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Fitzsimons General Hospital, N.C.O. Quarters, Southeast Corner of East Harlow Avenue & South Page Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, N.C.O. Quarters, Southeast Corner of East...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-CI Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Fire escapes on brownstone, New York, New York

Fire escapes on brownstone, New York, New York

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

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Keep your fire escapes clear - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Keep your fire escapes clear - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of C...

Poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York advising that tenement house residents keep their fire escapes free of obstructions. Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Poster design attributed... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

A classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes, in the Harlem neighborhood of the city's Manhattan borough

A classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton C...

Significance: The four-story commercial/residential structure is located at the corner of Central Avenue and John Street. It is part of a cohesive cluster of other commercial/residential structures which are re... More

One of the automatic fire escapes on the roof of the White House

One of the automatic fire escapes on the roof of the White House

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton C...

Significance: The four-story commercial/residential structure is located at the corner of Central Avenue and John Street. It is part of a cohesive cluster of other commercial/residential structures which are re... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West McAfee & North Hickey Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-BI Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West McAfee & North Hickey Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-BI Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

The fire-escape was absolutely empty

The fire-escape was absolutely empty

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Strange Boarder" by Will Payne, Saturday evening post, 187:20 (March 6, 1915).

Fitzsimons General Hospital, N.C.O. Quarters, Southeast Corner of East Harlow Avenue & South Page Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, N.C.O. Quarters, Southeast Corner of East...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-CI Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West McAfee & North Hickey Street, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Tubercular Ward, Southwest Corner of West...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-BI Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

At first glance, the rusted-out staircase leading from the front porch of this old, abandoned building in Jefferson, Georgia, would seem to lead nowhere, to a five-foot dropoff or so, but upon closer examination, it connected the fire escape to the ground

At first glance, the rusted-out staircase leading from the front porch...

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

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

1521-1523 Central Avenue (Commercial Building), Cincinnati, Hamilton C...

Significance: The four-story commercial/residential structure is located at the corner of Central Avenue and John Street. It is part of a cohesive cluster of other commercial/residential structures which are re... More

A machine for delivering persons from burning houses / R. Aitken sculp.

A machine for delivering persons from burning houses / R. Aitken sculp...

Print shows two men manipulating a large wooden device with pulleys and a large basket attached for the rescue of persons from burning buildings. Title from related article in The Pennsylvania Magazine. For the... More

Will F. Phillips' complicated farcical extravaganza, A bell boy

Will F. Phillips' complicated farcical extravaganza, A bell boy

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fitzsimons General Hospital, W.A.C. Barracks, North Hickey Street, North of Building No. 131, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, W.A.C. Barracks, North Hickey Street, Nor...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-R Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Fire escapes on apartment buildings in Soho, New York, New York

Fire escapes on apartment buildings in Soho, New York, New York

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

Storefronts occupy the ground floor of a classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes, in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan borough, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in the sprawling city

Storefronts occupy the ground floor of a classic New York City apartme...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, W.A.C. Barracks, North Hickey Street, North of Building No. 131, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, W.A.C. Barracks, North Hickey Street, Nor...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-R Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no co... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Picturesque New York twelve photogravures from monotypes by C.F.W Mielatz. No. 6, Rose Street Mielatz 1904

Picturesque New York twelve photogravures from monotypes by C.F.W Miel...

Print shows a street view of Rose Street in New York City, N.Y., showing cobblestone street, sidewalks, pedestrians, fire escapes, and the elevated railroad in the background. Signed and dated on plate. Paper ... More

An expressive mural that incorporates an old building's fire escapes in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains roughly midway between Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina

An expressive mural that incorporates an old building's fire escapes i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highs... More

Storefronts occupy the ground floor of a classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes, in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan borough, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in the sprawling city

Storefronts occupy the ground floor of a classic New York City apartme...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at Nimitz Gate, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Guard Barracks, North Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Unidentified man and girl standing in front of a dwelling with a fire escape

Unidentified man and girl standing in front of a dwelling with a fire ...

Text on back of print illegible. Partially reads: [...] fire scape [...] top?, floor Mrs. [...]. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

The most striking feature of this building in New York City's Bowery neighborhood is its fire escape. Rachael Sage walks along the sidewalk

The most striking feature of this building in New York City's Bowery n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1007 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Constructed in 1895 by builder H. Mueller at a cost of $5500 (D.C. Building Permit No. 8, July 2, 1895), 1007 E Street is an excellent example of builder-designed architecture in Washington in the... More

Keep your fire escapes clear - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Keep your fire escapes clear - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of C...

Poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York advising that tenement house residents keep their fire escapes free of obstructions. Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Poster design attributed... More