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A stagecoach, driver and horses pause on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona

A stagecoach, driver and horses pause on the streets of Tombstone, Ari...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tombstone, the dusty spot in southeastern Arizona has remained viable by recreating its "Town Too Tough To Die" days of the 1880s, whe... More

Mardi Gras Magic Man in New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Magic Man in 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

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

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

New president George H.W. Bush, in presidential automobile, waves to the crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue during his inaugural parade on January 20, 1989, Washington, D.C.

New president George H.W. Bush, in presidential automobile, waves to t...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The inauguration of George H.W. Bush as the 41st Presid... More

Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built and began his blacksmith shop in the 1890s and later provided automobile-repair service

Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Arlington House interior, Arlington, Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith - Arlington House interior, Arlington, 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. This was once the home of Robert E. Lee. Title, date, s... More

Desolate view of the Utah desert from an Interstate highway

Desolate view of the Utah desert from an Interstate highway

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

Harry G. Ochs butcher shop, at Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Harry G. Ochs butcher shop, at Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, ...

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 - Panorama aerial of Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - Panorama aerial of 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

Monument Valley, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Monument Valley, Arizona - 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

Great Gatsby featival at the historic Mount Washington Hotel in the White Mountains, New Hampshire

Great Gatsby featival at the historic Mount Washington Hotel in the Wh...

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

Construction of Market Square condominium development on Pennsylvania, near the onetime site of the city's famous Center Market, Washington, D.C.

Construction of Market Square condominium development on 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Office building library

Carol M. Highsmith - Office building library

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

[Some of the staff and vehicles at Mount Vernon, Virginia]

[Some of the staff and vehicles at Mount Vernon, 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 devised by Library staff with... More

Longwood House, located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi

Longwood House, located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Missis...

Also known as Nutt's Folly, this historic antebellum octagonal mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to r... More

Wright Brothers frieze in U.S. Capitol dome, Washington, D.C.

Wright Brothers frieze in U.S. Capitol dome, 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

Four Points Bridge over Toms Creek, built about 1876 in Emmitsburg, Maryland

Four Points Bridge over Toms Creek, built about 1876 in Emmitsburg, Ma...

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

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, 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

Stardust Theatre neon, Las Vegas, Nevada

Stardust Theatre neon, Las Vegas, Nevada

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 - Embassy of Belgium, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - Embassy of Belgium, 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

Carol M. Highsmith - Marblehead Light, Marblehead, Massachusetts

Carol M. Highsmith - Marblehead Light, Marblehead, Massachusetts

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

President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in th...

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 - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, 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. Prominent are City Hall, atop which rests the statue of... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Washington's Union Station Great Hall of Union Station before the restoration work began. Washington, D.C.

Washington's Union Station Great Hall of Union Station before the rest...

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

Blacksmith shop at Kirkwood Ranch on the Snake River, Hells Canyon, Idaho

Blacksmith shop at Kirkwood Ranch on the Snake River, Hells Canyon, Id...

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

Ceiling detail at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Ceiling detail at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

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 - Federal Buildings, Oakland, California

Carol M. Highsmith - Federal Buildings, Oakland, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Statue of Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Monterey's Italian fishing fleet, Monterey, California

Statue of Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Monterey's Italian fishing fl...

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

Santa poses in Carol Highsmith's studio in Washington, D.C.

Santa poses in Carol Highsmith's studio in Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph - Merry Christmas or Happy New Year, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An American bison, or buffalo, navigates snowy Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming

An American bison, or buffalo, navigates snowy Yellowstone National Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Any number of animals, not just buffaloes, might have stripped the bark from the tree in the photograph; forage is sometimes hard to f... More

Wintertime guide Andrew Carl peers through binoculars in search of photo opportunities with wildlife in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. America's first national park also extends somewhat into Idaho and Montana. The vehicle next to him has been modified with tank-like tracks, similar to those on a snowmobile. Regular auto traffic is barred in the winter

Wintertime guide Andrew Carl peers through binoculars in search of pho...

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

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit ...

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

Lamp post at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Lamp post at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Built in 1906, the building is one of the finest Neoclassical Revival style federal buildings in the state of North Carolina. There was an addition in 1937. Architect is James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part... More

Sinopia for the Roosevelt mural at Mitchell H. Cohen U.S. Courthouse Annex, Camden, New Jersey

Sinopia for the Roosevelt mural at Mitchell H. Cohen U.S. Courthouse A...

Artist: Ben Shahn, 1937. Sinopia under drawing on plaster, 10' x 40'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the pho... More

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

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

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

Exterior view of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Exterior view of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C...

Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, by indigenous American Indians, in northeastern Wyoming

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. America's first declared national monument (in 1906), the formation is an "igneous intrusion," formed when molten lava deep beneath th... More

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

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

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

The South courtyard of the Harry S. Truman Federal Building which is the headquarters of the Department of State

The South courtyard of the Harry S. Truman Federal Building which is t...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. It features the sculpture "The Expanding Universe," by Mars... More

The lion statues on the Prado Promenade, Havana, Cuba

The lion statues on the Prado Promenade, Havana, Cuba

The lion statues were brought by Carlos Miguel de Caspedes from London in 1920. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Cong... More

Exterior detail, metalwork. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Exterior detail, metalwork. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandri...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by architect Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston

The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For several years, the capital of West Virginia intermittently traveled between Wheeling and Charleston. In 1877, however, the state's... More

The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.

The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Fe...

Built between 1928-1936 by architect Louis Simon. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

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

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

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

Exterior medallion, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Exterior medallion, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pe...

Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More

Million Native American March, June 27, 2003, Washington, D.C.

Million Native American March, June 27, 2003, 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. Some in attendance were completing a 3,200-mile walk fr... More

Monument Valley, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Monument Valley, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-gray rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide. Title, date, and subjects provided by the p... More

[Great Hall. Detail of putti (Mars and fisherman) on Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. Detail of putti (Mars and fisherman) on Grand staircase b...

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

[Great Hall. View from the second floor west corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. View from the second floor west corridor. Library of Cong...

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

Copper sculpture "Full Circle: Profile of Courage" in the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, Massachusetts

Copper sculpture "Full Circle: Profile of Courage" in the John F. Kenn...

Artist: Herbert Ferber, 1968. Dimensions: 12' x 14'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Detail of classic Cadillac car, Country Classic Cars, Route 66 in Staunton, Illinois

Detail of classic Cadillac car, Country Classic Cars, Route 66 in Stau...

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

Sculptures "Industry," "Science," "Agriculture" and "Literature" at the Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Sculptures "Industry," "Science," "Agriculture" and "Literature" at th...

Artist: John Massey Rhind. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Polyhymia (Sacred Song), by Edward Simmons. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Polyhymia (...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Carousel horses in their enclosure in Endicott, New York, West Endicott Park

Carousel horses in their enclosure in Endicott, New York, West Endicot...

Installed in 1929, this carousel features 36 animals, three-abreast, including a pig and a dog. This is one remaining vestige of a series of recreational parks created by shoe manufacturer George F. Johnson for... More

Alabama native Percy Sledge sang "When A Man Loves A Woman" and the audience went wild at the Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Alabama native Percy Sledge sang "When A Man Loves A Woman" and the au...

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 buildings in Camden, Alabama

Historic buildings in Camden, 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

Swan graces the water in the Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Swan graces the water in the 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

One of the buildings on the idyllic Bread Loaf Mountain campus of Middlebury College, twelve miles from Middlebury in Ripton, Vermont

One of the buildings on the idyllic Bread Loaf Mountain campus of Midd...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This branch campus is home to the School of English, which sponsors notable writers' conferences. The campus has a strong connection t... More

Historic downtown Florence, Alabama

Historic downtown Florence, 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

A parlor in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

A parlor in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house mu...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More

The Galloway House, a historic house in Burnet in the Texas Hill Country. The original part of this house was built in 1856

The Galloway House, a historic house in Burnet in the Texas Hill Count...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The adobe and rock residence, owned by Maj. Hugh H. Calvert, also served as an inn. Local landowner Enoch Brooks bought the home in 1... More

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and cowgirls compete

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and ...

"Parada" in this context does not mean "parade," as one might think. Used by many rodeo events around the country, it uses the Spanish word for "stop" to refer to early rodeos in which cowhands literally stoppe... More

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tit... More

[Statue of Rebecca] on Block Island, Rhode Island

[Statue of Rebecca] on Block Island, Rhode Island

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 13 miles south of the coast of Rhode Island. Title, ... 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

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Greater First Baptist Church, on the corner of 13th St. and Fairmont St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Greater First Baptist Church, on the corner of 13th St. and Fairmont S...

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

Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama

Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama

Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Aerial view of Montgomery, 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

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

Ships cruise the harbor at the Mobile, Alabama port

Ships cruise the harbor at the Mobile, Alabama port

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

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's ol...

First known as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insane Hospital, the building is considered an architectural model. The facility was planned from the start to utilize the "mora... More

Staircase at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally known as the Draughon-Moore home. The house was built in 1885 in roughly the shape of the "club" figure on the ace of clubs card in a poker deck, with three octagonal wings and a rectangular wing. According to legend, the house was built with money won from a poker game. It is now a city-owned tour home and museum

Staircase at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally...

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

Lobby of the historic Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona

Lobby of the historic Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm William and Alexander Curlett as part of an expansion of Congress street it was built i... 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

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history muse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The garden is a partnership between Log Cabin Village and the Greater Fort Worth Herb Society. Staff of these organizations research a... More

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed before the turn of the century, it was purchased by the City of Monterey in 1913 and has been reconstructed several times. Orginally used to h... 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

House at Price Street and York Lane in Savannah, Georgia,once photographed in 1939 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of a Carnegie Grant study of the South

House at Price Street and York Lane in Savannah, Georgia,once photogra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Earlyworks Children's History Museum, the South's largest hands-on history museum, located in Huntsville, Alabama

Earlyworks Children's History Museum, the South's largest hands-on his...

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

A portion of the in the "Granite Dells," exposed bedrock of estimated-1.4-billion-year-old igneous-rock formations north of the Central Arizona community of Prescott

A portion of the in the "Granite Dells," exposed bedrock of estimated-...

Prescott, which was founded in 1864 as the capital of what was then Arizona Territory. The museum, constructed in 1935 by the Civil Works Administration during the Great Depression, has a controversial past. It... More

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tit... More

Barn in Woodstock, Connecticut - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Barn in Woodstock, Connecticut - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Watha T. Daniel/Shaw library, Washington, D.C.

Watha T. Daniel/Shaw library, Washington, D.C.

Designed by the architecture firm of Davis Brody Bond Aedas. It opened August 2010. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archi... More

[Statue of General Clarence Edwards] at the Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and south of Bushnell Park in Hartford, Connecticut

[Statue of General Clarence Edwards] at the Connecticut State Capitol ...

The Capitol building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the House of Representatives. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograph... More

Sand dunes in Southern California

Sand dunes in Southern 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

Sign at Motel, Lee Vining, California

Sign at Motel, Lee Vining, California

Lee Vining was named after Leroy Vining, who founded the town in 1852 as a mining camp. Previous names for the town include "Lakeview" and "Poverty Flats." The economy of Lee Vining relies largely on tourism, s... More

Trolly on Market Street in San Francisco, California

Trolly on Market Street in 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

The Belle, San Francisco, California

The Belle, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Belle, a landmark that evokes the cityÆs turn-of-the-century Barbary Coast energy. The 292-foot sternwheeler features Art Nouveau style on all three e... More

The original Bidwell Bar Bridge over Lake Oroville, a manmade reservoir created by the damming of the Feather River above Oroville, California

The original Bidwell Bar Bridge over Lake Oroville, a manmade reservoi...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This bridge was the first steel suspension bridge in California. Completed in December 1855, from materials transported from Troy, New York via Cape Horn.... More

Bridgeport, California, on the eastern slope of Sierra Mountains, and the county seat of Mono County

Bridgeport, California, on the eastern slope of Sierra Mountains, and ...

Located near the ghost town Bodie on the eastern slope of the Sierra Mountains, it is the county seat of Mono County. Formerly known as Big Meado, the town attracts tourists, many of whom come to the area for w... More

A plaque affixed to the stone seismograph hut at Lassen Volcanic National Park in Shasta and Lassen counties, California

A plaque affixed to the stone seismograph hut at Lassen Volcanic Natio...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The plaque honors Stephen Tying Mather, an American industrialist and conservationist. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograp... More

Art at the Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture near Sacramento, California

Art at the Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture near Sacramento, California

After Stockton veterinarian Kresimir Luckars, a self-taught sculptor and metal artist, and mosaic artist Denise Mayfield purchased the park, artists begin to dot the property with outdoor art, and eventually in... More

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