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

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

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

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art in the historic Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art i...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout Texas. This one stands just outside the university town of Alpine in southwest Texas

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... More

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

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

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

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Montgomery, Alabama

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

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

One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R Lamb Studios inside the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas

One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R La...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The windows were purchased by Frances Ann Lutcher and her two daughters at the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where t... More

One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R Lamb Studios inside the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas

One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R La...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The windows were purchased by Frances Ann Lutcher and her two daughters at the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where t... More

Murals in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

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

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

Sign outside the Stardust, one of a string of 1940s-vintage motels in downtown Redding, California

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

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

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

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

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

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of a 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

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

It's unclear who erected the "Haunted Hotel" sign outside this long-shuttered old building in downtown Beaumont, Texas. The prankster may also be responsible for hanging the building's original vertical sign sideways. The latter identifies the structure as the "new" Rosemont Hotel, where rooms could be had for $1 and up. It was indeed new in 1893, when Beaumont was booming

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

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

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

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

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Window at Tupelo Hardware in Tupelo, Mississippi, home of singing legend Elvis Presley

Window at Tupelo Hardware in Tupelo, Mississippi, home of singing lege...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Presley's mother, Gladys, bought the young man his first... More

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

[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut

[Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven], Connecticut

Date provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Geo... More

Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas

Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Barn, Route 66, near Staunton, Illinois

Barn, Route 66, near Staunton, Illinois

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

"The Tin Family," Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota

"The Tin Family," Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota

The Tin Family is part of the Enchanted Highway project. The idea of an Enchanted Highway originated in July 1993. The project features metal art works. It utilizes the welding skills of area residents and thei... More

Storm in the mountains, Hawaii - Drawing. Public domain image.

Storm in the mountains, Hawaii - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date based on date of other Hawaii images in same group. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... More

Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii - Drawing. Public domain image.

Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii

Aerial view of Honolulu, Hawaii

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

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 milessouthwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60-acre es... More

Annual balloon festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Annual balloon festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a yearly balloon fiesta that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA during early October. The balloon fiesta is a nine day event, and has around 750 balloons... More

Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Salt Lake City Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in Salt Lake City, Utah. Located at 210 East 400 South across from the Salt Lake City and County Building a... More

Union Station statue, Ceres, Washington, D.C.

Union Station statue, Ceres, Washington, D.C.

Ceres, which stands for the goddess of agriculture, is one of six 25-ton solid granite statues that are on the arcade on the front façade. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ca... More

Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its upper reaches are almost three vertical miles (4.8 km) below the summit of Mount McKinley. Title, date, and subjec... More

Mt. Foraker, Mt. Hunter, Mt. McKinley mountains (in order fom left to right), Denali National Park, Alaska

Mt. Foraker, Mt. Hunter, Mt. McKinley mountains (in order fom left to ...

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National P... More

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona

The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More

Mural, Juneau, Alaska - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mural, Juneau, Alaska - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Bell Rock Formation, Sedona, Arizona

Bell Rock Formation, Sedona, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Denali's (Mt. McKinley's) north summit from the east, Muldrow Glacier in the foreground, Alaska

Denali's (Mt. McKinley's) north summit from the east, Muldrow Glacier ...

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National P... More

Slot canyons, Page, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Slot canyons, Page, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Gently carved from the Navajo sandstone over the course of countless millenniums, the slot canyons are majestic and narrow passages, just enough space for... More

Architectural detail, Iowa Apartments, 13th Street and Logan Circle near downtown, Washington, D.C.

Architectural detail, Iowa Apartments, 13th Street and Logan Circle ne...

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

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Located just off Interstate 90 in the South Dakota Drift Prairie, about 25 miles west of Sioux Falls. Many of the sculptures, in the style of industrial art, were made with scrap metal, old farm equipment, or r... More

Church of the Holy Cross, Sedona, Arizona

Church of the Holy Cross, Sedona, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Pops Restaurant and Gift shop, Route 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Restaurant and Gift shop, Route 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Architect Rand Elliott designed this brand new Route 66 landmark. It opened in 2007. The Pop Bottle outside stands 66 feet high and changes color at night. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer... More

Mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California

Mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California

Balmy Alley is located in the Mission District in San Francisco, California. The block long alley is the best place to see the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco. The murals began in the mi... More

The "woofus" at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas, Texas

The "woofus" at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Expositio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The creature above is a re-creation of the "Texas Woofus," a whimsical figure from the exposition. The woofus combines Texas longhorns... More

Row houses, Florida Ave. and Q St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Row houses, Florida Ave. and Q St., 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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... More

Historic buidling in Fort Davis, Alabama

Historic buidling in Fort Davis, 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

Artist Nall poses with his art, Fairhope, Alabama

Artist Nall poses with his art, Fairhope, Alabama

A Southern artist with an international following, Nall has a unique style that has captivated the attention of the world. The gifted artist grew up in Troy, Alabama and began drawing, arts, and crafts at his f... More

Building detail on the 700 block of 6th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Building detail on the 700 block of 6th St., 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

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"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

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoy...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Historic buildings in Elkmont, Alabama

Historic buildings in Elkmont, 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

[Cows, Monroe County, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Cows, Monroe County, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by Library staff based on captions of items in same group. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

Building detail with clock, City Hall, St. Louis, Missouri

Building detail with clock, City Hall, St. Louis, Missouri

Construction began on July 19, 1890 and was completed on November 5, 1904. No bonds were issued to finance its construction, which is why it took 14 years to complete the building. The budget was limited at $2 ... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

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

Testing platform, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama

Testing platform, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama

Known as a sportsman's paradise, Redstone Arsenal is located in the heart of the Tennessee Valley in northern Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"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

Stones from each state are featured on the Alabama Capitol grounds, Montgomery, Alabama

Stones from each state are featured on the Alabama Capitol grounds, Mo...

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

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, on the border of Conecuh County

Burnt Corn, or Burnt Corn Spring, is a small unincorporated community ...

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 Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

Bas relief architectural detail on building, Lincoln, Nebraska

Bas relief architectural detail on building, Lincoln, Nebraska

The building was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and constructed between 1922 and 1932. The Indiana limestone structure draws on both Classical and Gothic architectural traditions, but represents major in... More

Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

In 1807 a burial ground for citizens in the east end of the new federal city was founded. In the first five years, 13 members of Congress, two vice presidents, and numerous military and government officials wer... More

Sheep at Brookgreen Gardens, a vast complex of sculpture gardens, ecosystem trails, a wildlife preserve and a small zoo on four former rice plantations in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Sheep at Brookgreen Gardens, a vast complex of sculpture gardens, ecos...

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

Cemetery located in Africatown, Mobile County, Alabama

Cemetery located in Africatown, Mobile County, Alabama

Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Africa Town, is a community in Mobile County, Alabama, located three miles (5 km) north of the city of Mobile. It was formed by West Africans who were among the last... More

Cemetery at Confederate Memorial Park, Marbury, Alabama

Cemetery at Confederate Memorial Park, Marbury, 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

In 1937, after fire destroyed two previous El Paso locations of the S.H. Kress 5-and-10-cent store chain, the store location was moved to the corner of Mills and Oregon Streets in El Paso, Texas

In 1937, after fire destroyed two previous El Paso locations of the S....

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

These commercial buildings reflect the heyday of downtown Cherokee, Alabama

These commercial buildings reflect the heyday of downtown Cherokee, Al...

The main building in the foreground is believed to date from around 1900. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photogr... More

Car wash, Georgia Ave. near corner with Newton Pl., NW, Washington, D.C.

Car wash, Georgia Ave. near corner with Newton Pl., NW, Washington, D....

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

Rural Studio architecture, Alabama

Rural Studio architecture, Alabama

The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreographed dance team that first formed in 1940

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Kilgore College Rangerettes perform not only at football and other sports events at the small college in East Texas, but also at ... More

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama

This house, an American architectural treasure, was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state o... More

Veterans Memorial in Florence, Alabama

Veterans Memorial in Florence, 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

Gates to Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama

Gates to Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama

Barton Academy was built 1835-36. It was the first public school in Alabama. It served as a hospital for Union Soldiers in 1864. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

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

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, formerly the Central Public Library, 801 K St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, ...

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

Architectural details on entrance way to apartment building, Connecticut Ave. near intersection with Sedgwick St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Governor's Mansion, Montgomery, Alabama

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

Historic downtown Monroeville, Alabama

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

Exhibit at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

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

Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama

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

Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama

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 Pension Building, view from Police Memorial, NW, Washington, D.C.

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

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

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.

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

The Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas

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.

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, Connecticut Ave. near intersection with Sedgwick St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Neon sign for Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

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 Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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 wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

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

Delta waterway in Mobile, Alabama

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

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