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
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
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
Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art i...
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
Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...
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
For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
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
Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Miss...
Artist: John Steuart Curry. 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
![[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDkvc2VuYXRlLW1lbWJlcnMtcm9vbS1kZXRhaWwtb2YtY2hlcnViLWNhcnZpbmctb24tbWFudGVsLWxpYnJhcnktb2YtY29uZ3Jlc3MtODZmMjMwLTEwMjQuanBn/40/106/webp "[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]")
[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of C...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste De Fra...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... 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
Revolutionary War-themed mural inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort H...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Follo... More
Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...
The Battle of Blakeley was fought at Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865 at 5:30 p.m. Historic Blakeley State Park was created in 1981 to preserve the National Register Site and its 5 1/2 miles of pristine breastwor... More
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... More
Tiffany stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Ala...
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama
St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More
The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Cly... More
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Montgomery, Al...
Founded in 1877, the current red-brick building was constructed between 1883 and 1889 and is a national historic landmark. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the pastor from 1954-1960, and began his quest for civ... More
Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More
The former Bovee Flats "castle" apartment building in Waterloo, Iowa, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property declined along with the neighborhood, and the building closed some time after 2007. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol... More
One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R La...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The windows were purchased by Frances Ann Lutcher and her two daughters at the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where t... More
One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R La...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The windows were purchased by Frances Ann Lutcher and her two daughters at the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where t... More
Oil painting "Genoa" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York...
Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, 1912. Dimensions: 4 1/2 'x 9'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the ...
The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More
Oil painting "Winter Vista" at Region 5 Customs House, Chicago, Illino...
Artist: Karl Eugene Fortess, ca. 1935; dimensions: 29" x 46". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Oil painting "Justice Triumphant" in the Attorney General Conference R...
Artist: Leon Kroll, 1935. Dimensions: 7' 9" x 21' 8" Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... More
Mural showing Native Americans on horseback by A. Houser at the Interi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Oil painting "Morgan's Raiders" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse,...
Artist: Daniel Boza, 1936. Dimensions: 6' 10" x 9' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More
Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...
Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
Close up of "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor lobby, Depar...
Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More
Oil painting "Commerce of the East" located at center of Lobby, U.S. C...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. 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 t... More
Mural: "Science," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 107"x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More
Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael Newell at the Dep...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 114 1/2" x 234 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More
Sign outside the Stardust, one of a string of 1940s-vintage motels in ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
Exterior view of the President's Guest House, or Blair House is locate...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The Blair House, Lee House, Peter Parker House and 704 Jack... More
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
Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...
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
Pier, Monterey, California - Drawing. Public domain image.
Monterey and the surrounding area have attracted artists since the late 19th century and many celebrated painters and writers have lived there. Until the 1950s, there was an abundant fishery. Title, date, and k... More
Exterior detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Te...
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
Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...
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
Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...
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
Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...
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
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
Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...
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
It's unclear who erected the "Haunted Hotel" sign outside this long-sh...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is more properly known as the Levy Building, named for its original owner. Until the 1950s, the ground floor was home to... More
The 1950s vintage 9 Arizona Motor Hotel in Williams, Arizona, a town o...
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
Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...
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
American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More
Window at Tupelo Hardware in Tupelo, Mississippi, home of singing lege...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Presley's mother, Gladys, bought the young man his first... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...
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
Parade at the Bavarian Celebration of Spring festival in Leavenworth, ...
This once-thriving hub of the Great Northern Railroad lost the railroad and declined until the early 1960s, when community leaders made a conscious decision to build new structures in the style of the Bavarian ... More
![[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvbWFycXVhbmQtY2hhcGVsLXlhbGUtdW5pdmVyc2l0eS1uZXctaGF2ZW4tY29ubmVjdGljdXQtNGVmZmYwLTEwMjQuanBn/40/59/webp "[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut")
[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut
Date 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 Photographs Division. Gift; Geo... More
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More
Maypole dancers at the Bavarian Celebration of Spring festival in Leav...
This once-thriving hub of the Great Northern Railroad lost the railroad and declined until the early 1960s, when community leaders made a conscious decision to build new structures in the style of the Bavarian ... More
Sculpture "Unity" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Oklahoma City...
Artist: Bernard Frazier, 1966. Stone measuring 22' 6" x 13' x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jackson...
Artist: Albert Vrana, 1966. Dimensions: 16' x 550' x 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico
Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More
Columbus Tower, San Francisco, California
Also known as the Sentinel Building, it was completed in 1907. By the early 1970s the building was in a state of mild disrepair. Film director Francis Ford Coppola purchased the building, and renovated it. Titl... More
The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
If Las Vegas, Nevada, is a façade of reality, the compressed Manhattan...
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
Painting "Red Rock Canyon" on north wall of Jury Assembly Room in Lloy...
Artist: Willard Dixon, 2000. 2 measure 6 x 9 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Illusionists Siegfried (left) and Roy and friends onstage at the Mirag...
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
A crowd gathers to watch the Statue of Freedom, which normally stands ...
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
Harold Washington Library Center, Passing 'El' Train, Chicago, Illinoi...
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
Computer terminals at the headquarters building of the Washington Subu...
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, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More
Royal Gorge, the world's highest supension bridge, Cañon City, Colorad...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Stained-glass window, taken in a church in 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
Alligator wrestler in action at Sunken Gardens, St. Petersburg, Florid...
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
Panorama aerial of Tysons Corner, Virginia
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of San Francisco, 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
Mustard jars at the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum in Wisconsin
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Na...
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 - Skyline view of Pittsburgh, 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 early 1980s. Title, date, s... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Childen's computer center, Rockville, 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. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Angels Camp, 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
Wintertime view of 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
Light fixture in Washington's Union Station following a massive restor...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline at dusk, 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
Architectural detail in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Was...
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 Hammond House was built in 1910 by architect J. Hen... More
Paper Mill Road bridge, Baltimore County, 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
Studio of scuptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Cornish, New Hampshire
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
A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Na...
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
Jefferson Memorial with cherry blossoms, 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
Wall Street bull, 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
Carol M. Highsmith - Garden scene in northern Virginia
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Wagons Ho! statue, Pendleton, Oregon
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
Lorenzo's Pizza sign on South Street, 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
Area Studies reading room at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson...
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
Cowhands prepare breakfast at the King Ranch located between Corpus Ch...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. King Ranch is one of the world's largest ranches. The 8... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Chesapeake Bay sunset, 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
Small log cabin, Dallas, Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This small log cabin, moved from the countryside outsid... More
Parlor at Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built about 1750 in southeastern Louisiana, it is a cla... More