national parks

Silver Mountain Peak; altitude 11,000 feet; Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 916. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Yo-Semite Fall, (2634 feet high) from head of valley

3560 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1222. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Bridal Veil Fall, (940 feet high) from the Harding Trail

3541 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1203. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

North Dome, (3725 feet above valley) from Hutchings'

4442 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1225. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Yo-Semite Fall, (2634 feet high) from near Hutchings', with excursion ...

3554 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1216. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Yowiye, or the Nevada Fall, and Mt. Broderick, Yosemite Valley, Maripo...

No. 1084. Part of series: Watkins' Pacific Coast. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg ... More

Pompompasos, or the Three Brothers, 4480 feet, Yosemite Valley, Maripo...

No. 1015. Part of series: Watkins' Pacific Coast. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg ... More

Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa co., Cal.

Original negative number: 3084. Part of series: Watkins' New Series, [of Pacific Coast Views].

[Rosengarten Group from Pelagoturm, Tyrol, Austro-Hungary]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "17414". Caption on item: Tirol. Delagoturm. Stabeler & Winklerturm (Vajoletturme... More

[The Bastion, a view, Saxony, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1645". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Lauterbrunnen Valley, Staubbach and White Lutschine, Bernese Oberland...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1622". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Devil's Glen. County Wicklow, Ireland]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12031". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[Lauterbrunnen Valley, Jungfrau and White Lutschine, Bernese Oberland,...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1579". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Eide Skjervefos, Hardanger Fjord, Norway] view, photochrome print pos...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. 7007. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http... More

[Lake Loppio, Lake Garda, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8651". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[The Lower Karersee, Tyrol, Austro-Hungary]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9347". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom pri... More

[Petra]. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph.

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petra, Extinct City, Jordan. American colony in Jerusalem public domai...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On transparency sleeve: #4, pos. On transparency: 4. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Van Horn Range and Emerald Lake, British Columbia [i.e. Yoho Park Rese...

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Van Horn Range from Field, British Columbia

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Vid s Chertova Gorodishcha - Color separation negative, public domain

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Kamenʹ Stolby. [Ri︠e︡ka Chusovai︠a︡]

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Vladivostok Fortress, Fortification No. 9, (1914), view west toward Am...

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Grand Canyon. South rim of Grand Canyon with dead tree

Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More

A black and white photo of the grand canyon. Great Depression FFSA / O...

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White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a landscape. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Stanley Lake, Custer County, Idaho

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Building in the mountains of Lachung, Sikkim]

Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 063 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).

Old Paria (Pahrea) movie set, Utah

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Monument Valley "Thumb," Arizona

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

Multnomah Falls, one of many waterfalls along the Columbia River Gorge...

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

Lookout Point Reservoir in central Oregon

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

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which is mostly in Arizona but spi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Distant view of Haceta Head Lighthouse, Yachats, Oregon

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Wildflowers in the harsh Arizona desert

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

Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone forma...

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

View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Ari...

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

Formation on the rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

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

Colorado's Delores River Valley in autumn

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Arizona's painted desert

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

Wintertime view of the remote Lamar Valley, in the northeasternmost re...

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

A buffalo, or American bison, strikes a nonchalant pose on a snow-cove...

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

A bald eagle surveys its surroundings high above the northernmost Wyom...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As you can tell in this photograph, bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from the word "piebald," familiar to America's... More

View of Great Falls on the Passaic River.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal river. "Safety Board" with statistics obscured. Southern West Vir...

Event: Tour of Kaymoor, an Early Coal and Coke Community, Now Abandoned.

Mouth of closed mine - A couple of kids standing next to each other

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. America's first declared national monument (in 1906), the formation is an "igneous intrusion," formed when molten lava deep beneath th... More

Dilapidated outhouse at the Holzwarth Site in Rocky Mountain National ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. John Holzwarth Sr., a German immigrant, moved to the Kawuneeche Valley in 1917 after his job as a saloon-keeper in Denver came to an a... More

View of the rushing Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow G...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route was originally opened in 1882 by... More

Teapot Rock, a distinctive sedimentary rock formation in Natrona Count...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Curiously, the fields were named, not for the rock formation but for the large, rounded dome on which the "teapot" stands. Over time, ... More

Scenic view, Arizona - 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

Fish Lake outside of Talkeetna, Alaska

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

Mount Foraker, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount Foraker is a 17,400-foot (5,304 m) tall mountain in the central Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, 14 mi (23 km) southwest of Mount McKinley. It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the... More

Alpine Spire, Ruth Gorge, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National P... More

Mount Hunter, Denali National Park, Alaska

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

Monument Valley View, Arizona - 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

Tourist Attraction - Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama

R.A. Mitchell, gave the site to the city of Gadsden. The Falls drop into the Black Creek ravine and are marked with a bronze statue of Cherokee princess Noccalula who, according to local legends, jumped off a c... More

Agate Bridge, the most famous of the individual petrified tree specime...

The park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called... More

"Scotty's Castle" in Death Valley, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. An anomalous attraction in Death Valley, it is removed from most of the park in its far-northern reaches near the Nevada border. Death Valley Ranch, as th... More

Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, Californi...

Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean which has caused high levels of salts to accumulate. The lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine... More

Views from 17-Mile Drive, a scenic road through Pacific Grove and Pebb...

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

June Lake, a census-designated place in Mono County, 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

Aerial view of Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, California

Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after Los Angeles pioneer civil engineer William Mulholland. Title, date, and keywords provided by... More

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More

View of coast from Muir Beach overlook in Muir Beach, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Scenic view: roadside metal sculptures north of Adin, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, 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

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El ...

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

Scene from Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, 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

Scene from Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, 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

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

Rock formation in Park County, Wyoming's, Absaroka Mountains, east of ...

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

Mountain view along the "Million Dollar Highway" in Ouray County, betw...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though the entire 25 miles between those old mining towns carries the nickname, it is the 12 miles immediately south of Ouray through ... More

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, ca...

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

View of the Shenandoah River at Harpers Ferry, 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

The most magnificent peaks of the Teton Mountains appear to leap strai...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, ca...

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

Rocks above Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir in Natrona County, Wyoming. I...

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

A railroad bridge crosses the Boysen Reservoir, formed by the damming ...

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

This ponderosa pine is a venerated object at the A Bar A guest ranch, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Clouds swirl over Monument Valley, a red-sand desert wonderland that i...

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

View of the distant Cascade Mountains along the Wenatchee River near t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

View of Salt River Canyon, which bisects the entire length of a 32,101...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. U.S. Route 60 and Arizona State Route 77 traverse a winding (some drivers say harrowing) route through the canyon, descending close to... More

View of Grand Canyon National Park, which protects a steep-sided and w...

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

Havasu Falls, the most famous of five Havasupai Falls in Havasu Canyon...

There are no roads into the canyon, but its five Havasupai Falls are enough of an attraction that hikers (who must register with and pay a fee to the tribe) make an arduous trek that can last three days in and ... More

A Verde Canyon cliffside outside Clarkdale, Arizona

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

Courtroom at the Tombstone Courthouse National Historic Park (actually...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tombstone, the dusty spot in southeastern Arizona has remained viable by recreating its "Town Too Tough To Die" days of the 1880s, whe... More

View of Mormon Lake, a perennially partially dry large lakebed in Nort...

As the United States Forest Service puts it, it "is the largest natural lake in Arizona . . . sometimes. During droughts it's frequently not so large, and not so much a lake. Occasionally it's even bone dry. We... More

One of several murals by Hopi painter Fred Kabotie within the Desert V...

The 277-mile-long canyon, formed over two billion years by the Colorado River in northern Arizona, is the United States' second-most-visited national park, behind the vast Great Smoky Mountain park far to the e... More

Part of the observation tower of the Desert View Watchtower, a 70-foot...

The 277-mile-long canyon, formed over two billion years by the Colorado River in northern Arizona, is the United States' second-most-visited national park, behind the vast Great Smoky Mountain park far to the e... More

Scene along the Sol Duc River, deep in Olympic National Park on the ea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surr...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vodopad Sar na Vygozeri︠e︡, color separation ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, West Dam, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier ...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-B Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Cannon Mt. and Profile House, Franconia Notch, White Mts., N.H.

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Down Bow River, Alberta, Canada, mammoth plate negative

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[Cathedral Rocks, with lake and trees in foreground, Yosemite Valley, ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Toltec Gorge, Colorado. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yosemite Falls, 2634 ft. high. View from the Merced River

Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite, California. No. 145. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mix... More