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The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...

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

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...

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

Oil painting "Amsterdam" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Oil painting "Amsterdam" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New ...

Public domain photo of American art painting, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...

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

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFrasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

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

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

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas. It depicts an early stagecoach of the type that brought pioneers to the city in the 1840s

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

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

Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Com...

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...

Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More

Art at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Art at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject ... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oil painting "Foreign Imports to Philadelphia" located on north wall, west side of lobby, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Foreign Imports to Philadelphia" located on north wall, ...

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

Painting "O Pass of the North Now the Old Giants Are Gone We Little Men Live Where Heros Once Walked Inviolate Earth" El Paso, Texas

Painting "O Pass of the North Now the Old Giants Are Gone We Little Me...

Artist: Tom Lea, 1938. Oil, dimensions: 12' x 50'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is st...

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

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

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

Artist name from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-30087. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being the only ... More

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town 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

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...

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 Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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

Part of a carefully restored mural, 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, 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

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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

Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmi...

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

Tee Pee Curios Shop, Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico

Tee Pee Curios Shop, Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico

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

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

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

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

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

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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

Sculpture "Destiny" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sculpture "Destiny" at Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Oklahoma Ci...

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, Boston, Massachusetts

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

Sculpture "Passage No. 3" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Passage No. 3" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sac...

Artist: Steve Gillman, 1999. Marble, measuring 3' wide x 9' long x 17" high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by ... More

Oil painting "China Pattern" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Oil painting "China Pattern" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, ...

Artist: Deborah Oropallo, 1999. Dimensions: 9 feet x 76 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Corridor, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Corridor, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

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

Exterior, 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

Full exterior, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg, New York

Full exterior, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg, New Yor...

Built between 1909-1910. Master Carpenter: Daniel W. Church. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Courtroom, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio

Courtroom, 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

Lobby detail, door, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, Connecticut

Lobby detail, door, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, Conn...

Architect: Adams & Malfeldt & Prentice. Built in 1933. Stripped Classical/Art Deco style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by... More

Interior brass doors, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colorado

Interior brass doors, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, ...

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

Sculpture "Man Power" at U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, Tennessee

Sculpture "Man Power" at U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, Tennessee

Artist: William Zorach, 1939. Wood, dimensions: 37 1/2" x 8" 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More

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

Exterior details. 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

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Sculpture "Wisdom and Courage" at the David W. Dyer Federal Building and Courthouse, Miami, Florida

Sculpture "Wisdom and Courage" at the David W. Dyer Federal Building a...

Artist: Alexander Sambugnac, 1938. Cast stone, dimensions: 4' x 6' x 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ... More

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Isl...

Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More

Interior lobby, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusettsachusetts

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

The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally completed in 1895 in Galveston, Texas

The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More

Painting "Dogwood and Azalea" at Russell Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia

Painting "Dogwood and Azalea" at Russell Federal Building & U.S. Court...

Artist: Paul Rohland, 1938. Oil, dimensions: 59" x 130". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More

Interior lobby, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Interior lobby, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Neoclassical Revival. The original portion was built between 1908-1910. The two-story addition built between 1933-1935. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Servic... More

Side exterior, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg, New York

Side exterior, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg, New Yor...

Built between 1909-1910. Master Carpenter: Daniel W. Church. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Lobby ceiling detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Lobby ceiling detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamt...

An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

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

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...

Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More

Interior hall, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Interior hall, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Neoclassical Revival. The original portion was built between 1908-1910. The two-story addition built between 1933-1935. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Servic... More

Courtroom ceiling, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

Courtroom ceiling, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, R...

Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... 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

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

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

Courtroom. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in Greensboro, North Carolina

Courtroom. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House i...

Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

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

Post Office lobby detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Albany, New York

Post Office lobby detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthou...

Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More

Handicap ramp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Handicap ramp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Column detail. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Column detail. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, 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 Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More

Courtroom, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Courtroom, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Franc...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

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

Exterior window detail, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio

Exterior window 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

Fireplace, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Fireplace, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the best-preserved examples of Victorian architecture left in Texas

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the bes...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1899, the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House is Fort Worth's premier example of Queen Anne-style Victorian architec... More

Oil painting "Compass" located on lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Compass" located on lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Ph...

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

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More

Grill at the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Grill at the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Built in 1930 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Elevator painting, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Elevator painting, 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

Sculpture "Agriculture" exterior southwest side of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Peoria, Illinois

Sculpture "Agriculture" exterior southwest side of Federal Building an...

Artist: Freeman Schoolcraft., 1939. Stone 6' 3" x 4' x ? Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio

Exterior 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

Lobby detail, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusettsachusetts

Lobby detail, John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Bosto...

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

Oil painting "Ship Propeller" located on lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Ship Propeller" located on lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom Ho...

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

Full exterior, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Full exterior, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1911. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

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

Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Law library, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Law library, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...

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

William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

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

Light fixture at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, occupies an entire block between West Broadway, West Okmulgee Avenues and Fifth Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Light fixture at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. P...

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

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Courthouse built by James A. Wetmore during the years 1930-1932. Neo-classical Revival style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

Exterior view of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Exterior view of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New...

An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

Light fixture at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Light fixture at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

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

Fresco painting "Unloading Cargo" located in rotunda of Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Fresco painting "Unloading Cargo" located in rotunda of Alexander Hami...

Artist: Reginald Marsh, 1937. 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

Architectural details. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Architectural details. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, La...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More

Exterior detail, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior detail, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthou...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Exterior detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building and U.S. Post Office, Providence, Rhode Island

Exterior detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building and U.S. Post Office...

Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Clad in red brick with base and window trim of granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and s... More

Lobby door, U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida

Lobby door, U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida

Architect: Eric Kebbon. Built between 1935-1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Exterior door detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior door detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

Oil painting "Clouds with Airplane" located on second floor ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Clouds with Airplane" located on second floor ceiling, U...

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

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

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

Fresco painting "Press Interviewing Celebrity on Deck of the Queen Mary" located in rotunda, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Fresco painting "Press Interviewing Celebrity on Deck of the Queen Mar...

Artist: Reginald Marsh, 1937. 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

Interior lobby stairs, Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah

Interior lobby stairs, 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

Door detail, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Door detail, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Neoclassical Revival. The original portion was built between 1908-1910. The two-story addition built between 1933-1935. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Servic... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

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

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