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[Washington, D.C., view with Smithsonian in the distance]
Cityscape photograph shows 14th Street and E Street, NW, vicinity in foreground with houses and industrial buildings including A. J. Joyce's Coach Factory at 412-416 14th Street, NW; workyard with building supp... More
On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, boys and children from nearby farm...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a group of children. Great Depression FFSA ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A young girl jumping in the air with a jump rope. Office of War Inform...
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.
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
Oakleigh neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama
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
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.
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
The Arizona Canal, passing through Scottsdale, Arizona. Canals in cent...
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 A & 3rd Streets, S.E., looking N.E.
Forms part of: D.C. Street Survey Collection. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 &...
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 &...
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 &...
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 &...
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 &...
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 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 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 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
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
South Bottoms Historic District, 701, 705, 709, 711 & 715 South First ...
Significance: The South Bottoms Historic District is significant for its associations with German-Russian immigrants to Lincoln, Nebraska, the resulting Volga-German settlement patterns and the vernacular archi... 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
Gaskin Avenue Neighborhood, Bounded by Dart Street to east, CSX Railro...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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
Puente de la Marina, San Lorenzo-Florida & Cerro Gordo Neighborhoods, ...
Significance: Puente de la Marina is a very narrow, 11-span, 90.5m-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology, used in Puerto Rico mainly between the 1920s and the 1940s, but which is ... More
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
Survey number: HABS VI-44
Edgemont Neighborhood, Bounded by Elm, East Main, Lyon, & Walker Stree...
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edgemont Neighborhood, Bounded by Elm, East Main, Lyon, & Walker Stree...
Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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...
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
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hale Alii, Hale Alii...
Significance: The Hale Alii neighborhood was built during the initial development of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to house the officers of the Navy Yard. Quarters A is notable as the residence of the Commandant... More
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
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, 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
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
School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood, Bounded on north by Quincy &...
Significance: The School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood is centered on the School Street Apartments and St. Joseph's Polish Church and School. The School Street Apartments are a group of eleven matching bric... More
School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood, Bounded on north by Quincy &...
Significance: The School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood is centered on the School Street Apartments and St. Joseph's Polish Church and School. The School Street Apartments are a group of eleven matching bric... More
School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood, Bounded on north by Quincy &...
Significance: The School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood is centered on the School Street Apartments and St. Joseph's Polish Church and School. The School Street Apartments are a group of eleven matching bric... More
School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood, Bounded on north by Quincy &...
Significance: The School Street-Monroe Street Neighborhood is centered on the School Street Apartments and St. Joseph's Polish Church and School. The School Street Apartments are a group of eleven matching bric... More
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
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, 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, 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 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
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
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...
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, 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, 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, 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
A black and white photo of a group of children. Great Depression FFSA ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A young girl holding a tennis racquet in front of a group of people. O...
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
Street scene in Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Carol M. Highsmith - Neighborhood view of Savannah, Georgia
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
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
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
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 &...
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 &...
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 &...
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 &...
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison C...
Survey number: HABS CO-181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gaskin Avenue Neighborhood, Bounded by Dart Street to east, CSX Railro...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park alley, trees, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Puente de la Marina, San Lorenzo-Florida & Cerro Gordo Neighborhoods, ...
Significance: Puente de la Marina is a very narrow, 11-span, 90.5m-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology, used in Puerto Rico mainly between the 1920s and the 1940s, but which is ... More
King Street Area Study, King Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
Survey number: HABS VI-44
The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...
Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More
Edgemont Neighborhood, Bounded by Elm, East Main, Lyon, & Walker Stree...
Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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, Ric...
Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 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
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...
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, 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, 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, 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