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Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...

Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...

Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... 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

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

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

Tiffany stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Ala...

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

Painting "Science" in west atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Painting "Science" in west atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pe...

Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputedly one-armed) fisherman on the acade of the Champion Building, Port Isabel, Texas

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More

East courtroom mural in Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

East courtroom mural in Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Ind...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More

West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More

Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Fra...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More

Mural on the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

Mural on the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

Mural: Ghosts of Pantages Dedication, 1930. Created July-September 2000 by James Hamblin, Jim Piper, and Matthew Witmer. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace ... More

Interior grill detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Albany, New York

Interior grill detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...

Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey

Exterior detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey

Architect: James A. Wetmore, 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

Oil painting "Progress of Industry" located in entrance lobby of Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Trenton, New Jersey

Oil painting "Progress of Industry" located in entrance lobby of Clark...

Artist: Charles Ward, 1934. Dimensions: 7' x 12'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

Mural: "Education," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: "Education," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interi...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Murals "Louisville Murals - Fox Hunting," by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky

Murals "Louisville Murals - Fox Hunting," by Frank Weathers Long at th...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 4" x 10' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising the Texas and Pacific Railroad's passenger service to Saint Louis in what at the time was apparently the expeditious time of 23 hours

A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was a featured route for that railroad as early as 1872, though this advertisement probably dates to the 1930s or 1940s, when pa... More

What's left of an old jalopy in Weaverville, a popular tourist destination in the Whiskeytown-Shasta National Recreation Area, northwest of Redding, California

What's left of an old jalopy in Weaverville, a popular tourist destina...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sculpture "The Law" at Robert C. Nix Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sculpture "The Law" at Robert C. Nix Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia,...

Artist: Donald DeLue, 1941. Marble, dimensions: 9' x 16 'x 10'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...

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

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...

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 carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo Ciampaglia, one of dozens at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo...

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

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved 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 P... More

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

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

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

Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, Massachusetts

Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...

Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More

Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jacksonville, Florida

Art "Evolution of Government" located at the Federal Building, Jackson...

Artist: Albert Vrana, 1966. Dimensions: 16' x 550' x 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More

Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealon Federal Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealo...

Artist: Paul Housberg, 1999. Glass blocks. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M. Shaw U.S. Courthouse, Lafayette, Louisiana

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M...

Artist: Diana Moore, 1999. Cast concrete, dimensions: 5' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Oil painting "China Pattern" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Oil painting "China Pattern" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, ...

Artist: Deborah Oropallo, 1999. Dimensions: 9 feet x 76 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...

Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...

Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "On This Spot Stood the 1st Chinese Settlement in Sacramento"...

Artist: Tony Berlant, 1999; mixed materials, measuring 80 x 80 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ph... More

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton Jenna Morgenstein, Rich Perkins, Tory Michener and J.T. Schmidt, 1999. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thom...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M. Shaw U.S. Courthouse, Lafayette, Louisiana

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M...

Artist: Diana Moore, 1999. Cast concrete, dimensions: 5' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Water fountain, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey

Water fountain, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey

Architect: James A. Wetmore, 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

Courtroom at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wilmington, North Carolina

Courtroom at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wi...

Built in 1919 by architect James A. Wetmore. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More

Statue, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Statue, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More

Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building

Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building

Built in 1933 and located on the State line between Texas and Arkansas. It is a courthouse for both states. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keyword... More

Exterior detail, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Postal window detail, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York

Postal window detail, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New Yo...

Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More

Oil painting "International Signal Code" located on first floor rotunda ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "International Signal Code" located on first floor rotund...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Exterior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Sculpture "Seafaring Nations, Belgium" on façade, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Sculpture "Seafaring Nations, Belgium" on façade, Alexander Hamilton U...

Artist: Albert Jaegers, 1907. Marble, measuring 11' x 7' x ? Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

Light fixture at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Light fixture at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, Londo...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More

Exterior, oblique view, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg, New York

Exterior, oblique view, Robert C. McEwen U.S. Custom House, Ogdensburg...

Built between 1909-1910. Master Carpenter: Daniel W. Church. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...

Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1909; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Lobby postal detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jersey

Lobby postal detail, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Camden, New Jers...

Architect: James A. Wetmore, 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

Courtroom detail, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York

Courtroom detail, Alexander Pirnie Federal Building, Utica, New York

Built in 1929 by architect James A. Wetmore. Its simple classicisized detailing sets it apart from the many Victorican buildings in downtown Utica. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More

Courtroom one marble, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Courtroom one marble, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building...

Building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century federal buildings. Steel-framed structure clad in white Sierra granite. Architect: James Knox Tayl... More

Front facade, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Front facade, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Column detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Column detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Lobby detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

Lobby detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode ...

Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Grille. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Grille. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Oh...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More

Exterior details. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in Greensboro, North Carolina

Exterior details. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court ...

Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Da...

Built in 1931 by architect James A. Wetmore. Originally designed as a U.S. Post Office on the main floor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject ... More

Architectural detail at The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, South Bend, Indiana

Architectural detail at The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Co...

Built in 1933 by architectural firm Austin & Shambleau, the building served its original purpose for fifty years. In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service moved from the building into a new facility. Photographed as pa... More

Lobby, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, Connecticut

Lobby, William R. Cotter Federal Building, Hartford, Connecticut

Architect: Adams & Malfeldt & Prentice. Built in 1933. Stripped Classical/Art Deco style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1909; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, K...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More

Lobby, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Lobby, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Lobby, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio

Lobby, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Four story building designed in the Beaux Art Classicism style of architecture and clad in buff-colored limestone veneer. Built 1929-1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for ... More

Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland

Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Jo...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Exterior detail, metalwork "The Mail Plane," U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Exterior detail, metalwork "The Mail Plane," U.S. Post Office and Cour...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by architect Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh, North Carolina

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...

Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahom...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts

John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...

Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 185...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1854, it was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook and has been the home of every Texas governor since 1856. Credit lin... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More

Exterior detail at the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Exterior detail at the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Built in 1930 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Sculpture "Africa" at main entrance to Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Sculpture "Africa" at main entrance to Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom ...

Artist: Daniel Chester French, 1907. Marble, measuring 10' x 4" high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the pho... More

New and old federal buildings, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

New and old federal buildings, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals...

Building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century federal buildings. Steel-framed structure clad in white Sierra granite. Architect: James Knox Tayl... More

WPA mural. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

WPA mural. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gra...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Painting "Seal of the State of Pennsylvania" located on first floor, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Painting "Seal of the State of Pennsylvania" located on first floor, F...

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 35" x 75". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograp... More

Interior window detail, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Interior window detail, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1911. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Lobby eagle detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Lobby eagle detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Interior. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Located in the central business district, it was built by Reuben Harrison Hunt in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information p... More

Fresco painting "Coast Guard Cutter Calumet Meeting the SS Washington," "Explorer Verrazano," and "Explorer Columbus" located in rotunda of Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Fresco painting "Coast Guard Cutter Calumet Meeting the SS Washington,...

Artist: Reginald Marsh, 1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1944 by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Credi... More

Exterior from rooftop, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Exterior from rooftop, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More

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