Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More
Lamp detail, Federal Building, Grand Island, Nebraska
Architect: James Knox Taylor. Neoclassical Revival. The original portion was built between 1908-1910. The two-story addition built between 1933-1935. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Servic... More
Oil painting "Winter Vista" at Region 5 Customs House, Chicago, Illino...
Artist: Karl Eugene Fortess, ca. 1935; dimensions: 29" x 46". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Main entrance doorway, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska
Architect: Louis A. Simon and Gilbert. Stanley Underwood. Built in 1939. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
Elevator lobby, David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Mi...
Architect: Phineas E. Paist and Harold D. Steward. Mediterranean Renaissance Revival style. Built between 1931-1933. Primary material: Key Largo Coquina limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the... More
Exterior, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Trent...
Built in 1932 and designed by architect James Wetmore. The exterior of the Trenton Federal Building is a well executed design with a "Stipped Neo-Classical" form, with both Classical and Art Deco terra cotta de... More
Lobby stairs, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More
Interiors, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
City and County Building, Carey Avenue and West 19th Street, Cheyenne,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Municipal town/city halls; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margo... More
Full view of oil painting "Life Before the Pioneer Era" at C. Clifton ...
Artist: Richard Guy Walton, 1966. Dimensions: 6.5' x 24.5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... More
Environmental art "Flutter" at the NE and SE lawn quadrants of the Wil...
Artist: Maya Lin, 2005. Soil and St. Augustine grass, 459 x 105 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the pho... More
Sculpture "Metamorphosis" main lobby at Mitchell H. Cohen U.S. Courtho...
Artist: Albert Paley, 1994. Steel; two are 8' 6" x 5' 6"x 1'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Exterior detail, Federal Building, San Francisco, California
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[Courtroom], U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Photographed as part of an assignment for the U.S. General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arc... More
Painting "Queens: Festival" lobby, Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building,...
Artist: Howardena Pindell, 1989. Acrylic, paper, gouache on canvas. Dimensions: 2 x 10 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject n... More
Untitled glass windows at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, ...
Artist: David Wilson, 2003. Architectural arts; two glass windows measuring 35 x 8 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note ... More
Sculpture "Flotilla of Kayaks in a Tropical Storm" suspended in lobby,...
Artist: Rafael Ferrer, 1980. Painted welded steel, dimensions: 20 x 30 x 28 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More
Sculpture "Allentown Benches: Selections from Truisms and Survival Ser...
Artist: Jenny Holzer, 1995. Prairie green granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" located in interior atrium of U.S....
Artist: Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2006. Titanium alloy foil. 2 at 10 x 11 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More
Oil painting "Intolerance" located in fifth floor, main library, Depar...
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Architectural detail, John O. Pastore Federal Building, Providence, Rh...
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Sculpture "Protagoras" at the Burger Federal Building, St. Paul, Minne...
Artist: Charles Ginnever. 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 the C... More
Rooftop detail, National Archives, St. Louis, Missouri
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Southwest façade, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona
One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More
Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota
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U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C., 406 ft. long, 275 ft. wide, 75 f...
On mount: The Beautiful in Architecture and Landscape. No. 1041. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Heart of New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10241, 10240, 10239, 10238. Right negative cracked upper right. City Court Building in foreground in frames 10241, 10240; City Hall Park in... More
Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10538, 10537, 10536, 10535. "G 9130 LC," "G 9131 RC," and "G 9132 R" on left center to right negatives respectively. Detroit Publishing Co.... More
Post Office Department. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.
E. Totherick, photo. Gift of Detroit Public Library.
Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building, 1111 Constitution Aven...
Significance: The French Renaisance-style Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) Building was the first of several U.S. Government buildings of monumental scope to be erected in the 1920s and 1930s in the ... More
Seven Buildings, 1901-1913 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...
Significance: Important as homes of Government Officials, ministers and private citizens, reported to have been erected soon after Washington became the capital city. Corner building (1901) house the State Dep... More
Capitol Bldg., west front #1, Washington, D.C.
H126788 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. East facade of Capitol appears in image, title is inaccurate. Copyright Deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 10, 1909.
Oklahoma City Civic Center, Bounded by N. Shartel Avenue to the West, ...
Drawings 1-3 are copyright and are deposited in the field notes. Significance: The plan for the Civic Center Complex was included in the first and last completed comprehensive city plan for Oklahoma City that w... More
Patent Office Building, Bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F & G Streets, Nort...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Photographs of the John Minor Wisdom U. S. Court of Appeals Building i...
Images show exterior and interior views of courthouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. Details include courtrooms, halls, ceilings and sculptural decoration. Arrangement: Arranged by photographer-assigned number. The... More
Santa Rosa Post Office & Federal Building, 401 Fifth Street (moved to ...
Significance: The Santa Rosa Post Office and Federal Building, constructed 1909, was designed by James Knox Taylor, FAIA of the Treasury Department. It was the first Federal structure built in Santa Rosa. Sur... More
Photographs of the Apex Building in Washington, D.C.
Images show exterior and interior views of the art deco Apex Building, the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C . Details include the atrium, doorways, metal grille work and stairways. The ... More
Departmental Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between Twelfth and Fourt...
Significance: The Departmental Auditorium is part of a three-building ensemble facing the National Mall. The building was renamed in 1987 in honor of Andrew W. Mellon, who oversaw the development of the Federal... More
U.S.D.A. Plant Quarantine Building, 209 River Street, Hoboken, Hudson ...
See also HAER No. NJ-63, Hoboken Piers Headhouse Significance: Constructed in 1940 to carry out the provisions of the National Plant Quarantine Act of 1912, the USDA Plant Quarantine Building is significant as ... More
New Post Office Building, Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash...
Significance: Located at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Ariel Rios Federal Building, also known as the new Post Office, was designed by William Adams Delano and William T. Aldrich and constructed betw... More
New Post Office Building, Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash...
Significance: Located at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Ariel Rios Federal Building, also known as the new Post Office, was designed by William Adams Delano and William T. Aldrich and constructed betw... More
Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...
Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More
State, War & Navy Building, Southeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue & ...
Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Photographs of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Cou...
Images show exterior and interior views of the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 15 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama. Details include bronze decorations, coffered ceilings, doorways, h... More
Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...
Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More
Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...
Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More
Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...
Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More
Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watso...
Images show exterior and interior views of U.S. federal building and Court of International Trade in New York, New York. Details include the courtroom, lobby, plaza, and mosaics. Arrangement: Arranged by phot... More
Cunningham Law Office, 550 Second Street, Natchitoches, Natchitoches P...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...
Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More
Blue Water Bridge Plaza, 410 Elmwood Street, Port Huron, St. Clair Cou...
Significance: The bridge and plaza were completed in 1938. They are reflections of Depression-era engineering and architecture. The plaza was designed and built by George L. Harvey and Norman B. Forbes. The ... More
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
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Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain photograph of city hall building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain photograph of city hall building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain photograph of city hall building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain photograph of city hall building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain photograph of city hall building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angel...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Del Rio Federal Building, 100 Broadway, corner of Main Street, Del Rio...
Significance: The Del Rio Federal Building was planned by the U.S. Treasury Department Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor under Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh in 1911-1912. It was designed and... More
U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, W...
Documentation of teller's cages & cash room are included. Significance: Financial headquarters for the U.S. Government. No other government department has continuously occupied its present headquarters as long... More
Constitution Hall, 315 Elmore Street, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Constitution Hall was built in 1856, probably by Samuel Jones, sheriff of Douglas County and a notorious proslavery champion. It was a commercial ventur... More
General Post Office, Washington. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th c...
On mount: American Scenery. On verso: Gift Mrs. Alfred H. Plumer, 17 Jan 1952; "Aug. 21- 1951. To the Library of Congress from Mrs. Alfred H. Plumer, 135 Thourpan Place, Webster Groves 19 Mo."
Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washin...
Original architectural drawing showing hydrotherapy facilities including tub and plumbing details. Date range from related items in the collection. Sheet no. 3. No. 221 in pencil. Gift ; American Institute of ... More
D.C. Office -- Patent -- West Hall. Washington DC sterescope card, 19t...
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The State, War, and Navy Building
From series "Views of Washington and Vicinity". Title devised by Library Staff.
War & Navy Department, Washington. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th...
On mount: American Scenery. On verso: Gift Mrs. Alfred H. Plumer, 17 Jan 1951; "Aug. 21- 1951. To the Library of Congress from Mrs. Alfred H. Plumer, 135 Thourpan Pl, Webster Groves 19 Mo."
![War, S[tate] and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjMvd2FyLXN0YXRlLWFuZC1uYXZ5LWRlcGFydG1lbnRzLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tZGMtNGZiOGZmLTEwMjQuanBn/40/59/webp "War, S[tate] and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.")
War, S[tate] and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.
Man looking at the State, War and Navy Building. 42780 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 253.
The new library, Athens, Greece - stereocsopic card
Photograph shows front of National Library of Greece, designed by Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen, part of his Trilogy in central Athens. 65165 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed on recto: "Copyright 1897 by Unde... More
![[Council House, Granada] - Drawing. Public domain image.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvY291bmNpbC1ob3VzZS1ncmFuYWRhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "[Council House, Granada] - Drawing. Public domain image.")
[Council House, Granada] - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Federal Building, Nashville, Tenn.
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Pennsylvania Avenue, west from Tenth Street, Washington, D.C.
Title from jacket. District Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., at left, Chase's Vaudeville Theatre on 15th Street at right. "Extra 037210" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037210. Gift; State Hist... More
The birth place of freedom, Old Liberty Hall, Philadelphia
Copyrighted, 1903, by T. W. Ingersoll. On mount: High Grade Original Views. Sold only by subscription. No. C1036.
![[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Landscape plan] / James Berral.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDkvZ292ZXJubWVudC1ob3NwaXRhbC1mb3ItdGhlLWluc2FuZS1zYWludC1lbGl6YWJldGhzLWhvc3BpdGFsLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tZGMtZTBlZDA5LTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Landscape plan] / James Berral.")
[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...
Topographic map and site plan (kallitype print) with ink and wash additions and annotations. No. 2177. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) For... More
Hall of Records, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072170. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Municipal Building, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500755. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Trimming sheets of paper money, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Wash...
J224194 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 22302.
Federal Reserve Building, Constitution Ave. Front view of Federal Rese...
Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More
Department of Justice. Statue representing Earth at Department of Just...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Department of Justice. Pediment of Department of Justice II
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Treasury Department warehouse. Treasury Department sample rooms, room ...
Logbook annotation: National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who wor... More
Department of the Interior. New Department of the Interior Building IV
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Department of Commerce. Windows in Department of Commerce Building by ...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Department of Justice. Statue representing Water at Department of Just...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Model groups of government buildings. Pennsylvania Ave. looking west
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.