Albert Hill, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420007. District no. 27. Picture no. 345. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
Millie Williams, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420122. District no. 27. Picture no. 190. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Pauline Grice, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420041. District no. 27. Picture no. 420. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
John James, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420016. District no. 27. Picture no. 419. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
Willie Williams, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420121. District no. 27. Picture no. 221. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Belknap Street Viaduct, Spanning BNSF, SP & UP Railroads at Belknap St...
Significance: This example of an early 1930s concrete viaduct serves as a major gateway to Fort Worth and is an important work of Dallas bridge designer F.D. Hughes. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
William Homer, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420120. District no. 27. Picture no. 220. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Trinity River Bridge, Spanning Trinity River at East Belknap Street (U...
Significance: This structure, which exhibits several unique design elements, is one of only four known examples of a reinforced concrete cantilever span bridge constructed by the Texas Highway Department. Alon... More
James West, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420112. District no. 27. Picture no. 217. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
James Cape, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420106. District no. 27. Picture no. 176. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
James Jackson, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420092. District no. 27. Picture no. 189. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Main Street Viaduct, Spanning Trinity River at Main Street, Fort Worth...
Significance: The Main Street Viaduct was the first concrete arch bridge in the United States to employ self-supporting reinforcing steel. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N558 Surve... More
Main Street Viaduct, Spanning Trinity River at Main Street, Fort Worth...
Significance: The Main Street Viaduct was the first concrete arch bridge in the United States to employ self-supporting reinforcing steel. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N558 Surve... More
Main Street Viaduct, Spanning Trinity River at Main Street, Fort Worth...
Significance: The Main Street Viaduct was the first concrete arch bridge in the United States to employ self-supporting reinforcing steel. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N558 Surve... More
Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before ...
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Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft...
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Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of...
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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Ele...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated trans...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Helen Bray, who left sc...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S. Highway 80, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth. Roadside cafe
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Les Bowman, director of civilian pil...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
U.S. Highway 80, Texas, between Fort Worth and Dallas. Hatchery
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Returning from practice flight
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kittle, residence at 5402 Byna Ave., Fort Worth, T...
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kittle, residence at 5402 Byna Ave., Fort Worth, T...
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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
Ryan King, a drover, or cattle herder, in the Stockyards District of F...
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
The sculpture "Companion (Passing Through)," by the artist KAWS (Brian...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Widely referred to as "The Modern," the museum collects and displays post-World War II art in various media. The buildi... More
The Flagship Knoxville, a fully restored DC-3 aircraft at the American...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The location, officially in Fort Worth, Texas, is at the midpoint between the city centers of Dallas and Fort Worth. The museum has an... More
Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western St...
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
Kitchen area of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Built about 1848 on land east of Birdville in Tarrant County, the cabin ro... More
The Pickard Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum comple...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built about 1855 in the Spring Creek area of Parker County, Texas, this 1 1/2-story cabin was home to a previous family before it was ... More
Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, 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 Ph... More
Beer sign ("Jax Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stocky...
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[Funky metal sculpture outside the Ripley's Believe It Or Not location...
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
Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...
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
Sculptor Carol Loafman Thornton created this statue of Addison and Ran...
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Sculpture on the grounds of a house designed by acclaimed internationa...
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
T. D. Kelsey's bronze sculpture of a longhorn cattle drive, called "Te...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Cast in 900 sections, the sculpture was a gift to the city by the Kelsey and his wife, Sidni. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collec... More
In the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, 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 Ph... More
Paul O'Flaherty of Weatherford, Texas, is the "Blue Bell (ice cream) M...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a market, marketplace, city center, vendors, people gathering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Mary Couts Burnett Library buiding on the campus of Texas Christia...
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
Funky metal sculpture outside the Ripley's Believe It Or Not location ...
Public domain image of carnival, parade, celebration, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Beer sign ("Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas") inside Lil' R...
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
Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...
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
Wharton-Scott House, 1509 Pennsylvania Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant Cou...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Wharton-Scott House, 1509 Pennsylvania Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant Cou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Betty Powers, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420214. District no. 27. Picture no. 460. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
Belknap Street Viaduct, Spanning BNSF, SP & UP Railroads at Belknap St...
Significance: This example of an early 1930s concrete viaduct serves as a major gateway to Fort Worth and is an important work of Dallas bridge designer F.D. Hughes. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Pres. Roosevelt's visit, Fort Worth, Texas, Apr. 8 '05 / Photo by C.L....
Photograph showing crowd gathered outside Texas & Pacific Railroad Company building to hear Theodore Roosevelt speak. H59499 US Copyright Office
James Jackson, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420092. District no. 27. Picture no. 189. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Betty Bormer, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420102. District no. 27. Picture no. 186. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Lewis Fowler, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420051. District no. 27. Picture no. 351. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
View of an old, decorative stairway leading to the long-abandoned Swif...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A major branch of the nation's leading nineteenth-century meat-packing firm and one of the nation's Big Four meat-packers of the early... More
View of an old, decorative stairway leading to the long-abandoned Swif...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A major branch of the nation's leading nineteenth-century meat-packing firm and one of the nation's Big Four meat-packers of the early... More
Fort Worth Live Stock Show - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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At his post - A group of people standing around a train wreck
Photograph shows bystanders at the site of a train wreck on the Fort Worth & Denver line; an arrow indicates where the body of a crew man is located in the part of the train that's plunged into the ground. Copy... More
Itinerant worker. Fort Worth, Texas
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A C-87 transport plane, just off the assembly line, at the Consolidate...
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Working on the wing center section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corpor...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Half down the final line...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Lowering one of the four...
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Instructor explaining operation of parachute to student pilots. Meacha...
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U.S. Highway 80, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth. Trailer park
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. Highway 80, Texas, between Fort Worth and Dallas. Telephone linem...
Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing fittings and ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Abandoned gas station. Fort Worth-Dallas highway, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Mated sections of a cons...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Instructor explaining operation of parachute to students. Meacham Fiel...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S. Highway 80, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth. Roadside stand
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated trans...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Scene along U.S. 80. Fort Worth-Dallas highway. Texas
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roadside sign. West Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carol M. Highsmith - Cattle feedlot, Fort Worth, Texas
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
Champion Springs Service sign, Henderson Street, Fort Worth, Texas
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Auto; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America... More
A longhorn cow, awaiting a "roundup" (for tourists' benefit) in the St...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More
A longhorn cow, awaiting a "roundup" (for tourists' benefit) in the St...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More
A canine contributor to a parade of vehicles and cowpokes at the Stock...
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
Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longh...
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
Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old 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 Ph... More
The three semi-feral cats in the foreground have become one of the pop...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. They keep a respectful distance from most visitors but, cats being cats an... More
Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on hor...
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
Julie Crawford, who helps care for her father, Frank Smith, a World Wa...
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
Western-themed print inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyar...
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
View of a Texas Longhorn in his pen in the Stockyards district of Fort...
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
Corner window of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Built about 1848 on land east of Birdville in Tarrant County, the cabin ro... More
Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old 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 Ph... More
Beer sign ("Pearl Lager Beer") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in th...
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
Mural outside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Meents (?), '12. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More
Beer sign inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District...
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
View of the twice-daily herding of Texas Longhorns in the Stockyards D...
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
Jack Phillips, a nine-year-old fiddling prodigy, joins older performer...
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
Acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei designed this modernist hom...
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
Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, 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 Ph... More
View of a stagecoach and driver, carrying tourists up and down Exchang...
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
Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on hor...
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
Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on hor...
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