Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...
The Battle of Blakeley was fought at Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865 at 5:30 p.m. Historic Blakeley State Park was created in 1981 to preserve the National Register Site and its 5 1/2 miles of pristine breastwor... More
Barn, Route 66, near Staunton, Illinois
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
Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More
Statue on grave in Cities of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch features historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock, a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum A... More
Cemetery in a cow pasture in rural Monroe County, Alabama
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
View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, 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
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama
Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More
View of the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville, 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
Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Rural scene, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama
Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More
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
The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...
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Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Santa Fe train in Barstow, California
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Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lone...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
"Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of O...
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
Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...
The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine tr... More
Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas ...
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
Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama
Old Live Oak Cemetery located in Selma, Alabama, has the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Includes statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice Pres... More
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
Scenic view in Northern 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
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Scene in Barstow, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Twisted tree in the desert near the Salton Sea, 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
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Trees in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest along White Mountain Road...
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
Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biolog... More
View the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County, West Virginia
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
Philip Johnson's Glass House and Pavillion, 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. Title, date, and subjects provided by th... More
Monument Valley, Arizona
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Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.
Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More
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
Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
Magnolia Cemetery is situated on 120 acres (49 hectares) and was established in 1836. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (Alabama project). Credit line: ... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Palm trees in Barstow, California
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Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a ...
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
Nelson Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, with Shuttlecocks scu...
Photo shows the museum with "Shuttlecocks" on lawn, created by Claes Oldenburg, 1994.
Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi
The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail used by animals and people that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to salt licks in today's central Tennessee... More
Wigwam Motel, Route 66, Rialto, California
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
Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery 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
Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... More
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
Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama
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
Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...
The Battle of Blakeley was fought at Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865 at 5:30 p.m. Historic Blakeley State Park was created in 1981 to preserve the National Register Site and its 5 1/2 miles of pristine breastwor... More
Rural scene in Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
Longhorn cattle on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre wor...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
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
Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama
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
Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
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
Mount Shasta, is located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in S...
Mount Shasta is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California. The mountain and its surrounding area are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Title, ... More
The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Trees in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest along White Mountain Road...
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
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More
Branding day for heifers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a work...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lo...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Rural scene in Coleman County, not far from Brownwood in Central Texas
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
General Chemical Co., Morristown, New Jersey. Infrared lab no. 215
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Monument Valley, Arizona
Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Barn, rural Montana. Public domain image.
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
Badlands, South Dakota - Drawing. Public domain image.
Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More
Ranch in Wyoming - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Barn, rural Wyoming - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama
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
Scenic images from rural Monroe County, Alabama
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
Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery 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
Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More
Scenic view in Northern 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
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa an...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Cred... More
The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
View of Half Dome formation located in Yosemite National Park which sp...
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One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "tanks" are rock depressions that collected water, thus becoming attractive to settlers and passersby. For a time the area was ow... More
Manuel Gonzalez-Ortega, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The asociacion sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to prepare horses and riders f... More
Barn at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch tha...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
View of vintage car at the Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberr...
Hackberry was founded when prospectors found a rich vein of ore here in the 1870's. A large Hackberry tree grew by the spring and gave the town its name. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. ... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old car way out in the North Carolina countryside
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
Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona
Hackberry was founded when prospectors found a rich vein of ore here in the 1870's. A large Hackberry tree grew by the spring and gave the town its name. The ore played out, but the town of Hackberry hung on. T... More
Badlands, South Dakota - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United Stat... More
Barn, rural Montana - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
View of the Badlands. Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the ... More
View of Yosemite, California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Yosemite Valley is a world-famous scenic location in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. It is the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park, attractin... More
Mono Lake, California - A black and white photo of a body of water
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Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More
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
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
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