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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

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...

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

Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...

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

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFrasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFras...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas. It depicts an early stagecoach of the type that brought pioneers to the city in the 1840s

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... 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

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...

Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More

Part of a carefully restored mural, 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, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural "Post dispatch rider, 1776," by George Harding at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

Mural "Post dispatch rider, 1776," by George Harding at the Ariel Rios...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 6' 8" x 13' 6". 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

Mural "Petroleum Industry: Production," by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Petroleum Industry: Production," by Edgar Britton at the Depart...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 111" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

A little Mexican-food stand near the "ghost town," some of which is 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

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieson at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...

Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the colors of nearby blossoms this time of year, in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the...

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

Part of a carefully restored mural, 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, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

Artist name from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-30087. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being the only ... 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

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

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

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

Part of a carefully restored mural, 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, one of dozens at Fair Park, site o...

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

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

Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Kelly Ingram Park, Birmi...

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

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, 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

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

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

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

The Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

The Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened on Thanksgiving Day, 1929 the theater's equipment made San Angelo one of the first cities in the nation to play motion picture... More

Llamas and an affectionate farm cat at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Llamas and an affectionate farm cat at Heritage Farm Museum and Villag...

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

Corridor, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Corridor, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

The George M. Jacobs Building, erected c. 1903, was long one of Fairmont, West Virginia's elite business addresses. No longer

The George M. Jacobs Building, erected c. 1903, was long one of Fairmo...

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

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

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

Iglesia de Jesus de Miramar, Havana, Cuba

Iglesia de Jesus de Miramar, Havana, Cuba

The second largest church in Cuba. It was begun in 1948 and completed in 1053. The murals were painted by Spanish painter, Cesareo Marciano Hombrados y de Onativia (1909-1977). Title, date, subject note, and k... More

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel that was a popular stop along the National Road, at Roney's Point in Ohio County, east of Wheeling, West Virginia

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. August Heimberger first rented-out the hotel in 1869 and kept it for 22 years. His wife took over on his death in 1889 and continued t... More

One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located along the National Road in Wheeling, West Virginia

One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located al...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. They were installed in each of the twel... More

Sculpture "Contemporary postman," by Attilio Piccirilli at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Contemporary postman," by Attilio Piccirilli at the Ariel R...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 3' 11" x 1' 8" x 1' 2"; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photo... More

Exterior details. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Exterior details. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. 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

A historic house, built c. 1900 by the Wells Family, at 809 Main Street in Sistersville, West Virginia

A historic house, built c. 1900 by the Wells Family, at 809 Main Stree...

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

The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally completed in 1895 in Galveston, Texas

The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...

Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... 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

Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More

Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More

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

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

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

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

Courtroom. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court House i...

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

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929. The building cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution of 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then Ministry of S... More

Handicap ramp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Handicap ramp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse,...

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

Column detail. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Column detail. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More

Fireplace, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Fireplace, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the best-preserved examples of Victorian architecture left in Texas

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the bes...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1899, the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House is Fort Worth's premier example of Queen Anne-style Victorian architec... More

The 1940-43 Henry Oates House, a brick interpretation of George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Market Street neighborhood of fine homes in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The 1940-43 Henry Oates House, a brick interpretation of George Washin...

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

Stair, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Stair, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More

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

Exterior detail, 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 Administrat... More

Grill at the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Grill 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

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...

Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... More

Centro Gallego, was a Galician social club in 1914. The National Ballet of Cuba and the State Opera are based in this building, Havana, Cuba

Centro Gallego, was a Galician social club in 1914. The National Balle...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

The Bridge of Honor, commonly known as the Pomeroy-Mason Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Ohio River between Pomeroy, Ohio and Mason, West Virginia

The Bridge of Honor, commonly known as the Pomeroy-Mason Bridge is a c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed on December 30, 2008, the bridge carries Ohio State Route 833 and West Virginia Route Spur 62. The bridge replaced a two-lan... More

Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...

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

Light fixture at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, occupies an entire block between West Broadway, West Okmulgee Avenues and Fifth Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Light fixture at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. P...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1915 by Architect James Knox Taylor, the building ... More

Detail of mural located at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Detail of mural located at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washi...

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

The 1903 Tinker-Wright House, one of several fine houses in the Highland Park residential enclave of Wheeling, West Virginia. All its homes face a single street running to the nearby National Road through Wheeling

The 1903 Tinker-Wright House, one of several fine houses in the Highla...

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

Historic home, LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Historic home, LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White Hou...

This home was the social Center during the period and was called the "Little White House" by President McKinley. This is the site of Dwellin House owned by James Madison from 1828-1836. It was also the home of ... More

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

A roundup (for tourists) of longhorn cattle in the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market district in Fort Worth, Texas

A roundup (for tourists) of longhorn cattle in the Stockyards, a histo...

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

Light fixture at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Light fixture at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House, Key West, Florida

The Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Custom House,...

Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style, the two-story, Key Largo limestone clad building was designed by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. T... More

Architectural details. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Architectural details. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, La...

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

Exterior detail, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior detail, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthou...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. 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

"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds b...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Log cabin at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

Log cabin at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The camp was established in 1921 as the first statewide 4-H camp in the United States. The district includes buildings related to the ... More

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

Exterior door detail, 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

Auditorium with mural at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Auditorium with mural at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washing...

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

The Allen log cabin at the West Virginia State Farm Museum, a 50-acre historical tract to which 32 old farm buildings have been relocated, near the Mason County Fairgrounds outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia

The Allen log cabin at the West Virginia State Farm Museum, a 50-acre ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The two-story log house built around 1830 by John Allen and his son William near Procter, West Virginia, in what was then far-western ... 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

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

Courtroom. 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

Courtroom lamp at the the U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Courtroom lamp at the 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

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

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals B...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Originally the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. In 1908, th... More

Mural "Harvest Dance," by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Harvest Dance," by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior ...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 96" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

Lion statues on the Prado Promenade in Havana, Cuba

Lion statues on the Prado Promenade in Havana, Cuba

The lion statues were brought to Cuba by Carlos Miguel de Caspedes from London in 1920. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library... 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

Exterior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Exterior bas-relief, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constituti...

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... 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

Exterior. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Exterior. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

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

Riders enjoy (or endure) a spin on the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Camden Park, an amusement park on the outskirts of Huntington, West Virginia

Riders enjoy (or endure) a spin on the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1902 as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company, where riders traveling between Huntington and nearby ci... More

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929, cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution in 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then the Ministry of Science, T... More

Bust of William H. Welch at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland

Bust of William H. Welch at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the ...

Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More

Architectural detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Architectural detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesvill...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

Grille. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Grille. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More

Ceiling mural "The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac (Spring)," by Vahe Kirishjian at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Ceiling mural "The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac (Spring)," by ...

Date: 1940; dimensions: 13' 4" x 21'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogra... More

Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built in 1897 by industrialist James Nelson Vance in honor of his parents

Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built 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

Courtroom at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Courtroom at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More

Ohev Sholom Temple, a synagogue in Huntington, West Virginia

Ohev Sholom Temple, a synagogue in Huntington, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now known as B'Nai Sholom Congregation, the building was designed by the Charleston, West Virginia, architectural firm of Meanor and H... More

Elizabeth Moore Hall, a historic woman's physical education building at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia

Elizabeth Moore Hall, a historic woman's physical education building a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built between 1926 and 1928, and is a three-story, red brick building with Georgian Revival detailing. An addition was complete... More

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