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Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

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

Herd of cattle, autochrome color photo

Herd of cattle, autochrome color photo

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Georgia oat field? Southern U.S.

Georgia oat field? Southern U.S.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church

Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church

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

Detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

[Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb.

[Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb.

Photograph shows Rice Krispies cereal boxes in window below oranges; Better Loaf flour sacks at left next to sign for: New & large potatoes, 6lb. 23, apples, delicious, 4lb. 25.

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Automotive Transportation" by Carlo Ciampaglia, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Automotive Transportation" by Car...

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

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-58. Office interior

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 487. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1956-61. Interior

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 510. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A derelict gas station and appropriately aged car in Sweetwater, Texas

A derelict gas station and appropriately aged car in Sweetwater, 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

The "Elvis at 13" statue at the Elvis Presley birthplace site in Tupelo, Mississippi

The "Elvis at 13" statue at the Elvis Presley birthplace site in Tupel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Elvis is portrayed in over sized overalls, a full open-c... More

Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona

Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona

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

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa, Texas

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was the Marfa Opera House before its cinematic incarnation, but closed in the 1970s. As of this photograph in 2014, a local illust... More

A most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado

A most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The long and eclectic mural on the levee walls first appeared as whimsical graffiti in the 1970s and is said to be the longest, if not... More

Berkley Theater, entrance doors, Robins, Berkley, Michigan

Berkley Theater, entrance doors, Robins, Berkley, Michigan

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Grossinger's sign, Liberty, New York

Grossinger's sign, Liberty, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

Mobil gas pump, Wilton, Connecticut

Mobil gas pump, Wilton, Connecticut

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Gas stations, pumps and signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Route 28, Mount Pleasant, New York

Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Route 28, Mount Pleasant, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

Cummings Buick, 15th Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California

Cummings Buick, 15th Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Auto related. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More

Clara's Beauty Salon, Jensen Drive, Houston, Texas

Clara's Beauty Salon, Jensen Drive, Houston, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Beauty shops; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside... More

Alabama Theater, Houston, Texas

Alabama Theater, Houston, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Tom's Cafe, 2181 Manchester, Los Angeles, California

Tom's Cafe, 2181 Manchester, Los Angeles, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Bars, lounges, ballrooms; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). C... More

Peterson's Restaurant sign, Wharton, Texas

Peterson's Restaurant sign, Wharton, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Eating and drinking establishment signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Ma... More

Tascosa Drive-In Theater, straight-on view, NE 24th & Dumas Drive, Amarillo, Texas

Tascosa Drive-In Theater, straight-on view, NE 24th & Dumas Drive, Ama...

Photograph shows the Tascosa Drive-in Theater. The structure shown in the photograph no longer exists, but there is another drive-in theater using this name. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) The original ... More

Sunset Drive-In, Amarillo, Texas

Sunset Drive-In, Amarillo, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Napanoch Diner, angle 2, Routes 209 & 55, Napanoch, New York

Napanoch Diner, angle 2, Routes 209 & 55, Napanoch, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Diners; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John M... More

Concord lobby, Kiamesha Lake, New York

Concord lobby, Kiamesha Lake, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

Steeplechase and Steel Piers, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Steeplechase and Steel Piers, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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

Campus Drive-In, San Diego, California

Campus Drive-In, San Diego, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Pete's ice cream sign, Ely, Nevada

Pete's ice cream sign, Ely, Nevada

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Wigwam Village Number 2 billboard, Route 31W, Cave City, Kentucky

Wigwam Village Number 2 billboard, Route 31W, Cave City, Kentucky

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs and statues; Lodging. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadsid... More

Colored Motel sign (segregated motel?), Route 80, Statesboro, Georgia

Colored Motel sign (segregated motel?), Route 80, Statesboro, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

Poverty Motors, Jefferson Avenue, Peoria, Illinois

Poverty Motors, Jefferson Avenue, Peoria, Illinois

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Auto-related buildings; Gas stations. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margoli... More

Duwamish Drive-in Theater, E. Marginal Way, Seattle, Washington

Duwamish Drive-in Theater, E. Marginal Way, Seattle, Washington

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Drive-in theater signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Am... More

Heart's Desire Motel sign, Route 19A, Dunedin, Florida

Heart's Desire Motel sign, Route 19A, Dunedin, Florida

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Sunset Motel sign, Sayre, Oklahoma

Sunset Motel sign, Sayre, Oklahoma

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Storefronts, Pittsburg, Kansas. Photogrpah by John Margolies

Storefronts, Pittsburg, Kansas. Photogrpah by John Margolies

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Mardi Gras Courts sign, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Courts sign, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Brewer's Drive-in Theater, Route 19, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

Brewer's Drive-in Theater, Route 19, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Drive-in theater signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Am... More

Beer sign, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Beer sign, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Starlite Motel sign, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Starlite Motel sign, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Delaware Auto Court sign, State Road, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Delaware Auto Court sign, State Road, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

South of the Border, Dillon, South Carolina

South of the Border, Dillon, South Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Uranium Cafe sign, Grants, New Mexico

Uranium Cafe sign, Grants, New Mexico

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Casa Linda Motel sign, Route 99, Willows, California

Casa Linda Motel sign, Route 99, Willows, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California, Motion Picture Theaters

Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California, Motion Picture Theaters

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Grizzly Fireworks sign, Russell Street, Missoula, Montana

Grizzly Fireworks sign, Russell Street, Missoula, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Main Street and/or downtown signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolie... More

Red Wood Motel sign, Route 6, Hastings, Nebraska

Red Wood Motel sign, Route 6, Hastings, Nebraska

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

The Donut Hole, angle view, Amar Road, La Puente, California

The Donut Hole, angle view, Amar Road, La Puente, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street). Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (... More

Missile Motel sign, Port Hueneme, California

Missile Motel sign, Port Hueneme, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

The Israel Mukashy Building in downtown Edgefield, South Carolina

The Israel Mukashy Building in downtown Edgefield, South Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Erected in 1891, the building has been occupied by many merchants, including Russian immigrant Murkashy from the early 20th Century to... More

Full view of oil painting "New Amsterdam" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Full view of oil painting "New Amsterdam" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. C...

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, 1912. Dimensions: 4.5' x 9'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

Courtyard, David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Miami, Florida

Courtyard, David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Miami, ...

Architect: Phineas E. Paist and Harold D. Steward. Mediterranean Renaissance Revival style. Built between 1931-1933. Primary material: Key Largo Coquina limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the ... More

Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

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

Hallway. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Hallway. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatta...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Pansy St. Clair, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Pansy St. Clair, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind Ri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The reservation was established for the Eastern Shoshone in 1863 following a unique treaty with Shoshone Chief Washakie, admired by In... More

The ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado

The ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Roman Classical-style building, designed by New Yorker Albert Ross, and executed from 1908 to 1912 in brick and white sandstone, w... More

A fanciful woodcarving of the legendary Northwoods lumberjack, Paul Bunyan at the Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum Eau Claire, Wisconsin

A fanciful woodcarving of the legendary Northwoods lumberjack, Paul Bu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum presents artifacts from, and photographs of, the mining camps where hardy lumberjacks chopped trees and prepared of boards ... More

Long idle parts of the giant Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, founded in 1881, in Pueblo, Colorado

Long idle parts of the giant Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, founde...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was founded by Cleve Osgood, a New York "robber baron," as titans of industry were then known. In his private rail car, he... More

A lovely old cookstove in the main cabin at the Sheriff Ranch at the headwaters of the Colorado River near Hot Sulphur Springs in Grand County, Colorado

A lovely old cookstove in the main cabin at the Sheriff Ranch at the h...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once a vast cattle spread, the ranch has downsized in recent years. Registered in 1881 with 1,350 acres with as many as 250 head of He... More

A historic circus wagon, used to carry performers and animals in parades that heralded the coming of a circus to town, displayed at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which is devoted to circus-related history

A historic circus wagon, used to carry performers and animals in parad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum, which also features artifacts such as colorful circus wagons used in parades, is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society... More

The Episcopal Chapel of the Transfiguration in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park

The Episcopal Chapel of the Transfiguration in northwestern Wyoming's ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The chapel was sited and built to frame a view of the Cathedral Group of peaks in a large window behind the altar. Built in 1925, the ... More

Gravestone in a tiny cemetery outside Bent's Old Fort, near La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Gravestone in a tiny cemetery outside Bent's Old Fort, near La Junta i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Occasionally referred to as Fort William, the fort is a 1976 reconstruction of an 1833 fort built by William and Charles Bent, along w... More

Dilapidated outhouse at the Holzwarth Site in Rocky Mountain National Park, within Grand County, Colorado

Dilapidated outhouse at the Holzwarth Site in Rocky Mountain National ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. John Holzwarth Sr., a German immigrant, moved to the Kawuneeche Valley in 1917 after his job as a saloon-keeper in Denver came to an a... More

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

The art deco-style showroom of Ed Hammer Chevrolet in Sheridan, Wyoming, dates to 1940

The art deco-style showroom of Ed Hammer Chevrolet in Sheridan, Wyomin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Courtroom entrance. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Courtroom entrance. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

A circa-1835 Conestoga wagon, the type of wagon that famously carried American pioneer familes and their belongings across the plains during America's westward migrations, on display at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

A circa-1835 Conestoga wagon, the type of wagon that famously carried ...

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

Exterior lamp. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Exterior lamp. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More

One of the most elaborate of approximately 150 (out of originally 2,500 or so) carved wooden carousels in America, the Kit Carson County Carousel in the eastern Colorado town of Burlington, on the Kansas border

One of the most elaborate of approximately 150 (out of originally 2,50...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sixth of 74 carousels manufactured by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company between 1904 and 1933, this is a three-row, stationary (th... More

View 1, Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf, Queensbury, New York

View 1, Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf, Queensbury, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

J.C. Penny, Yuma, Arizona. Photogrpah by John Margolies

J.C. Penny, Yuma, Arizona. Photogrpah by John Margolies

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Youngville Cafe cabins, two cabins, Route 30, near Van Horne, Iowa

Youngville Cafe cabins, two cabins, Route 30, near Van Horne, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Tourist cabins; Lodging. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

Carousel Mall, San Bernardino, California

Carousel Mall, San Bernardino, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Peking Garden sign, Spokane, Washington

Peking Garden sign, Spokane, Washington

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

IHOP Restaurant, detail, Quebec Plaza, Denver, Colorado

IHOP Restaurant, detail, Quebec Plaza, Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: New; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Marg... More

Route 66 Mural, Tucumcari, New Mexico

Route 66 Mural, Tucumcari, New Mexico

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

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wig shop window in downtown San Francisco, California

Wig shop window in downtown San Francisco, California

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

Elevator lobby, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elevator lobby, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force), is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of commissioned officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately nor... More

Abandoned houses, Natchez, Mississippi

Abandoned houses, Natchez, Mississippi

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stax Museum of America Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee

Stax Museum of America Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is at 926 McLemore Avenue, the former location of Stax Records. It is operated by Soulsville USA, which also operates the adjacent Stax Music Academy. Title, date, and sub... More

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More

Mural, Baltimore, Maryland - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mural, Baltimore, Maryland - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Fish Lake outside of Talkeetna, Alaska

Fish Lake outside of Talkeetna, Alaska

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

Art in the U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Art in the U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, N...

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

Mementos left at Michael Jackson's house, 2710 Palomino Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada

Mementos left at Michael Jackson's house, 2710 Palomino Drive, Las Veg...

Michael Jackson was the "King of Pop" before he died on June 25, 2009. The home, called Hacienda Palomino, is a 12,000-square-foot abode. Michael Jackson lived in the house with his children off and on for a ye... More

Detail of the Bloch Building, Nelson Atkins Museum Bloch, Kansas City, Missouri

Detail of the Bloch Building, Nelson Atkins Museum Bloch, Kansas City,...

Completed in 2007, "The Bloch Building is a significant work of contemporary architecture by Steven Holl Architects that is woven harmoniously into the surrounding landscape of the Kansas City Sculpture Park." ... More

The golden eagle that flys at the Auburn University's football game every year, Auburn, Alabama

The golden eagle that flys at the Auburn University's football game ev...

These eagles are brought into the Southeastern Raptor Rebilitation Center. The College of Veterinary Medicine is a rehabilitation hub for injured birds of prey. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More

The "Moses Fountain" in Albany, New York's Washington Park. But it officially called the King Memorial Fountain, funded by Albany dry-goods merchant and banker Rufus Henry King

The "Moses Fountain" in Albany, New York's Washington Park. But it off...

Completed in 1893, the fountain shows Moses on the Rock of Horeb. According to the Bible, God tells Moses that "thou shalt smite therock, and there shall come water out of it, that people may drink." The figur... More

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers figures "dance" at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers figures "dance" at Madame Tussaud's Wax...

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

Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama

Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama

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

Water dances on the surface during the water show at Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Water dances on the surface during the water show at Spring Park, Tusc...

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

Built by Christian Herry in 1878, Gruene Hall in New Braunfels is one of the oldest dance halls in Texas

Built by Christian Herry in 1878, Gruene Hall in New Braunfels is one ...

Title from related photo in same group. Gruene was a communal farming community. The one-story structure features a false-front entryway with asymmetrical window and door arrangements. Credit line: The Lyda Hil... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station 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

Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Built and settled in the 19th and early 20th century, Japanese immigrants began moving into the area following the 1906 Earthquake. By World War II, the n... More

Lions Club International's float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

Lions Club International's float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena,...

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

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller grew up, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller g...

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

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