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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

[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Librar...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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 and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... 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

Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama

Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama

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

Boyhood home of Hank Williams in Georgiana, Alabama

Boyhood home of Hank Williams in Georgiana, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

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

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

Store windows in downtown Selma, Alabama

Store windows in downtown 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

A pleasant path at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A pleasant path at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River ...

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

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

The statue of Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals in a pleasant garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

The statue of Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals in a p...

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

Downtown historic Carrollton, Alabama

Downtown historic Carrollton, 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

Rural Studio architecture, Alabama

Rural Studio architecture, Alabama

The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical bui... More

The old Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall, Texas

The old Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1900, it is the signature landmark of Marshall and is frequently used to represent East Texas in travel literature. It becam... More

Hospital imaging equipment - Drawing. Public domain image.

Hospital imaging equipment - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoy...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to the West" movie theater in Texarkana, Texas

Detail in auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fully restored by the City of Texarkana, Texas in 1979-80. Native son H. Ross Perot, through the Perot Foundation, contributed much o... 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

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian girls by Weinert with the central disc displaying the mural Letters by Edward J. Holslag. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian g...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Likeness of actress Vivien Leigh, in character as Scarlett O'Hara in the movie "Gone With the Wind," at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Likeness of actress Vivien Leigh, in character as Scarlett O'Hara in t...

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

Skyline view of Los Angeles, California, centering on the 13-story Eastern Columbia Building in the Broadway Theater District

Skyline view of Los Angeles, California, centering on the 13-story Eas...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Designed by Claud Beelman and opened on September 12, 1930 it is considered by many to be the most beautiful of Los Angeles's historic buildings, and the ... More

Greyhound Bus Station at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama

Greyhound Bus Station at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama

The site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement. The mob of white protesters confronting the civil rights activists, "shocked the nation and led the Kenned... More

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More

Street scene and mural on 14th St. near intersection with Swann St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene and mural on 14th St. near intersection with Swann St., N...

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

LeDroit Park, a neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

LeDroit Park, a neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

LeDroit Park is located immediately southeast of Howard University. Its borders include W St. to the north, Rhode Island Ave. and Florida Ave. to the south, Second St., NW, to the east, and Georgia Ave. to the ... More

Jasmine Hill Gardens, near Wetumpka, Alabama

Jasmine Hill Gardens, near Wetumpka, 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

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Beth El, 401 New York Ave., NW, in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Bet...

Constructed in 1854 by members of McKendree Methodist Church (the "mother church" of Fletcher Chapel), making it one of the oldest surviving houses of worship in Washington, D.C. Title, date, subject note, and... More

Bas relief details around the statue of José Martí located in the Parque Central, Havana, Cuba

Bas relief details around the statue of José Martí located in the Parq...

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

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

[The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, is a large settlement of Mississippian culture on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama]

[The Moundville site, occupied from around A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450, ...

Public domain image of wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Small office building on Bud Doggett's Way and G Pl., NW, Washington, D.C.

Small office building on Bud Doggett's Way and G Pl., NW, Washington, ...

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

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded hilltop, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...

The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States is right outside of Montgomery, Alabama

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States ...

This $1.4 billion automotive plant is one of the most advanced assembly plants in North America. This plant is spotless. Not one speck of dust anywhere. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... 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

View through a gateway at the "Clio Garden" and the figure of the muse, Clio, at Bayou Bend, the longtime estate of Houston philanthropist and collector Ima Hogg in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

View through a gateway at the "Clio Garden" and the figure of the muse...

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

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

The Million Dollar Band, the University of Alabama's marching band, fire up the crowd before a University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The Million Dollar Band, the University of Alabama's marching band, fi...

Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was for several years the tallest building in the state. Built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch company, Adolphus Busch, in a ... 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

Colorful art statues, New York Ave., NW, in downtown Washington, D.C.

Colorful art statues, New York Ave., NW, in downtown 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

Rock Creek Parkway as seen from Dumbarton Bridge, Q St. near intersection with 23rd St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Parkway as seen from Dumbarton Bridge, Q St. near intersect...

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

Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church, NW, Washington, D.C.

Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church, NW, Washington, D.C.

Founded in 1850 as a local church in Washington, D.C. for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. What started with 50 members quadrupled in size until the Civil War when membership dropped significantly. After ... More

View inside the Tompkins Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

View inside the Tompkins Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. The original structure, built in the early 1850s was a one-room log house ... More

Historic buildings located in the town of Oak Hill, Alabama

Historic buildings located in the town of Oak Hill, Alabama

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

Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba, guards the entrance to Havana bay

Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba, guards the entrance to Havana bay

Morro Castle was built in 1589 when Cuba was under the control of Spain and was later captured by the British in 1762. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Caro... More

Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville, Alabama

Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville, 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

Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants. Exhibits include outdoor sculpture, conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and a Japanese Gard... More

Demopolis, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Demopolis, Alabama - 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

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoy...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Rise School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Rise School, 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

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall is built with recycled materials: trees from the last big April storm in Notasulga, a used rusty tin from an old demolished house leftover materials gathered from here and there mostly free! Titl... 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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Malden Brothers Barber, Montgomery, Alabama

Malden Brothers Barber, Montgomery, Alabama

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

View of mountains, Mammoth Lakes, California

View of mountains, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... 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

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama

Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in Austin, Texas, to University of Texas students and alumni who died in World War I

Littlefield Fountain, the sculptor Pompeo Coppini's 1933 memorial in A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fountain bubbles beneath the school's signature Texas Tower from 1937, designed by Paul Philippe Cret. Sadly imprinted in the towe... More

Lincoln Statue at Lincoln Summer Home, Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Statue at Lincoln Summer Home, Washington, D.C.

Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln and his horse at the Lincoln Summer Home located on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in northwest Washington; D.C.; The sculptors are Stuart Williamson and Jiwoon... 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

Old Post Office, Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Old Post Office, Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie Coun...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Mont...

For the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, people walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to recreate the event. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, ...

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art opened on October 3, 2003. It is the only university art museum in Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Georg... More

Shotgun houses near Mount Vernon, Alabama

Shotgun houses near Mount Vernon, 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

Interior parlor, Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama

Interior parlor, Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama

Sturdivant Hall, also known as the Watts-Parkman-Gillman Home, is a historic Greek Revival mansion and house museum in Selma, Alabama. Completed in 1856, it was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Colonel Edward T.... More

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

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

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More

Barns and rural scenes on Route 11 near Gadsden, Alabama

Barns and rural scenes on Route 11 near Gadsden, 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

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The small, triangular building dates to 1935. Two men, Franklin Bryant and Lynn Fuller, who specialize in restoring gas pumps and vin... More

Confederate soldier statue located on the square in Huntsville, Alabama

Confederate soldier statue located on the square in Huntsville, Alabam...

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, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More

[Second Floor, South Corridor. Mural of Autumn by Frank W. Benson. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor, South Corridor. Mural of Autumn by Frank W. Benson. Lib...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California

Completed in 1927, it is a significant architectural example of the City Beautiful movement of the 1920s. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of C... More

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville, Alabama

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

The golden eagle that flys at the Auburn University's football game every year, Auburn, Alabama

The golden eagle that flys at the Auburn University's football game ev...

These eagles are brought into the Southeastern Raptor Rebilitation Center. The College of Veterinary Medicine is a rehabilitation hub for injured birds of prey. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided ... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... 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

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

Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, formerly the Central Public Library, 801 K St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural details on the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, ...

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

Thornhill Plantation, Greene County, Alabama

Thornhill Plantation, Greene 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

Ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

Ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More

Courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama

Courthouse in Monroeville, 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

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

Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the uni...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Used-car dealership that touts its American, Mexican, and Texas loyalty in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Route 180, formerly the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas

Used-car dealership that touts its American, Mexican, and Texas loyalt...

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

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

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

Artist Julie P. Carpenter poses with her wire dresses at the Kentuck Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Artist Julie P. Carpenter poses with her wire dresses at the Kentuck A...

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

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank Building, a limestone vault with a granite base, in downtown Beaumont, Texas

Exterior architectural detail from the abandoned First National Bank B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936, it is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture. The building is decorated with reliefs of workers and business pe... More

One of several elaborate doorways at Saint Anthony Cathedral Basilica, the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, Texas

One of several elaborate doorways at Saint Anthony Cathedral Basilica,...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1903 as the first Catholic Church of Beaumont, Texas, the building has underwent many restorations. On July 11, 2006, ... More

Map of Alabama sculpted by Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews in 2005 located in front of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Map of Alabama sculpted by Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews in 2005 ...

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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nine flags fly outside the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas. They represent the flags of six entities that have ruled Texas territory (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America and United States of America), plus three representing revolutionary forces that briefly occupied the historic fort

Nine flags fly outside the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas. They re...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The additional three flags are: 1. the solid green flag of the First Republic of Texas. During 1812 a group of filibusters lead by a ... More

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

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