For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...
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
Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Small log cabin, Dallas, Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This small log cabin, moved from the countryside outsid... More
Parlor at Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built about 1750 in southeastern Louisiana, it is a cla... More
Artistic details at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immacul...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This is the nation's largest Catholic church. Title, da... More
Children's play area in Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former mansio...
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
Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, a...
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
Carol M. Highsmith - Michael Jordan mural, Chicago, Illinois
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
San Francisco City Hall, completed in 1915, San Francisco, California
Architects rank it with monumental Washington, D.C., buildings as triumphs of the "City Beautiful" movement inspired by the World's Columbian Exposition's "White City" in Chicago in 1893. Digital image produced... More
Aerial view of high-rise neighborhood in Arlington's fast-growing Ross...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Aerial view of suburbs, Houston, Texas
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
Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York City
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
Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Interior of Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Washington, D.C.
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
[Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin]
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 from similar image LC-DIG-hig... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia
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
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith poses with former President Gerald 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
Statue on the staircase of the Chancery and Residence of the Ambassado...
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
Carol M. Highsmith - Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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
Historic Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
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
Carol M. Highsmith - Lighthouse, Point Vicente, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Before the installation of lighthouses on the Pacific c... More
Henry Chandler Bowen house, Woodstock, Connecticut
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Henry Chandler Bowen, pillar of this community of white... More
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York
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
Union Depot, Pueblo, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Carol M. Highsmith - U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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
Wind turbines above San Gorgonio Pass, known as Banning Pass, in River...
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
Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Florence, Alabama
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
New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Members of the King family arrive in 1998 at Freedom Plaza, a wide spa...
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
The 1887 two-story, Italianate-style Masonic Hall building in Alamosa,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Sculpture "Fairmindedness" located in fifth floor elevator, bank 9, De...
Artist: Leo Lentelli, 1933. Plaster, 36" in diameter. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Exterior, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York
Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.
Built 1928-1936. 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 Carol M. Highsmith Arc... More
Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitutio...
Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... 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 1875-76 Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907, it is a 2-1/2 story brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Classical Revival style. The brick used is a pressed, glaz... More
Construction on what was originally known as "the Ladies Hall" at West...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was given the name Agnes Howard Hall in 1920 in honor of Mrs. Agnes Howard, who was a student at the college in the early... More
Interior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
Mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More
U.S. Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Built in 1939 by Rudolph Stanley Brown. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More
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
Fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Wa...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More
Blair-Lee dining room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across fr...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More
At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a complex of five museums and ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The complex's five museums are the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural ... More
Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii
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
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 milessouthwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60-acre es... More
Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More
[East Corridor, First Floor. Mosaic in domed lobby at head of stairway...
More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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
Denali's (Mt. McKinley's) north summit from the east, Muldrow Glacier ...
Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National P... More
Steel sculpture "The Sentinels of Justice" at the Charles Evans Whitta...
Artist: Beverly Pepper, 1998. 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
Row houses, Florida Ave. and Q St., NW, Washington, D.C.
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
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
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
Ski lift, Mammoth Lakes, California
In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More
Fireman's Insurance Building, intersection of 7th St. and Pennsylvania...
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
Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, ...
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
Geckos are prevelent throughout Monroe County, Alabama during the hot ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Previously identified as a gecko; correct information provided by D. Owens (Source: www.outdooralabama.com/northern-gre... More
Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...
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
Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama
The first thing you notice about Cathedral Caverns is the massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. Inside the cavern, is Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River and some of the most be... More
Man on ladder, working on a building, H St. near intersection with 12t...
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
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
Ornate sanctuary details within the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a Span...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission was named for Francis Xavier, a Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) in Europe. Titl... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... 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
Fire station, 5th St. near Rhode Island Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C.
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
Former O St. Market, O St. and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
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
Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural 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
Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...
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
Back side of row houses, corner of Kenyon St. and Georgia Ave., NW, Wa...
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
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...
This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More
The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More
Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, with the largest Ferris Wheel in the S...
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
Street scene, Georgia Ave. and Harvard St., NW, Washington, D.C.
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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
Historic downtown Cordova, Alabama
Cordova is in Walker County. It was originally a settlement on the Warrior River Called "Dent" or "Dent's Place." The city was dubbed "Cordova" by Captain Benjamin M. Long in 1859. He named the city after a cit... More
Thornhill Plantation, Greene County, 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
Architectural detail, Government Street United Methodist Church in Mob...
The front of Government Street United Methodist Church, built around 1890, is lavishly decorated with Christian symbols. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Ge... More
Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located 20 miles nort...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. As of early 2013, Folsom Prison, one of America's most famous penal institutions (thanks to a song of that name performed by country singer Johnny Cash),... More
In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...
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
Forks of Cypress, also known as Forks of the Cypress, a Greek Revival ...
Designed by William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson with construction completed in 1830. It features a two-story colonnade around the entire house, composed of twenty-four Ionic colu... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
Tule Lake Refuge in California - Drawing. Public domain image.
Established in 1928, the Refuge encompasses 39,116 acres of mostly open water and croplands. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Pho... More
Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... 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
The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, i...
At the time of Moundville's heaviest residential population, the community took the form of a three hundred-acre village built on a bluff overlooking the river. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More
Buildings, H St. near intersection with 10th St., NE, Washington, D.C.
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
New England Carousel Museum, Bristol, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
New England Carousel Museum, Bristol, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Meriden, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
During Mardi Gras celebration and all during the year there are Mimes ...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mimes are usually painted, often with silver paint, and every Mime is unique. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
United Church of Rowayton, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More