The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... more
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
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
Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... more
Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... more
Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma
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
Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal B...
Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... more
Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, 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
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
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
Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... more
Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... more
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... more
Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... more
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
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
American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... more
Still-perceptible wagon ruts at a place called Iron Springs from the S...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through what is now southeas... more
American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... more
American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... more
Downtown block in Trinidad, Colorado, including First Presbyterian Chu...
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
Shirl Bates, a descendant of Choctaws and Cherokees, photographed in P...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Her Native ancestors in what was called the "Indian Territory" of what is now Oklahoma were part of the forced relocation of eastern t... more
St. John's Episcopal Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Organized in the 1830's, the present building was first used in October 1852. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Pho... more
St. John's Episcopal Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Organized in the 1830's, the present building was first used in October 1852. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Pho... more
Historic home built by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe in 1830, LaFayette Park, l...
This home was the social Center during the period and was called the "Little White House" by President McKinley. Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park. The Square and the surrounding structures were desi... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Detail from the historic library in the North Carolina Capitol in Rale...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...
Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
The onetime Senate Chambers in the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
The onetime House of Representatives Chamber in the North Carolina Cap...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
A corner of Lake De Smet in Johnson County, Wyoming. The deep-blue lak...
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
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... more
The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... more
The historic Green-Poe House in Macon, Georgia, was built by physician...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This home was also photographed on black-and-white film in 1936 by American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Purchase; Carol M.... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
Pershing Geiger's statue of Chief Washakie in downtown Casper, Wyoming...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
The J.W. Otts House, Greensboro, Alabama
Also known as the McCrary-Otts House, Magnolia Hall was built in 1840 by D.F. McCrarry. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... more
The onetime office of the state geologist in the North Carolina Capito...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
Pershing Geiger's statue of Chief Washakie in downtown Casper, Wyoming...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The... more
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... more
Neale House in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1840 house, remodeled in 1974, was built by George Neale, Jr., an early Parkersburg merchant. Credit line: West Virginia Collectio... more
Religious artifacts at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
A most unusual statue of the first U.S. president, George Washington, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sculptors: Antonio Canova, Guiseppe Cerrachi, and Romano Vio (Source: docsouth.unc.edu, 2018) The former seat of the legislature, it s... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
The Gordon-Lee Mansion in Chickamauga, a town in the northwest corner ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house's construction began in 1840 and was not completed until 1847 due to labor and financial issues. It was built by slave labor... more
Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...
Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
Historic library in the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... more
The historic Green-Poe House in Macon, Georgia, was built by physician...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This home was also photographed on black-and-white film in 1936 by American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Purchase; Carol M.... more
The 1840-vintage Ellery Cabinet Shop in the Shake Rag Alley artists' c...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The area began in the early 1800s as crude lead miners' cabins, many later deteriorated but restored, around Federal Spring. In the 19... more
Oakdale, the onetime home of Virginia Governor Joseph Johnson in Bridg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house was constructed in 1818 for then-state assemblyman Joseph Johnson. The structure was the home of the only governor of Virgin... more
Sanctuary of the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue, known lo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
The Snodgrass One-Room Schoolhouse on the campus of Fairmont State Uni...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1840 William Snodgrass erected a log building about 300 yards from his house for use as a schoolhouse and a church. Three separate ... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...
Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
The onetime House of Representatives Chamber in the North Carolina Cap...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The former seat of the legislature, it still houses the offices of the governor of North Carolina governor and remains largely unchang... more
Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...
Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... more
Stained glass windows at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagog...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The congregation's original, 1794 temple was destroyed by the Great Charleston Fire of 1838 and replaced by this structure two years l... more
The Towngate Theater Building, which was built c. 1850 and long served...
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
Firehouse in Nevada City, the county seat of Nevada County, California...
First settled in 1849, during the California Gold Rush, in 1850-51, it was the most important mining town in the state. In 1864, the word ôCityö was added to the name to relieve confusion with the bordering sta... more
Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... more
Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, A...
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
Detail of mosaic, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alab...
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
Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... more
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
Architectural detail, interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception...
When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the architectural skills of Claude Beroujon, the cornerstone for the new Cathedra... more
The old Alexander Creel Tavern, also known as the Cain House, in St. M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The large brick structure, built on an embankment overlooking the Ohio River in 1850, served as the first courthouse in Pleasants Coun... more
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
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
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
Scott Donaldson's 2008 mural, "Campy Washington," in the Camp Washingt...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It celebrates nearby industry and businesses, including a nearby costume shop, in what was once an independent town north of Cincinnat... more
Interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama
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
The Milford Swing Bridge, in Milford, New Hampshire, is a 200-foot iro...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge's precedessor, a wooden footbridge built in 1850, originated the name because it was known to sway heavily under the foot t... more
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
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
The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today the market is a small, crowded park surrounded by municipal buildings and the cityÆs local bus terminal. Credit line: The Lyda ... more
The Milford Swing Bridge, in Milford, New Hampshire, is a 200-foot iro...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bridge's precedessor, a wooden footbridge built in 1850, originated the name because it was known to sway heavily under the foot t... more
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
Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... more
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
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
The Stillman House Museum, among the oldest surviving structures in Br...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The home was built in 1850 by Henry Miller, owner of the Miller Hotel in downtown Brownsville. He rented it to his partner, Charles S... more
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
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
Federal townhouse, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Built circa 1824, the house was occupied by Dr. Robert Towns Abernathy, a Tuscumbia physician during the 1850's. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... more
Gravesite at the historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, the capital and...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. One of the largest green spaces in town, it was opened as "Atlanta Cemetery" in 1850 and later renamed ito reflect the large number of... more
Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church, NW, Washington, D.C.
Founded in 1850 as a local church in Washington, D.C. for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. What started with 50 members quadrupled in size until the Civil War when membership dropped significantly. After ... more
Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... more
Slave quarters at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... more
Horses enjoy a last few minutes outside their corral after returning f...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The closest town, Farson, is 26 miles away. The ranch, whose first cabins served as a Pony Express remount station in 1860, was homest... more
The "Great Barn," a huge mule barn completed in 1860 at Historic Stagv...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... more