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A colorful rendition of the American flag, painted on the side of a large utility shed in the town of Carbon in Eastland County, Texas

A colorful rendition of the American flag, painted on the side of a la...

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

The United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Laredo, Texas

The United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Laredo, Texas

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

Scene from the opening grand parade at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Scene from the opening grand parade at the San Antonio Stock Show and ...

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

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, in Austin, Texas

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Pr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2014, it is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Library hous... More

Mural depicting the wide-open spaces of the Texas panhandle, with the Texas state flag as a backdrop, on a building in McLean, Texas, a town along old U.S. Route 66 in the panhandle

Mural depicting the wide-open spaces of the Texas panhandle, with the ...

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

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, that city's annual rodeo, stock show, performance event, and carnival. Austin, Texas

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, that city's annual rodeo, stock show, pe...

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

(Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These participants enjoy the water in Prince Solms Park on the Comal River in New Braunfels, near San Antonio, Texas

(Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These partic...

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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

An old store in Van Horn, the seat of Culberson County, Texas

An old store in Van Horn, the seat of Culberson County, Texas

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

An artistic, raised approximation of the Texas lone star at a Texas "welcome center" near the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and U.S. 83 in Laredo, Texas

An artistic, raised approximation of the Texas lone star at a Texas "w...

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

Brambly patch of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Brambly patch of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service ar...

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

Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and nature and birding center in McAllen, Texas

Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More

Costumed cow and pig walk the carnival grounds at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Costumed cow and pig walk the carnival grounds at Rodeo Austin, the ci...

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

Curious cattle on a ranch in Red River County near Detroit, Texas

Curious cattle on a ranch in Red River County near Detroit, Texas

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

Mural in Terrell, Texas, depicting a Primary Trainer PT-17 Stearman Kaydet plane, used in the training of American and British pilots in Terrell during World War II

Mural in Terrell, Texas, depicting a Primary Trainer PT-17 Stearman Ka...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since airfield was surrounded by cotton fields, the plane is depicted as flying over the one. The mural was created and painted by th... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith photographs former U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, on their ranch near Crawford, Texas

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith photographs former U.S. President Geor...

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

Mural in Austin, Texas, promoting an upcoming music festival that, presumably, would feature singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, since his image is prominant in the mural

Mural in Austin, Texas, promoting an upcoming music festival that, pre...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Wiley Ross, 2014. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library... More

A boy enjoys a lovely pond and fountain away from the animals at the Houston, Texas, zoo

A boy enjoys a lovely pond and fountain away from the animals at the H...

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

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman, in the pink shirt, and his family, confer with guides from the Far Flung river-tour company prior to heading off on a canoe trip through Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. The sheer walls of Mexico are to the left, those of the United States to the right

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman, in the pink shirt, a...

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

One of the surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for nearly a century, beginning in 1849, in Laredo, Texas

One of the surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for n...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

Jack Phillips, a nine-year-old fiddling prodigy, joins older performers in the Cowtown Opry in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Jack Phillips, a nine-year-old fiddling prodigy, joins older performer...

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

Wagon wheel and remnants of an old wall from the 20th-Century period when what is now Hueco Tanks State Historic Area near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas, was a privately owned ranch

Wagon wheel and remnants of an old wall from the 20th-Century period w...

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

A boy and his father set out colorfully decorated, shield or turtleshell-looking play vests for children for sale along the road near Sullivan City in Hidalgo County, Texas

A boy and his father set out colorfully decorated, shield or turtleshe...

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

Rural scene in Bandera County, Texas

Rural scene in Bandera County, Texas

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

A portion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in the Texas town of Fort Davis, Texas

A portion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in the Texas town of Fo...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining exam... More

Brennan Wells; on the black horse, Kayla McShane, on the paint; and Macy Milbert, on the appaloosa, ride along Padre Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Wells owns the nearby, aptly named "Horses on the Beach" horseback-riding operation; the women are hands

Brennan Wells; on the black horse, Kayla McShane, on the paint; and Ma...

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

Huge coal piles at a processing plant along the Ohio River in Ceredo, West Virginia

Huge coal piles at a processing plant along the Ohio River in Ceredo, ...

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

This old wagon looks like it's weathering in a field. But it's positioned on the partially grass-covered roof of a garage at "Sunridge," the last home of Hollywood actor Dennis Weaver and his wife, Gerry, in Ridgway, a town in rural Ouray County, Colorado

This old wagon looks like it's weathering in a field. But it's positio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For sale at the time of this image in 2015 and described as "eco-friendly" by the realty agency, Sunridge was designed for Weaver, the... More

St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Wheatland, a town in northeast Wyoming

St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Wheatland, a town in northeast Wyomin...

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

Gazebo and other buildings at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Gazebo and other buildings at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley ...

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

Elevated view of Central City, Colorado

Elevated view of Central City, Colorado

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

A ewe cleans her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

A ewe cleans her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is ...

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

The world's largest strawberry, at least according to the townspeople of Strawberry Point, in Clayton County, Iowa, who erected it

The world's largest strawberry, at least according to the townspeople ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The field is full of young ones, some a few days or even hours old

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

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

Cowhand at work at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Cowhand at work at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the C...

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

Spring is lambing (birthing) time at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. This ewe is giving birth. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Spring is lambing (birthing) time at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which...

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

Thermal pool at Hot Springs State Park, a state-owned, public-recreation area in Thermopolis, Wyoming, known for its hot springs, which flow at a constant temperature of 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Park employees see to it that the temperature in areas available to the public is quite a bit lower, but still a few notches above tepid

Thermal pool at Hot Springs State Park, a state-owned, public-recreati...

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

Sign for a shop that sells tuxedos and other formal attire in Pendleton, Indiana

Sign for a shop that sells tuxedos and other formal attire in Pendleto...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Sculpture that is part of the Cleveland Public Library's main building in Cleveland, Ohio

Sculpture that is part of the Cleveland Public Library's main building...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Vista down a country road in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

Vista down a country road in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

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

Bridge over Big Creek at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Bridge over Big Creek at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Ca...

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

Enlarged version of an autographed baseball at the former Bob Feller Museum, now (in 2016) city hall in Van Meter, Iowa

Enlarged version of an autographed baseball at the former Bob Feller M...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum was built under the direction of Steve Feller, a Florida architect and son of the Hall of Fame baseball pitcher for the Cle... More

Aerial view of the Ford Plantation in Richmond Hill, Georgia, south of Savannah

Aerial view of the Ford Plantation in Richmond Hill, Georgia, south of...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Henry Ford used the town, formerly known as Ways Station, as a winter home and philanthropic social experiment, building the complex k... More

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building located in the Government Center area of Boston, Massachusetts. Exterior

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building located in the Government Cen...

Building designed by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative with Samuel Glaserit. Built in 1963-1966. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keyw... More

Grave maker (left on the Marsh Monument) of Margaret Mitchell, author of the renowned Civil War novel "Gone With the Wind," at the historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia

Grave maker (left on the Marsh Monument) of Margaret Mitchell, author ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Ms. Mitchell's maiden name was Marsh. The graveyard's original six acres are among theoldest historical plots of land in Atlanta, sinc... More

Statue of civil-rights leader Medgar Evers on the campus of Alcorn State University, a historically black university in Lorman, Mississippi. It was dedicated in 2013 on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the civil-rights leader who led protests of the state's segregationist laws

Statue of civil-rights leader Medgar Evers on the campus of Alcorn Sta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Onondaga Nation artist Brandon Lazore's homage to the area Cayuga Indians and the greater Haudenosaunee Confederacy in artwork at the bus stop outside city hall in Ithaca, New York

Onondaga Nation artist Brandon Lazore's homage to the area Cayuga Indi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Neon sign for Cruiser's Cafe 66 Bar and Grill in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,000 or so residents but a well-known place among visitors from around the world

Neon sign for Cruiser's Cafe 66 Bar and Grill in Williams, Arizona, a ...

Known as "The Gateway to the Grand Canyon" 60 miles to the north, it is the southern terminus of the scenic railroad that takes tourists there and (in 1984) was also the last town on old Route 66 to be bypassed... More

Street scene in the Boro Park (sometimes spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, one of five such administrative jurisdictions in the sprawling metropolis

Street scene in the Boro Park (sometimes spelled Borough Park) neighbo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Kingman, Arizona

Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Kingman, Arizona

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

All is quiet on a Sunday in downtown Roseburg, Oregon

All is quiet on a Sunday in downtown Roseburg, Oregon

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Birch trees along the Sol Duc River deep in the Olympic National Forest on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula

Birch trees along the Sol Duc River deep in the Olympic National Fores...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

A passing (and paddling) duck delights observers off the Tempe city harbor in the Rio Salado (Salt River)

A passing (and paddling) duck delights observers off the Tempe city ha...

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

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

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

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 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 Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watson Court of International Trade in New York, New York

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watso...

Images show exterior and interior views of U.S. federal building and Court of International Trade in New York, New York. Details include the courtroom, lobby, plaza, and mosaics. Arrangement: Arranged by phot... More

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watson Court of International Trade in New York, New York

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watso...

Images show exterior and interior views of U.S. federal building and Court of International Trade in New York, New York. Details include the courtroom, lobby, plaza, and mosaics. Arrangement: Arranged by phot... More

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, which one swarmed with silver prospectors and prosperous mines that, in the late 1800s, made Silverton a boomtown

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...

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

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

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

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...

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

Grounds of the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Grounds of the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-fo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

Iowa hay rolls - Drawing. Public domain image.

Iowa hay rolls - 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

Willard Hotel, the refurbished "Hotel of Presidents" in Washington, D.C.

Willard Hotel, the refurbished "Hotel of Presidents" in Washington, D....

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

Paris Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Paris Casino in 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

The Pinnacle, located in rural Pennsylvania on the Appalachian Trail

The Pinnacle, located in rural Pennsylvania on the Appalachian Trail

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

Whitlow's Restaurant and retail stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., photographed before they were demolished to make way for new buildings

Whitlow's Restaurant and retail stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Wa...

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 in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

Altar in a chapel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Altar in a chapel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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 - Abandoned furniture, southwest desert

Carol M. Highsmith - Abandoned furniture, southwest desert

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

Chair for the priest in the Sanctury of the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Chair for the priest in the Sanctury of the Baltimore Basilica, Baltim...

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 historic Baltimore Basilica, built from 1806-1821, ... More

Oregon's Hat Rock - Drawing. Public domain image.

Oregon's Hat Rock - 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

Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the Richmond District, San Francisco, California

Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the Richmond District, San F...

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

Conservatory, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina

Conservatory, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina

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

On a pre-Christmas visit to Carol Highsmith's studio in Washington, D.C., Santa Claus gets a wish list from a little girl

On a pre-Christmas visit to Carol Highsmith's studio in Washington, D....

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Drawing. Public domain image.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 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

Union Station train terminal, looking past a statue and fountain dedicated to Christopher Columbus in Washington, D.C.

Union Station train terminal, looking past a statue and fountain dedic...

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

Folk artist Bennie Carter (1st cousin of photographer Carol M. Highsmith) amid some of his creations outside his home, Rockingham County, North Carolina

Folk artist Bennie Carter (1st cousin of photographer Carol M. Highsmi...

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

Natural Bridge, Virginia - Drawing. Public domain image.

Natural Bridge, Virginia - 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 - Office lobby

Carol M. Highsmith - Office lobby

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 in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

Families on a stoop in New Orleans, Louisiana

Families on a stoop 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

Old stone portal leading to the Balsams Hotel and Resort, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire

Old stone portal leading to the Balsams Hotel and Resort, Dixville Not...

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Aerial view of a swampy roadside outside Houston, Texas

Aerial view of a swampy roadside outside Houston, Texas

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Chapel at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, or Vatican Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Chapel at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, or Vatican Embassy...

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 - Sunset over Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Carol M. Highsmith - Sunset over Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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 - Amish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Amish life in Lancaster, 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

Wooden ship's figureheads are featured at the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum in Mystic, Connecticut

Wooden ship's figureheads are featured at the Mystic Seaport Maritime ...

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Scene at the Fishmarket, a renovated mall near Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor. The entertainment venue's name was later changed to Port Discovery

Scene at the Fishmarket, a renovated mall near Baltimore, Maryland's I...

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U.S. financial hub, Wall Street, New York, New York

U.S. financial hub, Wall Street, 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

The Old Faithful geyser faithfully erupts in the Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park, which makes up the lion's share of the nation's first national park. Small pieces of the park also spill into neighboring Idaho and Montana. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane surveying expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. It is one of the most predictable geographical features on Earth, erupting every 35 to 120 minutes

The Old Faithful geyser faithfully erupts in the Wyoming portion of Ye...

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

Exterior, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Exterior, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

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

The well-worn bar inside the Mint Bar, a downtown landmark, built in 1907 in Sheridan, Wyoming, where "meet you at the Mint" is still a common expression

The well-worn bar inside the Mint Bar, a downtown landmark, built in 1...

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

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 Elkhart County Courthouse in Goshen, Indiana

The Elkhart County Courthouse in Goshen, Indiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built in 1868-1870 and renovated between 1905 and 1908 in the Renaissance Revival style. The courthouse is a three-story, brick... More

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

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

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Courthouse built by James A. Wetmore during the years 1930-1932. Neo-classical Revival style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

A garishly dressed mannequin fits nicely with the bright wrappers and decorations at the Dime Store, an old-fashioned candy store that dates to c. 1910 in Wakarusa, Indiana

A garishly dressed mannequin fits nicely with the bright wrappers and ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

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