neighborhood

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood boy a haircut as siblings look on.

Adams House, built by W. T. Adams, the chief clerk of the Texas Depart...

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

Hand painted mural showing the Cuban flag and Che Guevara, in neighbor...

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 statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, gar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, located on Mt. Pleasant St. near intersecti...

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

Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

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

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

Neighborhood in Old Havana, Cuba

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

Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood...

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

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Bet...

Constructed in 1854 by members of McKendree Methodist Church (the "mother church" of Fletcher Chapel), making it one of the oldest surviving houses of worship in Washington, D.C. Title, date, subject note, and... More

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

Housed in a 19th century brick building, the market is located on 7th St., SE, a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol between North Carolina Ave. and C St. Badly damaged by an early-morning fire on April 30, 200... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Georgetown Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

The building was severely damaged by a fire on April 30, 2007. As a result, it underwent a complete renovation. Martinez & Johnson Architects, in partnership with Hoshide Williams, were hired to design the reno... More

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Members of two families, left to right: John and Nancy Kenyon, with so...

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

The "Hollyhock House," in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angel...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. Barnsdall originally intended the house to be part of an arts and theater comple... More

An art installation in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of ...

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

Mural in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The district, whic...

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

Canal that winds through the upscale neighborhood of Las Colinas in Ir...

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

Small businesses in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The dis...

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

Distinctive street art in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

Michelle Brown, a homeless woman who is a client of the Dallas Interna...

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

Pooch-themed art at the Deep Ellum "bark park," an off-leash dog park ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South ...

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

Distinctive urban art (mural) in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed l...

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

Yellowwood, a low-lying log structure in The Boulevards, an exclusive ...

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

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

India Street Neighborhood Study, 15-45 India Street, Nantucket, Nantuc...

Significance: Sixteen separate houses built between 1785 and 1836 that form a continuous facade along the street; an example of the typical Nantucket residential streetscape and architecture that existed at the... More

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View from the 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Comre. John Rodgers,...

Reference copy in LOT 4386-34. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View from the 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Comre. John Rodgers,...

Reference copy in LOT 4386-34. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Puente del Rio Grande de Arecibo, Spanning Rio Grande de Arecibo Chann...

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Puente del Rio Grande de Arecibo, Spanning Rio Grande de Arecibo Chann...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fourth Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5786 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1882 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1882- before. 1888 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Fourth Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5786 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1882 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1882- before. 1888 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Fourth Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5786 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1882 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1882- before. 1888 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-459 Survey number: HABS NJ-552 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-A Public domain photograph, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-B Public domain photograph of historic church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Mag...

Significance: The area within the City of Philadelphia known as "Tacony" is historically significant for its mid-nineteenth-century foundation as the southern terminus of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, ... More

Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...

Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More

Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...

Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More

Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...

Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More

Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...

Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More

Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...

Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More

Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...

Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More

Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...

Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More

Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...

Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More

In neighborhood of Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Lawrence Faircloth (taller...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam to standardize garmet sizes. Washington D.C., July 23. To en...

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Hired man and neighbor of Framk H. Shurtleff resting and chatting whil...

Photo shows Julia Flether, center, and Frederick Hurd, right, as identified by Irving Thomas Shurtleff, 2006.

An old photo of a woman cooking something, Kenntucky. Farm Security Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two horses pulling a sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admini...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two people on skis, Vermont. Farm Security ...

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

A group of people sitting around a table with jars on it. Office of Wa...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big e...

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

New York, New York. Italian-American Legionnaries marching in a parade...

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

New York, New York. Italian-American watching parade on Mott Street an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Nursery children at ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago (north), Illinois. Mrs. Alice Burns, who sings on the local ra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francis...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More

Quite fall scene in a Capitol Hill neighborhood in 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

Distant view of Washington, D.C., from the Rosslyn high-rise neighborh...

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 woman and child pass a neighborhood mural in New Orleans, Louisiana

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

Mother and children in a humble neighborhood, New Orleans, Louisiana

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

Slave cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood, 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

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood boy a haircut as siblings look on.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Neighborhood baseball team "T.A.B.S. Giants": James Smith, James Howa...

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of black-and-white photos in the collection of Marie O'Neill, who lives in Totowa, NJ.

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood boy a haircut as his mother looks on...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Carriage house at Yellowwood, a log structure in The Boulevards, an ex...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1911 as a hunting lodge. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

The statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, gar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Bet...

Constructed in 1854 by members of McKendree Methodist Church (the "mother church" of Fletcher Chapel), making it one of the oldest surviving houses of worship in Washington, D.C. Title, date, subject note, and... More

LeDroit Park, a neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

Housed in a 19th century brick building, the market is located on 7th St., SE, a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol between North Carolina Ave. and C St. Badly damaged by an early-morning fire on April 30, 200... More

Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood...

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

Anacostia neighborhood, SE, Washington, D.C.

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Mural located in SE neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Murals located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of NW, Washington, D.C...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

A DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) train arrives at the Deep Ellum sta...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

A storefront in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

View of the "Mustangs of Las Colinas" sculpture in the upscale Las Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1976, Dallas businessman Ben H. Carpenter, whose company had created Las Colinas, approached African wildlife artist Robert Glen to... More

Alonzo Taylor, a homeless man in a low-income neighborhood of Dallas, ...

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

One of three settings in an art installation called "Traveling Man" in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculptural series, designed by Brad Oldham, Brandon Oldenburg, and Reel FX Creative Studios, metaphorically represents various as... More

Garden path and blooming azaleas at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gard...

Public domain photograph - park, sign, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An art installation in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

Neighborhood Gardens, Eighth Street between Biddle & O'Fallon Streets,...

Significance: Commissioned by a local charitable organization, Neighborhood Gardens is an example of a project that succeeded in its goal to provide well-designed, privately funded, profitable, and low-cost hou... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, M...

Significance: The Columbus Historic District is approximately 166 acres of historic structures dating from 1828 to the late 1930s. This part of the city retains its original grid, wide tree lined streets, and s... More

Puente Blanco Bridge, Spanning Mosquito Control Channel, Barrio Palmas...

Significance: Puente Blanco is a skew, three-span, 15m.-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology of the 1920s to 1940s, still used in small structures. This technology was judged as... More

First Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Soulard Neighborhood Historic District, Saint Louis, Independent City,...

Survey number: HABS MO-275-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fourth Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-5786 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1882 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1882- before. 1888 Subsequent Work Buil... More