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[Interior of the Grotto of the Agony, Jerusalem, Holy Land]

[Interior of the Grotto of the Agony, Jerusalem, Holy Land]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "15152". Forms part of: Views of the Holy Land in the Photochrom print collection.

Cave Hill Cemetery, Salve-Bullett Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Cave Hill Cemetery, Salve-Bullett Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louis...

Significance: This mausoleum is one of the four mausolea in Cave Hill Cemetery executed in the High Victorian Gothic style. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS... More

Mission Santa Clara de Asis, Franklin & Grant Streets, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Mission Santa Clara de Asis, Franklin & Grant Streets, Santa Clara, Sa...

See also HALS CA-73 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-175 Survey number: HABS CA-1133 Building/structure dates: ca. 1818 Initial Construction Buildin... More

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...

Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More

St. Seraphim Russian Orthodox Churches, New Church, Lower Kalskag, Bethel Census Area, AK

St. Seraphim Russian Orthodox Churches, New Church, Lower Kalskag, Bet...

Significance: Although one of the newer Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska, St. Seraphim is in a time-honored form, with a hip-roofed square nave farmed by a gable-roofed sanctuary and narthex. Survey number:... More

Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth & Twelfth Streets, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth ...

Significance: First building of the Smithsonian Institution and a foremost example of medieval revivalism. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-71 Survey number: HABS DC-141 Buildin... More

St. Helena Island Parish, Edgar Fripp Mausoleum, Junction County Roads 45 & 37, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC

St. Helena Island Parish, Edgar Fripp Mausoleum, Junction County Roads...

Significance: The Edgar Fripp Mausoleum is an outstanding example of mid-19th century gravestone art and architecture and reflects the social status of the deceased. Built of stone in the Egyptian Revival style... More

Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Aven...

Significance: The Debtors' Wing was one of the finest examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in America. It was modeled after the Temple of Amenophis III, on the Isle D' Elephantine on the Nile. It was desig... More

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, Blind Department Building, 400 Sixth Avenue, Southeast, Faribault, Rice County, MN

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, Blind Department Building, 400 ...

Survey number: HABS MN-161-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Capitol Gatehouses, Fifteenth & Seventeenth Streets at Constitution Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Capitol Gatehouses, Fifteenth & Seventeenth Streets at Constituti...

For related documentation, see also U.S. Capitol, Gateposts (HABS DC-35) and Bulfinch Capitol Gatepost (HABS DC-719). Significance: There seems to be no definite information as to when the Capitol setting was c... More

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 307 East Pecan Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 307 East Pecan Street, San Antonio, Bexar...

Survey number: HABS TX-33 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

Templo de Porta Coeli, San German, San German Municipio, PR

Templo de Porta Coeli, San German, San German Municipio, PR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS PR-45 Building/structure dates: ca. 1571 Initial Construction

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Union Trust Building, 500 Griswold Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Union Trust Building, 500 Griswold Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: Notable for its extensive use of metal craftsmanship and in the application of vivid colors on the exterior as well as interior. / Granite, brick, tile. 40 stories, 485' high. Elaborate entrance... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake,...

The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construct... More

Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue Northeast, Washington, District...

Structure is associated with the McMillan Plan for Washington, D.C. Significance: Key element in the McMillan Commission's plan to redevelop Washington following City Beautiful precepts. Was designed to centra... More

Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, SC

Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...

Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More

Mt. Scopus cemetery dedication to soldiers from New Zealand

Mt. Scopus cemetery dedication to soldiers from New Zealand

Title from negative sleeve. Guide card: War cemeteries. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Oatlands, Leesburg vic., Loudoun County, Virginia

Oatlands, Leesburg vic., Loudoun County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-54D. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase... More

Interior lobby, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Interior lobby, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Is...

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

[South Corridor, Great Hall. Adonis mural of the Lyric Poetry series by Henry O. Walker. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[South Corridor, Great Hall. Adonis mural of the Lyric Poetry series b...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford County, OH

Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...

Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More

Scarritt Building & Arcade, Ninth Street & Grand Avenue, & 819 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Scarritt Building & Arcade, Ninth Street & Grand Avenue, & 819 Walnut ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-114 Survey number: HABS MO-263

Amsterdam Palace Apartments, 1116 Ocean Drive, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL

Amsterdam Palace Apartments, 1116 Ocean Drive, Miami, Miami-Dade Count...

Survey number: HABS FL-322-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Joseph's Chapel, Ammendale Road, Beltsville, Prince George's County, MD

St. Joseph's Chapel, Ammendale Road, Beltsville, Prince George's Count...

Significance: This excellent example of a rural, Queen Anne style chapel was the first building erected by the Christian Brothers as part of the Ammendale Normal Institute, a catholic novitiate. Survey number:... More

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Mission Road, Oceanside, San Diego County, CA

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Mission Road, Oceanside, San Diego Co...

Suggested address, Mission Road, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-41 Survey number: HABS CA-42 Building/structure dates: 1811- 1815 Initial ... More

Cave Hill Cemetery, Ben Smith Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Cave Hill Cemetery, Ben Smith Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisvill...

Significance: One of the oldest mausolea in Cave Hill Cemetery, the Ben Smith is also the largest. It is the only purely Greek Revival mausoleum in the cemetery. Unprocessed Field note material exists for thi... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

New York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic, 525 East Sixty-eighth Street, bounded by York Avenue, FDR Drive, East Sixty-eighth & Seventy-first Streets, New York, New York County, NY

New York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic, 525 East Sixty-eighth Street,...

Significance: An early 20th century curtain-wall building, part of a larger hospital complex, designed to house a psychiatric treatment clinic for both in-and out- patients. Reflects the movement in the USA awa... More

Head Tide Church, 1838 Head Tide Church Road, Head Tide, Lincoln County, ME

Head Tide Church, 1838 Head Tide Church Road, Head Tide, Lincoln Count...

Significance: Good example of a small country Maine church. Interesting blend of a variety of stylistic elements. Integral part of the Head Tide National Register Historic District. Unprocessed Field note mat... More

Gorgas Hospital, Mortuary & Chapel, Gorgas Road, Balboa Heights, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ
U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela Rive...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 55 through 158). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integ... More

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Suggested address, Mission Road, not verifiable in documentation. Less common element keywords for complex include: conventos, canales, cimborios, grotoes, & sacroriums. Significance: Date of Erection, 1797. A... More

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Suggested address, Mission Road, not verifiable in documentation. Less common element keywords for complex include: conventos, canales, cimborios, grotoes, & sacroriums. Significance: Date of Erection, 1797. A... More

[The church crypt, Hythe, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

[The church crypt, Hythe, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10911". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Southern Palestine. Antechamber of painted tomb Beit Jibrin

Southern Palestine. Antechamber of painted tomb Beit Jibrin

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Antechamber of painted tomb. Identified as Beit Jibrin based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date from... More

[Forest View Abbey Mausoleum, Rockford, Illinois]

[Forest View Abbey Mausoleum, Rockford, Illinois]

J194065 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: Copyrighted by Cecil Bryan, Inc. No. D87.

Damascus, Palais Azem. Finest of reception rooms

Damascus, Palais Azem. Finest of reception rooms

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Caption continues from catalog: Institut Fran ais de Damas, Palais Azem, secretary M. Emilie Daussurar[?]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Post office boxes in lobby. U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Statesville, North Carolina

Post office boxes in lobby. U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Sta...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: R. Stanley Brown, 1939. Neoclassical design. Cre... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel No. 18, Milepost 410, Dorris, Siskiyou County, CA

Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel No. 18, Milepost 410, ...

Significance: The Southern Pacific Railroad Cascade Route, built as the Natron Cutoff between Black Butte, California and Natron, Oregon was one of a series of major rebuildings and realignments of the original... More

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...

Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware, & Cottman Avenues & Milnor Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware,...

Significance: St. Vincent's Catholic School is the physical and institutional remnant of an important part of Tacony's pre-industrial history. St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum was founded in Tacony in 1855 and the ... More

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Executive's House, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Executive's House, Ambler, Montgomery Coun...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-L Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spring House, East Head Race, Hopewell, Chester County, PA

Spring House, East Head Race, Hopewell, Chester County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5942 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Knoxville National Cemetery, 939 Tyson Street, Northwest, Knoxville, Knox County, TN

Knoxville National Cemetery, 939 Tyson Street, Northwest, Knoxville, K...

Survey number: HALS TN-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96000966

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New York County, NY

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New Y...

Significance: Designed by John H. Duncan, this monument to honor General Ulysses S. Grant, who had served his country as president, was constructed from 1891-1897. Funds for the building were raised through pub... More

Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...

Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More

Ainsley Hall Mansion, Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Ainsley Hall Mansion, Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-16 Building/structure dates: 1823 Initial Construction

[St. Bavon Abbey, the Virgin's Crypt, Ghent, Belgium]

[St. Bavon Abbey, the Virgin's Crypt, Ghent, Belgium]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "8713". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ... More

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Man sitting in courtyard. Arched tower in background, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Man sitting in courtyard. Arched tower in bac...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

San Luis Gonzaga Adobe, State Highway 152, Los Banos, Merced County, CA

San Luis Gonzaga Adobe, State Highway 152, Los Banos, Merced County, C...

Significance: This oldest of existing adobes in the San Joaquin Valley is to be eliminated by the construction of a Central Valley Project reservoir. The adobe appears to have remained essentially as it was bu... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Fort Washington, Fort, 13551 Fort Washington Road, Fort Washington Forest, Prince George's County, MD

Fort Washington, Fort, 13551 Fort Washington Road, Fort Washington For...

Significance: Fort Washington's predecessor, Fort Warburton, was completed in December 1809 to guard the Potomac River entrance to the Capital City. During the War of 1812, on August 27, 1814, it was destroyed... More

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Lock 6A, Between Greenwood & Hamilton Avenues, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Lock 6A, Between Greenwood & Hamilton Avenue...

Significance: Lock 6A is a representative example of canal lock design and construction of its time. It was the last lock to be constructed on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which was first placed in operatio... More

Union Trust Building, 500 Griswold Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Union Trust Building, 500 Griswold Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: Notable for its extensive use of metal craftsmanship and in the application of vivid colors on the exterior as well as interior. / Granite, brick, tile. 40 stories, 485' high. Elaborate entrance... More

Old Ship Church, 88 Main Street, Hingham, Plymouth County, MA

Old Ship Church, 88 Main Street, Hingham, Plymouth County, MA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-341 Survey number: HABS MA-595 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000777

Dennis Hotel, Michigan Avenue & Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ

Dennis Hotel, Michigan Avenue & Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Atlantic Cou...

Significance: Important as an architectural monument of a gracious and opulent era, and as a major element in the principal surviving portion of Atlantic City's Boardwalk front. Architecturally, the Dennis was ... More

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, P...

See also HABS PA-1654 for additional documentation. Significance: The Fairmount Water Works is perhaps the premier example of early nineteenth-century American industrial architecture. It was built to supply P... More

Georgetown Preparatory School. Interior of chapel at Georgetown Preparatory School I

Georgetown Preparatory School. Interior of chapel at Georgetown Prepar...

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

Tomb of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Tomb of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Architect James Keys Wilson's Dexter Mausoleum at the 733-acre Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second-largest cemetery in the United States, behind Calverton National Cemetery in New York City

Architect James Keys Wilson's Dexter Mausoleum at the 733-acre Spring ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Edmund Dexter was a prominent local "whiskey baron," and his mausoleum was intended to resemble a Gothic Revival "funerary monument." ... More

Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Main Street, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Main Street, Kingston, Ulster County...

Significance: This church in the Wren-Gibbs tradition was designed by the famous architect, Minard LaFever, and it was based on his "project for a village Church" in The Architectural Instructor. It has some as... More

National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, ...

Significance: In William Mann's "A Brief History of the Zoo," penned in 1946 while he was director, he wrote that "in 1935 the Zoo had a great stroke of good luck [when] the Public Works Administration allotted... More

St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Main & Focer Streets, Glassboro, Gloucester County, NJ

St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Main & Focer Streets, Glassboro, Glouces...

Significance: Attributed to noted architect, John Notman, this church is a fine example of the Gothic Revival parish church. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-284 Survey number: H... More

St. Helena Island Parish, Edgar Fripp Mausoleum, Junction County Roads 45 & 37, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC

St. Helena Island Parish, Edgar Fripp Mausoleum, Junction County Roads...

Significance: The Edgar Fripp Mausoleum is an outstanding example of mid-19th century gravestone art and architecture and reflects the social status of the deceased. Built of stone in the Egyptian Revival style... More

Fort Hancock, Battery George Arrowsmith, Southwest edge of Sandy Point extending to Horseshoe Cove, Fort Hancock, Monmouth County, NJ

Fort Hancock, Battery George Arrowsmith, Southwest edge of Sandy Point...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N160 Survey number: HABS NJ-1209-K Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80002505

St. Louis City Hall, Tucker Boulevard at Market Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

St. Louis City Hall, Tucker Boulevard at Market Street, Saint Louis, I...

Significance: This structure, which has housed city government since 1898, is a city landmark by appearance and reputation. The design of the building was chosen from among six designs submitted through a natio... More

Mosquée Kârié / Sébah & Joaillier, Cons'ple.

Mosquée Kârié / Sébah & Joaillier, Cons'ple.

Mosaic in the Kariye Mosque depicting the Annunciation. Formerly the Church of St. Saviour in Chora. No. 22. The Annunciation is a biblical event in which the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary to anno... More

Sarcophagus in the Tomb of the Bulls, Cairo, Egypt

Sarcophagus in the Tomb of the Bulls, Cairo, Egypt

H31560 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1102. Copyrighted 1903 by H. C. White Co.

Vestibule d'honneur--"L'Évolution du Livre--peintures murales par John W. Alexander, II

Vestibule d'honneur--"L'Évolution du Livre--peintures murales par John...

Lantern slide showing the mural, the Evolution of the Book, at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Te... More

[Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson in the Capitol crypt, Washington, D.C.]

[Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson in the Capitol...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Declaration of Independence, displayed in a dimly lit hall at the National Archives, reserved for the original Charters of Freedom. Washington, D.C.

The Declaration of Independence, displayed in a dimly lit hall at the ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Cave Hill Cemetery, Salve-Bullett Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Cave Hill Cemetery, Salve-Bullett Mausoleum, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louis...

Significance: This mausoleum is one of the four mausolea in Cave Hill Cemetery executed in the High Victorian Gothic style. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS... More

Glenn & Ida May Moore Rowhouse, 6126 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, CA

Glenn & Ida May Moore Rowhouse, 6126 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, ...

Significance: This building, commissioned by the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company as a small-scale pre-sold speculative housing in the midst of the commercial center of the town, is one of a group of four rowh... More

Frisco Charcoal Kilns, Kiln No. 3, State Route 21 (Frisco), Milford, Beaver County, UT

Frisco Charcoal Kilns, Kiln No. 3, State Route 21 (Frisco), Milford, B...

Survey number: HAER UT-25-B Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction

Lindenwold, Gatehouse, 701 Bethlehem Pike & Lindenwold Terrace, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Lindenwold, Gatehouse, 701 Bethlehem Pike & Lindenwold Terrace, Ambler...

Survey number: HABS PA-6050-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cistern Heads, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Cistern Heads, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Significance: A good example of eighteenth-century cut stonework and detailing. Survey number: HABS PR-102 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000930

St. Patrick's Church, Dodge & Norlin Streets, Sonora, Tuolumne County, CA

St. Patrick's Church, Dodge & Norlin Streets, Sonora, Tuolumne County,...

Survey number: HABS CA-189 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Robinson-Aiken Cow House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Robinson-Aiken Cow House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston ...

Significance: A rare example of its type with notable architectural character. Survey number: HABS SC-274 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Num... More

First Presbyterian Church, Marion & Lady Streets, Columbia, Richland County, SC

First Presbyterian Church, Marion & Lady Streets, Columbia, Richland C...

Significance: Well-preserved Gothic Revival church. A number of eminent people were among the congregation of this church including Ann Pamela Cunningham, organizer of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and Dr... More

Templo de Porta Coeli, San German, San German Municipio, PR

Templo de Porta Coeli, San German, San German Municipio, PR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS PR-45 Building/structure dates: ca. 1571 Initial Construction

Harry Buck House, North of Main Street (14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive), Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD

Harry Buck House, North of Main Street (14800 Governor Oden Bowie Driv...

Significance: Darnall's Chance was built between 1741 and 1742 by James Wardrop, a Scottish immigrant, who amassed a fortune as a merchant and entrepreneur in the bustling port-town of Upper Marlborough, Maryla... More

Fort Adams, Newport Neck, Newport, Newport County, RI

Fort Adams, Newport Neck, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: Fort Adams, one of principal coastal defenses along the Atlantic, was built between 1824 and 1857, replacing Revolutionary defenses. Situated on a point at the entrance to Newport harbor, it is t... More

Thomas Heyward, Jr. House, 87 Church Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Thomas Heyward, Jr. House, 87 Church Street, Charleston, Charleston Co...

Survey number: HABS SC-64 Building/structure dates: 1750 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000576

Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Church of St. James the Less, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphi...

Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church to be inspired by, and constructed under the... More

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Suggested address, Mission Road, not verifiable in documentation. Less common element keywords for complex include: conventos, canales, cimborios, grotoes, & sacroriums. Significance: Date of Erection, 1797. A... More

Parlange Plantation, New Roads vic., Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana

Parlange Plantation, New Roads vic., Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1750. Related name: Walter Parlange. Built by Marquis Vincent de Ternant. Brick molds and whip saws still in basement. All materials used prepa... More

Béni-Haçan - architecture hypogéenne - tombeau d'Amoneï / Félix Teynard.

Béni-Haçan - architecture hypogéenne - tombeau d'Amoneï / Félix Teynar...

View of the Tomb of Amenemhat showing rock-hewn columns at entrance, Beni-Hasan, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teyna... More

Silver spring, Silver Spring, Md

Silver spring, Silver Spring, Md

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Statue at the historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Statue at the historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This and an identical statue stand in alcoves on opposi... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

Lawson Water Tower, First Parish Road, Scituate, Plymouth County, MA

Lawson Water Tower, First Parish Road, Scituate, Plymouth County, MA

Significance: A unique architectural landmark, the Lawson Water Tower stands as a memorial to Thomas Lawson, the "Copper King" who is responsible for its construction. To avoid the view of an unadorned water t... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

Grace Episcopal Church, South Prospect Street, Galena, Jo Daviess County, IL

Grace Episcopal Church, South Prospect Street, Galena, Jo Daviess Coun...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50 Survey number: HABS IL-150 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1894 Subsequent Work

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New York County, NY

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New Y...

Significance: Designed by John H. Duncan, this monument to honor General Ulysses S. Grant, who had served his country as president, was constructed from 1891-1897. Funds for the building were raised through pub... More

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New York County, NY

Grant's Monument, Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street, New York, New Y...

Significance: Designed by John H. Duncan, this monument to honor General Ulysses S. Grant, who had served his country as president, was constructed from 1891-1897. Funds for the building were raised through pub... More

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