Building detail with clock, City Hall, St. Louis, Missouri
Construction began on July 19, 1890 and was completed on November 5, 1904. No bonds were issued to finance its construction, which is why it took 14 years to complete the building. The budget was limited at $2 ... More
Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More
[Building] Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Testing platform, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
Known as a sportsman's paradise, Redstone Arsenal is located in the heart of the Tennessee Valley in northern Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
The old San Gabriel Masonic Lodge building, on the courthouse square i...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Topped off dramatically with an onion dome, an architectural element common to Eastern Europe, the building was constructed in 1900 a... More
Exterior view of the drafting studio at Taliesin West, renowned archit...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today Taliesin West is the main campus of the School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Open to... More
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
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
Stones from each state are featured on the Alabama Capitol grounds, Mo...
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
Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community ...
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
Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...
The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More
The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...
Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More
Outbuilding behind a sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Bas relief architectural detail on building, Lincoln, Nebraska
The building was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and constructed between 1922 and 1932. The Indiana limestone structure draws on both Classical and Gothic architectural traditions, but represents major in... More
Fireman's Insurance Building, intersection of 7th St. and Pennsylvania...
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
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
In 1807 a burial ground for citizens in the east end of the new federal city was founded. In the first five years, 13 members of Congress, two vice presidents, and numerous military and government officials wer... More
Sheep at Brookgreen Gardens, a vast complex of sculpture gardens, ecos...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brookgreen, which opened in 1932, was founded by Archer Milton Huntington, stepson of railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington, and h... More
Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.
East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More
Cemetery located in Africatown, Mobile County, Alabama
Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Africa Town, is a community in Mobile County, Alabama, located three miles (5 km) north of the city of Mobile. It was formed by West Africans who were among the last... More
The statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, gar...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More
Cemetery at Confederate Memorial Park, Marbury, 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
The "Green Folly" at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, an Ame...
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 Green Folly is con... More
In 1937, after fire destroyed two previous El Paso locations of the S....
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
These commercial buildings reflect the heyday of downtown Cherokee, Al...
The main building in the foreground is believed to date from around 1900. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photogr... More
Car wash, Georgia Ave. near corner with Newton Pl., NW, Washington, D....
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
Rural Studio architecture, Alabama
The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More
Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Kilgore College Rangerettes perform not only at football and other sports events at the small college in East Texas, but also at ... More
The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama
This house, an American architectural treasure, was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state o... More
Veterans Memorial in Florence, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, located on Mt. Pleasant St. near intersecti...
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
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
Downtown Sheffield, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Gates to Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama
Barton Academy was built 1835-36. It was the first public school in Alabama. It served as a hospital for Union Soldiers in 1864. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line... More
Tourist Attraction - Scenic downtown Huntsville, 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
Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio - Drawing. Public domain image.
The initial design of the Ohio Statehouse was arrived at through a design competition. Construction actively began on July 4, 1839 with the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone. Title, date, and subjects provid... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, 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
Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch features historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock, a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum A... More
Row houses at the corner of 10th and T St., NW, 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
The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
Tourist Attraction - [Railroad bridge], Decatur, Alabama
Decatur, located along the Tennessee River, was a hub for travelers and cargo between Nashville/Chattanooga, and Mobile/New Orleans. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More
Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, ...
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
Convention Center and RSA Tower stand tall against the beautiful sky 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
Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...
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
Governor's Mansion, Montgomery, Alabama
This gracious, 102-year-old home possesses a rich history that makes it one of Alabama's most unique landmarks. The current mansion is Alabama's second. Alabama first acquired a residence for its governors in 1... More
Geckos are prevelent throughout Monroe County, Alabama during the hot ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Previously identified as a gecko; correct information provided by D. Owens (Source: www.outdooralabama.com/northern-gre... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
Historic downtown Monroeville, 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
Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and ...
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
Highland Oaks Golf Course, Dothan, Alabama
Highland Oaks Golf Course is part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photograp... More
Site of a change station of the Pioneer Stage Company in the 1850s and...
During 1860-1861, the Central Overland Pony Express maintained here the first pony remount station east of Sportsman's Hall. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 705 Title, date, and keywords provided ... More
Exhibit at the 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
Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...
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
Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More
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
Highlands United Methodist Church, Five Points South, Birmingham, Alab...
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
Hay bale art in a field of hay near Forkland, 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
Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama
Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More
The old Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1916 by H. L. Mobley, it was sold three years later to Conrad Hilton, then a 32-year-old New Mexico banker. That night, Hilto... More
The Pension Building, view from Police Memorial, NW, 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
Tannehill Ironworks, McCalla, 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 San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel Ca...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Destroyed ... More
Historic buildings in Camden, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
The distressed Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Delayed and over budget, the Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas opened on March 31, 1930. The opening was the first event in what t... More
McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.
The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More
The Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Gonzales "come and take it" cannon was a Spanish-made, bronze artillery piece of six-pound caliber. The gun was the object of con... More
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The University charter of March 2, 1867, designated Howard University as "a University for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences." The Freedmen's Bureau provided most of the early financial su... More
Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...
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
View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, 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
Statue of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, Mobile, Alabama
Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous c... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
Pierce Arrow detail, Pioneer Auto Show, 1931. Murdo, South Dakota
Car was made in Buffalo, New York and cost $3,900 new. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More
Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...
Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More
Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, Califo...
Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords b... More
A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...
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
Part of a front door of Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
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
Historic District Medical Arts Building built in 1826, Florence, Alaba...
Built in the Spanish Revival architectural style, this was the first structure in Florence erected with a steel skeleton supporting the floors, walls and roof. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
[Mural], Decatur, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Librar... More
Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More
Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Moved from its original lot, it now sits abandoned in an empty lot. The Drish House ca. 1825-32 was built by Mr. John Drish. It is brick and stucco built with slave labor. It was originally a plantation house a... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Delta waterway in Mobile, 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
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Man on ladder, working on a building, H St. near intersection with 12t...
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
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama
Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More
Gate detail, Richards DAR Museum House, Mobile, Alabama
The Richards DAR Museum House, a town house of the Italianate style, tells the story of Mobile during its antebellum period. Steamboat Captain Charles G. Richards and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Steele, built ... More
To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the hi...
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
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
Laura Gardin Fraser's 1954 "Pegasus" statue at Brookgreen Gardens, a v...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brookgreen, which opened in 1932, was founded by Archer Milton Huntington, stepson of railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington, and h... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed before the turn of the century, it was purchased by the City of Monterey in 1913 and has been reconstructed several times. Orginally used to h... More
Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...
The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More
Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 16th St. near intersection...
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
Classroom exhibit, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alab...
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More
The Palm Springs Art Museum, formerly the Palm Springs Desert Museum, ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Founded in 1938, the museum is a regional art, natural science and performing arts institution for the city and the Coachella Valley. This building, the m... More