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Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Artist: Kenneth Washburn. An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title infor... More

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...

Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

Mural. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More

Mural "Replanting the Wasteland," by Ernest Fiene at the Department of...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 107" x 77"; medium: oil Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Mural: "Apple Industry," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Inte...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 107" x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

World's Fair, Italian Line restaurant, Italian Building. Mural in dini...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held ... More

Pan American Airways, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Mural II

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Julien Binford, Falmouth, Virginia. Mural I

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Mural in Bird ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Essex House, W. 59th St., New York City. Mural from terrace

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Springfield Institution for Savings, Springfield, Massachusetts. Mural

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

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...

Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

Mural "Ceremonial Dance," by Stephen Mopope at the Department of Inter...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 72" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

Mural "Education," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interio...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 107" x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

[Second Floor, North Corridor. Mural depicting Knowledge by Robert Rei...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, West Corridor. Mural of Chemistry by Walter Shirlaw. Li...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Urania (Ast...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Clio (Histo...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Thalia (Com...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

American Gothic Mural, Columbus, Ohio

In the Short North, Grant Wood's best-known work, American Gothic, gets turned on its head, well at least the woman in the painting does. This 2002 take on WoodÆs original painting was done by artists Steve Gal... More

Mural located in SE neighborhood, 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

Mural on a building in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. For... More

[Second floor, north corridor. Mural depicting Smell of the Five Sense...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural: Real Estate and Land Co. in Truckee, an unincorporated town in ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Truckee is best known today for its often-snowbound pass "Donner Pass" through the High Sierras. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California... More

Mural along Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, 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

Mural "A Page from Our Past" in Burney, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural outside the regionally famous Cattleman's Steakhouse, which is l...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More

Mural at 24th an Guadalupe streets in Austin, Texas, near the Universi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title: Le Bonheur de Vivre, by Doug Jacques and his students at Austin Community College in 1998 (Source: Austin Chronicle) Cre... More

Mural depicting one of the 10 mills in the area in the 1850s. Painted ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Part of artist Patrick Westphal's series of murals depicting the history of Kerr County. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection ... More

Mural outside the regionally famous Cattleman's Steakhouse, which is l...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Signed: MAF IIX, X- XI. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library o... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Fra...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More

Mural "The Meaning of Social Security" by Ben Shahn located at the Wil...

Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More

Mural on the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California

Mural: Ghosts of Pantages Dedication, 1930. Created July-September 2000 by James Hamblin, Jim Piper, and Matthew Witmer. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace ... More

Mural: "Education," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interi...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Mural showing Native Americans on horseback by artist Crumbo at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a painting on a wall. Great D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. FSA (Farm Security Administration), later U.S. Office of War Info...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. Mural

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Schrafft's, 990 Madison Ave., New York City. Mural in dining room I

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

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thom...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

Mural "Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona," by Frank MacKenzie at ...

Date: 1928; dimensions: 84" x 178 3/4"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Mural "Ceremonial Shields & Bull's Head," by Stephen Mopope at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 42" x 576". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

Mural: Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, by Edgar Britton at th...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 106" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Mural "Harvest Dance" by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior, ...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 96" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

[Second Floor, South Corridor. Mural of Winter by Frank W. Benson unde...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Comedy in the Literature...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, West Corridor. Mural of Archaeology by Walter Shirlaw. ...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Tradition in the Literat...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, South Corridor. Mural of Summer by Frank W. Benson unde...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural above the J.H. Conrad & Company General Store, Sheridan, Wyoming

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

Mural in Chinatown in Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

[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.

[Second floor, north corridor. Mural depicting Taste of the Five Sense...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural "City of Barstow, Inc. 1947" created by Main Street Murals in Ba...

Mural information from Main Street Murals website, 2013. Settlement of Barstow began in the late 1840s in the Mormon Corridor. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lov... More

Mural along Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, 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

Mural "Pastime" located in the Western Addition of San Francisco, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural at the Chamizal National Memorial, located in El Paso, Texas, al...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The memorial is a National Park Service site commemorating the peaceful settlement of the Chamizal boundary dispute, a more than 100-... More

Mural on side of La Chiquita Bakery depicting Mexican-American family ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More

The Boxing Hall of Fame mural, saluting famous boxers from El Paso, on...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Jose [?]oz and Moises Garcia. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Proj... More

[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...

According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More

Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Mural detail at Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Mural in post office. Dover, Delaware

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural: "Winter Roundup," by Ernest Fiene at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 94" x 69 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit ... More

Mural "Country Post," by Doris Lee at the Ariel Rios Federal Building,...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 6' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael Newell at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 114 1/2" x 234 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

World's Fair, Y.M.C.A. Mural on west wall

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martin's department store, business in Brooklyn, New York. Mural with ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Stouffer's Westgate, Cleveland, Ohio. Mural in private dining room

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural of sardine fishermen repairing their nets along Cannery Row, Mon...

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

Mural painting "Discovery of Gold" by Candido Portinari, on the vestib...

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

Mural to Country Music in Bristol, Virginia

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

Mural "Dangers of the Mail," by Frank Albert Mechau, Jr. at the Ariel ...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More

Mural: The Homestead and Building of the Barbed Wire Fence, by John St...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 109" x 235"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

Mural "Opening of the Midwest," by Robert Francis White at Federal Bui...

Date: 1937; medium: tempera. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in th... More

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Melpomene (...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second floor, north corridor. Mural depicting Touch and another of th...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor, North Corridor. Mural depicting Wisdom by Robert Reid. ...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Northeast Pavilion. Detail view of Mural in Ceiling dome. Library of ...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Erato (Love...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural, U St. near 14th 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

Mural with Wagon Wheel Restaurant on Route 66 in Needles, California

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Located in the Mohave Valley of the Mojave Desert on the western banks of the Colorado River in San Ber... More

Mural "Hellbent" in Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of L...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M... More

Mural "The Bridge" near City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Californ...

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

A portion of a colorful street mural in downtown Brownsville, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Lucia Quezada and Al Garza, Jr., 2002. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's Ame... More

Mural on the wall of the Victory Grill, a longtime "juke joint" on 11t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Photo shows portion of mural painted by the Trust Your Struggle mural collective of soul musician Lavelle White (Source: The Austin C... More

Mural on the wall of the Masons Clinic, a low-income medical and denta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Libr... More

Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More

Mural showing Native Americans on horseback by A. Houser at the Interi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Mural: "Science," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 107"x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

World's Fair, Italian Line restaurant, Italian Building. Mural alcove

Public domain photograph of restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in ... More

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael Newell at the Dep...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 114 1/2" x 234 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More