A panel from an exhibit "In the image of America," designed by the Far...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Farm home of E.E. Botner, FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilit...
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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this ac...
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Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch, Froid,...
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A panel from an exhibit "In the Image of America," designed by the Far...
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A panel from an exhibit "In the Image of America," designed by the Far...
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Dailey, West Virginia. December 1941. Homestead school at the Tygart V...
Public domain photograph of West Virginia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Logs on flatcar which will take them into town from mountain logging c...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
And, furthermore, ladies and gents -- at any rate, that's what the spe...
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A panel from an exhibit "In the Image of America," designed by the Far...
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A panel from an exhibit "In the image of America," designed by the Far...
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Part of the 216 acre agronomy farm at Iowa State College. Used for the...
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A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeanc...
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Part of the schoolchildren's victory chorus at the Imperial County Fai...
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Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial exper...
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Small part for Navy gun. Drop forging a part for one of the smaller gu...
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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. When "slabs" (brass or copper...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large W...
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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing...
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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Jack Vida, of Passaic, New...
Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a lar...
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Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort ...
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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...
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Manpower, junior size. "After this old tire's been done over, it will ...
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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A circular-shears machi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Crowds watching children's parade, part of Charro Days celebration, Br...
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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hyd...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Feeding white rat with vitamin-rich solution from dehydrated eggs; thi...
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Nurse training. Post-operative care of patients is part of every nurse...
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Giant tongs hold forging. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Na...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Production. B-17F heavy bomber. An electric spot welding job on a part...
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Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. A life raft built by Mrs. May E. ...
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Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. Th...
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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A former bank clerk and a co...
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High school Victory Corps. Learning the rudiments of advancing on an e...
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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This capable young wom...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Nurse training. Young nurses assist at an appendectomy. This is part o...
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Part of the parade of the Festival of the Holy Ghost of the Portuguese...
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Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanes...
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Production. Copper. Part of the copper concentrating plant of the Phel...
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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Part of a forward ...
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American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of an engine. Each ...
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Reciprocal aid. Sergeant A. Baker and Technical Sergeant Roy Hill, bot...
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Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...
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Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...
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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. A weight-lifting class, pa...
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Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of part of Idaho Hall at Arlington Farm...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Schenectady, New York. Third graders at the Elmer Avenue Elementary Sc...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Part of the...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried whole eggs, part ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Gallup, New Mexico. General view of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Reciprocal aid. Sergeant F.D. O'Neal of Chicago, serving with the Amer...
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San Bernardino, California. Part of the yards of the Atchison, Topeka ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Rear brakeman checking air in each car as part of h...
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Calumet City, Illinois. Part of the Calumet Park stockyards, run by th...
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Bensenville, Illinois. General view of part of the Bensenville yard of...
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Topeka, Kansas. View of part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail...
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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge al...
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Part of a carefully restored mural, "Railroad Transportation" by Carlo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Pennsylvania Convention Center, part of the restored and repurposed Re...
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
Pennsylvania Convention Center, part of the restored and repurposed Re...
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
Christian Science's "Mother Church," part of the faith's world headqua...
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
Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and ...
Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.
Jimmy Dowling holding the blueprint for a buncher part; the original m...
Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 9, 1994.
Church of Saint Nicholas Nadein (1620-22), interior, view of east pier...
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Part of the Jacobs-Hutchinson Block in downtown Fairmont, West Virgini...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute ...
In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More
Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...
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
Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...
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
Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More
Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice ...
The buses travel to senior citizens as well as children. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Pico House on Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles...
The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan L...
Opened in 1964, the library was named for the university's eighth president. The collection numbers over 2.6 million volumes. Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photogr... More
Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California
The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More
The California Aqueduct, part of a system of canals, tunnels, and pipe...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Department of Water Resources operates and maintains the California Aqueduct, including two pumped-storage hydroelectric plants. Credit line: The Jon ... More
A portion of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two a...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, part of the Dallas-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 Ph... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
A portion of the Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennon County, near Crawfor...
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
Texas longhorns on the move at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a w...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
By design there is a gap in the United States-Mexican border-security ...
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
Wax figures in Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, part of the Ripley's Bel...
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
Wax figures in Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, part of the Ripley's Bel...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Part of "Stonehenge II" in the Texas Hill Country
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This steel-and-concrete replica, two-thirds the size of the original Stonehenge monument in England, was conceived by Al Shepperd and... More
Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio G...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often referred to as the "Contrabando" set, it has been used for several productions, including the movie of that name, "The Streets ... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ran...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Part of an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Mu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
A cow skull that's part of the garden ornamentation at Quinta Mazatlan...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason & Marcia Matthews, began building... More
Elexis Bermejo a student at the the Academy of Careers and Technologie...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Organized by the university's fine-arts department, the event rotates the type of fashions from year to year: from hats to medals to ... More
Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexic...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio sponsors the event. Charreria originated in 19th century as a way for the landed gentry to p... More
Wax figures in Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, part of the Ripley's Bel...
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
Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ran...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Part of a 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More
Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More
Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lone...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More