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Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

View looking N.W., street unidentified

View looking N.W., street unidentified

Forms part of: D.C. Street Survey Collection. Public domain photograph, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kirkegade, General View, Church Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Kirkegade, General View, Church Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Survey number: HABS VI-108 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. The children from the nearby farms and neighborhoods go swimming, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in the lake

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. ...

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A woman in a dress is playing with a rope. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman in a dress is playing with a rope. Office of War Information P...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a woman holding a rope. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman holding a rope. Office of War Infor...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

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

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

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

Façades and details in residential neighborhoods in Old Havana, Cuba

Façades and details in residential neighborhoods 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

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

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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

An October 2017 aerial view of a suburban neighborhood between South Portland and Scarborough, Maine, near the Portland International Airport

An October 2017 aerial view of a suburban neighborhood between South P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington County, SD

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington Coun...

Significance: The Main Street District borders the Rapid City Historic Commercial District which was a commercial center for transient miners in the 1870s and soon became the whole-sale center for western South... More

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington County, SD

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington Coun...

Significance: The Main Street District borders the Rapid City Historic Commercial District which was a commercial center for transient miners in the 1870s and soon became the whole-sale center for western South... More

Anaconda Historic District, Park & Commercial Streets, Main Street vicinity, Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, MT

Anaconda Historic District, Park & Commercial Streets, Main Street vic...

Significance: Anaconda was established in 1885 by Marcus Daly on Warm Springs Creek, as the site of the smelter for the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company. The site was selected for its proximity to the mines a... More

Anaconda Historic District, Park & Commercial Streets, Main Street vicinity, Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, MT

Anaconda Historic District, Park & Commercial Streets, Main Street vic...

Significance: Anaconda was established in 1885 by Marcus Daly on Warm Springs Creek, as the site of the smelter for the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company. The site was selected for its proximity to the mines a... More

Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Sa...

Significance: Museum Hill is a distinct residential area of St. Joseph, Missouri, that has architecturally significant buildings and historically relates to growth of the city. The area is significant in the h... More

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seekonk & Providence Rivers, Providence, Providence County, RI

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...

Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seekonk & Providence Rivers, Providence, Providence County, RI

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...

Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seekonk & Providence Rivers, Providence, Providence County, RI

College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...

Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More

High Uptown Neighborhood, Second Avenue from 1523 to 1645, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

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, Muscogee County, GA

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

Wilcox Road Historic District, Wilcox Road, Stonington, New London County, CT

Wilcox Road Historic District, Wilcox Road, Stonington, New London Cou...

Significance: The Wilcox Road Historic District possesses local significance as a concentrated collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century residential buildings in a rare, well-preserved rural co... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula, Bounded by Lanakila & Laniwai Avenues, Kaiapo Canal & shoreline, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula...

Significance: This block is significant as the only remaining area with buildings from the pre-World War II civilian history of the peninsula, and for its association with the Navy history of this peninsula dur... More

Fourth Ward Neighborhood, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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

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

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

Johnsontown Historic District, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Johnsontown Historic District, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Survey number: HABS GA-38 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1933 Initial Construction

King Street Area Study, King Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
King Street Area Study, King Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
Brooklyn Green, North Green, South Green, & West Green, parts of Brown Road, Canterbury Road (Route 169), Hartford Road (Route 6), Hyde Road, Pomfret Road (Route 169), Prince Hill Road, Providence Road (Route 6), Wauregan Road (Routes 169 & 205), & Wolf Den Road, Brooklyn, Windham County, CT

Brooklyn Green, North Green, South Green, & West Green, parts of Brown...

Significance: Little altered since the mid-nineteenth century, Brooklyn Green is significant as a small, rural area that still retains much of its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material heritage. The phys... More

Brooklyn Green, North Green, South Green, & West Green, parts of Brown Road, Canterbury Road (Route 169), Hartford Road (Route 6), Hyde Road, Pomfret Road (Route 169), Prince Hill Road, Providence Road (Route 6), Wauregan Road (Routes 169 & 205), & Wolf Den Road, Brooklyn, Windham County, CT

Brooklyn Green, North Green, South Green, & West Green, parts of Brown...

Significance: Little altered since the mid-nineteenth century, Brooklyn Green is significant as a small, rural area that still retains much of its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material heritage. The phys... More

DuPont Circle, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

DuPont Circle, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: Shown as a large amorphous open space on L'Enfant's plan and a neat circle on Ellicott's plan, the open space at this ten-point intersection has served as a park since its first improvement in 187... More

Medina Ambarîje oder Rischādîje, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels. Rechts ägyptisches Pilgerhaus. Links Kaserne.

Medina Ambarîje oder Rischādîje, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels. Rechts...

Image shows the main street of the Western quarter. Views of the Egyptian pilgrim house to the right and army barracks to the left. No. 64 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina, Nord Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin ... More

Cambria City & Minersville Neighborhoods, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Cambria City & Minersville Neighborhoods, Johnstown, Cambria County, P...

Written data includes a photocopy of a location map. Survey number: HABS PA-5672 Building/structure dates: 1853 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work

Wagner Heights, Bounded by Wheaton & Adair Streets, Hillcrest & Catholic Cemeteries, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Wagner Heights, Bounded by Wheaton & Adair Streets, Hillcrest & Cathol...

Significance: The Wagner Heights neighborhood is historically significant due to the history of its development as demonstrated by its architecture. It represents an example of early twentieth century urban re... More

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Significance: Nicodemus, Kansas, represents the earliest and most prosperous midwestern black settlement associated with the massive westward migration of former slaves out of the south during Reconstruction. ... More

St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO

St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...

Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More

Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Magee Street, & Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

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

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Union Street & Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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 Streets & Pump Square, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent Avenues, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Barrio Libre, West Kennedy & West Seventeenth Streets, Meyer & Convent...

Significance: It is a Hispanic working-class residential neighborhood with a scattering of corner grocery stores and small commercial establishments. The area covers approximately 12 blocks located immediately ... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belford, Monmouth County, NJ

Shoal Harbor, Intersection of Port Monmouth Road & Main Street, Belfor...

Significance: The Shoal Harbor fishing community is one of the last remaining traditional fisheries in New Jersey and the last such community on Raritan Bay. The community is a distinctive, vernacular built env... More

Schenley Park and vicinity, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Schenley Park and vicinity, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Right center section of four part panoramic photograph. Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of children standing on a sidewalk in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of children standing on a sidewalk in front of a building. Off...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a group of girls holding hands. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of girls holding hands. Great Depre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - Capitol Hill neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - Capitol Hill 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

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

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

Photograph shows an outdoor mural on the former Café Lautrec building at 2431 8th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center ... More

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

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

A storefront in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

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

Admiral Dewey's Home, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Admiral Dewey's Home, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, ...

5387-2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by C. L. Wasson. No. 340 c.

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth & Twenty-first Streets, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington County, SD

Main Street District, 614-632 Main Street, Rapid City, Pennington Coun...

Significance: The Main Street District borders the Rapid City Historic Commercial District which was a commercial center for transient miners in the 1870s and soon became the whole-sale center for western South... More

West Brooklyn Green, Tatnic Road & Hartford Road, Brooklyn, Windham County, CT

West Brooklyn Green, Tatnic Road & Hartford Road, Brooklyn, Windham Co...

Significance: The village of West Brooklyn in Brooklyn, Connecticut developed in the early to mid-nineteenth century as a small cluster of residential and commercial development, centered around West Brooklyn G... More

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