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Rock formations along Texas Rt. 170, which runs along the Rio Grande River through Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Rock formations along Texas Rt. 170, which runs along the Rio Grande R...

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 small, colorfully decorated villa, complete with watchdog, in Los Ebanos, a settlement on the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small, colorfully decorated villa, complete with watchdog, in Los Eb...

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

Sign on a fence that rings a small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

Sign on a fence that rings a small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small set...

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

Rows of crops in Hidalgo, County, along the Rio Grande River in far-south (or what area residents call "southmost") Texas

Rows of crops in Hidalgo, County, along the Rio Grande River in far-so...

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 small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony...

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

Stroller on the shoreline of the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Stroller on the shoreline of the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National...

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

Silverio De La Pena Drugstore & Post Office, Main & Lopez Streets, Rio Grande City, Starr County, TX

Silverio De La Pena Drugstore & Post Office, Main & Lopez Streets, Rio...

Survey number: HABS TX-3136 Building/structure dates: ca. 1886 Initial Construction

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Martin Apodaca Homestead, El Buen Pastor, Canyon Largo, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, NM

Martin Apodaca Homestead, El Buen Pastor, Canyon Largo, Lindrith, Rio ...

Survey number: HABS NM-201-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1913 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100001324

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southern Pacific Railroad, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southern Paci...

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Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southern Pacific Railroad, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southern Paci...

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Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wash in Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wa...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. The Crow Canyon site is an excellent ... More

Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wash in Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Crow Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 1.2 miles south of Largo Canyon Wa...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. The Crow Canyon site is an excellent ... More

Puente Rio Hondo, Spanning Hondo River on PR Road 156, Barrio Rio Hondo, Comerio, Comerio Municipio, PR

Puente Rio Hondo, Spanning Hondo River on PR Road 156, Barrio Rio Hond...

Significance: The wrought iron, three-span truss bridge that carried Puerto Rico's coastal highway over Rio de la Plata, its longest and second largest river, was designed in 1868 and completed in 1876. Named ... More

Puente Rio Hondo, Spanning Hondo River on PR Road 156, Barrio Rio Hondo, Comerio, Comerio Municipio, PR

Puente Rio Hondo, Spanning Hondo River on PR Road 156, Barrio Rio Hond...

Significance: The wrought iron, three-span truss bridge that carried Puerto Rico's coastal highway over Rio de la Plata, its longest and second largest river, was designed in 1868 and completed in 1876. Named ... More

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Shaft House Pueblito was one such refugee... More

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Shaft House Pueblito was one such refugee... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Overlook Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Overlook Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1214 Survey number: HABS NM-184

Puente de la Marina, San Lorenzo-Florida & Cerro Gordo Neighborhoods, spanning Rio Grande de Loiza River at Narciso Varona-Suarez Street, San Lorenzo, San Lorenzo Municipio, PR

Puente de la Marina, San Lorenzo-Florida & Cerro Gordo Neighborhoods, ...

Significance: Puente de la Marina is a very narrow, 11-span, 90.5m-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology, used in Puerto Rico mainly between the 1920s and the 1940s, but which is ... More

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County, CA

Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Se...

Suggested address, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-71 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-136 Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 ... More

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, Provo River Bridge, Spanning Provo River, Orem Vicinity, Orem, Utah County, UT

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, Provo River Bridge, Spanning Pro...

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a significant example of a Pratt through-truss bridge and is assumed to be built all of wrought iron. The bridge surveyed was originally one of three spans built in 1884 ... More

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, Provo River Bridge, Spanning Provo River, Orem Vicinity, Orem, Utah County, UT

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, Provo River Bridge, Spanning Pro...

Significance: The Provo River Bridge is a significant example of a Pratt through-truss bridge and is assumed to be built all of wrought iron. The bridge surveyed was originally one of three spans built in 1884 ... More

Oakleigh Farm, Off of West Rio Road, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, Virginia

Oakleigh Farm, Off of West Rio Road, Charlottesville, Charlottesville,...

This documentation was completed for a class at the University of Virginia & subsequently donated to the HABS collection. Significance: Oakleigh Farm, established in 1897, is located off of West Rio Road just o... More

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Postcard shows a line of men with bows drawn. To the left a man beats a drum and another raises a sword. In the center of the photo a man dressed in dark clothing holds a case. Caption continues: These are all... More

Henry Clay Davis House, Britton Avenue, Rio Grande City, Starr County, TX

Henry Clay Davis House, Britton Avenue, Rio Grande City, Starr County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-4

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

State Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande River, Del Norte, Rio Grande County, CO

State Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande River, Del Norte, Rio Grande County,...

Survey number: HAER CO-36 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1928 Subsequent Work

First Indian school in Arizona at the Pimo [i.e., Pima] Reservation - a group of about 50 boys and girls [and] The happy hunting grounds on the banks of the Rio Colorado.

First Indian school in Arizona at the Pimo [i.e., Pima] Reservation - ...

Public domain scan of a composite page, portraits, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Rio Grande Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southwestern Railroad, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Rio Grande Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N525 Survey number: HAER TX-78

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Rio Grande Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande at Southwestern Railroad, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Rio Grande Bridge, Spanning Rio Grande...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N525 Survey number: HAER TX-78

1164 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

1164 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

Survey number: HABS PR-131 Public domain photograph - historical image of Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1164 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

1164 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

Survey number: HABS PR-131 Public domain photograph - historical image of Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande, Presidio, Presidio County, TX

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande, Presidio, Presidio County, TX

Fort Leaton, Southeast of Presidio between Farm Road 170 & Rio Grande,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48 Survey number: HABS TX-3103

1166 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

1166 Ponce de Leon Avenue (House), Rio Piedras, San Juan Municipio, PR

Survey number: HABS PR-132 Public domain photograph - historical image of Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jose Ramirez House, Corpus & Third Streets, Rio Grande City, Starr County, TX

Jose Ramirez House, Corpus & Third Streets, Rio Grande City, Starr Cou...

Survey number: HABS TX-3133 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marysvale Bridge, Spanning Sevier River on Rio Grande Street, Marysvale, Piute County, UT

Marysvale Bridge, Spanning Sevier River on Rio Grande Street, Marysval...

Significance: The Marysvale Bridge is a single span, wood, double intersection Warren pony truss and is one of two known bridges of this type. The bridge was constructed by the Piute County Road Commission und... More

Marysvale Bridge, Spanning Sevier River on Rio Grande Street, Marysvale, Piute County, UT

Marysvale Bridge, Spanning Sevier River on Rio Grande Street, Marysval...

Significance: The Marysvale Bridge is a single span, wood, double intersection Warren pony truss and is one of two known bridges of this type. The bridge was constructed by the Piute County Road Commission und... More

Sampson-Nalle House, 1003 Rio Grande Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

Sampson-Nalle House, 1003 Rio Grande Street, Austin, Travis County, TX

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr 2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The two-story limestone house, as completed in 1877, is characterized by its simple form, asymmetrical plan, and... More

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

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El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

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El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

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

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayo, Rio Arriba County, NM

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Rio Puerco Bridge, Mainline Road, spanning Rio Puerco, Holbrook, Navajo County, AZ

Rio Puerco Bridge, Mainline Road, spanning Rio Puerco, Holbrook, Navaj...

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

Del Rio Federal Building, 100 Broadway, corner of Main Street, Del Rio, Val Verde County, TX

Del Rio Federal Building, 100 Broadway, corner of Main Street, Del Rio...

Significance: The Del Rio Federal Building was planned by the U.S. Treasury Department Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor under Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh in 1911-1912. It was designed and... More

Del Rio Federal Building, 100 Broadway, corner of Main Street, Del Rio, Val Verde County, TX

Del Rio Federal Building, 100 Broadway, corner of Main Street, Del Rio...

Significance: The Del Rio Federal Building was planned by the U.S. Treasury Department Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor under Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh in 1911-1912. It was designed and... More

Plano del desembocadero del Río Misipipi en el seno Mexicano con parte del territorio de la Movila, el qual incluien los Franceses en la provincia que han nombrado, la Luisiana.

Plano del desembocadero del Río Misipipi en el seno Mexicano con parte...

Scale ca. 1:1,550,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolors. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Mounted on cloth backing. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Order number annotated in pencil i... More

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with the Texas Mexican, Texas Mexican Short Line, Mexican National, Texas & St. Louis, and Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge systems and also the International & Great Northern, Mexican Oriental Interoceanic & International, New York, Texas & Mexican and International & Mex. Standard Gauge roads.

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with t...

Outline map of the U.S. Southwest showing major drainage, cities and towns. Railroad lines are named and narrow gauge lines are in red. The "Cannel Coal Field" is indicated. 8159 U.S. Copyright Office Scale not... More

[Rio della Botisella, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

[Rio della Botisella, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6996". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

Rio Grande Valley, New Mex. & Texas

Rio Grande Valley, New Mex. & Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Mexican War, 1914: refugees crossing (Rio Grande?) river by horse]

[Mexican War, 1914: refugees crossing (Rio Grande?) river by horse]

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pueblo of San Juan, Espanola Vicinity, San Juan Pueblo, Rio Arriba County, NM

Pueblo of San Juan, Espanola Vicinity, San Juan Pueblo, Rio Arriba Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1929 Survey number: HABS NM-101 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001201

Automatic time-teller, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. Tired of searching thru maps and schedules whenever some one in the State Department wanted to know what time it was in Rio of Timbuktu, Samuel Boggs, the department's geographer, has devised his own automatic time-teller. It is rotating disk-like chart which tells at a glance the time of day and the day of the week in any part of the world. The world as it would look from the North Pole is charted on the disk and then divided into hour zones

Automatic time-teller, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. Tired of searching th...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit holding a plate. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Man in a sugar-cane field during harvest, vicinity of Rio Piedras? Puerto Rico

Man in a sugar-cane field during harvest, vicinity of Rio Piedras? Pue...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning to their homes in the Rio Grande Valley from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Neches, Texas

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning to their homes in the Rio Gran...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene on strip farms along the Rio Hondo near Taos, New Mexico. This land was originally Spanish land grants and has been divided and subdivided among the descendents of the first farmers until the farms are today extremely small, some being only five or six acres. The land has been divided so that each has part of the fertile valley and part of the hilly country

Scene on strip farms along the Rio Hondo near Taos, New Mexico. This l...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Storing potatoes in cellar. Rio Grande County, Colorado

Storing potatoes in cellar. Rio Grande County, Colorado

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Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with hogs near Weslaco, Texas. Hog raising is becoming more popular in the lower Rio Grande Valley

FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with hogs near Weslaco, Texa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a tractor, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a tractor, Colorado. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rio Hondo Valley near Taos, New Mexico

Rio Hondo Valley near Taos, New Mexico

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Tributary of the Rio Costilla near Amalia, New Mexico. Irrigated farmland is in the center and grazing land surrounding

Tributary of the Rio Costilla near Amalia, New Mexico. Irrigated farml...

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Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower

Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Wife of a FSA (Farm Security Admi...

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Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative

Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. FSA (Farm Security Administration...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Son of one of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmers on the tenant purchase projects

Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Son of one of the FSA (Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of three boys. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three boys. Office of War Information Photo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mrs. Younkers grading eggs. There are three boys in this family who will also help with farm work

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mrs. Younkers grading eggs. There are...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truchas, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Penitente cross

Truchas, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Penitente cross

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crucifix, crucifixion, New Testament, Bible, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Bernardino, California. A sign on a car of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

San Bernardino, California. A sign on a car of the Denver and Rio Gran...

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Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500 acre dairy farm. Mr. Hall was placed on this farm after attending the farm labor training school at Rio Grande College

Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500...

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

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Three Kentuckians who received farm labor training at Ohio State University and got jobs on the dairy farm of James Uriah Dove; they are Robert E. Lee, Jim Bolt, and his son. Mr. Lee is the prospective son-in-law of Mr. Bolt

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Three Kentuckians who received farm l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel, California

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel, California

Also known as the Carmel Mission, it remains a parish church today. It is the only one of the California Missions to have its original bell tower dome. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cr... More

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony...

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

By design there is a gap in the United States-Mexican border-security fence. It allows U.S. travelers to visit the Rabb Plantation, part of the Sabal Palm Sanctuary along the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas

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

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

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

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman and his daughter, set off to navigate the Rio Grande River, past the sheer rock faces of Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman and his daughter, set...

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 look at Mexico from bluffs above Roma, a small but historic city along the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

A look at Mexico from bluffs above Roma, a small but historic city alo...

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

Cementerio San Antonio de Escobares in the tiny town of North Escobares, near the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

Cementerio San Antonio de Escobares in the tiny town of North Escobare...

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 sign at the humble ferry station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, a hand-operated cable car/ pedestrian ferry that travels across the Rio Grande River between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, in Mexico

A sign at the humble ferry station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ferry is the last of its kind along the entire stretch of the Rio Grande. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photogra... More

Members of the Berkman Family of Houston (right) receive canoeing reminders from a Far Flung river-tour company guide before setting off to navigate the Rio Grande River through Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right

Members of the Berkman Family of Houston (right) receive canoeing remi...

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 small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, graves, monuments, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Rio De La Plata, Toa Baja, Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...

Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More

Senon S. Vigil Homestead, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, NM

Senon S. Vigil Homestead, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, NM

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Under the 1862 Homestead Entry Act in October 1917, Senon S. Vigil patented a 160-acre tract of land at the junction of Lapis Canyon and Gonzales Canyon locat... More

Compressor Station Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Compressor Station Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, ...

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant in... More

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