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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

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

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento...

Artist: Holley Junker, 1999. Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 75 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

Exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Geo...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1931-1933; architect: Albert Ted Eyck Brown; st... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... 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

Korean War veteran Lee Goldburn, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Korean War veteran Lee Goldburn, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In addition to a Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action flag, Mr. Goldburn carries a prayer staff honoring Navajo Code Talker Robert Walley... More

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building, Atlanta, Georgia

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1931-1933; architect: Albert Ted Eyck Brown; st... More

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahom...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Interior lobby, William O. Douglas Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Yakima, Washington

Interior lobby, William O. Douglas Federal Building and U.S. Courthous...

Architect: James Knox Taylor. First constructed as the U.S. Post Office for North Yakima. Built in 1911-12. Second Renaissance Revival. First constructed as the U.S. Post Office for North Yakima. Photographed a... More

Interior corridor, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Interior corridor, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Fe...

Building constructed in 1932. 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. ... More

Interior grille, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Interior grille, 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

Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of...

Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 1997. 10 life size portrait busts made of painted hydrocal (plaster). Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, ... More

Sculpture "Life in the Community" in two separate installations of six, located at the exterior of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Sculpture "Life in the Community" in two separate installations of six...

Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 1997. 12 life size figures made of pigmented fiberglass resin. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, a... More

West courtroom, entry door, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio

West courtroom, entry door, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Clev...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... 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

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

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

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

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

[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

Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice for the Public Library System in Baltimore County, Maryland

Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice ...

The buses travel to senior citizens as well as children. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... 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

Orleans Street Branch Library located on Central Avenue at Orleans Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Orleans Street Branch Library located on Central Avenue at Orleans Str...

Opened on August 20, 2007, it replaces the second Broadway Branch that was on the corner of Broadway and Orleans Street for 36 years. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... 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

[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

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

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

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

A portion of the blacksmith's shop at South Park City Museum, a collection of historic buildings in Fairplay, Colorado

A portion of the blacksmith's shop at South Park City Museum, a collec...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum, in Park County's "high country," is a faithful reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and... More

Farm scene west of Greybull in Big Horn County, Wyoming

Farm scene west of Greybull in Big Horn County, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Vic Payne's "Memories" sculpture, depicting a mounted cowboy and child and on loan from the private collector William F. Widger, on display in Montrose, Colorado

Vic Payne's "Memories" sculpture, depicting a mounted cowboy and child...

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

Stream in Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder County, Colorado

Stream in Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder County, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... 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

The setting sun in springtime washes over a ranch scene in the Mancos Valley of southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

The setting sun in springtime washes over a ranch scene in the Mancos ...

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

There are a lot of dairy farms in the rural Midwest state of Iowa, as this sculpture scene made of butter promotes at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

There are a lot of dairy farms in the rural Midwest state of Iowa, as ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First organized in 1854 in the town of Fairfield, the event, held over 11 days and attended by more than 1 million Iowans and visitors... More

The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

View of the food and western-gear sales area outside the rodeo arena at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

View of the food and western-gear sales area outside the rodeo arena a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Western celebration that is viewed by an estimated 200,000 onlookers and throngs of tourists each year in a city of 62,000 people ... More

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