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One of four stone grottoes at the historic Catholic Cemetery of La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin

One of four stone grottoes at the historic Catholic Cemetery of La Cro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Headstones at the historic Aiken Colored Cemetery, since 1988 called Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens, in Aiken, South Carolina

Headstones at the historic Aiken Colored Cemetery, since 1988 called P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1852, the cemetery, now somewhat overgrown with weeds, was the only burial place for African-Americans in Aiken until t... More

Part of the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi

Part of the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi

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

Part of the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi

Part of the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi

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

The small cemetery in Hiram, Maine

The small cemetery in Hiram, Maine

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

A vast array of headstones at the United Hebrew Cemetery in the New York City borough (or county-like administrative jurisdiction) of Staten Island

A vast array of headstones at the United Hebrew Cemetery in the New Yo...

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

Humble cemetery in the tiny Pima County, Arizona, community of Quijotoa, near the Mexican border

Humble cemetery in the tiny Pima County, Arizona, community of Quijoto...

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

A vast array of headstones at the United Hebrew Cemetery in the New York City borough (or county-like administrative jurisdiction) of Staten Island

A vast array of headstones at the United Hebrew Cemetery in the New Yo...

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

Woman standing on path lined with trees covered with Spanish moss in Bonaventure Cemetery photographed by Wilson & Co

Woman standing on path lined with trees covered with Spanish moss in B...

On verso: S. E. cor. Broughton & Whittaker Sts., Savannah, Ga. No. 95.

Spanish moss hanging from trees in Bonaventure Cemetery photographed by Wilson & Co

Spanish moss hanging from trees in Bonaventure Cemetery photographed b...

On verso: S. E. cor. Broughton & Whittaker Sts., Savannah, Ga. No. 98.

Miss Canda's Monument, Greenwood, New-York

Miss Canda's Monument, Greenwood, New-York

Photograph shows the tomb of Charlotte Canda (1828-1845), Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Card number: "75". "= no. 911" on back of card. Gottheim colle... More

St. Phillip's i.e. Philip's Church and Circular Church cemetery, Charleston, S.C

St. Phillip's i.e. Philip's Church and Circular Church cemetery, Charl...

Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28942. Transparency title incorrectly identifies church as St. Stephen's. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05789. Gift; State Histo... More

Magnolia Cemetery, live oaks, Charleston, S.C

Magnolia Cemetery, live oaks, Charleston, S.C

"Dup" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28944. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05797. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mount Calvary Cemetery, 500 S 13th Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

Mount Calvary Cemetery, 500 S 13th Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County,...

Significance: Mount Calvary Cemetery, a historic rural cemetery, was established in 1850. Prior to this time, most Catholics in Harrisburg were buried in the graveyard beside Saint Patrick Church, on Church and... More

Bonaventure Cemetery photographed by Wilson & Co

Bonaventure Cemetery photographed by Wilson & Co

On verso: S. E. cor. Broughton & Whittaker Sts., Savannah, Ga. No. 73.

Grave of Do Hum Me, the Indian girl
Miss Canada i.e. Canda Monument, Greenwood Brooklyn

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

St. Phillip's i.e. Philip's Church and Circular Church cemetery, Charleston, S.C

St. Phillip's i.e. Philip's Church and Circular Church cemetery, Charl...

Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28942. Transparency title incorrectly identifies church as St. Stephen's. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05789. Gift; State Histo... More

National Cemetery Soldiers Home, Washington. D.C

National Cemetery Soldiers Home, Washington. D.C

35364 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by C. L. Wasson. No. 270 c.

Cedar Grove Cemetery, Long Island, New York

Cedar Grove Cemetery, Long Island, New York

Negative forms right section of a panorama, other section(s) not in collection. Flushing, Queens. Negative enlarged from LC-D4-10939-R, panorama taken by A.H. Bowen, August, 1905. "10275 - right" on negative. D... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pogost v boru v 1 v. ot Zubt︠s︡ova po Volgi︠e︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pogost v boru v 1 v. ot Zubt︠s︡ova po Volgi︠e...

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

Mount Calvary Cemetery, 500 S 13th Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

Mount Calvary Cemetery, 500 S 13th Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County,...

Significance: Mount Calvary Cemetery, a historic rural cemetery, was established in 1850. Prior to this time, most Catholics in Harrisburg were buried in the graveyard beside Saint Patrick Church, on Church and... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sartskoe kladbishche bliz Syr-Darʹi. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sartskoe kladbishche bliz Syr-Darʹi. Golodnai...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 207... More

Fillmore City Cemetery, 325 East 600 South, Fillmore, Millard County, UT

Fillmore City Cemetery, 325 East 600 South, Fillmore, Millard County, ...

Significance: The Fillmore City Cemetery is significant at a local level as an active burial ground that links the city to its founders and its founding as Utah's territorial capital in 1851. The signature grid... More

Illustrated album of Baltimore City during American Civil War

Illustrated album of Baltimore City during American Civil War

Print shows four bird's-eye views "from the top of the Washington Monument" looking "(East), (South), (West), (North)", also includes views of the "Washington Monument", "Battle Monument", "Baltimore Street (Lo... More

Illustrated album of Baltimore City during American Civil War

Illustrated album of Baltimore City during American Civil War

Print shows four bird's-eye views "from the top of the Washington Monument" looking "(East), (South), (West), (North)", also includes views of the "Washington Monument", "Battle Monument", "Baltimore Street (Lo... More

Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, Mission & Washington Boulevards, Fremont, Alameda County, CA

Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, Mission & Washington Boulevards, Fremon...

See also HALS CA-75 for additional documentation. Significance: Restored remains of Fourteenth Mission founded by Franciscan Fathers in Alta, California. Site consecrated June 11, 1797. Church and most of the... More

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Rue du General Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse (France), FR

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 Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse (France), FR

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 Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse (France), FR

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 Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse (France), FR

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

Crown Hill Cemetery, Chapel & Vault, Thirty-fourth Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Crown Hill Cemetery, Chapel & Vault, Thirty-fourth Street, Indianapoli...

Significance: The Crown Hill Cemetery Chapel was designed by Indianapolis architect and builder, D.A. Boheln. The romantic landscape design of the cemetery provides an appropriate setting for this high Victori... More

Crown Hill Cemetery, Gateway, 3402 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Crown Hill Cemetery, Gateway, 3402 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis, Mari...

Significance: The Crown Hill Cemetery Gateway was designed by Adolf Scherrer, an Indianapolis architect of Swiss origins. It was completed in November 1885 in time for the funeral of Vice-President Thomas A. H... More

Congressional Cemetery, Latrobe Cenotaphs, Eighteenth & E Streets, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Congressional Cemetery, Latrobe Cenotaphs, Eighteenth & E Streets, Sou...

Significance: These cenotaphs were designed by noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1815 as memorials to congressmen who died in office. Although several hundred o the monuments were reacted,less than eig... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

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

Antietam National Cemetery, Shepherdstown Pike (State Route 34), Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Antietam National Cemetery, Shepherdstown Pike (State Route 34), Sharp...

Significance: On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 men and boys were killed or wounded during the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland. In early 1864, Maryland State Senator Lewis P. Frey introduced legi... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Grave Stones, Jewish Cemetery, Yaney Avenue, Sonora, Tuolumne County, CA

Grave Stones, Jewish Cemetery, Yaney Avenue, Sonora, Tuolumne County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey number: HABS CA-38-7

Cedar Grove Cemetery, Long Island, New York

Cedar Grove Cemetery, Long Island, New York

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Medina el Baḳîʾ (heiliger Friedhof). Rechts: Ḳubbet el ʻabbāsîje.

Medina el Baḳîʾ (heiliger Friedhof). Rechts: Ḳubbet el ʻabbāsîje.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Letter from Estella Stilgebouer to Ella Roesch, June 21, 1911
Letter from Estella Stilgebouer to Ella Roesch, June 21, 1911
Mount Ida, County Road 11, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Mount Ida, County Road 11, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-442 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

Belleview, 3201 Steed Road, Fort Washington, Prince George's County, MD

Belleview, 3201 Steed Road, Fort Washington, Prince George's County, M...

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Belleview an excellent example of a small, early plantation house, represents what must have been a common early-settlement house type, which rarely survives ... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

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 County, MS

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

Bracketts Farm, Cemetery, Routes 638 & 640 vicinity, Trevilians, Louisa County, Virginia

Bracketts Farm, Cemetery, Routes 638 & 640 vicinity, Trevilians, Louis...

Survey number: HABS VA-1215-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73002036

St. Phillip's [i.e. Philip's] Church and Circular Church cemetery, Charleston, S.C.

St. Phillip's [i.e. Philip's] Church and Circular Church cemetery, Cha...

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

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

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

Old St. Mary's Church, West Broad & Wood Streets, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ

Old St. Mary's Church, West Broad & Wood Streets, Burlington, Burlingt...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-31 Survey number: HABS NJ-72 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1769 Subsequent Work Building/structu... More

Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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

Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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

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