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
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. 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. 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 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 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
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
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, ...
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.
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.
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 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,...
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
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]
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, 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.
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, 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
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
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.
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
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 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
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
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 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, 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
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
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 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.
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 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 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....
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 ...
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. 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 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
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...
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, 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
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 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 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, 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
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 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
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, 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.
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.
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 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 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. 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 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 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 (...
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 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 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
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
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 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
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 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 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 ...
"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
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
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 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 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 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 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, 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
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
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
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
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 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...
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
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.
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 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, 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 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
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
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 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 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-...
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
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
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.
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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 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 ...
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 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
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