cemeteries

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Rue du General Per...

Significance: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial is one of eight overseas World War I cemeteries redesigned and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a federal agency created ... More

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Rue du General Per...

Significance: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial is one of eight overseas World War I cemeteries redesigned and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a federal agency created ... More

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Rue du General Per...

Significance: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial is one of eight overseas World War I cemeteries redesigned and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a federal agency created ... More

Fairview, 4410 Church Road, Collington, Prince George's County, MD

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Bigelow Chapel, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambri...

Significance: The Bigelow Chapel reflects the romantic picturesque style of architectural envisioned for cemetery grounds. It is part of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, a garden cemetery project by Massachusetts Ho... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Holly Brook, U.S. Route 13 vicinity, Eastville, Northampton County, Vi...

Significance: Modest in comparison with many of its contemporaries, "Holly Brook" is an interesting farm house exhibiting two brick ends. excellent proportions and some notable refinements. Survey number: HABS... More

Cave Hill Cemetery, Rustic Shelter House, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisvil...

Significance: The design of the structure was based on Cottage Orne, a rustic cottage popularized in France by Richard Mique during Marie Antoinette's time. It was used as a favorite picnic spot during pre-Civ... More

Magnolia Cemetery, 70 Cunnington Avenue, Charleston, Charleston County...

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: Magnolia Cemetery comprises approximately 58 acres of marshland and 92 acres of high land on the Cooper River north of town within the Charleston Neck.... More

Salt Lake City Cemetery, 200 N Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Count...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Estella Stilgebouer to Ella Roesch, June 21, 1911

number of pages: 16 p.

Letter from Estella Stilgebouer to Ella Roesch, June 21, 1911

number of pages: 16 p.

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren Co...

Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. ... More

Levantáos de sus fosas, calaveras que aqu[í] se halla el mayor de los ...

Broadside shows fencing calaveras, laughing calaveras, small calaveras, a shrouded calavera, as well as others pulling a man into a grave. The narrator, Don Juan Tenorio, boasts and asks the keyholder to open t... More

Green Mount Cemetery, Soldiers Lot, 250 State Street, Montpelier, Wash...

Survey number: HALS VT-2-A Building/structure dates: 1865 Initial Construction

D. W. Brown to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, December 21, 1863 (Military c...

Graveyard, Circular Church, Charleston, S.C. during American Civil War

Photograph shows damaged monuments in the cemetery of Circular Church, Charleston, South Carolina. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3086. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Plantation no. 8 Portion of Negro burying ground.

Text on gravestone reads: "In memory of JANEHO an intelligent and faithful Servant to seven successive Masters and a DRIVER for more than half a century [...] Respect for his character, and gratitude for his se... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Paxton Presbyterian Church, Sharon Street, Paxtang, Dauphin County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21, FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS PA-31 Building/structure dates: 1740 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1930-1931 Subsequent Wor... More

Wagner Heights, Bounded by Wheaton & Adair Streets, Hillcrest & Cathol...

Significance: The Wagner Heights neighborhood is historically significant due to the history of its development as demonstrated by its architecture. It represents an example of early twentieth century urban re... More

Wagner Heights, Bounded by Wheaton & Adair Streets, Hillcrest & Cathol...

Significance: The Wagner Heights neighborhood is historically significant due to the history of its development as demonstrated by its architecture. It represents an example of early twentieth century urban re... More

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, District...

Latrobe Cenotaphs in Congressional Cemetery previously documented as HABS DC-424. Significance: Washington Parish Burial Ground was created in 1807 by a private corporation of citizens, intent on creating a cem... More

Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscop...

Public domain photograph - monument, cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions imag... More

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia - decorating the graves of the ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 11, 1867 Aug. 17, p. 524.

Vicksburg National Cemetery, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04054. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Heap of bones in the graveyard, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32430. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Heap of bones in cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana

Title from jacket. "X 89" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 32439. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Graves in the cemetery Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana

"X 96" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021565. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "H 204" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039276. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Custis-Lee Mansion i.e. Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memoria...

Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Corresponding glass transparency available on videodisc frame 1A-29530. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013038. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Garfield Memorial, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29489. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "Oblong" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012855. Gift; State Hi... More

The Amphitheatre and Rostrum, National Cemetery, Arlington

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "X 147" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013040. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

St. Roch's Chapel, New Orleans, La

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "650-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016330. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga

"WJ 140" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013367. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Main entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, greater New York City

H38948 U.S. Copyright Office No. F148. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Presidents row, old Princeton burying ground

Copyright 1903 by Detroit Photographic Co. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-16663) lists title as: President's row, Princeton cemetery. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54078". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Colle... More

Rostrum in Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg

"904-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016608. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sky scrapers overshadowing Trinity Church, New York

"134" on negative. Photograph of two reversed panoramic photographic prints copyrighted 1905 by Detroit Publishing Co.; cf. negative D4-10906 for originals. Gillender Building third tower from left, Trinity Bui... More

Old Dutch Church, Fishkill, N.Y

"G 3983" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019946. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Chalmette National cemetery (Grand Army of the Republic Memorial), New...

Title from jacket. "G 6880" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039626. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Army of the Tennessee Memorial, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La

"G 6874" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071843. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Site of the old fort [of] 1621, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Church with cemetery in front, Plymouth, Massachusetts. J217081 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

Pohick church. View of Pohick church built in 1773

Item title devised. Old negative number: 1246. Public domain photograph - monument, cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - cemetery, gra... More

Arlington National Cemetery. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, side angle

Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More

Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater ...

Old negative number: 193. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s... More

Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater. Approaches and theatre front...

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Arlington National Cemetery. South and east side of Tomb of the Unknow...

Old negative number: 1452. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910... More

Arlington National Cemetery. Gates in foreground, showing city of Wash...

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Wall tombs of the old St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Plate 100 (same place) The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, wh... More

Arlington National Cemetery. Approach to Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Logbook annotation: 4 x 10 negative. Old negative number: 2001-10.

Memorial Day exercises in the new memorial amphitheater, Arlington Nat...

J300646 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32255. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arlington National Cemetery. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sentry th...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arlington National Cemetery. Tablet showing plan of Washington City by...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Legion. Group of uniformed men in formation with flags by Tom...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia

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Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1710-1715. The court church of Colonial Virginia. Plans were furnished by Gov. Spottswood, and part of the cost was paid by the Colonial Gov't. Bui... More

East Hampton, Long Island. Gardiner's mill and cemetery, reflected in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cemetery at Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Arlington National Cemetery. Wisteria arbor, horizontal in Arlington N...

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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C.

Photo shows sailor with Margaret Mary McCloskey (Source: L. Rozanek, daughter of McCloskey, 2013)

Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C.

Photo shows sailor with Margaret Mary McCloskey (Source: L. Rozanek, daughter of McCloskey, 2013)

Arlington National Cemetery. Southeast side of Tomb of the Unknown Sol...

Old negative number: 2001-12. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1... More

Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Virginia's National Memorial Park c...

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, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Armenian Martyrs Memorial Monument at the North Burial Ground, a 1...

It was the first public cemetery in Providence. The monument, one of the graveyard's newest, completed in 1999, honors those killed in what the city's many Armenian immigrants (and Armenians worldwide) consider... More

One of 12 stained-glass windows, inspired by literary works, inside th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cemetery's most famous such window, by Louis Tiffany and costing $1 million, can be found in the nearby gateway chapel. Woodland w... More

The Loring family vault in central Phoenix, Arizona's, Pioneer and Mil...

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

Gravesite of escaped slave turned emancipation orator and statesman Fr...

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

Memorial, canted by time, to victims of a virulent yellow fever epidem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tall memorial remembers Father Antonio Oberti, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, who, along with six church members including ... More

Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, Colbert 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

The small, segregated Jewish portion of the historic Boothill Graveyar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others. The term "Boot H... More

Monuments and gravestones at the historic Hillcrest Cemetery, which da...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A portion of the historic Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others. The term "Boot H... More

Tombstones and other markers at the Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont, Tex...

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

Cemetery in little Los Ebanos, a community on the Rio Grande River 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

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony...

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

Humble Horn cemetery near Bailey in Park County, Colorado

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

The historic Chester Village Cemetery in Chester, New Hampshire. Estab...

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

Gravesites at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt, and in th... More

Gravesite of renowned American poet Robert Frost in the Old First Chur...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Crude mausoleum at the tiny, 19th-Century vintage Magnolia Cemetery in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Entrance to a humble cemetery in Pirtleville, Arizona, a tiny town of ...

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

"In memoriam," Greenwood Cemetery. New York (state) 19th Century Stere...

No. 157. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, New York, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thorne Monument, Greenwood Cemetery. New York (state) 19th Century Ste...

On mount: Stereoscopic Studies. Miscellaneous Subjects. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Richmond, Virginia Graves of Confederate soldiers in Oakwood Cemetery,...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Miss Canada i.e. Canda Monument, Greenwood Brooklyn

Photograph shows the tomb of Charlotte Canda (1828-1845), Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Card number: "No. 911." Gottheim collection code: GB 11. Forms... More

The Captain's monument. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card...

Stereograph showing a statue of a sea captain looking through a sextant. On mount: American Views. Greenwood Cemetery. No. 7628.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kladbishche pri Uspenskom skiti︠e︡. Rossiĭska...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kladbishchenskai︠a︡ Krestovozdvizhenskai︠a︡ t...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the... More