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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

General Services Administration Regional Office Building located at 7 & D Streets, S.W., Washington, D.C.

General Services Administration Regional Office Building located at 7 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

California vineyards - Drawing. Public domain image.

California vineyards - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

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

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

Skyline of Central Los Angeles, California

Skyline of Central Los Angeles, California

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

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

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

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

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains. California

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains. California

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

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, skyline in 2014

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, skyline in 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mineral-water pool at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Mineral-water pool at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. While the area was part of Virginia prior to 1861, the town was incorporated as Bath. The area contains mineral water springs that wer... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographs of the Edward A. Garmatz Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland

Photographs of the Edward A. Garmatz Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Images show exterior and interior views of federal building and courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland. Details include courtrooms, plaza, halls, stairs, sculptural decoration. Arrangement: Arranged by photographer-... More

Historic Hub Department store  at 7th and D streets, near Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Historic Hub Department store at 7th and D streets, near Pennsylvania...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Red Road through Zion National Park, Utah

Red Road through Zion National Park, Utah

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Photographs of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 15 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographs of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Cou...

Images show exterior and interior views of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 15 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama. Details include bronze decorations, coffered ceilings, doorways, h... More

Photographs of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 15 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographs of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Cou...

Images show exterior and interior views of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 15 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama. Details include bronze decorations, coffered ceilings, doorways, h... 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 "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware store owner John V. Lathrop. Before returning to single-family ownership, the dwelling served as a boarding house in the 1930s and a restaurant in the 1970s

The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Small log cabin, Dallas, Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.

Small log cabin, Dallas, Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This small log cabin, moved from the countryside outsid... More

Parlor at Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana

Parlor at Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built about 1750 in southeastern Louisiana, it is a cla... More

Artistic details at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Artistic details at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immacul...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This is the nation's largest Catholic church. Title, da... More

Children's play area in Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former mansion, Arlington, Virginia

Children's play area in Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former mansio...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, and a marker to the C.I.A's fallen at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia

Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, a...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Michael Jordan mural, Chicago, Illinois

Carol M. Highsmith - Michael Jordan mural, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

San Francisco City Hall, completed in 1915, San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall, completed in 1915, San Francisco, California

Architects rank it with monumental Washington, D.C., buildings as triumphs of the "City Beautiful" movement inspired by the World's Columbian Exposition's "White City" in Chicago in 1893. Digital image produced... More

Aerial view of high-rise neighborhood in Arlington's fast-growing Rosslyn, Virginia

Aerial view of high-rise neighborhood in Arlington's fast-growing Ross...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Aerial view of suburbs, Houston, Texas

Aerial view of suburbs, Houston, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York City

Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York City

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.

Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Interior of Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Washington, D.C.

Interior of Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin]

[Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin]

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords from similar image LC-DIG-hig... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith poses with former President Gerald Ford during the 1980s. Washington, D.C.

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith poses with former President Gerald For...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Statue on the staircase of the Chancery and Residence of the Ambassador of Portugal in Washington, D.C.

Statue on the staircase of the Chancery and Residence of the Ambassado...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Historic Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

Historic Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Lighthouse, Point Vicente, California

Carol M. Highsmith - Lighthouse, Point Vicente, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Before the installation of lighthouses on the Pacific c... More

Henry Chandler Bowen house, Woodstock, Connecticut

Henry Chandler Bowen house, Woodstock, Connecticut

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Henry Chandler Bowen, pillar of this community of white... More

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Union Depot, Pueblo, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.

Union Depot, Pueblo, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Wind turbines above San Gorgonio Pass, known as Banning Pass, in Riverside County, California

Wind turbines above San Gorgonio Pass, known as Banning Pass, in River...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Florence, Alabama

Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Florence, Alabama

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith - Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Members of the King family arrive in 1998 at Freedom Plaza, a wide space on Pennsylvania Avenue, where workers lower a time capsule containing some of the belongings of Martin Luther King, Jr., who worked on his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nearby Willard Hotel

Members of the King family arrive in 1998 at Freedom Plaza, a wide spa...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The 1887 two-story, Italianate-style Masonic Hall building in Alamosa, Colorado

The 1887 two-story, Italianate-style Masonic Hall building in Alamosa,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Sculpture "Fairmindedness" located in fifth floor elevator, bank 9, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Fairmindedness" located in fifth floor elevator, bank 9, De...

Artist: Leo Lentelli, 1933. Plaster, 36" in diameter. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Exterior, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York

Exterior, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York

Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More

Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More

Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.

Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.

Built 1928-1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arc... More

Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitutio...

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh, North Carolina

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...

Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...

Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

The 1875-76 Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville, West Virginia

The 1875-76 Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in what remains of an old mining town, Crystal, high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More

A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distressed cities, that includes a onetime bank building that for a time was Gary's City Hall

A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More

Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for two of its later residents, is a historic mansion in Wellsburg, West Virginia

Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907, it is a 2-1/2 story brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Classical Revival style. The brick used is a pressed, glaz... More

Construction on what was originally known as "the Ladies Hall" at West Virginia Wesleyan College was completed in 1895 in Buckhannon, West Virginia

Construction on what was originally known as "the Ladies Hall" at West...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was given the name Agnes Howard Hall in 1920 in honor of Mrs. Agnes Howard, who was a student at the college in the early... More

Interior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Interior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More

Mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More

U.S. Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia

U.S. Courthouse in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Built in 1939 by Rudolph Stanley Brown. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Despite its name, this is the oldest art museum in Texas; its original building dates to 1892

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Despite its name, this is ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Widely referred to as "The Modern," the museum collects and displays post-World War II art in various media. The buildi... More

Fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C.

Fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Wa...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More

Blair-Lee dining room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C.

Blair-Lee dining room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across fr...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More

At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a complex of five museums and a research library in Cody, Wyoming, featuring art and artifacts of the American West

At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a complex of five museums and ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The complex's five museums are the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural ... More

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

Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii

Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 milessouthwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60-acre es... More

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

[East Corridor, First Floor. Mosaic in domed lobby at head of stairway leading to ground floor, with quotation "Knowledge is power." Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[East Corridor, First Floor. Mosaic in domed lobby at head of stairway...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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