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[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Garden entrance]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

Site History. Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1897, 1902, 1912. Landscape: Warren Henry Manning. Today: Museum extant with landscape modifications. Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwa... More

Archaeologist Henry Chapman Mercer collected more then 50,000 antebellum farm implments and tools that became the heart of the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Archaeologist Henry Chapman Mercer collected more then 50,000 antebell...

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

National Building Museum Atrium, Washington, D.C.

National Building Museum Atrium, 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

Elvis Museum. Exhibit with Elvis Presley's personal belongings in Las Vegas, Nevada

Elvis Museum. Exhibit with Elvis Presley's personal belongings in Las ...

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

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, New York

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum located on the Upper East Side of Man...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Guggenheim is a well-known museum located on the Up... More

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

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.

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, 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

Alley scene along the recreated "Boomtown USA" at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. The figure against the wall is an animatronic townsperson, down on his luck, who tells some of the story of the rip-snorting town

Alley scene along the recreated "Boomtown USA" at the East Texas Oil M...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in d... More

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Coll...

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

Swedish-American Museum, 5248 N. Clark, Andersonville, Illinois

Swedish-American Museum, 5248 N. Clark, Andersonville, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-8, at the Swedish-American Museum, 5248 N, Clark, Andersonville, candlabra carved by Ivar Antonsson; 9-12, Halmslojd (straw work) by Selma Jacobson; 13-14, exterior of Swedish-Ame... More

Algeria. Algiers. Museum - Public domain historic place print

Algeria. Algiers. Museum - Public domain historic place print

Stone tablet, with bust, declaring Maréchal Comte Clauzel Galerie in an Algiers museum. No. 3733.

Political Museums, Union Sq. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Political Museums, Union Sq. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Solomon D. Butcher working on his collection at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Solomon D. Butcher working on his collection at the Nebraska State His...

summary: Note the stacks of prints and glass plates on the table in front of Butcher. original size: 6x8

Heads, mummies and Indian relics. The heads and mummies were made by Homer Tate and the mummies were so realistic that curators of museums must examine them closely to determine their artificiality. Indian relics are geunuine. Safford, Arizona

Heads, mummies and Indian relics. The heads and mummies were made by H...

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

Basement Museum. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Basement Museum. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Occupants: Boggio, Joe and Geraldine Museum in basement of main residence The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the Library of ... More

[New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York]

[New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York]

Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff with information from nysci.org website, 2015. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith... More

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Visitor's guide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Visitor's guide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, ...

Each map is a color-coded floorplan. Panel title. Title at upper left: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Includes text and color-coded diagram of exhibition floors. Text, location map, and ill. on verso.... More

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

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.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

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.

Lobby mural "Contemporary Youth" at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Lobby mural "Contemporary Youth" at the East Texas Oil Museum on the c...

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

The Robert Frost Stone House, which became a museum in 2002, in Shaftsbury, Vermont

The Robert Frost Stone House, which became a museum in 2002, in Shafts...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Robert Frost came to Shaftsbury in 1920 at the height of his career as a poet. He owned two farms during the twenty-year period he liv... More

William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama

William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama

Sci-Quest is a hands-on science center with more than 100 permanent, interactive exhibits in seven different subject areas. Unlike a typical "museum," Sci- Quest's exhibits are designed to engage, educate and e... More

The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas

The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborho...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1893, for German-born sculptor Elisabet Ney, the limestone building is singular piece of vernacular architecture. After ... More

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, California

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...

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

Art at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two art museums that are part of the Getty Museum

Art at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two art mus...

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

One of seven castings of sculptor Buck McCain's bronze "Invocation" scupture, which stands outside the Stark Museum of Western Art in Orange, Texas

One of seven castings of sculptor Buck McCain's bronze "Invocation" sc...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. According to the McCain's website, the idea for the monument of a mounted Plains Indian holding high a buffalo skull came to him in a... More

Swedish-American Museum, 5248 N. Clark, Andersonville, Chicago, Illinois

Swedish-American Museum, 5248 N. Clark, Andersonville, Chicago, Illino...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-10, carvings by Ivar Antonsson at Swedish American Museum, 5248 N. ... More

[Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Site plan including Church Street and museums] / P. Rudolph '61.

[Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticu...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation control number 2.08.1940.1.

1968, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Mies van der Rohe

1968, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Mies van der Rohe

Architectural photograph shows the exterior of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum, a museum for modern art in Berlin, Germany which was designed by Mies van der Rohe. Title and d... More

Hirshhorn façade, Washington National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Hirshhorn façade, Washington National Mall, 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

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto House.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto ...

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.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

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.

View of Washington, D.C., taken from the Washington Monument

View of Washington, D.C., taken from the Washington Monument

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

Memorials and museums master plan : [Washington D.C.] /

Memorials and museums master plan : [Washington D.C.] /

Shows existing and planned museums/memorials/monuments and the official designated areas for their sites. Relief shown by shading on some maps. Title from panel. Includes text, index of plan framework sites, in... More

Animatronic lineman above the recreated street at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Animatronic lineman above the recreated street at the East Texas Oil M...

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

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Coll...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil fie... More

Part of an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Part of an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Mu...

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

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Trinidad History Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire River on the northern end of the Raton Pass leading into New Mexico

The Trinidad History Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Scene at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on what Marylanders call the Eastern Shore, an area of nine rural counties, only part of which is actually on or near the Atlantic Ocean shore. As its name suggests, the museum is on the western

Scene at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on what Ma...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Tenement Museum, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 97 Orchard Street, New York, New York

Tenement Museum, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 97 Orc...

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 on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tene... More

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Exterior of Botto House viewed from across the street.

Exterior of Botto House viewed from across the street.

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

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum interpreter, stands beside twisting machine he used to operate; the machine is a Barber-Coleman warp tying-in machine.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto House.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto ...

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.

Detail of the Bloch Building, Nelson Atkins Museum Bloch, Kansas City, Missouri

Detail of the Bloch Building, Nelson Atkins Museum Bloch, Kansas City,...

Completed in 2007, "The Bloch Building is a significant work of contemporary architecture by Steven Holl Architects that is woven harmoniously into the surrounding landscape of the Kansas City Sculpture Park." ... More

Zack Masaitis poses with a mask in the ArtWorks exhibit at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

Zack Masaitis poses with a mask in the ArtWorks exhibit at the Montgom...

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

Mobile Medical Museum housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 and is one of the oldest structures in Mobile, Alabama

Mobile Medical Museum housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 a...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More

1930s exhibit view of a typical doctor's office located in the Mobile Medical Museum, which is housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 and is one of the oldest structures in Mobile, Alabama

1930s exhibit view of a typical doctor's office located in the Mobile ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More

The Central Pacific Railroad's "Gov. Stanford" locomotive No. 1 is one of the most popular attraction at the California State Museum in the "Old Sacramento" section of California's capital city

The Central Pacific Railroad's "Gov. Stanford" locomotive No. 1 is one...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Ki...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The scene depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. hi... More

Stained-glass tribute to Texas oil pioneers H.L. Hunt, "Dad" Joiner, and "Doc" Lloyd at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Stained-glass tribute to Texas oil pioneers H.L. Hunt, "Dad" Joiner, a...

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

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campu...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, in Charleston

The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, in Charles...

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

Photographer Solomon D. Butcher working on his collections of photographs at the Nebraska State Historical Society facility in the Library at the University of Nebraska

Photographer Solomon D. Butcher working on his collections of photogra...

summary: Note: This photograph was taken in the Nebraska State Historical Society facility located in the second Nebraska State Capitol. original size: 6x8

1968, Mies van de Rohe, Berlin Museum

1968, Mies van de Rohe, Berlin Museum

Architectural photograph shows the interior of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), a museum for modern art in Berlin, Germany which was designed by Mies van der Rohe. Title and date from informatio... More

Detail of Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, New York

Detail of Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, New York

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

Exhibit that tells the story of the Spindletop gusher at the Gladys City Boomtown Museum, Beaumont, Texas

Exhibit that tells the story of the Spindletop gusher at the Gladys Ci...

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

Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum, McLean, Texas

Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum, McLean, 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

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum interpreter, stands beside twisting machine he used to operate; the machine is a Barber-Coleman warp tying-in machine.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister stands beside machine he used to operate--a Barber-Coleman warp tying-in machine; Balister now works as an interpreter at the museum.

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.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum interpreter, stands beside twisting machine he used to operate; the machine is a Barber-Coleman warp tying-in machine.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister, who works as a museum...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, in Fort Worth, Texas

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, in Fort Worth, Texas

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

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, California

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...

The main focus of the museum is the history of Kern County, including Bakersfield. One prominent features is its Pioneer Village with over 50 original buildings from around the county. Title, date, and keywords... More

Store window inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Store window inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore...

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

Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of 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

A jukebox inside the period soda fountain at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

A jukebox inside the period soda fountain at the East Texas Oil Museum...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit, just off the depiction of a crowded and muddy Main Street, describes "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during ... More

Image of a local boy made good: rock-'n'-roll superstar singer and songwriter Roy Orbison, on the side of a tiny museum honoring him in tiny Wink, Texas

Image of a local boy made good: rock-'n'-roll superstar singer and son...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: T.A.R. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of C... More

The Parkersburg Oil and Gas Museum in the old W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The Parkersburg Oil and Gas Museum in the old W. H. Smith Hardware Com...

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

Scene at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on what Marylanders call the Eastern Shore, an area of nine rural counties, only part of which is actually on or near the Atlantic Ocean shore. As its name suggests, the museum is on the western

Scene at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on what Ma...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Since the Turkish success in Asia Minor the red flag of Turkey with its white crescent flies daily from the houses or mosques of Mohammedan worship

Since the Turkish success in Asia Minor the red flag of Turkey with it...

Photograph show Hagia Irene (Hagia Eirene) church, in Istanbul, Turkey, which was used as a military museum from 1908 to 1978. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1338. In album: European... More

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto House.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto ...

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.

One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce in the old Mobley Hotel

One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The second floor serves as a small museum; the furnished room depicts a typical Mobley Hotel bathroom from the hotel's heyday. Built i... More

"Grape Jelly," the whimsical name of a featured exhibit in the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

"Grape Jelly," the whimsical name of a featured exhibit in the Lyda Hi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit displays split views of an unusual, grape-colored geode, a hollow, loosely formed masses of mineral matter. Originally ho... More

Teepees at the National Museum of the American Indian, SW, Washington, D.C.

Teepees at the National Museum of the American Indian, SW, Washington,...

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

At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

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

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, the 14-story building, which open... More

"From the Outside In," a display of photographs on the atria windows of the Harry Ransom Center, an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin

"From the Outside In," a display of photographs on the atria windows 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

Street corner recreated inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Street corner recreated inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus...

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

Humboldt County Museum. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

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

Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arlington, Virginia, before it moved to a new location on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

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

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

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.

Exterior of Botto House with large sign in foreground.

Exterior of Botto House with large sign in foreground.

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.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Sam Balister pulls warp ends through the reed of an entering frame.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Retired textile industry "twister" Sam Balister stands beside machine he used to operate--a Barber-Coleman warp tying-in machine; Balister now works as an interpreter at the museum.

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.

A wall of the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

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

Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama

Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama

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

An 1859 larger-than-life anatomical model located in the Mobile Medical Museum, Mobile, Alabama

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

At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

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

Barnum's American Museum illustrated

Barnum's American Museum illustrated

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Cover title. Copy 2 formerly shelved in Reserve Storage.

Folklife resources in New Jersey

Folklife resources in New Jersey

Includes index. Also available in digital form.

Barnum's American Museum illustrated

Barnum's American Museum illustrated

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Cover title. Copy 2 formerly shelved in Reserve Storage.

Photographer Solomon D. Butcher working on his collections of photographs at the Nebraska State Historical Society facility in the Library at the University of Nebraska

Photographer Solomon D. Butcher working on his collections of photogra...

summary: Note: This photograph was taken in the Nebraska State Historical Society facility located in the second Nebraska State Capitol. original size: 6x8

Who's who in the zoo Illustrated natural history prepared by the WPA Federal Writers Project : On sale at all book stores, zoos, and museums.

Who's who in the zoo Illustrated natural history prepared by the WPA F...

Poster advertising WPA Federal Writers' Project illustrated guide to natural history. Date stamped on verso: Jun 4 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Attributed to Sidne... More

Train locomotive, Mid-Continent Museum, Wisconsin

Train locomotive, Mid-Continent Museum, Wisconsin

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

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