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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

Oil painting "The Two Rivers" at Federal Building, Post Office & U.S. Courthouse, Rome, Georgia

Oil painting "The Two Rivers" at Federal Building, Post Office & U.S. ...

Artist: Peter Blume, 1943. Dimensions: 6' 4" x 13' . Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... 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

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

The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks in the United States, in the city that took its name from it: Moundsville, West Virginia

The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The heart of the site is the largest of the Adena people's burial mounds. A massive undertaking, the effort required the movement of m... 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

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

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

[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

Interior eagle detail, United States Commerce building, Washington, D.C.

Interior eagle detail, United States Commerce building, Washington, D....

Architect: Cass Gilbert. Built 1922-1925. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Oil painting "Hammurabi," stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "Hammurabi," stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justic...

Artist: Boardman Robinson, 1937. Dimensions: 12' 7" x 4' 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith - 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

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

Mural "Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona," by Frank MacKenzie at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona," by Frank MacKenzie at ...

Date: 1928; dimensions: 84" x 178 3/4"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit... 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

Mural "Ceremonial Shields & Bull's Head," by Stephen Mopope at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Ceremonial Shields & Bull's Head," by Stephen Mopope at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 42" x 576". 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

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

The Spanish Colonial-style Plaza Theatre, built in 1927 as a movie house. It is now a performing-arts center in El Paso, Texas

The Spanish Colonial-style Plaza Theatre, built in 1927 as a movie hou...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.

Exterior, United States IRS building, Washington, D.C.

Built 1928-1936. 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 Carol M. Highsmith Arc... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exterior view of Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New...

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

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

Sculpture "Air" 9th and Pennsylvania Ave. lobby, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Air" 9th and Pennsylvania Ave. lobby, Department of Justice...

Artist: Anthony Di Lorenzo, 1933, limestone sculpture 24" X 38". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More

Oil paintings "Grotius" and "Vitoria," in stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil paintings "Grotius" and "Vitoria," in stairway of Great Hall, Depa...

Artist: Boardman Robinson, 1937. Dimensions, each: 12' 7" x 4' 3". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog... More

Painting "City of Erie Pennsylvania" located on first floor, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Painting "City of Erie Pennsylvania" located on first floor, Federal C...

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

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

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

Exterior. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Exterior. 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

Oil painting "The Past" located in fifth floor, main library, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "The Past" located in fifth floor, main library, Departme...

Artist: Maurice Sterne, 1941. Dimensions: 6' x 4'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

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

Lobby. 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

Fresco painting "Customs Official Boarding" located in rotunda, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Fresco painting "Customs Official Boarding" located in rotunda, Alexan...

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

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

Architectural details. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse,...

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

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Courthouse built by James A. Wetmore during the years 1930-1932. Neo-classical Revival style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

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

Railing 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

Corridor at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Corridor at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Canton Branch, Baltimore, Maryland

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Canton Branch, Baltimore, Maryland

Designed by architect Charles L. Carson, who drew the plans for Old Central and the first six branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Canton opened its doors to the public in 1886. It is the last of the four ... More

Oil painting "Communications" on elevator lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Communications" on elevator lobby ceiling, U.S. Custom H...

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

Stained glass at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Stained glass at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Built in 1915-1917. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line:... More

Oil painting "Fort Orange" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Oil painting "Fort Orange" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Ne...

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, 1912. Dimensions: 4.5' x 9'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

The Woolworth Building in New York City

The Woolworth Building in New York City

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

Front exterior, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Front exterior, 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

Part of the Jacobs-Hutchinson Block in downtown Fairmont, West Virginia. Most of the commercial structures were erected c. 1902

Part of the Jacobs-Hutchinson Block in downtown Fairmont, West Virgini...

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

Mural: Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, by Edgar Britton at th...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 106" 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

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