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Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 36". 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

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

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... 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

A colorful illustration on a building in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

A colorful illustration on a building in the Stockyards District of Fo...

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

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 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

Sculpture "A rural free delivery mail carrier," by Gaetano Cecere at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "A rural free delivery mail carrier," by Gaetano Cecere at t...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 2' 1" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograp... More

Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Oil painting "An Arrest" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "An Arrest" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Depa...

Artist: Louis Bouche, 1937. Dimensions: 11' x 2' 8" approx. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... 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 1940s-vintage quonset building at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

A 1940s-vintage quonset building at the Porter Farm, also known as Wal...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The farm was the site of the first cooperative farm demonstration, organized by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture... 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

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

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

An old farm truck and a vintage school bus at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

An old farm truck and a vintage school bus at Heritage Farm Museum and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More

Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former home, stands high above the Kennedy family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former home, stands high above the Ke...

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

Slatted wooden structure at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Slatted wooden structure at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Vi...

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

Army General Omar Bradley's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Army General Omar Bradley's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, ...

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

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. Both Paris of Texas and Paris of Tennessee dedicated their Eiffel Tower replicas i... 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

Carol M. Highsmith - Hampden Branch Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Carol M. Highsmith - Hampden Branch Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Opened to the public on July 2, 1900 as the seventh branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Robert Poole, a resident of Hampden, provided the funds for construction and the initial book collection. The architec... 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

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

Historic courthouse front door, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wheeling, West Virginia

Historic courthouse front door, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More

The Kunst House, built in 1900 in what is now the Julia-Ann Historic District of Parkersburg, West Virginia

The Kunst House, built in 1900 in what is now the Julia-Ann Historic D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The designer of the house, William Howe Patton, placed a full-page ad illustrating this house, which was occupied, in part, by a denti... 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

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

Escalator at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Escalator at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... 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

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

This beautiful room, once used when congress was in session, now sits empty and unused. The Havana Capitol was built from April 1, 1926-1929; the building cost 17 million pesos and is bigger than the U.S. Capit... 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

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... 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

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

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

[Great Hall. Bust of Thomas Jefferson. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. Bust of Thomas Jefferson. Library of Congress Thomas Jeff...

Exhibit caption: "The plaster bust of Thomas Jefferson is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)." (Source: MyLOC.gov Great Hall exhibit, 2008) Forms part of the Library of Con... More

C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1912; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

The Virgil Highland House in Clarksburg, West Virginia's Quality Hill neighborhood, was completed in 1904

The Virgil Highland House in Clarksburg, West Virginia's Quality Hill ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Dillon room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C.

Dillon room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the Whi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More

A block of Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the foreground is the Victorina-style Eckhart House, built in 1892 by banker George W. Eckhart, Jr.

A block of Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the foreground i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... 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

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

[House Members Room. Light of State (violet) panel in the Spectrum of Light ceiling mural by Carl Gutherz that represents civilization. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[House Members Room. Light of State (violet) panel in the Spectrum of ...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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

Courtyard at the Hotel Mercure Sevilla located in Old Havana, Cuba

Courtyard at the Hotel Mercure Sevilla located in Old Havana, Cuba

One of Havana's oldest hotels built in the 1908 and had ties to the Italian-American mafia. Al Capone stayed at the Sevilla. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Th... 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

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

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

Sign above the entrance to the 1906 Frederick Building, once the old Hotel Frederick, in downtown Huntington, West Virginia

Sign above the entrance to the 1906 Frederick Building, once the old H...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Fresco painting "Society Freed Through Justice," fifth floor stairway, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Fresco painting "Society Freed Through Justice," fifth floor stairway,...

Artist: George Biddle, 1936. Dimensions: 13' 6" x 43' 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... 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

Two sculptures "Spirit of Justice," and "Majesty of Justice," Great Hall, 2nd floor, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Two sculptures "Spirit of Justice," and "Majesty of Justice," Great Ha...

Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 12' 6" x 48" and 12' 6" x 41". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

Entrance to The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, South Bend, Indiana

Entrance to The Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, So...

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

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

Fresco paintings above entrance to room 5114, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Fresco paintings above entrance to room 5114, Department of Justice, W...

Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More

Exterior eagle detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Exterior eagle detail of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Bingham...

An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

Sculpture "Love and Hope" at the David W. Dyer Federal Building and Courthouse, Miami, Florida

Sculpture "Love and Hope" at the David W. Dyer Federal Building and Co...

Artist: Alexander Sambugnac, 1938. Cast stone, dimensions: 4' x 6' x 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ... More

Lobby desk, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Lobby desk, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rhode Island

Architect: Jackson, Robertson, and Adams. Built in 1940. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.

The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Fe...

Built between 1928-1936 by architect Louis Simon. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

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

Exterior. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House in...

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. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia

Exterior. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia

Designed by architect Oscar Wendroth and built in 1916, the courthouse is a 3-story Renaissance Revival federal building, executed in white marble. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... 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

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