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Ferris wheel in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. The park hosts the annual Texas State Fair at which the big wheel is a top attraction

Ferris wheel in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

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

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

Ferris Wheel at the California State Fair in Scaramento, California

Ferris Wheel at the California State Fair in Scaramento, 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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Carnival rides and games, including a Ferris wheel, in Phoenix at the annual Arizona State Fair, which has been held since 1884, eighteen years before statehood, when it was a territorial fair

Carnival rides and games, including a Ferris wheel, in Phoenix at the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The "Texas Star," the Ferris wheel at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, Texas.  As of the date of this photograph in 2012, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in North America

The "Texas Star," the Ferris wheel at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Texas Star has an overall height of 212 feet and can carry up to 264 passengers in its 44 gondolas. It was built by... More

Rides, including a glittering Ferris Wheel, at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado

Rides, including a glittering Ferris Wheel, at the Colorado State Fair...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Carnival scene at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Carnival scene at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo...

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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Ferris wheel at Pavilion Park within the Broadway at the Beach amusement area in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Ferris wheel at Pavilion Park within the Broadway at the Beach amuseme...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Colorful Ferris wheel at dusk at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Colorful Ferris wheel at dusk at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

One of many vehicles of several vintages passes by in Florence, Oregon's, Rhododendron Floral Parade, part of the annual festival named for the colorful flowers that grow in profusion in the area. The parade showcases local talent and color more than the blossoms

One of many vehicles of several vintages passes by in Florence, Oregon...

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Ferris Wheel at dusk at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris Wheel at dusk at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacrame...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ferris wheel, luna park, attractions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Colorful Ferris wheel at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Colorful Ferris wheel at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skyline, with a focus on the Great Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With an overall height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast when it opened in 2012. Purchase; Carol M. Highs... More

Texas Star, the 212-foot Ferris wheel that supplies a bird's-eye view of the State Fair of Texas each fall at Dallas's Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition

Texas Star, the 212-foot Ferris wheel that supplies a bird's-eye view ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Ferris wheel is the largest in North America (as of 2014). Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. ... More

Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, with the largest Ferris Wheel in the Southeast

Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, with the largest Ferris Wheel in the S...

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

Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, with the largest Ferris Wheel in the Southeast

Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, with the largest Ferris Wheel in the S...

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

Ferris wheel at Irvine Spectrum Center, a shopping center located in Orange County, California

Ferris wheel at Irvine Spectrum Center, a shopping center located in O...

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

[Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas]

[Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San An...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ferris wheel, luna park, attractions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States as a frequent destination for vacationers in that area

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is ...

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

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Casino Pier Amusement Park along the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Casino Pier Amusement Park along the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skyline, with a focus on the ferry terminal in which many of the area's dozens of passenger and auto ferries come and go each weekday, in particular

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

A Ferris wheel; a giant vertical revolving wheel with passenger cars suspended on its framework; at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

A Ferris wheel; a giant vertical revolving wheel with passenger cars s...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbi... More

Amusement park rides at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, California

Amusement park rides at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, California

Chartered in 1866 and located on the northern edge of the Monterey Bay, about 72 mi south of San Francisco. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of... More

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States as a frequent destination for vacationers in that area

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is ...

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

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

"The Capital Wheel", a ferris wheel at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland

"The Capital Wheel", a ferris wheel at the National Harbor in Oxon Hil...

National Harbor is a development just south of Washington, D.C. near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. It originated as a 300-acre multi-use waterfront development. Title, date and keywords based on information provid... More

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

[Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas]

[Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San An...

Title from related image: LC-DIG-highsm-27212. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The... More

The Myrtle Beach SkyWheel, a Ferris wheel captured at dusk in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

The Myrtle Beach SkyWheel, a Ferris wheel captured at dusk in Myrtle B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States as a frequent destination for vacationers in that area

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is ...

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

The Steel Pier on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The Steel Pier on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

The Steel Pier on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The Steel Pier on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Ferris wheels, giant vertical revolving wheels with passenger cars suspended on their framework, at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Ferris wheels, giant vertical revolving wheels with passenger cars sus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbi... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Sun goes down, fun goes up at the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Sun goes down, fun goes up at the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC... More

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States as a frequent destination for vacationers in that area

The Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Maryland and is ...

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Dusk shot of Houston, taken from the Downtown Aquarium. The spinning wheel at the right is the aquarium's Ferris wheel

Dusk shot of Houston, taken from the Downtown Aquarium. The spinning w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ferris wheel, luna park, attractions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Skyview Atlanta, a Centennial Park Ferris Wheel in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

Skyview Atlanta, a Centennial Park Ferris Wheel in Atlanta, the capita...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

"The Capital Wheel," a ferris wheel at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland

"The Capital Wheel," a ferris wheel at the National Harbor in Oxon Hil...

National Harbor is a development just south of Washington, D.C. near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. It originated as a 300-acre multi-use waterfront development. Title, date and keywords based on information provid... More

Gillian's Wonderland Pier, a historic amusement park founded in 1929 by David Gillian on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey

Gillian's Wonderland Pier, a historic amusement park founded in 1929 b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Ferris wheel at the Family Kingdom amusement park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Ferris wheel at the Family Kingdom amusement park in Myrtle Beach, Sou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Dusk settles over a small fair in Laramie, Wyoming

Dusk settles over a small fair in Laramie, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Colorful Ferris wheel at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Colorful Ferris wheel at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skyline, with a focus on the ferry terminal in which many of the area's dozens of passenger and auto ferries come and go each weekday, in particular

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris Wheel at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey shore in Ocean City, New Jersey

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey sho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

The Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Coney Island boardwalk in New York City's Brooklyn borough

The Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Coney Island bo...

The area's peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and historic amusement park on Long Island Sound was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort... More

Entrance to the Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Coney Island boardwalk in New York City's Brooklyn borough

Entrance to the Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Con...

The area's peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and historic amusement park on Long Island Sound was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort... More

Ferris wheels at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris wheels at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

Seattle, Washington's, "Great Wheel," a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57

Seattle, Washington's, "Great Wheel," a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With a height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast of the United States when it opened on June 29, 2012. Pur... More

Entrance to the Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Coney Island boardwalk in New York City's Brooklyn borough

Entrance to the Wonder Wheel, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel on the Con...

The area's peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and historic amusement park on Long Island Sound was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey shore in Ocean City, New Jersey. Gillian's is a historic amusement park founded in 1929 and is mostly famous for its 144-foot Giant Wheel, one of the largest Ferris wheels on the east coast

Beaches, boardwalk and Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the New Jersey sho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Ferris Wheel at sunset at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Ferris Wheel at sunset at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacra...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skyline, with a focus on the Great Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With an overall height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast when it opened in 2012. Purchase; Carol M. Highs... More

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skyline, with a focus on the Great Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay

Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With an overall height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast when it opened in 2012. Purchase; Carol M. Highs... More

Ferris wheel at the Palace Playland, an amusement park in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. It is (as of 2017)the only beachfront amusement park in New England

Ferris wheel at the Palace Playland, an amusement park in Old Orchard ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and rodeo in San Ant...

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

Casino Pier Amusement Park along the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Casino Pier Amusement Park along the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Ferris wheel at Pavilion Park within the Broadway at the Beach amusement area in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Ferris wheel at Pavilion Park within the Broadway at the Beach amuseme...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey

Morey's Piers, an amusement park on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jer...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More