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45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Mont...

For the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, people gathered to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to recreate the event. Title, date, subject note, and keywords ... More

The cheerleaders are amazing to watch. The boys throw the girls into the air as they cheer on their winning team. University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The cheerleaders are amazing to watch. The boys throw the girls into t...

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

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville, Alabama

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alabama

Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alab...

Started in 1958 by Jim Adams, J. Ernest Lambert, W.O. Crawford, E. Ham Wilson, Aubrey H. Fleming, C. Ed Teague, Edward Wadsworth and W.H. Gregory, The Southeastern Livestock Exposition was formed to promote the... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Decorative glass above the doorway to the historic Leyendecker House in downtown Laredo, Texas

Decorative glass above the doorway to the historic Leyendecker House i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. John Leyendecker, a German immigrant who settled in the Texas Hill Country in 1845, came to Laredo a few years later. He became a pro... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

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

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 Castello di Amorosa winery is located near Calistoga, California

The Castello di Amorosa winery is located near Calistoga, California

First opening its doors to the public in April 2007, it is the pet project of 4th generation vintner, Dario Sattui who also owns and operates the V. Sattui Winery named after his great-grandfather who originall... More

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in Orange Beach, Alabama

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

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

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

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

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Completed in 1910 and considered the architectural wonder of its time. The building was designed and constructed to serve as the headquarters of what today is the world's oldest regional organization, the Organ... 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

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

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

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

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

Farmland in Monroe County, Alabama

Farmland in Monroe County, 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

Blind Boys of Alabama Group at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Blind Boys of Alabama Group at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame conc...

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

Prattville, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Prattville, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Prattville, founded in 1839 by Daniel Pratt who purchased land for his manufacturing facilities. The location on the banks of the Autauga creek was chosen because the creek could supply power to cotton gin manu... More

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

The Broadmoor apartment building, 3601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

The Broadmoor apartment building, 3601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washingto...

Located in the Cleveland Park area, the Broadmoor was built between 1927 and 1929 in the typical eclectic style of the period. It was one of Connecticut Avenue's first luxury rental apartment buildings. Title, ... More

Seafood restaurant, Benning Road and East Capitol St., SE, Washington, D.C.

Seafood restaurant, Benning Road and East Capitol St., SE, Washington,...

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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More

Historic House, Military Rd. near 13th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Historic House, Military Rd. near 13th 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

Murals by John Augustus Walker on permanent display in the Museum of Mobile lobby, Mobile, Alabama

Murals by John Augustus Walker on permanent display in the Museum of M...

John Augustus Walker (1901-1967) was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration. Walker's preferred... More

The Mono County Courthouse in Bridgeport, California

The Mono County Courthouse in Bridgeport, California

Mono County was created on April 21, 1861, as the first California mining county on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. This Italianate courthouse was completed in 1880. Title, date, and keywords provided b... More

Tallulah Bankhead star on Alabama Movie Star Walk of Fame in front of the Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama

Tallulah Bankhead star on Alabama Movie Star Walk of Fame in front of ...

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was from 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. ... More

A peaceful place to rest among the azaleas at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A peaceful place to rest among the azaleas at the Bayou Bend Collectio...

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

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,3...

The Mobile Delta is 30 miles long and 12 miles wide, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. It covers more than 200,000 acres of swamps, river bottom lands and marshes. Congress named the... More

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

The McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was bu...

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

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... More

Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

The Pickens County courthouse was erected in 1877. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsm... More

John Herbert weaves baskets in a dogtrot log cabin, Cherokee, Alabama

John Herbert weaves baskets in a dogtrot log cabin, Cherokee, 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

Abernathy House (circa 1824), Tuscumbia, Alabama

Abernathy House (circa 1824), 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

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

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

National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington D.C.

National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington D....

The Lincoln Memorial is an American memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and was dedicated on May 30, 1922. Th... More

The San Francisco Ferry Building, a terminal for ferries, a marketplace, and offices is located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Ferry Building, a terminal for ferries, a marketplac...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Designed by the New York architect A. Page Brown in the Beaux Arts style in 1892, the ferry building was completed in 1898. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovela... More

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ruled all or much of the territory of Texas

One of several medallions at Fair Park, depicting nations that have ru...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fair Park is the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas Credit line: T... More

Skyline of Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Skyline of Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (Alabama project). Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's Amer... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

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

Caring for both small and large animals, these students have hands-on training at Tuskegee College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health, Tuskegee, Alabama

Caring for both small and large animals, these students have hands-on ...

This College is the only one of its kind in USA where Animal Health (Veterinary Medicine) and Human Health (Nursing & Allied Health) are interlinked and merged under one College within the framework of the One ... 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

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

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

Fire department designed by Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, Alabama

Fire department designed by Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, Alabam...

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

Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and Rickey Henderson wave to the crowd on the porch of Hank Aaron boyhood home at the dedication ceremony at the Hank Aaron Boyhood Home Museum at the Hank Aaron Stadium, Mobile, Alabama

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

Scene at the old Hopkinton Cemetery, which began operations in 1765 in Hopkinton, New Hampshire

Scene at the old Hopkinton Cemetery, which began operations in 1765 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Architectural detail, Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail, Dauphin Street, 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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

One of several parlors in the Bayou Bend house museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's, museum for American decorative arts and paintings

One of several parlors in the Bayou Bend house museum, the Museum of F...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975), the collection is one of the finest show... More

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

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

Downtown Jasper, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Downtown Jasper, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

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 "Dixie White House" in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Pass Christian (pronounced Pass Christy-ANN)

The "Dixie White House" in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Pass Chr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built by John Backe of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1851, the house was the winter vacation home of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson in 191... More

The creator of this image, photographer Carol M. Highsmith, enjoys a moment on stage at a remarkable theater in what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California

The creator of this image, photographer Carol M. Highsmith, enjoys a m...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Longhorn steers return to their pens following the latest in what is a twice-daily parade of the longhorns (for the enjoyment of tourists) in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Longhorn steers return to their pens following the latest in what is a...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, on left, place where Lincoln conspirators met. 604 H St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, on left, place where Lincoln conspirato...

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

Historic fire station, 13th and K St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Historic fire station, 13th and K 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

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

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

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

This church, built in 1827, is Alabama's oldest house of worship and is still in essentially original condition. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

The building, Alabama's tallest, is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... 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

Statues outside of the Bryant-Denny Stadium to join the Statue of Nick Saban which will be erected and be placed in the Walk of Champions along with the 4 other National Championship coaches (Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Gene Stallings)

Statues outside of the Bryant-Denny Stadium to join the Statue of Nick...

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

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Hay bales dot the landscape of the 69.2 acre farm owned by Johnny and Chinita Hinton near Carrollton, Alabama

Hay bales dot the landscape of the 69.2 acre farm owned by Johnny 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

[Kayakers,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

[Kayakers,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, Selma, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, Selma, Alabama, Confederate States of Ameri...

Built in 1847 by Selma Masonic Order to serve as university. Served as Confederate hospital, county courthouse and military school. Restored to original beauty. Features Lewis collection of Civil War memorabili... More

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Cattle baron James Dunn Houston built his Victorian house in 1898 in Gonzales, Texas

Cattle baron James Dunn Houston built his Victorian house in 1898 in G...

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

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

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 Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folsom, Alabama

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folso...

Most of the buildings are original to the site. This is one of Alabama's last active plantations, which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More

Tin man, which is not made of hay is 32 feet high. Located on U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region, Alabama

Tin man, which is not made of hay is 32 feet high. Located on U.S. 43 ...

Motorists driving along U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region do a lot of double-takes as they gaze over at Jim Bird's pastures to see all sorts of strange crit... More

Post office, Mooresville, Alabama during American Civil War

Post office, Mooresville, Alabama during American Civil War

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thi... More

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroeville, Alabama

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

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Built in 1895 and located in Baldwin County in a scrap metal yard. Does not currently operate as a church. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

Old shed stands in a field in rural Alabama

Old shed stands in a field in rural 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

Outdoor art at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Outdoor art at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 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

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washi...

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... 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

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

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

The Cupola House in Edenton, North Carolina, now a local museum was built in 1756-1758 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as the second oldest building in town

The Cupola House in Edenton, North Carolina, now a local museum was bu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property was owned by a succession of merchants, including Richard Sanderson, a shipowner. Francis Corbin, the Earl of Granville's... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibles businss in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibl...

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

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, Mobile, Alabama

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, 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

Stained-glass window at 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

Stained-glass window at the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic ...

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

Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama

Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama

R.A. Mitchell, gave the site to the city of Gadsden. The Falls drop into the Black Creek ravine and are marked with a bronze statue of Cherokee princess Noccalula who, according to local legends, jumped off a c... More

Tourist Attraction - Selma, Alabama

Tourist Attraction - Selma, 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

Stone gateway to Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Stone gateway to Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name translates as "Sea of the Woods" from the German. Camp Waldemar, an all-girls' camp, was founded in 1926 by Ora Johnson, the... More

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Historic building in Selma, Alabama

Historic building in Selma, 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

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States...

Designed by Alexander Doyle and built in 1886, the monument commemorates the 122,000 Alabamians who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and sits on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Title, date, subject ... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

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

Docked beside the uniquely built Riverwalk Amphitheater, this elegant 19th century riverboat is center stage of Montgomery's entertainment district. Known as the Harriott, this riverboat cruises along the Alabama River in Montgomery, Alabama

Docked beside the uniquely built Riverwalk Amphitheater, this elegant ...

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 Washington State Capitol Building, constructed between 1922 and 1928 in Olympia

The Washington State Capitol Building, constructed between 1922 and 19...

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

View of garden bench and a portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

View of garden bench and a portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Co...

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

Stained-glass window at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Stained-glass window at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Missi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four-story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets, ... More

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida Ave., 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

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