted for reasons unclear at South of the Border, a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Customs Officers Residence, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Customs Officers Residence, West side ...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Customs Officers Residence, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Customs Officers Residence, West side ...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Immigation Officers Residence, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, Immigation Officers Residence, West si...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Agnes: Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they Shall See God; also lamb, dove with ring, and lily border]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Agnes: Blessed are t...

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[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Agnes: Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they Shall See God; also lamb, dove with ring, and lily border]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Agnes: Blessed are t...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Bronx-Westchester border, New York, New York County, NY

Henry Hudson Parkway, Extending 11.2 miles from West 72nd Street to Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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