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An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pit" at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, which is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputedly one-armed) fisherman on the acade of the Champion Building, Port Isabel, Texas

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information from the Yale University website. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M... More

Judging from its license plate, and its general condition this once-fashionable Chrysler hasn't hit the road since 1942, though its tires look good as new

Judging from its license plate, and its general condition this once-fa...

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

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Located just off Interstate 90 in the South Dakota Drift Prairie, about 25 miles west of Sioux Falls. Many of the sculptures, in the style of industrial art, were made with scrap metal, old farm equipment, or r... More

Mona Lisa Mural, Columbus, Ohio

Mona Lisa Mural, Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio Mona Lisa Mural in the Short North Arts District. Located at the corner of Lincoln and High Streets. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's Amer... More

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, place where Lincoln conspirators met. 604 H St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, place where Lincoln conspirators met. 6...

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

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, 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

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

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

Alabama River, Monroe County, Alabama

Alabama River, Monroe County, 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

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

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

Skiers on ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

Skiers on ski slope, 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

The Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, a Beaux Arts-style building has been the home of Mississippi's state legislature since 1903

The Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, a Beaux Arts-style building ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As the third capitol building in Jackson, it was designed to house all branches of the Mississippi state government, although now (201... 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

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mission San Juan Capistrano was a Spanish mission in Southern California, located in present-day San Juan Capistrano. It was founded on All Saints Day Nov... 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

W.C. Handy was born in this small log cabin in Florence, Alabama on November 16, 1873

W.C. Handy was born in this small log cabin in Florence, Alabama on No...

Handy became famous for his blues compositions such as "Memphis Blues" & "St. Louis Blues." He was also a musician, band conductor, and author. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograph... More

View of Lake Havasu from the London Bridge, the real one, or at least most of it, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona

View of Lake Havasu from the London Bridge, the real one, or at least ...

London Bridge was once very much in England, spanning the River Thames. It was built in 1830, but in 1967 it was dismantled and purchased by Robert P. McCulloch, who had exterior granite blocks from the origina... More

Street scene, corner of L and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, corner of L 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

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

This house, an American architectural treasure, was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state o... More

Part of the "Little Studio's" workroom at Aspect, the estate of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's greatest sculptors, now the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire

Part of the "Little Studio's" workroom at Aspect, the estate of August...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The family summered in Cornish, often surrounded by students and admirers in a "Cornish Colony," including his brother Louis St. Gaude... More

A vintage truck, part of a local landowner's display of old-time vehicles and mining equipment near the settlement of Bangor, south of Oroville in Butte County, California

A vintage truck, part of a local landowner's display of old-time vehic...

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

The Trader Joe's Company "Recipe for Adventure" float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

The Trader Joe's Company "Recipe for Adventure" float in the 124th Ros...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Lu...

Established on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. Title, date,... More

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, constructed in 1895 by Charles I.D. Looff, a master carver and builder of amusement rides

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ...

The carousel was originally located at Lee Funland in upstate New York and in 1910 it was relocated here, at Pawtucket's Slater Memorial Park, where (as of 2018) it continues to operate. The carousel features a... More

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

Dedicated on August 14, 1929 in with the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Love... 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

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, 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

Apartment building, 6600 Luzon Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Apartment building, 6600 Luzon Ave., 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 Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963

The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Os...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sign is displayed in sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Oswald was perched above D... More

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]

Built in 1935, Greenville's first genuine "movie palace" was the brainchild of local attorney Calvin Poole. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lande... More

Cemetery, Stonington, Connecticut

Cemetery, Stonington, 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

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Title information, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038-6). Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

Capitol, Hartford, 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

Hartford, Connecticut - Drawing. Public domain image.

Hartford, 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

Fake horses in Old Lyme, Connecticut

Fake horses in Old Lyme, 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

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, 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

Historic architecture in East Granby, Connecticut

Historic architecture in East Granby, 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

First Congregational Church, Litchfield, Connecticut

First Congregational Church, Litchfield, 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

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More

[History of San Francisco mural by Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California]

[History of San Francisco mural by Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Pos...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. The Rin... More

Scene near Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California

Scene near Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County...

Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean which has caused high levels of salts to accumulate. The lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine... More

Rabbits Graphixs poses in front of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

Rabbits Graphixs poses in front of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, ...

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

Courtyard at the historic Napa Mill shopping and restaurant complex in downtown Napa, California

Courtyard at the historic Napa Mill shopping and restaurant complex in...

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

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Peju Province winery on the St. Helena Highway in Napa Valley, California. in Napa Valley, California

The Peju Province winery on the St. Helena Highway in Napa Valley, Cal...

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

The Spadena House, also known as The Witch's House, is a storybook house in Beverly Hills, California

The Spadena House, also known as The Witch's House, is a storybook hou...

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

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More

View of Pacific coast near 17-Mile Drive is a scenic road through Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula in California

View of Pacific coast near 17-Mile Drive is a scenic road through Paci...

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

California vineyards - Drawing. Public domain image.

California vineyards - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Building detail at the Los Angles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, California

Building detail at the Los Angles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Blv...

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

An interior view of the adobe home of William Ide at the William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park in Red Bluff, California

An interior view of the adobe home of William Ide at the William B. Id...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Ide, a Massachusetts native, was a local judge in this northern part of the state. He wrote the proclamation that established the short-lived California B... More

Skyline of Central Los Angeles, California

Skyline of Central Los Angeles, California

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

Dusty de Braga and his daughter Fallon are working cowpokes who drive cattle on Dye Creek Ranch near Red Bluff, California

Dusty de Braga and his daughter Fallon are working cowpokes who drive ...

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

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains. California

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains. California

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

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, skyline in 2014

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, skyline in 2014

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

Dilapidated sign and gate announcing "Badlands Fossils" stand along the road that connects Big Bend National Park with its state equivalent, Big Bend Ranch State Park, in southern Brewster County, Texas

Dilapidated sign and gate announcing "Badlands Fossils" stand along th...

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

Michelle Brown, a homeless woman who is a client of the Dallas International Street Ministries, a Christian-based center in a poor Dallas, Texas, neighborhood

Michelle Brown, a homeless woman who is a client of the Dallas Interna...

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

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

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

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

Stained-glass window in The Prayer Tower, perhaps the most recognizable landmark in Pittsburg, Texas, with four Paccard bells from France that chime every hour and a chapel that never closes

Stained-glass window in The Prayer Tower, perhaps the most recognizabl...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 75-foot-tall tower is situated in a peaceful park-like setting. It was a gift to the city from businessman Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, w... More

Farmer James Boyd sells the fruits (and vegetables) of the field at this roadside produce market in Hearne, a small town in Robertson County, Texas

Farmer James Boyd sells the fruits (and vegetables) of the field at th...

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

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch tha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Exterior view of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, Texas

Exterior view of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, T...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More

Mural depicting the town's history on the side of a building on Batesville, Mississippi's downtown square

Mural depicting the town's history on the side of a building on Batesv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Coll... More

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Fairfax, Virginia

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Fairfax, Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2018; (DLC/PP-2002:038-14) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Arch... More

The Round Island Lighthouse stood from 1859 to 1998 on the southwest end of Round Island in the Mississippi Sound, four miles into the Gulf of Mexico in Pascagoula, Mississippi

The Round Island Lighthouse stood from 1859 to 1998 on the southwest e...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In September 1998, the lighthouse was toppled by Hurricane Georges and in 2010, the base of the structure and other lighthouse remnant... More

Lunch counter at the old Woolworth's "five and dime" store, a legendary site marking the American civil-rights movement and is now the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, and the place where "sit-in" became part of the American lexicon

Lunch counter at the old Woolworth's "five and dime" store, a legendar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On February 1, 1960, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took seats at the Woolworth l... More

Sculptor John Matuse with one of his creations at his studio in Waitsfield, Vermont

Sculptor John Matuse with one of his creations at his studio in Waitsf...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Array of pies for sale at the "Back to Church Sunday" festival, organized by the nearby St. Paul's Episcopal Church, on the grounds of the New Hampshire capitol (or state house, as New Hampshirites call it) in Concord, New Hampshire's capital city

Array of pies for sale at the "Back to Church Sunday" festival, organi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Aerial view of the Morris Island Lighthouse in Charleston, South Carolina. The light stands on the southern side of the entrance to Charleston Harbor, north of the City of Folly Beach

Aerial view of the Morris Island Lighthouse in Charleston, South Carol...

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

Building with a restored Bull Durham loose-tobacco billboard in American Tobacco neighborhood, locally called the American Tobacco Campus, in Durham, North Carolina

Building with a restored Bull Durham loose-tobacco billboard in Americ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once the sprawling home of the giant American Tobacco Company's headquarters and plants, it is now the city's chief entertainment dist... More

Stained-glass window at the Catholic Basilica of St. Lawrence in Asheville, North Carolina

Stained-glass window at the Catholic Basilica of St. Lawrence in Ashev...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Dig site at the city-run Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park in Phoenix, Arizona. The site also includes a historic platform mound and early irrigation canals

Dig site at the city-run Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

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

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 "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

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

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

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

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