If Las Vegas, Nevada, is a façade of reality, the compressed Manhattan...
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
View of beach, Daytona Beach, Florida
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Atlantic coast. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More
Royal Gorge, the world's highest supension bridge, Cañon City, Colorad...
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Aerial view of San Francisco, California
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
Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline view of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the early 1980s. Title, date, s... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline at dusk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Aerial view of a high-rise neighborhood near Ronald Reagan Washington ...
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Detail of Alexander Milne Calder sculptures on Philadelphia City Hall,...
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Dusk view of Chicago, Illinois - Drawing. Public domain image.
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View of Boston, Massachusetts, from the Charles River
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Aerial view of New York, New York
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Aerial view of National Mall, with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground ...
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Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Date Street north o...
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View of the Gus S. Wortham Center and skyline, Houston, Texas
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Dusk view of the skyline, Dallas, Texas
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Headquarters building of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, ...
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 Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or WSSC, t... More
Society Hill Towers is a three-building condominium development locate...
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 complex contains three 31-story skyscraper building... More
Aerial view of San Francisco, California, with downtown in the distanc...
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Construction of the Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsyl...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Carol M. Highsmith - Downtown Boston, Massachusetts
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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Splinterproof Air Raid Shelters, Variou...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline, New Orleans, Louisiana
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San Francisco City Hall, completed in 1915, San Francisco, California
Architects rank it with monumental Washington, D.C., buildings as triumphs of the "City Beautiful" movement inspired by the World's Columbian Exposition's "White City" in Chicago in 1893. Digital image produced... More
Train tracks in Alexandria, Virginia looking towards Washington, D.C.,...
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Aerial view of Crystal City, Virginia
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Skyline at dusk, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois
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Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois. The black skyscraper is Willis Tower...
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City Hall, Houston, Texas - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transpar...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Friends School & Meetinghouse, High Point City Park, Jamestown, Guilfo...
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Art Deco Cavalier Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
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 Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, Boston, Massachusett...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Part of The Big Dig Project in Boston, one of the wides... More
Train comes into the Metra Station in Chicago, Illinois
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View of Ronald Reagan Airport and Washington, D.C. from Crystal City, ...
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Aerial view of New York City, looking east toward the Empire State Bui...
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Distant view of Washington from the Rosslyn high-rise neighborhood of ...
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Street-level view of San Francisco, California, with a focus on the 19...
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 city's tallest building. It was designed by archite... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
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Flags at City Hall Plaza, Dallas, Texas
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Carol M. Highsmith - Las Vegas, Nevada
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Aerial view showing the Las Vegas Strip at dusk, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline view of Boston, Massachusetts
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Claridge Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Hotels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Graffiti murals on walls around school playground; School Number 15 is...
Forms part of a group of images depicting graffiti murals that were painted on walls near School Number 15 as part of an organized, city-approved demonstration by graffiti artists from the metro area; School Nu... More
View of center of Paterson from Garret Mountain.
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View of Paterson from Garret Mountain.
Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 15, documenting views of downtown Paterson as seen from Garret Mountain.
View of Paterson from Garret Mountain.
Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 15, documenting views of downtown Paterson as seen from Garret Mountain.
Exterior, front, of Café Taormina, with signs for Giannella's Bakery a...
Forms part of a group of images documenting businesses along 21st Avenue in Paterson.
Musicians jamming at Frazier Gills' barbershop in Coal City
Throughout southern West Virginia one can find regular jam sessions, which occur in public spaces like the Sophia Fire Hall, the Coal City Barber Shop, and the Beckley Flea Market, as well as in private buildin... More
City Trading Center (1911), park facade. Designed by the noted Siberia...
Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Number assigned by photographer: novo022. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More
Central city, view along Lenin Street, Perm', Russia
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Aerial view of Cincinnati, Ohio trainyards along the 1933 Cincinnati M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. During its heyday as a passenger rail facility in the 1930s and '40s, Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and ... More
Architectural detail at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U...
Built in 1906, the building is one of the finest Neoclassical Revival style federal buildings in the state of North Carolina. There was an addition in 1937. Architect is James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part... More
Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, host track of the vene...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Carl G. Fisher, James A. Allison, Frank Wheeler, and Arthur Newby, founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, planned the suburb of ... More
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More
Aztec Motel, office and sign, Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Aztec Motel was demolished in 2011. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Margolies categories: Motels (connected lines and multi... More
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline
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-201... More
Roof of the Ryman Auditorium and the new AT&T Building, Nashville, Ten...
The AT&T Building (formerly the South Central Bell Building and BellSouth Building, also known as the Batman Building) is a 630.5 ft (192 m), 32-story skyscraper completed in August 1994 and located in Nashvill... More
Historic Tower Bridge, Sacramento, California
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Building detail with clock, City Hall, St. Louis, Missouri
Construction began on July 19, 1890 and was completed on November 5, 1904. No bonds were issued to finance its construction, which is why it took 14 years to complete the building. The budget was limited at $2 ... More
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
Convention Center and RSA Tower stand tall against the beautiful sky i...
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
Skyline view of Mobile from the 24th floor of the Renaissance Hotel on...
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
Skyline of Birmingham, 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
Skyline view of 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
Overhead view 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
Cambrey Nicole Barrentine is posing for her wedding photographs. A bea...
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The City of Torrance, California's, "Follow Your Dreams" float in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More
![[Depot Museum,] Fort Payne, a city in DeKalb County, Alabama](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTYvZGVwb3QtbXVzZXVtLWZvcnQtcGF5bmUtYS1jaXR5LWluLWRla2FsYi1jb3VudHktYWxhYmFtYS1lM2YyZTItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/18/webp "[Depot Museum,] Fort Payne, a city in DeKalb County, Alabama")
[Depot Museum,] Fort Payne, a city in DeKalb County, Alabama
Fort Payne is the county seat of DeKalb County. It bills itself as the "Official Sock Capital of the World." That title, however, may be changing since "sock manufacturing" has been outsourced to China. Title, ... More
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More
Detail of the 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the ...
According to the National Park Service, its architecture "expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. . . . architects Melvi... More
The City of Los Angeles float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Ca...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More
Clean-up at The Varsity, often called the Varsity Grill, a local drive...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There are now six (2017) branches across metropolitan Atlanta, and others across Georgia. Originally named "The Yellow Jacket", The Va... More
Fort Condé, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Originally founded in 1702 at 27-Mile Bluff up river as Fort Louis, it was relocated in 1711 to the current site. In 1723, a new brick fort with a stone foundation began and was renamed Fort Condé in honor of K... More
Skyline view of Los Angeles, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The striking, greenish structure is the 13-story Eastern Columbia Building in the Broadway Theater District. Considered by many to be the city's finest su... More
Elaborate doorway of what was built as the Science Building for the 19...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library o... More
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
The 1930 Times Square Building in Rochester, New York
The 12-story, Art Deco skyscraper, originally called the Genesee Valley Trust Building supports four aluminum wings 42 feet high, known as the "Wings of Progress." Each weighs 12,000 pounds. Title, date and key... More
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
City Hall, Norwich, 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
View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercont...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Red Moose, Sierra City, California
The area is part of the Tahoe National Forest. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Proje... More
View of Sacramento California's Old City Cemetery
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Established in 1849 with an initial donation of 10 acres by John Sutter, the famous local entrepreneur on whose land, up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, o... More
View from Bernal Heights hill, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
![[Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjAvdHJhbnNhbWVyaWNhLXB5cmFtaWQtc2FuLWZyYW5jaXNjby1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWI0MTY3NC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/43/webp "[Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California]")
[Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California]
Title from similar image LC-DIG-highsm- 20788. The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline and one of its most iconic. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hath... More
East Jesus is an experimental, habitable, extensible artwork in progre...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River...
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The yacht basin on Lake Oroville, above the city of the same name. The...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Architectural details at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic rese...
Title, date, subject note, 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. Gift;... More
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, it was designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. Cr... More
Skyline views in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Golden Gate Bridge with fog rolling over it. San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More