The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...
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
[Mural depicting baseball by Frederic C. Martin. Library of Congress T...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...
Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More
Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...
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
Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFras...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...
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
Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Com...
Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More
Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
Art at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York
An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject ... More
Fresco painting above room 5137 entrance, Department of Justice, Washi...
Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More
Oil painting "Foreign Imports to Philadelphia" located on north wall, ...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More
Painting "O Pass of the North Now the Old Giants Are Gone We Little Me...
Artist: Tom Lea, 1938. Oil, dimensions: 12' x 50'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Mural "Post dispatch rider, 1776," by George Harding at the Ariel Rios...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 6' 8" x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More
Mural "Petroleum Industry: Production," by Edgar Britton at the Depart...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 111" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
Painting "Cavalrymen Crossing a River" at Court House Annex, Richmond,...
Artist: Jared French, 1939. Oil, dimensions: 83" x 36". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cre... More
A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is st...
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
Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More
Grounds of the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-fo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More
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
Oil painting "Justice Tempered by Mercy" located in fifth floor, main ...
Artist: Maurice Sterne, 1941. Dimensions: 6' x 8'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...
Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
Philip Johnson's Glass House and Pavillion, New Canaan, Connecticut
The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. Title, date, and subjects provided by th... More
Faithfully reproduced living-room set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I L...
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
Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona
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
Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...
Artist name from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-30087. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being the only ... More
A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...
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
Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Mural in Jamestown, New York, depicting an episode of the smash-hit "I...
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
Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmi...
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
Tee Pee Curios Shop, Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico
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
Humble cabin where Elvis Presley was born in 1935
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cabin was relocated to the Presley birthplace site in Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor ... More
Carrie A. Tuggle 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
The Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, Vermont
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane in 1890, the facility grew steadily until the 1960s, when attitudes toward, and advan... More
The Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, Vermont
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane in 1890, the facility grew steadily until the 1960s, when attitudes toward, and advan... More
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the Zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Sculpture "Destiny" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Oklahoma Ci...
Artist: Bernard Frazier, 1966. Stone measuring 22' 6" x 13' x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Stained glass windows inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art inst...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The creation of Jim and Phoebe Bishop, though the heavy lifting was all Jim's, began in the late 1970s as a simple mountain cabin and ... More
An old tavern in Osseo, Wisconsin, advertising a beer whose history is...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Osseo, a farm town at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Buffalo River, was founded in 1857. Credit line: Photographs ... More
American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... More
Llamas and an affectionate farm cat at Heritage Farm Museum and Villag...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Maryland Fire Museum [Lutherville, Maryland]
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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The Charles Sumner School, Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - East Pierhead Lighthouse, Cleveland, Ohio
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Canal at the Venetian Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Carol M. Highsmith - Garden scene in northern Virginia
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Fort McHenry, where the "Star-Spangled Banner" was inspired by a battl...
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Pennsylvania Memorial, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, ...
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California coastline - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Architectural detail
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Carol M. Highsmith - Portland Harbor Light, Portland, Maine
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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Farm building cluster near Shady Grove, Pennsylvania
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore, Maine
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Colorful parade wagon at Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Residential area in Fort Myers, Florida
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Carol M. Highsmith - Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Subway train arrives at a station in Brooklyn, New York
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Bank of Canton office in a building that once housed a telephone excha...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The pagoda was completed in 1909, three years after San... More
The Barking Crab restaurant on the Fan Pier across the Northern Bridge...
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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Lobby of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on ...
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Tidy Amish farm in "Amish Country," Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Iowa hay rolls - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Willard Hotel during restoration, Washington, D.C.
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Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Aerial view of San Francisco, California
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Restorers at work on Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virgi...
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Roddy Road covered bridge near Thurmont in Frederick County, Maryland,...
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Pamphlet cover for which Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sought a copyrigh...
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Willard Hotel, the refurbished "Hotel of Presidents" in Washington, D....
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Part of a cast-iron gate at the Cascade Dining Room of Timberline Lodg...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Colonnade at Mount Vernon, Virginia
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Art in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate C... More
Rainbow over the west Texas prairie
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Carol M. Highsmith - Commericial office interior
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Carol M. Highsmith - Swan House, Atlanta, Georgia
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Aerial view of Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Remote seashore on Oahu, Hawaii
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Carol M. Highsmith - Sycamore Public Library, Sycamore, Illinois
Built in 1905. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note, and keywords ... More
The Cady-Lee Mansion is a fully restored 19th-century home on the Nati...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Carol M. Highsmith - Cattle ranch near Greeley, Colorado
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Badlands National Park in South Dakota
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The Cliff House is a restaurant perched on the headlands on the cliffs...
Cliff House overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths, and a room-sized camera obscura. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ betwe... More
Crystal Room in the newly restored historic Willard Hotel in Washingto...
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Restoration work on Union Station, Washington, D.C.
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Paris Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
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