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
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...
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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
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
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
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
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
Window at Tupelo Hardware in Tupelo, Mississippi, home of singing lege...
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. Presley's mother, Gladys, bought the young man his first... More
[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Yale University, New Haven, 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
Yale University, New Haven, 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
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...
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
Parade at the Bavarian Celebration of Spring festival in Leavenworth, ...
This once-thriving hub of the Great Northern Railroad lost the railroad and declined until the early 1960s, when community leaders made a conscious decision to build new structures in the style of the Bavarian ... More
[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut
Date 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 Photographs Division. Gift; Geo... More
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More
Maypole dancers at the Bavarian Celebration of Spring festival in Leav...
This once-thriving hub of the Great Northern Railroad lost the railroad and declined until the early 1960s, when community leaders made a conscious decision to build new structures in the style of the Bavarian ... More
Sculpture "Unity" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Oklahoma City...
Artist: Bernard Frazier, 1966. Stone measuring 22' 6" x 13' x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jackson...
Artist: Albert Vrana, 1966. Dimensions: 16' x 550' x 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Joe Skeen Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Roswell, New Mexico
Named Joe Skeen Federal Building in 2004, the building was constructed in 1967. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided ... More
The 1902 Lathrop House in Montrose, Colorado, built for local hardware...
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
Painting "Red Rock Canyon" on north wall of Jury Assembly Room in Lloy...
Artist: Willard Dixon, 2000. 2 measure 6 x 9 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Winter scene in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of W...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More
A lone, and lean, coyote makes the best of wintertime the northernmost...
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
A bald eagle surveys its surroundings in Yellowstone National Park in ...
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
Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...
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
A wintry day along the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park ...
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
Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More
Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestria...
Founded in 1999, this three-day event began at the historic McMenamins Hotel in memory of the celebrated 1950 "Trent sighting" and photographs of a purported flying saucer at a nearby farm. Skeptics have conclu... More
Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...
Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More
The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama
The American Village opened on November 30, 1999, as Alabama's civic education center. It's buildings are replications of famous buildings in American history. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York
Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More
Painting "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" located on first floor, F...
Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 35" x 75". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More
The 1887 two-story, Italianate-style Masonic Hall building in Alamosa,...
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
Lobby. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia
Designed by architect Oscar Wendroth and built in 1916, the courthouse is a 3-story Renaissance Revival federal building, executed in white marble. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Bas relief at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1915 by Architect James Knox Taylor, the building ... More
Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, 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
Smokey Bear, long the symbolic mascot of the United States Forest Serv...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created by artist Albert Staehle, Smokey debuted on a poster in 1944. Because the word "the" fit the rhythm of a song about the kindly... More
Exterior, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York
Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
Elevator lobby at U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas
Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
The 1886 corner Clark Building in dowtown Galesville, Wisconsin
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. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, ...
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
Close up of painting "Law Guides Florida Progress" at David W. Dyer Fe...
Artist: Denman Fink, 1941. Oil, dimensions: 25' 3" x 11' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...
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
The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...
Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... More
East courtroom, rear view, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, ...
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Bos...
Built in 1931-1933 by Architect Cram & Ferguson. The 16-story main mass rises to a height of 258' on Post Office Square. Restored by General Services Administration in 2009. Photographed as part of an assignmen... More
Grant Christian mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat- roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central c... More
Elevator doors, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colora...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built 1931-1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More
Exterior, Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah
Architect: Hodgson & McClenahan. Built in 1933-34. Art Deco style originally built to provide offices for the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Serv... More
The golden-domed Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver houses the ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, intentionally reminiscent of the United States Capitol, was designed by Elijah E. Myers and constructed in the 1890s fro... More
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More
Door detail, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Four story building designed in the Beaux Art Classicism style of architecture and clad in buff-colored limestone veneer. Built 1929-1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for ... More
2nd floor corridor, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Sculpture "Young American Woman" at Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Artist: Henry Kreis, 1939. Aluminum, dimensions: 4' 6" x 18" x 12". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photo... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Entrance to the Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Miss...
Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Interior lobby, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Laredo, Texas
Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1906-1907 and 1933. The building originally housed the customs service. The 1930's expansion more than doubled the space to the rear of the building. Photographed as part ... More
Columns, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado
Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
The Pollock-Capps House, a Victorian mansion built in 1898 for Dr. Jos...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mansion was sold to William Capps and wife Sallie, whose family lived here 1909 to 1971. On the grounds were a golf... More
Exterior eagle detail, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia,...
Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Interior corridor, Robert J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built in 1931. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in... More
Turret of "Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...
Date: 1937; medium: tempera. 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 th... More
Sculpture: "Providence as Independent Thought, Flanked by Industry and...
GSA Fine Arts Program. 1908. Dimensions: 13' x 7' x 7'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More