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A rusted old truck in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck in Marfa, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The beam stretching righward near the roof of the truck is a remnant of a "Fort Worth Spudder" a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1... More

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resemble an Indian wigwam or teepee (often spelled tipi) "along old U.S. Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. It was part of the "Wigwam Villages," a motel chain built during the 1930s and 1940s. There were seven locations: two in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California

Scene at the old Wigwam Motel "a complex of motel units built to resem...

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 farm truck whose work is done, near Santa Ynez, California

A farm truck whose work is done, near Santa Ynez, 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

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

The rusted-out cabin of an old truck used for irrigation drilling, parked amid the vineyards of Napa Valley, California

The rusted-out cabin of an old truck used for irrigation drilling, par...

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

Rusted remains of a farm truck in the settlement of Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona

Rusted remains of a farm truck in the settlement of Truxton, along old...

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

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is l...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

A peek inside the well-kept cabin of a still-running 1942 International (brand) truck in Shoshoni, Wyoming. Its owner says that in its prime, the truck hauled logs to big cities in support of the (World War II) war effort

A peek inside the well-kept cabin of a still-running 1942 Internationa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...

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

Although this truck, parked amid Napa Valley's many vineyards, looks at first glance to perhaps having been active in fruit picking or fire-and-rescue work, it was actually part of the equipment used to drill in the earth for the area's plentiful irrigation

Although this truck, parked amid Napa Valley's many vineyards, looks a...

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

Old trucks in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old trucks in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...

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

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...

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

Old trucks, used to haul fruit from nearby orchards in Grand Junction, Colorado. The vehicles are displayed at the Museum of Western Colorado's Cross Orchards Historic Site

Old trucks, used to haul fruit from nearby orchards in Grand Junction,...

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

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...

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

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

This old truck outside the gift shop outside the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66 once advertised the Grand Canyon Caverns, miles down the road near Peach Springs

This old truck outside the gift shop outside the old Ranchero Motel in...

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, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll County, Indiana, settlement of Cutler, which was laid out by John A. Cook during the construction of the Logansport Crawfordsville & Southwestern Rail Road in 1871

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Cutler is thought to be named for William P. Cutler, the man in charge of the track construction. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

A farm truck whose work is done, near Santa Ynez, California

A farm truck whose work is done, near Santa Ynez, 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

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

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spudder was a wooden oilfield rig popular in the 1940s. Since Marfa is replete with art galleries and outdoor art, this could wel... More

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll County, Indiana, settlement of Cutler, which was laid out by John A. Cook during the construction of the Logansport Crawfordsville & Southwestern Rail Road in 1871

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Cutler is thought to be named for William P. Cutler, the man in charge of the track construction. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

These old, rusted trucks perfectly fit the decor of the Shack Up Inn, an eclectic collection of former sharecropper cabins and even silos turned into motel units and a blues club, on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi

These old, rusted trucks perfectly fit the decor of the Shack Up Inn, ...

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

This fellow does not look fully capable of fixing this old car in the garage of the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

This fellow does not look fully capable of fixing this old car in the ...

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

A truck that's literally a shell of its former self, in Bent County, Colorado

A truck that's literally a shell of its former self, in Bent County, C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll County, Indiana, settlement of Cutler, which was laid out by John A. Cook during the construction of the Logansport Crawfordsville & Southwestern Rail Road in 1871

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Cutler is thought to be named for William P. Cutler, the man in charge of the track construction. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More

An old truck that won't be going anywhere any time soon, in Joanna, South Carolina

An old truck that won't be going anywhere any time soon, in Joanna, So...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

These old, rusted trucks perfectly fit the decor of the Shack Up Inn, an eclectic collection of former sharecropper cabins and even silos turned into motel units and a blues club, on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi

These old, rusted trucks perfectly fit the decor of the Shack Up Inn, ...

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

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old truck in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old trucks in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southeastern Colorado. One unsubstantiated account of the town's unusual name states that it traces to a Rudyard Kipling novel of that name

Old trucks in a field in Kim, a tiny town in lightly populated southea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Casks on an old truck, promoting daily wine tastings at the Paul O'Brien Winery downtown Roseburg, Oregon

Casks on an old truck, promoting daily wine tastings at the Paul O'Bri...

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

An old truck full of odd things is a conversation piece at Smallwood's Harvest Fruit Stand outside Leavenworth, Washington

An old truck full of odd things is a conversation piece at Smallwood's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More