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Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Moses Austin(1761-1821) was a pioneer settler of Texas who, in 1808, founded the town of Herculaneum, MO, the first Anglo American to... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

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

Largest "I Love Lucy" mural "California Here We Come" in Jamestown, New York, depicting an episode of the smash-hit "I Love Lucy" television show of the 1950s, starring Lucille Ball. In it, "Lucy Ricardo," her husband Ricky, next to her in the front seat, and the "Mertzes," their neighbors and best friends, take a madcap trip together from their New York apartment house to exotic Los Angeles. Lucille Ball was a Jamestown native and is buried there

Largest "I Love Lucy" mural "California Here We Come" in Jamestown, Ne...

Mural artists: Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr. (Source: jamestownny.squarespace.com, 2018). Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photograp... More

Vintage Phillips 66 Gas Station and historic cars, Route 66, Chandler, Oklahoma

Vintage Phillips 66 Gas Station and historic cars, Route 66, Chandler,...

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

[The Evolutionary Rainbow mural by Yana Zegri in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California]

[The Evolutionary Rainbow mural by Yana Zegri in the Haight-Ashbury ne...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More

Dr. Ruth J. Jackson Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Dr. Ruth J. Jackson 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

Shelter from Arizona's often-sizzling heat at Flintstones Bedrock City, a small, family-run theme park and tourist attraction that opened in 1972 near the southern entrance to the Grand Canyon natural wonder. The park, modeled after the popular Flintstones cartoon characters in a popular 1960s television series, depicts some of the scenes from the Stone Age family's "town" of Bedrock

Shelter from Arizona's often-sizzling heat at Flintstones Bedrock City...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Cowboys, including the miraculous survivor of a mock shootout, at Old Tucson, a movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona. The cowboys are Robby Tackett, Ty Anaya and Caleb Evans, historic recreators at Old Tucson

Cowboys, including the miraculous survivor of a mock shootout, at Old ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, Old Tucson has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns sinc... More

Big Blue Whale, Route 66, Catoosa, Oklahoma

Big Blue Whale, Route 66, Catoosa, Oklahoma

The Blue Whale of Catoosa is a waterfront structure, located just east of the town of Catoosa, Oklahoma, and it has become one of the most recognizable attractions on old Route 66. Hugh Davis built the Blue Wha... More

Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival

Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestria...

Founded in 1999, this three-day event began at the historic McMenamins Hotel in memory of the celebrated 1950 "Trent sighting" and photographs of a purported flying saucer at a nearby farm. Skeptics have conclu... More

Two of hundreds of vintage and classic cars displayed at the Syracuse Nationals, the largest car show in the U.S. Northeast, held annually at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes, outside Syracuse

Two of hundreds of vintage and classic cars displayed at the Syracuse ...

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

Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More

Waikiki Beach aerial, Oahu, Hawaii

Waikiki Beach aerial, Oahu, Hawaii

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Waikiki Beach Aerial, Oahu, Hawaii. Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, Haw... More

Skyline, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

Skyline, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

Date based on date of other Hawaii images in same group. Honolulu is the capital of and the most populous census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Title, date, and subjects provided by the pho... More

Glacier National Park, Montana - Drawing. Public domain image.

Glacier National Park, Montana - Drawing. Public domain image.

Glacier National Park contains two mountain ranges, sometimes referred to as the southern extension of the Canadian Rockies mountain ranges, with over 130 named lakes, more than 1,100 different species of vascu... More

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn- Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the... More

Glacier National Park, Montana - Drawing. Public domain image.

Glacier National Park, Montana - Drawing. Public domain image.

Glacier National Park contains two mountain ranges, sometimes referred to as the southern extension of the Canadian Rockies mountain ranges, with over 130 named lakes, more than 1,100 different species of vascu... More

Niagara Falls, New York - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Niagara Falls, New York - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

The Niagara Falls are voluminous waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. Niagara Falls were formed when glac... More

Route 66 Sign - Drawing. Public domain image.

Route 66 Sign - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Mono Lake, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mono Lake, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mono Lake, California is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in Mono County, California. It has an unusually productive ecosystem, and is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species. Title, date, and subje... More

Saguaro cacti at sunset outside Tucson, Arizona

Saguaro cacti at sunset outside Tucson, 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

Saguaro cacti along a dirt road outside Tucson, Arizona

Saguaro cacti along a dirt road outside Tucson, 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

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prince William Sound, Alaska - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. The coastline is convoluted, with many islands and fj... More

Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National P... More

Alpine rock, Denali National Park, Alaska

Alpine rock, Denali National Park, Alaska

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

Scenic view from the Seward highway in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska

Scenic view from the Seward highway in the Chugach National Forest, Al...

Seward Highway showcases the natural beauty of south central Alaska between Anchorage and Seward. From jagged peaks and alpine meadows to breathtaking fjords and crystal lakes, there is a concentrated series of... More

Elvis Presley honeymoon house, Palm Springs, California

Elvis Presley honeymoon house, Palm Springs, California

House of Tomorrow AKA Elvis Presley Honeymoon hideaway. Built in 1962 the house was designed in four perfect circles, on three sperate levels, incorporating glass and peanut brittle stonework to allow indoor-ou... More

Historic Broad Street shops, Rome, Georgia

Historic Broad Street shops, Rome, Georgia

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

Miles and miles of homes, Las Vegas, Nevada

Miles and miles of homes, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Night aerial view, Las Vegas, Nevada

Night aerial view, Las Vegas, Nevada

This is an aerial photograph taken at night from a helicopter of the Las Vegas Strip. It is somewhat grainy because it was taken using a high ISO. A gyroscope was used to help steady the camera, however, a shal... More

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota

Badlands National Park preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. Title, date, and subjects provided by ... More

DeSoto's Beauty and Barber Shop, Route 66, Ash Fork, Arizona

DeSoto's Beauty and Barber Shop, Route 66, Ash Fork, 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-2010... More

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota

Badlands National Park preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. Title, date, and subjects provided by ... More

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

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

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... More

Sanctuary of the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas

Sanctuary of the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, als...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1906, the church is considered the "queen" of what Texans call their "painted churches." It is one of the first churches bui... More

Snow covered trees, Mammoth Lakes, California

Snow covered trees, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More

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

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

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

The 1887 Moore-Flack House in Austin, Texas

The 1887 Moore-Flack House in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The first owner of the Victorian house, John M. Moore, was Texas secretary of state. Laura A. E. Flack, a prominent Austin businesswo... More

Jam session in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Jam session in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

Tourist Attraction - Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama

Tourist Attraction - Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama

The first thing you notice about Cathedral Caverns is the massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. Inside the cavern, is Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River and some of the most be... More

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

Housed in a 19th century brick building, the market is located on 7th St., SE, a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol between North Carolina Ave. and C St. Badly damaged by an early-morning fire on April 30, 200... More

Murals in the Anacostia neighborhood of SE, Washington, D.C.

Murals in the Anacostia neighborhood of SE, Washington, D.C.

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Beautiful communities and rural scenes in Baldwin County, Alabama. Pecan trees are abundant

Beautiful communities and rural scenes in Baldwin County, Alabama. Pec...

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

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mural artist: Cheryl Hardin (Source: murallocator.org, 2017) Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of local an... More

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mural artist: Cheryl Hardin (Source: murallocator.org, 2017) Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of local an... More

Vague image resembling face in window of Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

Vague image resembling face in window of Pickens County Courthouse, Ca...

There is a legend associated with the Pickens County courthouse. Henry Wells, suspected of setting fire to the building, was arrested and locked in the garett. According to legend, as a mob gathered to hang him... More

Barns and rural scenes on Route 11 near Gadsden, Alabama

Barns and rural scenes on Route 11 near Gadsden, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Scene from the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

Scene from the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antoni... More

Tile work at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

Tile work at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, Calif...

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse was designed by William Mooser, III, built in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, and completed in 1929. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Th... More

President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas

President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas, now known as the LBJ Ranch, to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen m... More

Portion of a mural by Cleburne, Texas, artist Stylle Read, depicting local history in downtown Alpine, Texas

Portion of a mural by Cleburne, Texas, artist Stylle Read, depicting l...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The portly cowboy pictured in his white hat is Dan Blocker (1928-1972), who graduated with a master's degree from Sul Ross State Teac... More

Dusk view of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, known locally as simply "The Modern"

Dusk view of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, known locally...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The originating museum was first granted a charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery.... More

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Built in 1914, the estate is located on top of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection ... More

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

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

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

Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats

Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...

The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobi... More

Roy Clay Crowe poses with eagles who are brought into the Southeastern Raptor Rebilitation Center, University of Auburn, Alabama

Roy Clay Crowe poses with eagles who are brought into the Southeastern...

These eagles are brought into the Southeastern Raptor Rebilitation Center. The College of Veterinary Medicine is a rehabilitation hub for injured birds of prey. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More

Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

The original Corn Palace, called "The Corn Belt Exposition" was established in 1892. Early settlers displayed the fruits of their harvest on the building exterior in order to prove the fertility of South Dakota... More

Troy, a city in Pike County, Alabama

Troy, a city in Pike County, Alabama

Home to Troy University (formerly Troy State University). Troy burned down in 1901 and had to be rebuilt from scratch. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... More

Harriott II riverboat in Montgomery, Alabama

Harriott II riverboat in Montgomery, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California

Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mission Dolores has always had a central place in the religious, civic, and cultural life of San Francisco. Misión San Francisco de Asís was founded June ... More

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

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

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

The Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California

The Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Californ...

Opened on May 12, 1912 by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. The original main building of The Beverly Hills Hotel was designed by Pasadena archite... More

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known locally as the "Old Red Courthouse," now a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known loc...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of red sandstone rusticated marble accents, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by ar... More

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... More

Historic buildings in downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Historic buildings in downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Tuscumbia was incorporated in 1820 as Occocopoosa and is one of Alabma's oldest towns. In 1821 its name was changed to Big Spring and in 182... More

Carousel in Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Carousel in Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

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

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

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Colbert County Courthouse, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Colbert County Courthouse, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Built in 1882. 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, ... More

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More

Architectural detail, interior, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama

Architectural detail, interior, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama

The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for Paramount films. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pagent ... More

Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More

[Brass knuckles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore.] Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

[Brass knuckles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride ...

; part of title from Ford's Theater Collection website. 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

Rick Hall, founder of FAME Recording Studios, sitting in the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Rick Hall, founder of FAME Recording Studios, sitting in the FAME stud...

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

"Chief Tuscumbia greets the Dickson family" in this WPA Art by Jack McMillen, Tuscumbia, Alabama

"Chief Tuscumbia greets the Dickson family" in this WPA Art by Jack Mc...

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

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

The Francis Quadrangle, columns and main building, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

The Francis Quadrangle, columns and main building, University of Misso...

The University of Missouri located in Columbia, Missouri was built in 1839. In 1892, Academic Hall, the first and main building on the Columbia campus, was destroyed by fire. The buildings famous columns (in th... More

The "Faerie Cottage" folly at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware that houses one of the most important collections of Americana in the United States of America

The "Faerie Cottage" folly at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Librar...

It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), a renowned antiques collector and horticulturist. Until recently, it was known as the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. The Faerie Cottage is ... More

The New York Capitol in Albany - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

The New York Capitol in Albany - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

So complex was work on the massive, elegant building, including its five-foot-wide, load-bearing granite walls, took 32 years and three separate architects, including Henry Hobson Richardson, before it was decl... More

Model T Ford at the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

Model T Ford at the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Swan House was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inmanon 28 acres in Buckhead, a northern Atlanta community. Noted architect Philip T... More

Aerial view focusing on the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, South Carolina

Aerial view focusing on the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, South Car...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1886, the mansion was built as a private residence for Francis Silas Rodgers, a wealthy cotton merchant, in the Second Em... More

The Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, completed in 1940, is full of art deco details

The Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, completed in 1...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was designed by Barney W. Havis, a New Orleans and Atlanta architect born in Vicksburg. Also see the Vicksburg's Old Court House Mu... More

Historic downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Historic downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great fun is had by all, except perhaps the hungry turkeys, in the "turkey stampede" in Phoenix at the annual Arizona State Fair, which has been held since 1884, eighteen years before statehood, when it was a territorial fair. The birds run madly, and hilariously, after the small, battered truck, which contains what they're after: a bite or two to eat

Great fun is had by all, except perhaps the hungry turkeys, in the "tu...

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

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

On Monday, March 15, 1926, the Fargo Theatre opened to the public. The opening was big news, and The Forum ran a 12-page supplement detailing the elegant structure. The entertainment bill that first day feature... More

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

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

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

A Hopi Indian Nata'aska (Black Ogre) katsina doll, created c. 1900, displayed at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, a private, not-for-profit museum to the advancement of American Indian art. The doll, made of cottonwood root, paint, kaolin (a type of clay), and rabbit fur, was a gift of Barry Goldwater during the years that he was a United States senator from Arizona (1953-1964 and 1969-1987)

A Hopi Indian Nata'aska (Black Ogre) katsina doll, created c. 1900, di...

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

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... More

The iconic Van Wickle Gates at Brown University, one of America's prestigious "Ivy League" colleges, in Providence, the capital of, and largest city in, Rhode Island

The iconic Van Wickle Gates at Brown University, one of America's pres...

The ornamental entrance to the main campus was built with the bequest of graduate Augustus Stout Van Wickle, who was president of a bank and several coal corporations. Dedicated in 1901, the gates stand as a sy... More

The Cavalry Sculpture below the west front of the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

The Cavalry Sculpture below the west front of the United States Capito...

The Cavalry Sculpture is located at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st St., between Pennsylvania Ave. and Maryland Avenue). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographe... More

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

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

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

A saguaro cactus, with its familiar uplifted "arms," at the Desert Botanical Garden a 147-acre botanical preserve in Phoenix, Arizona

A saguaro cactus, with its familiar uplifted "arms," at the Desert Bot...

Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established at this site in Papago Park in 1939, the garden (as of 2018) displays more than 21,000 plants, in more than 4000 groupings, one-thi... More

Fossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Fossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. ...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

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