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
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 (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]
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...
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, 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
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 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-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 ...
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
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, 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
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
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. 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 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
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...
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...
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, 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 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 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 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, ...
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
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
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]
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
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
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.
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.
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 ...
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
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 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
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
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
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 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...
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, ...
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...
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, 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 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 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 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.
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 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. 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
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 ...
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
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
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 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 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 ...
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 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, 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 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
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...
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
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 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 Fran...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
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
Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...
Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More
Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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