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Neon sign outside the old Sun Mercantile Building in the warehouse district of Phoenix, Arizona. Built in 1929, it is the last remaining building from Phoenix's Second Chinatown. The Sun Mercantile Company supplied many neighboring towns with merchandise and soon became the largest wholesale grocery house in Phoenix. This building is now (as of 2019) home to the state-of-the-art IASIS Healthcare Multi Specialty Clinic

Neon sign outside the old Sun Mercantile Building in the warehouse dis...

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

Several forms of signs and statues invite customers to the Willo Steakhouse and saloon, an authentic California roadhouse located on Historic Hwy 49 between Nevada City and the Sierra Buttes country along the South Fork of the Yuba River

Several forms of signs and statues invite customers to the Willo Steak...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant was established in 1969. The saloon dates to 1946. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsm... More

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Californ...

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

Neon sign in Pasadena, California

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas...

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

Neon sign for Cruiser's Cafe 66 Bar and Grill in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,000 or so residents but a well-known place among visitors from around the world

Neon sign for Cruiser's Cafe 66 Bar and Grill in Williams, Arizona, a ...

Known as "The Gateway to the Grand Canyon" 60 miles to the north, it is the southern terminus of the scenic railroad that takes tourists there and (in 1984) was also the last town on old Route 66 to be bypassed... More

Classic advertising neon sign for Texaco gasoline, part of the vintage decor of the Choice Auto and Truck Sales dealership in Payson, Arizona

Classic advertising neon sign for Texaco gasoline, part of the vintage...

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

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Casino sign, Las Vegas, Nevada - Drawing. Public domain image.

Casino sign, Las Vegas, Nevada - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dating to 1939. In 1969 it moved to this location, which had operated as Sammie's Drive-In, Eli's Lounge, and Picante's Mexican restaurant

Neon sign outside Hut's Hamburgers, an Austin, Texas, institution dati...

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

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Road in Austin, Texas

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Roa...

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

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Stratosphere Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Carol M. Highsmith - Stratosphere Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Holiday Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Kreme Delight, Athens, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Kreme Delight, Athens, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Founded in 1842, the city of Athens is located 15 miles from the Tennessee State line in Limestone County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Sign for Tad's Chicken 'N Dumplings restaurant outside, Troutdale, a city in Multnomah County, Oregon, that serves as the western gateway to the Historic Columbia River Highway, the Mount Hood Scenic Byway, and the Columbia River Gorge. Dumplings are small pieces of dough cooked with, or wrapped around, a variety of foods, including chicken

Sign for Tad's Chicken 'N Dumplings restaurant outside, Troutdale, a c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

The Munger Moss Motel neon sign, Route 66, Lebanon, Missouri

The Munger Moss Motel neon sign, Route 66, Lebanon, Missouri

The Munger Moss Motel has been in business since 1946. The motel was originally 14 cabins with garages in between the rooms. 26 more units were opened in 1961 and the motel is still open today. Title, date, and... More

Neon, Colony Hotel, South Beach, Florida

Neon, Colony Hotel, South Beach, Florida

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

Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Billy Goat Tavern, Chicago sports fan's landmark, Chicago, Illinois

Billy Goat Tavern, Chicago sports fan's landmark, Chicago, Illinois

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

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, which (as of 2014) is booming thanks to the influx of thousands of high-tech, music, and corporate employees, many of them under 30

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, whi...

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

Neon sign for Billy Bob's western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for Billy Bob's western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort ...

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

Neon sign for the Leddy's boot company in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for the Leddy's boot company in the Stockyards District of F...

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

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Liquor store neon sign in Chandler, Arizona, a southern suburb of Phoenix, Arizona

Liquor store neon sign in Chandler, Arizona, a southern suburb of Phoe...

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

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada

Glitter Girl neon sign at the Freemont Street Experience, Las Vegas, N...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Jayhawk State Theatre sign, all that is left of the Jayhawk Theatre, Topeka, Kansas

Jayhawk State Theatre sign, all that is left of the Jayhawk Theatre, T...

The Jayhawk Theatre opened its doors on August, 1926. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gif... More

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, California

Neon sign of the In-Out Burger fast-food chain in Pasadena, 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

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western Store on Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western St...

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

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Howard Johnson's motel and restaurant chain, is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Neon-rich nightime view of the Snow Cap diner, near Seligman along the historic highway in Arizona

Neon-rich nightime view of the Snow Cap diner, near Seligman along the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

One of several classic neon signs in Tucson, Arizona, saved from destruction by preservationists and moved to a spot near Pima Community College

One of several classic neon signs in Tucson, Arizona, saved from destr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Davis Theatre, Montgomery, Alabama

Davis Theatre, Montgomery, Alabama

The theatre is operated by Troy University. 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 A... More

The White Stag sign, also called the Portland, Oregon, sign, one of the beloved landmarks of that Pacific Northwest city, illuminates at dusk at the west end of the Burnside Bridge over the Willamette River

The White Stag sign, also called the Portland, Oregon, sign, one of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Using various messages, the neon and incandescent-light sign, installed in 1940, has promoted both companies including White Satin S... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Neon sign for an Austin, Texas, Mexican restaurant

Neon sign for an Austin, Texas, Mexican restaurant

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

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

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

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

Sign for Jake's Famous Crawfish restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Portland and Oregon are well known for seafood, especially salmon, but crawfish are much more readily associated with New Orleans and Louisiana

Sign for Jake's Famous Crawfish restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Portla...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Classic neon sign in Tucson, Arizona, near the "Miracle Mile" gateway of what were once classic motor courts with distinctive neon signs in the days of two-lane, cross-country family travel

Classic neon sign in Tucson, Arizona, near the "Miracle Mile" gateway ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

Neon gambling sign on Freemont Street in historic Las Vegas, Nevada

Neon gambling sign on Freemont Street in historic Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Neon signs shine in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1980s

Neon signs shine in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1980s

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

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Pig neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Established in 2002 on Historic Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, The Pig on Beale quickly became a local favorite for "Memphis Style" Hickory Smoked BBQ pork shoulder and BBQ ribs. Title, date, and subjects p... More

Neon sign advertising chop suey at an Asian cafe in downtown Napa, California

Neon sign advertising chop suey at an Asian cafe in downtown Napa, Cal...

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

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood sect...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant, part of a small California chain of diners, is located in the historic Max Factor building that includes a beauty salon whose client list ... More

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Dusk shot of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

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

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Cincinnati, Ohio, awaiting rehabilitation and installation at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of the city

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Ci...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of... More

"Gateway to the Blues" sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north

"Gateway to the Blues" sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Art deco-style sign for an unnamed hotel (at least on the sign) in Tucson, Arizona. It belongs to a vintage property that now (2018) is a Quality Inn property

Art deco-style sign for an unnamed hotel (at least on the sign) in Tuc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Hollywood, California. Neon signs at the famous Earl Carroll theater

Hollywood, California. Neon signs at the famous Earl Carroll theater

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street sign for Peters Brothers "Texas Hat" shop in Fort Worth, Texas

Street sign for Peters Brothers "Texas Hat" shop in Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was founded by Jim and Tom Peters in 1911. They were Greek immigrants who began their business shining shoes in Waco, Tex... More

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

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

Neon sign marking one end of historic Main Street in Yuma, Arizona

Neon sign marking one end of historic Main Street in Yuma, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

One of several classic neon signs in Tucson, Arizona, saved from destruction by preservationists and moved to a spot near Pima Community College

One of several classic neon signs in Tucson, Arizona, saved from destr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

A neon sign from Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

A neon sign from Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Califor...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, became famous in the 1920s for its concentration of radio and movie-related businesses. The Holly... More

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

Neon sign for Mel's Drive-In and "celebrity bar" in the Hollywood sect...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The restaurant, part of a small California chain of diners, is located in the historic Max Factor building that includes a beauty salon whose client list ... More

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, which (as of 2014) is booming thanks to the influx of thousands of high-tech, music, and corporate employees, many of them under 30

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, whi...

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

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

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 neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area lights up the night

The neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunica, in Northern Miss...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

Neon sign for the Mountaineer Inn in Asheville, North Carolina

Neon sign for the Mountaineer Inn in Asheville, North Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Neon sign for the Route 66 Motel at dusk, near Seligman along the historic highway in Arizona

Neon sign for the Route 66 Motel at dusk, near Seligman along the hist...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

A black and white photo of a theatre at night. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a theatre at night. Office of War Informati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona

The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

A "Gateway to the Blues" sign dominates the visitor center and museum in a vintage-1895 train depot in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north

A "Gateway to the Blues" sign dominates the visitor center and museum ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

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

"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area

"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Prior to the 1990s, rural Tunica County, Mississippi, was one of America's most impoverished places. Then came a riverboat casino, and when it closed, a series of land-based, Las Vegas-style casinos in a strip that appear "in the middle of nowhere" near tiny Robinsonville. The casinos are now the county's largest employer by far

Prior to the 1990s, rural Tunica County, Mississippi, was one of Ameri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north

"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Howard Johnson's motel and restaurant chain, is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloste...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This plant produced a distinctive form of Dr Pepper, a soda popular throughout the South. The distinction: it used only pure cane suga... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Memphis Music neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Music neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Beale Street has been playing the blues for more than half a century. Named after an unknown military hero in 1841, it acted as General Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters during the Civil War. But, Beale Street's ... More

Neon sign advertising the services of "Madam Sophia," a palm reader in the town of Fowler, south of Fresno, California

Neon sign advertising the services of "Madam Sophia," a palm reader in...

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

Although this looks for all the world like a theater marquee, it is instead an unusually bold neon sign for a bank in Amarillo, Texas

Although this looks for all the world like a theater marquee, it is in...

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

This looks like one of the funky artistic neon signs that are everywhere in the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It is that, perhaps, but it also directs one to the actual Deep Eddy municipal pool

This looks like one of the funky artistic neon signs that are everywhe...

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

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