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For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout Texas. This one stands just outside the university town of Alpine in southwest Texas

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 Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

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 Francisco, California

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 store owner John V. Lathrop. Before returning to single-family ownership, the dwelling served as a boarding house in the 1930s and a restaurant in the 1970s

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.

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

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 Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

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 mansion, Arlington, Virginia

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, and a marker to the C.I.A's fallen at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia

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

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

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 Rosslyn, Virginia

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

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

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 quadrant of Washington, D.C.

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.

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]

[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

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 Ford during the 1980s. Washington, D.C.

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 Ambassador of Portugal in Washington, D.C.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Riverside County, California

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

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

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 space on Pennsylvania Avenue, where workers lower a time capsule containing some of the belongings of Martin Luther King, Jr., who worked on his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nearby Willard Hotel

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, Colorado

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, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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

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, Cincinnati, Ohio

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.

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 Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

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, North Carolina

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 Building & U.S. Courthouse, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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

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 the Crystal River in what remains of an old mining town, Crystal, high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

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 distressed cities, that includes a onetime bank building that for a time was Gary's City Hall

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 two of its later residents, is a historic mansion in Wellsburg, West Virginia

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 Virginia Wesleyan College was completed in 1895 in Buckhannon, West Virginia

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.

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

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

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

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 the oldest art museum in Texas; its original building dates to 1892

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, Washington, D.C.

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 from the White House, Washington, D.C.

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 a research library in Cody, Wyoming, featuring art and artifacts of the American West

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

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

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

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 leading to ground floor, with quotation "Knowledge is power." Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[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 exterior of the Census Computer Facility, Bowie, Maryland

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 in the foreground, Alaska

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 Whittaker U.S. Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri

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.

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 of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"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

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 Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

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, formerly the Central Public Library, 801 K St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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 summertime

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, Connecticut Ave. near intersection with Sedgwick St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

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 12th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

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 Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

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 Spanish Catholic mission, completed in 1797 on what is now the Tohono O'odham San Xavier Indian Reservation in Pima County, Arizona, just south of Tucson

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

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, Washington, D.C.

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, Alabama

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

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 Southeast

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.

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.

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

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

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 Mobile, Alabama

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 northeast of the state capital of Sacramento

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 El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

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 plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama

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 Monroeville, Alabama

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.

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

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 National Bank Building, now (as of 2014) abandoned, in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Details on the building celebrate Beaumont industry and depict various workers and professionals in carved limestone

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, is a large settlement of Mississippian culture on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

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

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

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