Mission Concepcion, one of five missions in Old San Antonio, Texas
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Carol M. Highsmith - Condo parade, Miami Beach, Florida
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The Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, Virginia
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Stained-glass window at St. Dominic Catholic Church in the southwest q...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Panorama aerial of Washington, D.C.
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National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C...
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Aerial view of New York City, looking east toward the Empire State Bui...
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Aerial view of National Mall, with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground ...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Modern house in northern Virginia
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Mary Martin and Carol Channing at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York
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Carol M. Highsmith - Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
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Intricate Art Deco bas relief in Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D...
Photo shows Public Works Administration frieze: "The Progress of the Negro Race," by Daniel Olney, located in the courtyard of the Langston Terrace Dwellings near Benning Road, N.E., Kingman Park neighborhood, ... More
House in Algiers, a working-class neighborhood on the West Bank of the...
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Distant view of Washington from the Rosslyn high-rise neighborhood of ...
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Panorama aerial of Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Scarecrow in rural farmland, Maryland
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Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
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Residential interior - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Street-level view of San Francisco, California, with a focus on the 19...
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Auditors Building, completed in 1880 for a division of the Bureau of P...
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Cypress gardens near Winter Haven, Florida
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Times Square, New York, New York
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Slot canyon in Page, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.
A slot canyon is formed by rushing water through porous rock. In this case, red sandstone. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ betwe... More
Union Depot, Pueblo, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Louis St. Gaudens's centurion statues in Union Station in Washington, ...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Shrimp boat fleet in Louisiana
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![Carol M. Highsmith - Italian Ambassador's residence [Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDUvaXRhbGlhbi1hbWJhc3NhZG9ycy1yZXNpZGVuY2Utd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1kYy04ZjQ0MjUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "Carol M. Highsmith - Italian Ambassador's residence [Washington, D.C.]")
Carol M. Highsmith - Italian Ambassador's residence [Washington, D.C.]
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Victorian structure built for Simon and Lila Bell (Solomon) Guggenheim...
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Aerial view of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Washington, D.C.
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Actual skateboarders mimic those on a street mural, Louisville, Kentuc...
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Illinois Memorial, Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Missis...
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Restoration work on Union Station, Washington, D.C. in the 1980s
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Restoration work in a hallway of the Library of Congress Thomas Jeffer...
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Grandfather and grandchild, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Wind turbines above San Gorgonio Pass, known as Banning Pass, in River...
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Florence, Alabama
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View from Little Round Top at Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania
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New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York
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Architectural detail of a building on the campus of the Catholic Unive...
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The 1883 Saint Thomas of Villanova Church, Villanova, Pennsylvania
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Altar at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concept...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Bottle House, Hillsville, Virginia
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Aerial view looking north, with the National Gallery of Art in the for...
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Detailed view of Chinatown in San Francisco, California
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Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light, Rockland, Maine
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Aerial view of a California movie studio lot
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Carol M. Highsmith - Las Vegas, Nevada
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In Big Bend National Park, Texas, the Chisos Mountains jut out of the ...
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The Mayflower Hotel, one of Washington's most historic hotels on Conne...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas
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Aerial view showing the Las Vegas Strip at dusk, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Las Vegas, Nevada's headlining illusionists Siegfried & Roy (Siegried ...
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The Big Texan restaurant, Amarillo, Texas
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Aerial view of William Randolph Hearst's "Hearst Castle" and the surro...
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Howard Hall on the Howard University campus, Washington, D.C.
Completed in 1869, it was once the home of Oliver Otis Howard, a former Civil War general and founder of the college. This image was taken in the 1980s. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent... More
Sylvan Terrace's 1882 row houses in Upper Manhattan, New York, New Yor...
According to an American Institute of Architects guide, they present "a revived memory of very old New York." Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some detai... More
California cottage - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline view of Boston, Massachusetts
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President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in th...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
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Winter scene in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of W...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More
Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of...
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A lone, and lean, coyote makes the best of wintertime the northernmost...
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A bald eagle surveys its surroundings in Yellowstone National Park in ...
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Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...
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A wintry day along the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park ...
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Some of the 19 stainless-steel soldiers, created by Frank Gaylord, on ...
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Aerial view of the Korean Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Stainless-steel soldiers on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memori...
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Members of the King family arrive in 1998 at Freedom Plaza, a wide spa...
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Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More
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
Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...
Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More
The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama
The American Village opened on November 30, 1999, as Alabama's civic education center. It's buildings are replications of famous buildings in American history. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
The Sidney R. Yates Building, Washington, D.C
Originally constructed to house the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, the Sidney R. Yates Building has served as home to many different federal agencies over the past hundred years. Placed on the National Registe... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
Painting "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" located on first floor, F...
Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 35" x 75". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More
The 1887 two-story, Italianate-style Masonic Hall building in Alamosa,...
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
Sculpture "The Southwest" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of ...
Artist: Henry Kreis, 1933. Plaster, 48" x 88" x 1.5". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Lobby. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia
Designed by architect Oscar Wendroth and built in 1916, the courthouse is a 3-story Renaissance Revival federal building, executed in white marble. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Bas relief at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1915 by Architect James Knox Taylor, the building ... More
Sculpture "Fairmindedness" located in fifth floor elevator, bank 9, De...
Artist: Leo Lentelli, 1933. Plaster, 36" in diameter. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas
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
Smokey Bear, long the symbolic mascot of the United States Forest Serv...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created by artist Albert Staehle, Smokey debuted on a poster in 1944. Because the word "the" fit the rhythm of a song about the kindly... More
The Maxwell-Gaylord House in Clarksburg, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The frame Queen Anne-style house with a stone foundation and a hip roof was built in 1898. The massive three-story tower was added aro... More
Exterior, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York
Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas
Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929, cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution in 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then the Ministry of Science, T... More
Sculpture "Pacific Coast" located in fifth floor lobby, Department of ...
Artist: Henry Kreis, 1933. Plaster, 48" x 88" x 1.5". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credi... More
The 1886 corner Clark Building in dowtown Galesville, Wisconsin
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Exterior. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More