Noted member of Natural History Museum staff. Washington, D.C., April ...
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Largest perfect sphere of crystal in world now in National Museum. The...
A black and white photo of a man looking at a display case. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. Views, street scenes, and types. The Ira...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Air views of Palestine. Cairo and the pyramids. Cairo and the Nile. Co...
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Milwaukee Art Museum, War Memorial Center, 700 North Art Museum Drive,...
Survey number: HABS WI-370-A Building/structure dates: 1957 Initial Construction
Rosanna Ireland Babington Cast Iron Gravestone, Batsto Museum (moved f...
Survey number: HABS NJ-882 Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cairo. Museum. Statue of Tutankhamun, royal headress
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave. and 103rd St., New York City....
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave. and 103rd St., New York City....
Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Museum (Rockefeller) in Jerusalem. Museum. Tower & inner court, lookin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave. and 103rd St., New York City....
Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Government museum [Jerusalem] Middle East photographs, American Colony...
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Egypt. Cairo. Museum. Fine wooden cover ; fine wooden casket
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Charleston Museum, Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, Charleston County, Sou...
Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
At the travelling sideshow "crime museum" with the owner, an old war v...
Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bloomingdale Brothers, New York City. Set-up in Museum of Modern Art I...
Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. A.S. Barnes, Barnes Foundation. Museum view II
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. Courtya...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. Pennsyl...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. Stairca...
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Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Sculpture garden, Mus...
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Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York. Assyrian room
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[Dorothea Lange Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City,...
Photograph showing a general view of Dorothea Lange exhibition with images from the Remembrance of Asia and Egypt exhibits. 38 photographs on wall. On verso: R. Petersen, 1150. Photoprints by Dorothea Lange. Ti... More
[Dorothea Lange Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City,...
Photograph showing the introductory corridor leading to the Dorothea Lange exhibit; title panel hangs on center wall. 19 photographs on wall. On verso: R. Petersen, 1149. Photoprints by Dorothea Lange. Title ta... More
Gil Smith BB Catboat LORELEI, Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayvil...
Significance: Gil Smith of Patchogue, NY was one of the most prolific boat designers and builders on Long Island, perhaps crafting more than four hundred small boats from 1876 to 1936. Primarily building shall... More
Old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, Wes...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
Humboldt County Museum. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection
County Historical Museum formerly a church Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a c... More
Archaeological Excavation Team from the Lowie Museum Works on Remains ...
Doing historical and archaeological investigations at the former George Carrel Homestead, built ca. 1864 People in photograph: Prince, Eugene; Eisenmann, Lynn; Deetz, Jamey; Deetz, James
Marilyn Monroe is one of several celebrities memorialized in wax at Ma...
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
[Holocaust Museum glass wall with names of Holocaust victims, Washingt...
Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Title from similar image: LC-DIG-highsm-12562. Date provided by photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prin... More
Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
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
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
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
Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arling...
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
CAMH, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas
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
Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; ...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at The American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark, 83 Norwood Avenue, Haledon, New Jersey.
Old Rogers locomotive (obtained from the Republic of Panama) at the lo...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister stands beside machine ...
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.
Artist Doug Hyde's 1999 "Navajo Water Girl" stone sculpture at the Hea...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum was founded elsewhere in 1929 by Dwight B. and Maie Bartlett Heard to house their personal collection of art. Much of the a... More
A wall of the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally housed in three buildings at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial commemoration, the museum's principal location w... More
Museum of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Built between 1855 and 1857, the building originally served three functions. The top floor accommodated the Mayor of Mobile's office and served as the City Council's meeting place. The third and perhaps most im... More
Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...
Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More
Statue of "Folly" stands on the portal of the Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gr...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
A parlor in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house mu...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More
Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and Rickey Hende...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Christian Heurich House Museum, also known as The Brewmaster' Cast...
Built in 1892-1894 of poured concrete and reinforced steel by German immigrant, local brewer and philanthropist, Christian Heurich. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Dusk view of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, known locally...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The originating museum was first granted a charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery.... More
An 1859 larger-than-life anatomical model located in the Mobile Medica...
The museum is housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 and is one of the oldest structures in Mobile. This model was acquired in Paris by Josiah C. Nott for the Medical College of Alabama. Title, date, su... More
Dexter Parsonage Museum, Montgomery, Alabama
The Dexter Parsonage Museum, historic home to twelve pastors of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church from 1920-1992, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Martin Luther King ... More
Ornamental furniture detail in the Bayou Bend house museum, the Museum...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975), the collection is one of the finest show... More
Staircase at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally...
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
One of several parlors in the Bayou Bend house museum, the Museum of F...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975), the collection is one of the finest show... More
Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama
The 1903 Old Courthouse Museum offers permanent exhibitions on two famous Monroe County citizens: Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee. It is also the site of an annual three-week production of a stage version of... More
Dedication ceremony at the Hank Aaron Boyhood Home Museum at the Hank ...
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
Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known loc...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of red sandstone rusticated marble accents, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by ar... More
Pagoda Gate folly at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, an Ame...
It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), a renowned antiques collector and horticulturist. Until recently, it was known as the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Title, date and keywor... More
Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history muse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The garden is a partnership between Log Cabin Village and the Greater Fort Worth Herb Society. Staff of these organizations research a... More
Murals by John Augustus Walker on permanent display in the Museum of M...
John Augustus Walker (1901-1967) was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration. Walker's preferred... More
Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
The "Faerie Cottage" folly at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Librar...
It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), a renowned antiques collector and horticulturist. Until recently, it was known as the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. The Faerie Cottage is ... More
Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and ...
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
[Brass knuckles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride ...
; part of title from Ford's Theater Collection website. 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
Murals by John Augustus Walker on permanent display in the Museum of M...
John Augustus Walker (1901-1967) was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration. Walker's preferred... More
Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Earlyworks Children's History Museum, the South's largest hands-on his...
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
New England Carousel Museum, Bristol, Connecticut
Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Trompe l'oeil mural by artist Richard Haas outside the National Cowgir...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More
Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Muse...
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
Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Muse...
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 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
Dr Pepper advertising clock and other early memorabilia at the Dublin ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More
An old "dogtrot" cabin at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Muse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The 1850s Bass House, once the oldest house in Sherman, Texas, and hom...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin
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
2-year-old Gavin Olson of Savannah, Texas, feeds a friendly goat at th...
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
At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Martha Hepworth's 1964 creation, "Squares with Two Circles," at the Na...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Nasher Sculpture Center houses a collection of modern and contemporary sculpture on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum... More
Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More
Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap His...
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
Installation "Boolean Valley" by Adam Silverman at the Nasher Sculptur...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Nasher Sculpture Center houses a collection of modern and contemporary sculpture on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum... More
View inside the Pickard Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a living-history m...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built about 1855 in the Spring Creek area of Parker County, Texas, this 1 1/2-story cabin was home to a previous family before it was ... More
American Indian statuary inside the Heard Museu, a private, not-for-pr...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
1016-18 Sylvanie (Duplex), Museum Hill, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,...
Significance: This duplex is a contributing and distinct property type in the Museum Hill historic district which reflects the attempts by owners in the prestigious areas to create investment properties. Museu... More
1016-18 Sylvanie (Duplex), Museum Hill, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,...
Significance: This duplex is a contributing and distinct property type in the Museum Hill historic district which reflects the attempts by owners in the prestigious areas to create investment properties. Museu... More
1016-18 Sylvanie (Duplex), Museum Hill, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,...
Significance: This duplex is a contributing and distinct property type in the Museum Hill historic district which reflects the attempts by owners in the prestigious areas to create investment properties. Museu... More
Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Sa...
Significance: Museum Hill is a distinct residential area of St. Joseph, Missouri, that has architecturally significant buildings and historically relates to growth of the city. The area is significant in the h... More
Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Sa...
Significance: Museum Hill is a distinct residential area of St. Joseph, Missouri, that has architecturally significant buildings and historically relates to growth of the city. The area is significant in the h... More
Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...
Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519
Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...
Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519
Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...
Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519
Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...
Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519
Josiah Day House, Park Street Museum, West Springfield, Hampden County...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-176 Survey number: HABS MA-634
South gallery, Toledo Museum of Art
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Skipjack Caleb Jones, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Saint Michaels, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1236 Survey number: HAER MD-171 Building/structure dates: 1953 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 64000307
Metal Fantail Launch, Michigan Maritime Museum, South Haven, Van Buren...
Significance: Typical of launch designs in the early twentieth century, this boat is unique in its construction technique using metal seamed planking over oak ribs and keel. The individual stamped planks are c... More
Dorothea Lange Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, ...
Photograph showing the introductory corridor to the Dorothea Lange exhibit including a partial view of the images from the New California exhibit. Nine photographs on wall. On verso: R. Petersen, 1267. Photopri... More
DuPont Powder Mill, Hagley Museum, on Brandywine River, Greenville, Ne...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6, FN-7 Survey number: HABS DE-2 Building/structure dates: 1822 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000259
Have a date with us Free to you and your friends, motion pictures, con...
Poster announcing opportunity for the public to attend free programs, such as movies, concerts, exhibits, and tours, at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79 St., New York City, showi... More