Governor's Mansion, Montgomery, Alabama
This gracious, 102-year-old home possesses a rich history that makes it one of Alabama's most unique landmarks. The current mansion is Alabama's second. Alabama first acquired a residence for its governors in 1... More
Geckos are prevelent throughout Monroe County, Alabama during the hot ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Previously identified as a gecko; correct information provided by D. Owens (Source: www.outdooralabama.com/northern-gre... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
Historic downtown Monroeville, Alabama
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
Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and ...
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
Highland Oaks Golf Course, Dothan, Alabama
Highland Oaks Golf Course is part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photograp... More
Site of a change station of the Pioneer Stage Company in the 1850s and...
During 1860-1861, the Central Overland Pony Express maintained here the first pony remount station east of Sportsman's Hall. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 705 Title, date, and keywords provided ... More
Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.
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Exhibit at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama
The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... More
Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...
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
Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro's right-hand man and confident during ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More
Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama
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
Highlands United Methodist Church, Five Points South, Birmingham, Alab...
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
Hay bale art in a field of hay near Forkland, Alabama
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
Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama
Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090). ... More
The old Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1916 by H. L. Mobley, it was sold three years later to Conrad Hilton, then a 32-year-old New Mexico banker. That night, Hilto... More
The Pension Building, view from Police Memorial, NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Tannehill Ironworks, McCalla, Alabama
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
Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel Ca...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Destroyed ... More
Historic buildings in Camden, Alabama
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
Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
The distressed Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Delayed and over budget, the Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas opened on March 31, 1930. The opening was the first event in what t... More
McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.
The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More
[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. View of mural between...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
The Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Gonzales "come and take it" cannon was a Spanish-made, bronze artillery piece of six-pound caliber. The gun was the object of con... More
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The University charter of March 2, 1867, designated Howard University as "a University for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences." The Freedmen's Bureau provided most of the early financial su... More
Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connectic...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More
Statue of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, Mobile, Alabama
Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous c... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
Pierce Arrow detail, Pioneer Auto Show, 1931. Murdo, South Dakota
Car was made in Buffalo, New York and cost $3,900 new. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More
Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...
Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More
Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, Califo...
Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords b... More
A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...
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
Part of a front door of Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...
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Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama
The first thing you notice about Cathedral Caverns is the massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. Inside the cavern, is Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River and some of the most be... More
Historic District Medical Arts Building built in 1826, Florence, Alaba...
Built in the Spanish Revival architectural style, this was the first structure in Florence erected with a steel skeleton supporting the floors, walls and roof. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
[House Members Room. Light of Poetry (red) panel in the Spectrum of Li...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Life-size bronze statue of an English pointer, Union Springs, Alabama
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[Mural], Decatur, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Librar... More
Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama
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Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More
Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Moved from its original lot, it now sits abandoned in an empty lot. The Drish House ca. 1825-32 was built by Mr. John Drish. It is brick and stucco built with slave labor. It was originally a plantation house a... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Delta waterway in Mobile, Alabama
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
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Man on ladder, working on a building, H St. near intersection with 12t...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama
Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More
Gate detail, Richards DAR Museum House, Mobile, Alabama
The Richards DAR Museum House, a town house of the Italianate style, tells the story of Mobile during its antebellum period. Steamboat Captain Charles G. Richards and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Steele, built ... More
To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the hi...
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
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
Laura Gardin Fraser's 1954 "Pegasus" statue at Brookgreen Gardens, a v...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brookgreen, which opened in 1932, was founded by Archer Milton Huntington, stepson of railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington, and h... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed before the turn of the century, it was purchased by the City of Monterey in 1913 and has been reconstructed several times. Orginally used to h... More
Gee's Bend, Alabama - A group of women working on a quilt
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Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...
The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More
Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 16th St. near intersection...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Classroom exhibit, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alab...
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More
The Palm Springs Art Museum, formerly the Palm Springs Desert Museum, ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Founded in 1938, the museum is a regional art, natural science and performing arts institution for the city and the Coachella Valley. This building, the m... More
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
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
The Christian Heurich House Museum, also known as The Brewmaster' Cast...
Built in 1892-1894 of poured concrete and reinforced steel by German immigrant, local brewer and philanthropist, Christian Heurich. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
[Detail of Spanish Colonial History mural by Daniel Sayre Groesbeck at...
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse was designed by William Mooser, III, built in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, and completed in 1929. Title information from Santa Barbara Courthouse website, 2013. Title, d... More
Row houses on Lamont St. near 6th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
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Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama
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
Skyline view of Mobile from the 24th floor of the Renaissance Hotel on...
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
Sonoma Mission, Sonoma, California
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
Statue of the legendary American botanist and inventor outside the Geo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More
Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama
The Civil Rights Memorial Center honors the memory and achievements of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama
The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... More
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More
Ships cruise the harbor at the Mobile, Alabama port
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
Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alab...
Started in 1958 by Jim Adams, J. Ernest Lambert, W.O. Crawford, E. Ham Wilson, Aubrey H. Fleming, C. Ed Teague, Edward Wadsworth and W.H. Gregory, The Southeastern Livestock Exposition was formed to promote the... More
Alabama Motel in rural Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
The Western Asset Company's "A World United" float in the 124th Rose P...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Calif...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. Credit line: The Jo... More
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama
Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tit... More
Skyline of Birmingham, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama
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Downtown Montgomery, Alabama
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Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's ol...
First known as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insane Hospital, the building is considered an architectural model. The facility was planned from the start to utilize the "mora... More
View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
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Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Skyline view of Mobile, Alabama
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
Ceiling view of the Battle House lobby located in Mobile, Alabama
The Battle House Hotel, now known as the The Battle House, A Renaissance Hotel, is a historic hotel building in Mobile, Alabama. The current building was built in 1908 and is the second hotel to stand in this l... More
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More
Overhead view of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known loc...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of red sandstone rusticated marble accents, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by ar... More
Saguaro cactus at the White Stallion Ranch, a dude ranch on the outski...
The ranch was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-raising operation (with 30,000 birds) and gradually converted into a guest ranch w... More
Alice and Steven True pause between two saguaro cacti on a ride at the...
The ranch, which sometimes uses the slogan, "Where the pavement ends and the West begins," was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-r... More
The old, abandoned Lyric Theatre in Waycross, Georgia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lyric was opened around 1923. It appears to be the work of Valdosta architect Lloyd Greer, although this is not documented. The Ly... More
Mural at Amargos Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More
McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.
The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More
Door at the historic E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse which hou...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1949-1950, the building is an example of early 195... More
This unusual statue salutes a most unusal local booster group that has...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More