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Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...

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

Statue, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Statue, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Lobby desk, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Lobby desk, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Railing detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Railing detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

Corridor at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Corridor at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More

Stained glass at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Stained glass at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Built in 1915-1917. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line:... More

Stair detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Stair detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

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

Interior stairway, 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

Barn, rural North Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

Barn, rural North Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

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-201... 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

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

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

Untitled neon sculpture with stainless steel ceiling, located at exterior of U.S. Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin

Untitled neon sculpture with stainless steel ceiling, located at exter...

Artist: Christopher Sproat, 1987. Dimensions: 60 feet in diameter. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More

Aerial view of White House and downtown, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of White House and downtown, Washington, D.C.

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-p... More

Apple Store, 5th Avenue, New York, New York

Apple Store, 5th Avenue, New York, New York

Designed by San Francisco based design firm Eight Inc. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health C...

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1998, oil on canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printer's mark of Cratander in West Corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printer's mark of Cra...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Architect: Rodney Leon. Began in 1991, when, during excavation for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans. The site is a national Monu... More

Paintings "Swimmers Atlanta" at the Russell Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia

Paintings "Swimmers Atlanta" at the Russell Federal Building & U.S. Co...

Artist: Jennifer Bartlett, 1979. Oil on canvas; enamel on steel. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More

Art at the Bricker Federal Building, Columbus, Ohio

Art at the Bricker Federal Building, Columbus, Ohio

Artist: Mangold, Robert, Artist AA106. Correlation: Two shite line diagonals and two arcs with a 16 foot radius, 1978; painted enamel 20 ft. x 8 ft. x 2 ft. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General... More

Decorative grill, Joseph P. Kinnerary U.S. Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio

Decorative grill, Joseph P. Kinnerary U.S. Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio

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

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... 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

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four-story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets, ... More

First Church of the Nazarene, 16th St. near intersection with Webster St., NW, Washington, D.C.

First Church of the Nazarene, 16th St. near intersection with Webster ...

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

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

Forks of Cypress, also known as Forks of the Cypress, a Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama

Forks of Cypress, also known as Forks of the Cypress, a Greek Revival ...

Designed by William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson with construction completed in 1830. It features a two-story colonnade around the entire house, composed of twenty-four Ionic colu... More

"Sacked and Plundered" historic sign, Athens, Alabama

"Sacked and Plundered" historic sign, Athens, Alabama

Founded in 1842, the city of Athens is located 15 miles from the Tennessee State line in Limestone County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

Red Barn in Cherokee, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Red Barn in Cherokee, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... 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

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

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

Historic House, Military Rd. near 13th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Historic House, Military Rd. near 13th 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

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ruled all or much of the territory of Texas

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ru...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fair Park is the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas Credit line: T... 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

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

The creator of this image, photographer Carol M. Highsmith, enjoys a moment on stage at a remarkable theater in what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California

The creator of this image, photographer Carol M. Highsmith, enjoys a m...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

[Librarian's Room. Architectural ornamentation. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Architectural ornamentation. Library of Congress Th...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida 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

Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama

Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, 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

The Brown County Courthouse in Brownwood, Texas

The Brown County Courthouse in Brownwood, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Classical Revival courthouse, built in 1917-18, incorporated interior walls and vaults from the prior structure. Credit line: The... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...

The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in Austin, Texas, to University of Texas students and alumni who died in World War I

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fountain bubbles beneath the school's signature Texas Tower from 1937, designed by Paul Philippe Cret. Sadly imprinted in the towe... More

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, ...

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art opened on October 3, 2003. It is the only university art museum in Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Georg... More

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville, Alabama

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... More

Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the uni...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Silver Spring, Maryland

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

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 the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Metropolitan Community Church, Hartford, Connecticut

Metropolitan Community Church, Hartford, 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

Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in Hartford, Connecticut

Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in Hartford, 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

Thimble Islands archipelago in the Long Island Sound, Branford, Connecticut

Thimble Islands archipelago in the Long Island Sound, Branford, Connec...

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

Tobacco barns in Suffield, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Suffield, 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

Shorehaven Golf Course, Norwalk, Connecticut

Shorehaven Golf Course, Norwalk, 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

Greenwich Point Park, Connecticut

Greenwich Point Park, 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

[Compo Beach in Westport, Connecticut]

[Compo Beach in Westport, Connecticut]

Date provided by the photographer. Title from information provided by photographer for related images in same group. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Hi... More

Beckley Furnace, Canaan, Connecticut

Beckley Furnace, Canaan, 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

Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California

Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Sutro Baths were a large, privately owned swimming pool complex in San Francisco, California, built in the late 19th century. The building housing the... More

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, 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

Victorian Inn in Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County, California

Victorian Inn in Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County, California

Ferndale contains dozens of well-preserved Victorian store fronts and homes and is located near the extensive preserves of Coast Redwood forests. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the p... More

Fountain located in César Chávez Plaza in downtown Sacramento, California's capital city, on the site of the old city plaza

Fountain located in César Chávez Plaza in downtown Sacramento, Califor...

The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More

[Mural located at 998 Market Street by artist Robert Harris showing Market Street looking towards the Ferry building created for the San Francisco StreetSmARTS program. San Francisco, California

[Mural located at 998 Market Street by artist Robert Harris showing Ma...

Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural title information from the San Francisco Art and Architecture website, 2013. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographe... 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

Huntington Beach, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

Huntington Beach, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

Also known as "HB" or "Surf City USA" it is known for its long 8.5-mile stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... More

The catamaran that ferries visitors to Lake Shasta Caverns, northeast of Redding, California

The catamaran that ferries visitors to Lake Shasta Caverns, northeast ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The caverns are a network of caves located near the McCloud arm of Shasta Lake in California. It was formerly named Chalk Cave and Baird Cave; named after... More

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 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

[Bridgeport Covered Bridge over the Yuba River, Nevada County, California]

[Bridgeport Covered Bridge over the Yuba River, Nevada County, Califor...

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Bells at Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Bells at Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wa...

Also known as Old Post Office and Clock Tower and officially renamed the Nancy Hanks Center in 1983. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from ... More

Muir Woods National Monument, located on the Pacific coast of southwestern Marin County, California

Muir Woods National Monument, located on the Pacific coast of southwes...

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

[Northern California] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Northern California] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title based on captions of images in same group. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... 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

Detail of the Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, California

Detail of the Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles,...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angele... More

Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County, California

Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County, California

Named after Mission San Juan Bautista, it is primarily an agricultural town.The Juan Bautista de Anza House, the General JosÚ Castro house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District are National Histori... More

Members of two families, left to right: John and Nancy Kenyon, with son, Sammy; and Alix and Jon Mozenter, with daughter, Emma, enjoy the famous canals of the Venice neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, California

Members of two families, left to right: John and Nancy Kenyon, with so...

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

Santa Inés Mission in Santa Ynez, California

Santa Inés Mission in Santa Ynez, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Cred... More

The old, four-story Brown County Jail (which is quite a bit larger than the nearby county courthouse) in Brownwood, Texas

The old, four-story Brown County Jail (which is quite a bit larger tha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. According to a Texas Historical Commission sign out front, this rusticated- stone jailhouse, completed in 1903, "was designed to refl... More

A portion of the Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennon County, near Crawford, Texas, owned by former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. In this field, they are helping to bring back a tiny part of what was once a tallgrass prairie so vast that it stretched from mid-Texas northward into Canada

A portion of the Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennon County, near Crawfor...

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

Texas longhorns on the move 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

Texas longhorns on the move at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a w...

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

Artist Lisa Perry's statue honoring W.M. "Bill" Pickett in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Artist Lisa Perry's statue honoring W.M. "Bill" Pickett in the Stockya...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Pickett, an African-American cowboy who originated the rodeo event of bulldogging, later better known as steer wrestling. He became t... More

Aerial view in 2014 of the Houston Ship Channel and surrounding energy facilities in Houston, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of the Houston Ship Channel and surrounding energy...

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

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated the... More

On a wire fence on this ranch near Texarkana, Texas, branches spell out, or in this case partially misspell out, the spread's name and what it raises

On a wire fence on this ranch near Texarkana, Texas, branches spell ou...

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

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

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

Yara, Daisy, Dominck and Dorsey Morales, left to right, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara, Daisy, Dominck and Dorsey Morales, left to right, play on an inf...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

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

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, were Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the big parade

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

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

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd 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

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ran...

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

Doorway detail of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, now commonly called Mission Concepcion. San Antonio, Texas

Doorway detail of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission was stablished in 1731 after an earlier parish in East Texas was abandoned due to French and American Indian incursions in... More

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his hors...

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

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