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Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tit... More

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection of old signs

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb adjacent to Washington, D.C

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland,...

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

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Old and faded advertising sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-time blues music in the Mississippi (River) Delta region in Northwest Mississippi

Old and faded advertising sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-...

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

The long-abandoned Lazy S Arrow Motel in Whitewater, Colorado, near Grand Junction

The long-abandoned Lazy S Arrow Motel in Whitewater, Colorado, near Gr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection of old signs

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb adjacent to Washington, D.C

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland,...

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

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection of old signs

Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restau...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Venerable "garage" sign set in stone above a brick building that now houses ordinary retail businesses in downtown Goshen, Indiana

Venerable "garage" sign set in stone above a brick building that now h...

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

Portion of a barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection of old signs

Portion of a barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

An old motel sign in a "neon boneyard" where signs are rehabilitated in Kingman, Arizona

An old motel sign in a "neon boneyard" where signs are rehabilitated i...

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

A well-used truck stands in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post in Minturn, Colorado

A well-used truck stands in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More