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Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. Houses for families...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ola, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) Ola self-help cooperati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Houses used by government employees in Congress Heigh...

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Washington, D.C. Slat screen on a back porch of a house on Randolph St...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Workman employed in one o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Petaluma, Sonoma County, California (vicinity). Chicken houses dot the...

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Detroit, Michigan. Negro mother and children at Sojourner Truth homes

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Stony Brook Gardens, Stratford, Connecticut. Hillside houses II

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Southington, Connecticut. The house of Captain Anson Matthews, who fou...

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Monroe Warren Houses, Anacostia. Exterior II

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Indian farms and houses near Laguna, New Mexico enroute to Gallup on t...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

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General view showing houses burning as the result of Japanese bombing ...

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Tunlaw Houses, Washington, D.C. Exterior I

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Robert Toombs House, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Dupont Houses, Washington, D.C. Looking up hill

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New York City postwar exhibit, 500 Park Ave., New York City. Gowanus h...

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Houses for Britain. Installing windows in kitchen of prefabricated tem...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Model prize houses. Tichy I - Public domain architectural drawing

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Houses for Britain. Workmen about to put a panel in place in the model...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

Houses for Britain. Living room looking towards front entrance, and le...

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Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emerge...

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Houses for Britain. View from one of the two bedrooms throught small h...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Kitchen at 103 Ell...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Exterior of house ...

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Warren J. Lockwood houses, Roselle, New Jersey. Exterior I

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[Knott residence, Yankeetown, Florida (project). Perspective. Renderin...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Published in: Paul Rudolph: the Florida houses / Christopher Domin and Joseph King. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2002, p. 111.

Kingsboro Houses, 1881 Pacific St., Brooklyn. III

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Harlem River Houses, 7th Ave. and 152nd St. Exterior

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Abraham Lincoln Houses, 135th St. and Madison Ave., New York City. Eas...

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Arverne Houses, Beach 54 to 56th St., Arverne, Long Island. Exterior V

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Albany Houses, Albany Ave., Brooklyn. Exterior II

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Eero Saarinen guest house (originally Loja Saarinen house), Bloomfield...

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Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Living area

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Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Garden

Box. no. 2. No. 371. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[Harkavy residence, Lido Shores, Florida. Second floor. Plan]

Date from The architecture of Paul Rudolph / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and Gerhard Schwab. New York : Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1970. 1957 Residence for Mr. M. Harkavy, Lido Shores, Florida. Forms part of: The Paul Ru... More

Port Royal houses, Naples, Florida. Carter house II

Public domain photo of Italian landscape, historic place, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

South Jamaica houses. South Jamaica houses II

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[Exterior view of home of Malcolm X, Queens] / World Telegram & Sun ph...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

707 Chattahoochee Street (House), 707 Chattahoochee Street, La Grange,...

Survey number: HAER GA-102 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Herbert Green residence, Cherry Ridge, Pennsylvania. Oblique view of ...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Nevada Lucky Tiger Mill & Mine, Family Residence, East slope of Bucksk...

Survey number: HAER NV-18-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nepalese family outside of clay home, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 176, where image appears with caption "Sikkimese Nepali cla... More

Sierra City Road (House), Downieville, Sierra County, CA

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

John B. Williams House, Second & Janney Streets, Waterford, Loudoun Co...

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Melancthon W. Burgess House, Saint George, Washington County, UT

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9 Sirrine Street (House), 9 Sirrine Street, La Grange, Troup County, G...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manakin Village, Structure No. 3, State Route 621, Manakin, Goochland ...

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Twenty-eighth & East Franklin Streets (House), Richmond, Independent C...

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3357 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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Independence, Seventy-seventh Street, Seat Pleasant, Prince George's C...

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

86 Hasell Street (House), Charleston, Charleston County, SC

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Royal Street Area Survey, 207 North Royal Street (House), Alexandria, ...

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peter Mulvehill House, 212 Mifflin Street, Johnstown, Cambria County, ...

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

Johnson House, Springfield Falls, Mercer, Mercer County, PA

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Joseph Yates House, 26 Front Street, Schenectady, Schenectady County, ...

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

Joe Bell House, 317 South Congress Street, Jackson, Hinds County, MS

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Dronningensgade 2 (House), 2 Queen Street, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thoma...

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[Men with horses, possibly unloading wood in courtyard of house, Lachu...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 095 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Construction in Spring City, Nev.

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

Mother Goose Market, horizontal view, Route 476, Hazard, Kentucky

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roa... More

Main Residence, Ferraro Ranch

Bunkhouse with Cellar, 101 Ranch. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Col...

Builder: Sperry, L.E. Alvin Miller residence (101 Ranch) and windmill in background, built ca. 1880 The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife... More

Collage of Photos Pasted on Cover of Ramasco Family Album

People in photograph: Forgnone, Angelo; Forgnone, Mrs. Angelo; Recanzone, Battiste Inscription: "Residence and Ranch of Battiste Recanzone & Angelo Forgnone, Paradise Valley. Humboldt County, Nev., U.S.," 1881

Neighborhood in Galveston, Texas

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

Vanna Venturi house, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built in 1989 by architect Robert Venturi. Title, date,... More

[Colorful row houses in New Orleans, Louisiana]

Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Title from similar image: LC-HS503-5356. Date provided by photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and... More

Frank Loveland in Front of Main Residence

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wall and Wallpaper in West Room, Second Floor

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Elegant mansion with a mansard roof

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lundy, 701 Mulberry Lane, Bellaire, ...

Forms part of: Victor A. Lundy archive (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 13 2008:090 Container 75 (P Size)

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

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

Stair detail in Jackson Place, Blair House, located across from the Wh...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More

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

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The birthplace of Anna Jarvis, credited by many as the creator of the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Anna Jarvis' mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, was a social activist, founder of Mother's Day Work Clubs, and a unifying force within her com... More

Church of the Hodigitria Icon of the Virgin (1763), southeast view, ev...

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Fall view of Philip Johnson's Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an important and influential proj... More

Row Houses, Baltimore, Maryland

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

Home of Liberace, Palm Springs, California

Built by the Alexander Construction Company, father/son builder/developers. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

Cottages at Freedom Village just a few blocks from downtown Montgomery...

The cottages are now boarded up and the signs are tattered and torn. Hopefully, the Heritage View Apartments will have a better fate. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Purple Martin bird gourd houses, Hamilton, 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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

The J.W. Otts House, Greensboro, Alabama

Also known as the McCrary-Otts House, Magnolia Hall was built in 1840 by D.F. McCrarry. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... More

Twin Sears houses built from kits ordered from the Sears Department St...

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 houses, North Capitol St., 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

Logan Circle, NW, Washington, D.C.

Logan Circle is a traffic circle, neighborhood, and historic district in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The primarily residential neighborhood includes two historic districts, properties listed on t... More

Historic houses, North Capitol St., 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

Houses that will soon be gone located at 5th and 3rd Avenue in Birming...

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

Logan Circle, NW, Washington, D.C.

Logan Circle is a traffic circle, neighborhood, and historic district in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The primarily residential neighborhood includes two historic districts, properties listed on t... More

Row houses at the corner of 10th and T 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

A typical scene of houses located on one of the hills in San Francisco...

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

Mask at the Kultur House in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Rand...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The woodsy community was settled by a group of Swiss and German immigrants who came to the rugged, remote hills of West Virginia in 18... More

[Zachary Taylor Wellington house, Huntington, West Virginia]

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Small homes in a row on Wheeling Island, a part of Wheeling, West Virg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was once a booming industrial neighborhood, filled with modest homes (such as these) owned by factory workers, up to and includin... More

[Madie Carroll House, Huntington, West Virginia]

Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055). Forms... More

Aerial view of curve along the Atlantic Ocean in Rye Beach, New Hampsh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Center Street at Historic Richmond Town, an authentic town and farm mu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Low, ranch-house-style home in Sun City, a historic suburb of Phoenix,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sun City, which likes to call itself "The Original Fun City," was an entire community built for retirees, 55 years old and older, and ... More

Villa Kathrine, 532 Gardner Expressway, Quincy, Adams County, IL

2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Villa Kathrine was built in 1900 for W. George Metz, the son of a weathy Quincy, Illinois, businessman. Metz hired Quincy architect George Behrensmeyer to des... More