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Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution "Castle," the museum co...

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

A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Na...

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

Measurement instrument, National Academy of Sciences, 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

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, on the National 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

Lake Mead National Recreation Area, formed when Boulder Dam (now Hoove...

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

Aerial view of Washington, D.C., featuring the National Mall's Reflect...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken before the building of the World War I... More

Bench on the 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

Pediment, National Academy of Sciences, 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

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washingt...

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

Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, Anti...

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

Sign on Van Houten Street, it reads: "City of Paterson, National Hist...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district. A former mill building, now an apartment building, is in the background.

Elizabeth A. Kasser wing of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, ...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. August Heimberger first rented-out the hotel in 1869 and kept it for 22 years. His wife took over on his death in 1889 and continued t... More

One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located al...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. They were installed in each of the twel... More

Centro Gallego, was a Galician social club in 1914. The National Balle...

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

The 1903 Tinker-Wright House, one of several fine houses in the Highla...

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

Participants in the "Million Indian March" on Washington, D.C., photog...

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

Exterior frieze, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to the audience at the De...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at the Democratic National Conventio...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Republican National Convention, September 1-4, 2008. Balloon drop at t...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to the audience at the Demo...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to the audience at the Demo...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Gr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

Trees draped with Spanish moss within the Santa Ana National Wildlife ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a golf field, park, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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

Sunday school chapel at The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the onl...

The church, located on the northeast corner of Dwight Way and Bowditch Street, was designed by Bernard Maybeck in 1910. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: T... More

Palm trees at the Desert Studies Center at the tiny settlement of Zzyz...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in ... More

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) along the coast of norther...

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

Buildings in Old Sacramento, a 28-acre National Historic Landmark Dist...

Old Sacramento features original and re-created buildings and other exhibits from the time of the California Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad in the mid-19th Century, restaurants, and theaters. Title... More

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 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

Tall palms surrounding an artificial pond called "Lake Tuendae" at the...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in ... More

Joshua Trees dot the desert in the Mojave National Preserve in Califor...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. According to the National Park Service, Mormon settlers named the Joshua tree after the biblical figure. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of Ca... More

Main Street in French Gulch, a tiny settlement west of Redding, Califo...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. French Gulch was founded by French miners in 1849 and became one of California's major gold producing areas. On August 14, 2004, the entire town of French... More

Redwood National and State Park on U.S. 101 in Northern 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

Double Branch Creek in Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Serv...

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

Resting bench along the trail in Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S....

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

Swampy section in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Pres...

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

Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

The view, once rated by National Geographic Magazine as one of America...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Parts of the town of Great Cacapon, West Virginia, can be seen in the distance to the left of the river. Land to the right of the rive... More

National emancipation mounment - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a rendition by architects Bullard & Bullard of a national monument to emancipation proposed for Springfield, Illinois, showing an obelisk topped with a statue of a Union soldier, and with other stat... More

Opening prayer. Republican National Convention, June 21, 1904

[Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate, at t...

Photograph shows half-length portrait of Hamer seated at a table. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470B, frame 17.

J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge, Dam 320, Along Lower Souris ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Debate on the tariff. Speech of Mr. Mallary of Vermont. House of repre...

Page Order: Reverse Folder Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 193, Folder 5.

Redwood National & State Parks Roads, California coast from Crescent C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Redwood National & State Parks Roads, California coast from Crescent C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 28, 1819, with Printed Pages from...

with Printed Pages from National Register

[William Jennings Bryan, full-length view with arms spread, standing n...

No. S104428. Photo published during the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California.

U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Auxiliary Buildings, Along Monongahela...

Survey number: HAER PA-380-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Auxiliary Buildings, Along Monongahela...

Survey number: HAER PA-380-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fifth District School, 8405 West National Avenue, West Allis, Milwauke...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Architecturally the building is significant because the four classroom building represents the transition from the simple one room log cabin type school house... More

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 472-550 Auburn Avenue ...

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More

[New National Museum of Natural History, Gallery, & Smithsonian Instit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indiana National Bank Building, 3 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, Mario...

Survey number: HABS IN-62 Building/structure dates: 1897 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campa...

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

Hinds Pump Plant, East of Joshua Tree National Monument, 5 miles north...

Survey number: HAER CA-246 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hinds Pump Plant, East of Joshua Tree National Monument, 5 miles north...

Survey number: HAER CA-246 Public domain photograph of water reservoir, lake, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Renderbrook-Spade Blacksmith Shop, National Ranching Heritage Center (...

Significance: Renderbrook Spring in southern Mitchell County was a famous landmark in early west Texas, used by Indians and the U.S. Calvary. The Snyder brothers established a buffalo-hunter's camp at the sprin... More

National Docks Branch Bridge N.D.2F, Spans former Central Railroad of ...

Significance: Bridge N.D.2F is significant as a highly intact and representative example of a riveted Pratt through truss railroad bridge, typical of late nineteenth and early twentieth century bridge engineeri... More

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 526 Auburn Avenue (Hou...

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More

Augustus Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Stables, Saint Gaudens ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-60 Survey number: HABS NH-196-G National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000120

Bairfield School, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Farm R...

Significance: Bairfield School was built in the late 1880's near Rushing Bull Springs in Donley County. Built as a box and strip house, the building has since acquired siding. At each corner and on two sides, c... More

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Headquarters Complex, Quarters No...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Headquarters Complex, Quarters No...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Antietam National Battlefield, Observation Tower, Richardson Avenue, S...

Significance: Antietam's stone Observation Tower was built during the War Department's era of battlefield preservation and interpretation. In 1890, congressional legislation gave the War Department oversight o... More

Commercial National Bank, 20 East Martin Street, Raleigh, Wake County,...

Significance: The Commercial National Bank is a ten-story steel and reinforced concrete tri-partie form building rendered in the Gothic Revival style. Its exterior is faced with tan brick and is embellished wit... More

Commercial National Bank, 20 East Martin Street, Raleigh, Wake County,...

Significance: The Commercial National Bank is a ten-story steel and reinforced concrete tri-partie form building rendered in the Gothic Revival style. Its exterior is faced with tan brick and is embellished wit... More

National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, ...

Significance: In William Mann's "A Brief History of the Zoo," penned in 1946 while he was director, he wrote that "in 1935 the Zoo had a great stroke of good luck [when] the Public Works Administration allotted... More

National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, ...

Significance: In William Mann's "A Brief History of the Zoo," penned in 1946 while he was director, he wrote that "in 1935 the Zoo had a great stroke of good luck [when] the Public Works Administration allotted... More

National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, ...

Significance: In William Mann's "A Brief History of the Zoo," penned in 1946 while he was director, he wrote that "in 1935 the Zoo had a great stroke of good luck [when] the Public Works Administration allotted... More

Washington National Mounment, Washington, D.C., engraving, Library of ...

V2822 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hunter.

Grand National Republican banner, US Democratic party

Print shows a campaign banner for the 1876 Republican presidential ticket. Bust portraits of Ohio governor Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler are framed with laurel wreaths. Above them hang swags of dra... More