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First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

This church, built in 1827, is Alabama's oldest house of worship and is still in essentially original condition. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

The building, Alabama's tallest, is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known locally as the "Old Red Courthouse," now a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known loc...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of red sandstone rusticated marble accents, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by ar... More

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More

Statues outside of the Bryant-Denny Stadium to join the Statue of Nick Saban which will be erected and be placed in the Walk of Champions along with the 4 other National Championship coaches (Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Gene Stallings)

Statues outside of the Bryant-Denny Stadium to join the Statue of Nick...

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

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More

The Malecón view in Havana, Cuba

The Malecón view in Havana, Cuba

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

Cuban dancers on stilts dance around Old Havana, Cuba

Cuban dancers on stilts dance around Old Havana, Cuba

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

Hay bales dot the landscape of the 69.2 acre farm owned by Johnny and Chinita Hinton near Carrollton, Alabama

Hay bales dot the landscape of the 69.2 acre farm owned by Johnny and ...

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

[Kayakers,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

[Kayakers,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

[Dam,] Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, Selma, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, Selma, Alabama, Confederate States of Ameri...

Built in 1847 by Selma Masonic Order to serve as university. Served as Confederate hospital, county courthouse and military school. Restored to original beauty. Features Lewis collection of Civil War memorabili... More

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama

Built with slave labor and finished by Arthur Foster, Jr., and George Washington Foster, sons of the original owner. The late Dr. Rutherford (the great-great-grandson of the original owner) painstakingly restor... More

Cattle baron James Dunn Houston built his Victorian house in 1898 in Gonzales, Texas

Cattle baron James Dunn Houston built his Victorian house in 1898 in G...

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

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...

The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folsom, Alabama

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folso...

Most of the buildings are original to the site. This is one of Alabama's last active plantations, which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More

Tin man, which is not made of hay is 32 feet high. Located on U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region, Alabama

Tin man, which is not made of hay is 32 feet high. Located on U.S. 43 ...

Motorists driving along U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region do a lot of double-takes as they gaze over at Jim Bird's pastures to see all sorts of strange crit... More

Post office, Mooresville, Alabama during American Civil War

Post office, Mooresville, Alabama during American Civil War

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thi... More

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroeville, Alabama

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...

This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Built in 1895 and located in Baldwin County in a scrap metal yard. Does not currently operate as a church. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

Old shed stands in a field in rural Alabama

Old shed stands in a field in rural Alabama

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

Outdoor art at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Outdoor art at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washi...

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

Ministry of interior building in Plaza de la Revolution (Revolution Square), Havana, Cuba

Ministry of interior building in Plaza de la Revolution (Revolution Sq...

The Iron face on the façade is Che Guevara. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Harriott II riverboat in Montgomery, Alabama

Harriott II riverboat in Montgomery, Alabama

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

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibles businss in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibl...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, Mobile, Alabama

Statue of Rear Admiral Semmes of the C.S. Navy, Mobile, Alabama

Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous c... More

Stained-glass window at the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas

Stained-glass window at the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1906, the church is considered the "queen" of what Texans call their "painted churches." It is one of the first churches bui... More

Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama

Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama

R.A. Mitchell, gave the site to the city of Gadsden. The Falls drop into the Black Creek ravine and are marked with a bronze statue of Cherokee princess Noccalula who, according to local legends, jumped off a c... More

Tourist Attraction - Selma, Alabama

Tourist Attraction - Selma, Alabama

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

Stone gateway to Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Stone gateway to Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Tex...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name translates as "Sea of the Woods" from the German. Camp Waldemar, an all-girls' camp, was founded in 1926 by Ora Johnson, the... More

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Historic building in Selma, Alabama

Historic building in Selma, Alabama

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

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States of America

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate States...

Designed by Alexander Doyle and built in 1886, the monument commemorates the 122,000 Alabamians who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and sits on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Title, date, subject ... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Docked beside the uniquely built Riverwalk Amphitheater, this elegant 19th century riverboat is center stage of Montgomery's entertainment district. Known as the Harriott, this riverboat cruises along the Alabama River in Montgomery, Alabama

Docked beside the uniquely built Riverwalk Amphitheater, this elegant ...

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

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More

View of garden bench and a portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

View of garden bench and a portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Co...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Stained-glass window at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Stained-glass window at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Missi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four-story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets, ... More

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, corner of 13th St. and Florida Ave., NW, Washington, D.C...

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

Boulder Bridge, Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Boulder Bridge, Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Cable car in historic Chinatown in San Francisco, California

Cable car in historic Chinatown in San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

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

LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street ...

Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park. The Square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. Originally planned as part of the pleasure grounds surround... More

Small bookstore in Old Havana, Cuba

Small bookstore in Old Havana, Cuba

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Herbert weaves baskets in a dogtrot log cabin, Cherokee, Alabama

John Herbert weaves baskets in a dogtrot log cabin, Cherokee, Alabama

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

Joshua is a classic 72' wooden schooner sailing on Mobile Bay, Alabama, under the command of Captain Carol Bramblett. Jason Conyers folds up the sails once the ship is docked

Joshua is a classic 72' wooden schooner sailing on Mobile Bay, Alabama...

Joshua, launched in 2002, became the City of Mobile's official tall ship in 2003 and the official Tall Ship of the State of Alabama in 2009. Bramlett began building the wooden schooner in 1993 at the Zirlott bo... More

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum located in NE, Washington, D.C.

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum locat...

The National Capitol columns originally supported the old East Portico of the United States Capitol (1828). The columns were removed during expansion of the Capitol in 1958, and placed at the National Arboretum... More

Skyline view of Mobile, Alabama

Skyline view of Mobile, Alabama

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

Historic barn in Monroe County, Alabama

Historic barn in Monroe County, Alabama

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

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city of Sacramento

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...

Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... More

Scenic downtown Huntsville, Alabama

Scenic downtown Huntsville, Alabama

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

The Howell Graves building, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

The Howell Graves building, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Built in 1927 as a Jr. high school, the Howell Graves building is now the Board of Education. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collectio... More

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Completed in 1910 and considered the architectural wonder of its time. The building was designed and constructed to serve as the headquarters of what today is the world's oldest regional organization, the Organ... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opelika, Alabama

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama

Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial Center honors the memory and achievements of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Façade of the Ursuline Convent in Old Havana, Cuba

Façade of the Ursuline Convent in Old Havana, Cuba

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

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, also known as Anacostia Park, NE, Washington, D.C.

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, also known as Anacostia Park, NE,...

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

Art mural located in an alley between 13th, 14th and U St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Art mural located in an alley between 13th, 14th and U St., NW, Washin...

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

Alligator Alley has 20 acres of natural cypress swamp land, where alligators roam freely in a protected environment, Summerdale, Alabama

Alligator Alley has 20 acres of natural cypress swamp land, where alli...

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

Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama

Historic buildings in the city of Greensboro, Alabama

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

Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural Alabama

Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural Alabama

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

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an artsy neighborhood below the Texas capital

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an...

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

Historic O'Neal Bridge on the Tennessee River in Florence, Alabama

Historic O'Neal Bridge on the Tennessee River in Florence, Alabama

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

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller grew up, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller g...

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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washing...

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.

Morro Castle is a fortress guarding the entrance to Havana bay in Havana, Cuba. It was built in 1589 and at the time Cuba was under the control of Spain. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the ... More

The Brown County Courthouse in Brownwood, Texas

The Brown County Courthouse in Brownwood, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Classical Revival courthouse, built in 1917-18, incorporated interior walls and vaults from the prior structure. Credit line: The... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

A camper and her horse at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

A camper and her horse at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name translates as "Sea of the Woods" from the German. Camp Waldemar, an all-girls' camp, was founded in 1926 by Ora Johnson, the... More

Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... More

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Revolutionary leader Che Guevara hand painted mural in Havana, Cuba

Revolutionary leader Che Guevara hand painted mural in Havana, Cuba

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 Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More

Dilapidated amusement park along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

Dilapidated amusement park along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

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

[Lions, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Lions, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

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

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the historic courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama

To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the hi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Completed in 1910 and considered the architectural wonder of its time. The building was designed and constructed to serve as the headquarters of what today is the world's oldest regional organization, the Organ... More

Street scene, O St. and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene, O St. and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Tuscaloosa Children's Theatre presents the Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the Bama Theatre, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa Children's Theatre presents the Adventures of Tom Sawyer in...

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroeville, Alabama

A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...

This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More

Column details located within the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Column details located within the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Was...

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

Bogue's Restaurant sign in Birmingham, Alabama

Bogue's Restaurant sign in Birmingham, Alabama

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

The City of Glendale, California's, "Living the Good Life" float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

The City of Glendale, California's, "Living the Good Life" float in th...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More

Paramount Pictures back lot sets of New York City streets, headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California

Paramount Pictures back lot sets of New York City streets, headquarter...

Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, Paramount is the third oldest existing film studio in the world. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B.... More

Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama

Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama

The 1903 Old Courthouse Museum offers permanent exhibitions on two famous Monroe County citizens: Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee. It is also the site of an annual three-week production of a stage version of... More

Abelardo Parra Jimenez' stone sculpture "Universal Knowledge," located between 6th and 9th St. near College Hall at Gallaudet University, NE, Washington, D.C.

Abelardo Parra Jimenez' stone sculpture "Universal Knowledge," located...

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

Buildings on the Prado in front of the Capitol, Havana, Cuba

Buildings on the Prado in front of the Capitol, Havana, Cuba

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

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