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Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee, Colbert County, AL

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee, Colbert County, AL

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee, Colbert County, AL

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

["Mount Vernon," George Washington house, George Washington Parkway, Mount Vernon, Virginia. Privy in vegetable garden]

["Mount Vernon," George Washington house, George Washington Parkway, M...

Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

["Mount Vernon," George Washington house, George Washington Parkway, Mt. Vernon, Virginia. Privy in vegetable garden]

["Mount Vernon," George Washington house, George Washington Parkway, M...

Site History. House Architecture: George Washington, 18th century. Landscape: George Washington, 18th century. Today: Public site and house with garden and house restorations. On slide (handwritten): no. "16." ... More

Shaker West Family Privy, North side of Village Road, North of Route 68 & State Route 33 intersection, Shakertown, Mercer County, KY

Shaker West Family Privy, North side of Village Road, North of Route 6...

Survey number: HABS KY-115 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000353

Sotterly, Necessary, State Route 245 & Vista Road Vicinity, Hollywood, St. Mary's County, MD

Sotterly, Necessary, State Route 245 & Vista Road Vicinity, Hollywood,...

Survey number: HABS MD-181-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001487

Geraldine Lucas Homestead, Outhouse, West bank Cottonwood Creek, 2.5 miles downstream from Jenny Lake, Moose, Teton County, WY
Privies. Onward march the crusaders of rural sanitary conditions. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Privies. Onward march the crusaders of rural sanitary conditions. Sout...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public privies, Pie Town, New Mexico

Public privies, Pie Town, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Wooden privies in the Negro area

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Wooden privies in the Negro area

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent Co...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Hopkins Mill is an extremely rare example of the once common smaller cotto... More

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent Co...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Hopkins Mill is an extremely rare example of the once common smaller cotto... More

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI

Hopkins Mill, State Route 3 & Nooseneck River, East Greenwich, Kent Co...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Hopkins Mill is an extremely rare example of the once common smaller cotto... More

George Spangerberger Farmstead, Privy, 2012 West Illinois Avenue, South Hutchinson, Reno County, KS

George Spangerberger Farmstead, Privy, 2012 West Illinois Avenue, Sout...

Significance: The privy contributes to the historic character of the George Spangerberger Farmstead. Its use into the 20th century attests to the unimproved conditions of rural life in Kansas. Survey number: ... More

Archibald Blair Dairy, Smokehouse & Privy, 100 Nicholson Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia

Archibald Blair Dairy, Smokehouse & Privy, 100 Nicholson Street, Willi...

Significance: The Archibald Blair Dairy and Smokehouse date from the eighteenth century, both were restored in 1930-31 as were the house and the kitchen. An addition to the smokehouse was removed at this time.... More

Albert L. Scott House, 29 South Market Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Albert L. Scott House, 29 South Market Street, Petersburg, Petersburg,...

Significance: This fine Victorian house, built c. 1860-1861, is particularly noteworthy on the exterior because of its paneled facade, heavy bracketed entablature, bold balusters on the balconies and entrance s... More

Albert L. Scott House, 29 South Market Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia

Albert L. Scott House, 29 South Market Street, Petersburg, Petersburg,...

Significance: This fine Victorian house, built c. 1860-1861, is particularly noteworthy on the exterior because of its paneled facade, heavy bracketed entablature, bold balusters on the balconies and entrance s... More

Southern Pacific, Sacramento Shops, Privy, 111 I Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Southern Pacific, Sacramento Shops, Privy, 111 I Street, Sacramento, S...

Survey number: HAER CA-303-H Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virgi...

Survey number: HABS VA-303-E Building/structure dates: 1819 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000223

3240 Cyrus Road, Privy, About 45 feet northwest of house, Cyrus, Wayne County, WV

3240 Cyrus Road, Privy, About 45 feet northwest of house, Cyrus, Wayne...

Significance: The privy is a contributing structure associated with the residential site at 3240 Cyrus Road, which was built between 1892 and 1901. The privy was built to a standard design by W.P.A. workers in... More

Shaker South Family Privy, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester County, MA

Shaker South Family Privy, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Count...

Survey number: HABS MA-1085 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Korner's Folly, Brick Privy, 271 South Main Street, Kernersville, Forsyth County, NC

Korner's Folly, Brick Privy, 271 South Main Street, Kernersville, Fors...

Survey number: HABS NC-208-A Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Priest's Manor, St. Mary's vic., St. Mary's County, Maryland

Priest's Manor, St. Mary's vic., St. Mary's County, Maryland

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort McKinley, South Fork Latrine, West side of East Side Drive, approximately 225 feet south of Weymouth Way, Great Diamond Island, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Fort McKinley, South Fork Latrine, West side of East Side Drive, appro...

Significance: Fort McKinley attains significance as the largest of Portland Harbor's five military complexes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fort protected Maine's principal city with one ... More

Pearson Cabin, near Toklat River, Cantwell, Denali Borough, AK

Pearson Cabin, near Toklat River, Cantwell, Denali Borough, AK

Significance: Built by Ranger Grant Pearson, who became the park superintendent in 1949, and Ranger Lee Swesher, this is the oldest (and possibly the only extant) patrol cabin built totally by park rangers. Bu... More

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile,...

Survey number: HABS AL-43 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

McGraw Ranch, Phone Booth, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

McGraw Ranch, Phone Booth, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer Coun...

Significance: The Outhouse/Phone Booth dates to the original homestead era and is a small, but excellent example of "Rocky Mountain Rustic" architecture. Survey number: HABS CO-175-H Building/structure dates:... More

Governor Thomas Hutchinson Place, 195 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk County, MA

Governor Thomas Hutchinson Place, 195 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS MA-168-A Building/structure dates: 1742-1743 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1814- ca. 1815 Subsequent Work... More

Bluff Hall, 407 North Commissioners Avenue, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL

Bluff Hall, 407 North Commissioners Avenue, Demopolis, Marengo County,...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Bluff Hall, 407 North Commissioners Avenue, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL

Bluff Hall, 407 North Commissioners Avenue, Demopolis, Marengo County,...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

John N. Cushing Place, 98 High Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA

John N. Cushing Place, 98 High Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General view of the fortifications of Manassas Junction

General view of the fortifications of Manassas Junction

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.4) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Combination Smokestack, Water Tank & Privies, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: The large chimney that towers over the terminal facilities of the Central of Georgia is a monument to ... More

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore County, MD

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS MD-15

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore County, MD

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS MD-15

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore County, MD

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS MD-15

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

McCrary-Otts House, 805 Otts Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS AL-265 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee, Colbert County, AL

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, Outhouse, 20 feet northwest of House, Melrose, Silver Bow County, MT

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, Outhouse, 20 feet northwest of House, Mel...

Significance: The outhouse contributes to the significance of the William and Lucina Bowe Ranch. It is linked to the site's important association with the agricultural development of the lower Big Hole Valley ... More

Beierle Farm, Privy & Trash Dump, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Beierle Farm, Privy & Trash Dump, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, D...

Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More

Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in view, these houses exist under the most unsanitary conditions; outside privies, no inside water supply and overcrowded conditions

Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in v...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Privy - Great Chimney House, Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Privy - Great Chimney House, Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker West Family Privy, Watervliet Shaker Road, Colonie Township, Watervliet, Albany County, NY

Shaker West Family Privy, Watervliet Shaker Road, Colonie Township, Wa...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Take a close look a this structure at the Encampment Museum in the little town of Encampment, Wyoiming, which was once called "Grand Encampment" when it was a copper-mining boomtown at the turn of the 19th to 20th Century. It's a privy, or outhouse as it's known in rural America, and an usual one. It's one above another, prudent architecture for a state in which blizzard-blown snow can pile many feet high in places each winter

Take a close look a this structure at the Encampment Museum in the lit...

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 Wyoming Collection within ... More

Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street, New York City. See Photos of flower makers working here (2778 and 2816).  Location: New York, New York (State)

Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street, New York City. See Pho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coffren House, Privy, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County, MD

Coffren House, Privy, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County,...

See HABS MD-988 for written historical & descriptive data. Survey number: HABS MD-988-D

Custis-Maupin Necessary House, 200 Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia

Custis-Maupin Necessary House, 200 Duke of Gloucester Street, Williams...

Significance: The Custis-Maupin Necessary House is one of the original 88 buildings of Colonial Williamsburg. Originally located on the Taliaferro-Cole property, it was moved in the 1930's to a lot west of the... More

Fort Laramie, Pit Toilet, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

Fort Laramie, Pit Toilet, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

Survey number: HABS WY-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1885 Initial Construction

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virgi...

Survey number: HABS VA-303-E Building/structure dates: 1819 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000223

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virginia

Poplar Forest, Privies, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, Virgi...

Survey number: HABS VA-303-E Building/structure dates: 1819 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000223

Deister Farmstead, Outhouse, Route 442, Stull, Douglas County, KS

Deister Farmstead, Outhouse, Route 442, Stull, Douglas County, KS

Survey number: HABS KS-36-J Public domain photograph - historical image of Kansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Korner's Folly, Brick Privy, 271 South Main Street, Kernersville, Forsyth County, NC

Korner's Folly, Brick Privy, 271 South Main Street, Kernersville, Fors...

Survey number: HABS NC-208-A Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker South Family Privy, Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia County, NY

Shaker South Family Privy, Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia County, ...

Survey number: HABS NY-3248 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile,...

Survey number: HABS AL-43 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Gibbons-Torry House, Gate & Privy, 60 South Conception Street, Mobile,...

Survey number: HABS AL-43 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Homewood, North Charles & Thirty-fourth Streets, Baltimore, Independen...

Significance: Built between 1801 and 1803, Homewood is significant historically for its association with the prominent Carroll family of Maryland and architecturally as one of the most refined and well-articula... More

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