color photography

The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... More

Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, 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-201... More

Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal B...

Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Photograph shows Sign on building: Wolfe County Office WPA Project Superintendent; sign on car: Jesus saves.

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art 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

Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...

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 Ph... More

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...

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

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chi...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph related to middle ages, medieval art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Miss...

Artist: John Steuart Curry. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the... More

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste De Fra...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Tiffany stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Ala...

St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More

The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Cly... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Montgomery, Al...

Founded in 1877, the current red-brick building was constructed between 1883 and 1889 and is a national historic landmark. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the pastor from 1954-1960, and began his quest for civ... More

The former Bovee Flats "castle" apartment building in Waterloo, Iowa, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property declined along with the neighborhood, and the building closed some time after 2007. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol... More

Sweet nothings, autochrome color photo

Public domain photograph of a book page with illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The buccaneers, autochrome color photo

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting. "McC 278" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. A 90303. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lady with mask, autochrome color photo

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An interlude, autochrome color photo

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). "G 211" and "G 212" on transparency. Photograph of a painting. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 29759. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Whispering gallery, autochrome color photo

Photo of a mural. "McC 850" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 050314. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Awaiting the absent, autochrome color photo

Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting possibly by Charles Stanley Reinhart; cf. CAI - C - Reinhart 36. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 050397. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Declaration of Independence, autochrome color photo

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California golden poppies, autochrome color photo

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carmel highlands, California, autochrome color photo

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Palestine. Transjordania. Petra, autochrome color photo

Public domain photograph of color autochrome, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

End of winter, autochrome color photo

The cornfield, autochrome color photo

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Tip zheli︠e︡znodorozhn. postroĭki

Public domain photograph of a home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the ...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Oil painting "Winter Vista" at Region 5 Customs House, Chicago, Illino...

Artist: Karl Eugene Fortess, ca. 1935; dimensions: 29" x 46". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

[History of San Francisco mural "Torchlight Procession" by Anton Refre...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Oil painting "Morgan's Raiders" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse,...

Artist: Daniel Boza, 1936. Dimensions: 6' 10" x 9' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

Oil painting "Commerce of the East" located at center of Lobby, U.S. C...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

[Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, ...

Photograph shows sign in foreground: "School St."; upstairs windows: "Geo. L. Wainright Law Office;" below: "Sylvia Sweets Tea Room."

Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of...

Public domain photograph - Bethlehem, historical image of Palestine, Israel, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machi...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

In the old fort built by the French, Frederiksted, Saint Croix island,...

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Looking down the valley toward Ouray from the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray Co...

Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of the mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado

11671-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta

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

Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstow...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Ga

11671-10. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. ...

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World's Fair. Life Savers parachute tower

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, Uni... More

World's Fair. Holland Pavilion garden I

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, Unite... More

World's Fair. General night view of Westinghouse Building, Commerce Ci...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition ... More

World's Fair. Westinghouse forecourt and Singing Tower of Light

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exp... More

World's Fair. Orrefors crystal fountain

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exp... More

A land and utility municipal housing project, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene at square dance, McIntosh county, Oklahoma

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

Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Abandoned brick wall with wooden beams of a building, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

Detail of industrial building in Massachusetts

11671-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The harbor, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

A view of a town from a hill. A view of a town and the ocean from a hill. Public domain postcard scan.

Planting corn along a river in northeastern Tennessee

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

Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. ...

11671-7. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

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

Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicini...

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

An old photo of a store on a dirt road. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Sec...

Lot 11671-24. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.... More

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, ...

11671-20. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

[Trees in a reforestation project, Md.?]

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

Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fum...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sign outside the Stardust, one of a string of 1940s-vintage motels in ...

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

World's Fair. View toward Theme Center (trylon and perisphere)

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United... More

Wigwam Village #7, Rialto, California

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

Wigwam Village #7, Rialto, California

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

Subway Restaurant sign, Meridian, Idaho

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

Han's Tailoring, 719 Yakima Avenue, Yakima, Washington

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

Circular hole, 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

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...

Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More

New York City views. Christmas tree at night

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sunrise or sunset] - The sun is setting in the sky over the water

New York City views. Times Square, wide shot, toward the vaudeville th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator]

Photograph shows a B24 bomber painted with red zig-zag stripes. Color transparency is filed as MISC-05-338. Written on slide mount: Striped Ass [...], 466 BG.

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

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

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

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

Pier, Monterey, California - Drawing. Public domain image.

Monterey and the surrounding area have attracted artists since the late 19th century and many celebrated painters and writers have lived there. Until the 1950s, there was an abundant fishery. Title, date, and k... More

Exterior detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Te...

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

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...

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

Part of a carefully restored mural, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

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

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

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

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

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

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...

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

It's unclear who erected the "Haunted Hotel" sign outside this long-sh...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is more properly known as the Levy Building, named for its original owner. Until the 1950s, the ground floor was home to... More

The 1950s vintage 9 Arizona Motor Hotel in Williams, Arizona, a town o...

Known as "The Gateway to the Grand Canyon" 60 miles to the north, it is the southern terminus of the scenic railroad that takes tourists there and (in 1984) was also the last town on old Route 66 to be bypassed... More

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

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

American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More