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Cordoue. L'absolution, chez les ermites de la Sierra (d'après nature)

Cordoue. L'absolution, chez les ermites de la Sierra (d'après nature)

Two hermits, full-length portrait, one kneeling before the other, who is offering absolution. In album: Spain, verso p. 64. No. 633.

Scene on the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Scene on the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Three men on horseback The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 640. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unver... More

View on Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

View on Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona / T. H. O'Sullivan, ...

Photograph showing a lake surrounded by trees and some cliffs. Plate no. 2. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the Unit... More

[S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co.]

[S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co.]

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sierra City Road (Houses), Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Sierra City Road (Houses), Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1408 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west (Sierra Nevada in background), Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west (Sierra Nevada in background), Ma...

Bird's-eye view of center grounds showing buildings, roads and mountains in background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. No original photographic print. Library made print in LOT... More

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park located in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, 12 miles east of the town of Jackson, California

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park located in California's Sierr...

Created in 1968, the park preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes. It is also a regional Indian museum. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More

[Kittie Lee Inn mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkins, 2000. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Kittie Lee Inn mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkin...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

The Sierra Retreat Motel located in Coleville in northern Mono County in California's Antelope Valley

The Sierra Retreat Motel located in Coleville in northern Mono County ...

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Ol...

Best known for skiing and snowboarding, Squaw Valley was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Alpine Lake, in the Sierra Nevada, California / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Alpine Lake, in the Sierra Nevada, California / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot...

Plate no. 16. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geolog... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-E Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1951-1955 Subsequent Work National Register of Histo... More

Truckee Meadows. Sierra Nevada Mountains 20 miles distant

Truckee Meadows. Sierra Nevada Mountains 20 miles distant

No. 289. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada. Scenes in the Washoe Range.

Sierra Blanca, Col., 1874. First ascended by Gilbert Thompson, 7 day carpenter, who remained on top over-night.

Sierra Blanca, Col., 1874. First ascended by Gilbert Thompson, 7 day c...

Original negative number: 59. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicinity, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicin...

Significance: A presently rare example of an engine representing, in general, an important stage in steam engineering and, specifically, a form of engine once widely used for ferryboat propulsion. Unprocessed ... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Downieville, General View, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Downieville, General View, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1291 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-C Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1951-1955 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000443

Donner Peak--from Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road, Western Summit Sierra Nevada

Donner Peak--from Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road, Western Summi...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 842. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Three views in the Sierra Blanca Mountains, Camp Apache--Coyotero Reservation

Three views in the Sierra Blanca Mountains, Camp Apache--Coyotero Rese...

Two views of the Coyotero Reservation. Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 42/45 and 43/45.

S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co. - Public domain ocean liner image

S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co. - Public domain ocean liner image

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sierra Nevada Hotel, Coloma, El Dorado County, CA

Sierra Nevada Hotel, Coloma, El Dorado County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1503 Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park located in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, 12 miles east of the town of Jackson, California

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park located in California's Sierr...

Created in 1968, the park preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes. It is also a regional Indian museum. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, 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

Red Moose, Sierra City, California

Red Moose, Sierra City, California

The area is part of the Tahoe National Forest. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Proje... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

[Slim princess mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkins, 2000. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Slim princess mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkins...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

Elms Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at...

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas Fault in California's Sierra Madre Mountains, midway between Bakersfield and Santa Barbara

Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas Fault in California's Sier...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The geological fault runs roughly 810 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Cre... More

Deserted truck stop in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas

Deserted truck stop in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when t...

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 deserted cafe in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas

A deserted cafe in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the i...

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

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise C...

Significance: Seven Cavalry Stables at Fort Huachuca, a military installation located in southeastern Arizona, were completed in 1916, utilizing a standardized quartermaster corps plan. The structures are eligi... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise C...

Significance: Seven Cavalry Stables at Fort Huachuca, a military installation located in southeastern Arizona, were completed in 1916, utilizing a standardized quartermaster corps plan. The structures are eligi... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise C...

Significance: Seven Cavalry Stables at Fort Huachuca, a military installation located in southeastern Arizona, were completed in 1916, utilizing a standardized quartermaster corps plan. The structures are eligi... More

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicinity, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicin...

Significance: A presently rare example of an engine representing, in general, an important stage in steam engineering and, specifically, a form of engine once widely used for ferryboat propulsion. Unprocessed ... More

Coyotero Apache scouts, at Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca mountains, Arizona.

Coyotero Apache scouts, at Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca mountains, Arizo...

Original negative number: 3. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 31. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieu... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Old Mine, Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Old Mine, Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1421 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Downieville, General View, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Downieville, General View, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1291 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Apache Lake, Summit of Sierra Blanca Mountains, about 35 miles east from Camp Apache, Arizona, and 10,500 feet above sea-level.

Apache Lake, Summit of Sierra Blanca Mountains, about 35 miles east fr...

Original negative number: 4. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 30. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieu... More

Verdadera imagen del Sr. de la Salud que se venera en Mezuititlán de la Sierra. Estado de Hidalgo

Verdadera imagen del Sr. de la Salud que se venera en Mezuititlán de l...

Broadside shows a crucifix flanked by statuettes of angels. The ornate border contains a small winged angel bust at the top. On the verso there is story of a husband and wife who are cured from a grave illness ... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-C Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1951-1955 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000443

Sierra Bluffs--From Slippery Ford House, El Dorado County

Sierra Bluffs--From Slippery Ford House, El Dorado County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 628. LOT subdivision subject: Placerville Tahoe Route. This record contains unverified old data fr... More

View from Sierra Rocks--Eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, looking South toward Cave Rock

View from Sierra Rocks--Eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, looking South tow...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 681. LOT subdivision subject: Lake Tahoe. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Hetch - Hetchy Valley, Sierra Nevada Mts., Calif.

Hetch - Hetchy Valley, Sierra Nevada Mts., Calif.

J163877 U.S. Copyright Office "Film No. 15, 1911" on front. Copyright claimant's address: Box 208, Santa Monica, Calif. Copyright deposit; Matt Ashby Wolfskill; December 26, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44381.

Sierra City Road (House), Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Sierra City Road (House), Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1409 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sierraville, General View, Sierraville, Sierra County, CA

Sierraville, General View, Sierraville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1676 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Downieville Courthouse, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Downieville Courthouse, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1402 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Main Street (House), Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Main Street (House), Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1425 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton Jenna Morgenstein, Rich Perkins, Tory Michener and J.T. Schmidt, 1999. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Right panel of The Ernest Kinney Teamster Family Mural by Robert Thom...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California

Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, 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

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Ol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Ol...

Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of what are fairly common bear-crossing signs in California's Sierra Mountains

One of what are fairly common bear-crossing signs in California's Sier...

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

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The California Aqueduct, part of a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California

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

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

St. Charles Hotel, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

St. Charles Hotel, Downieville, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1406 Public domain photograph of 19th-century hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise C...

Significance: Seven Cavalry Stables at Fort Huachuca, a military installation located in southeastern Arizona, were completed in 1916, utilizing a standardized quartermaster corps plan. The structures are eligi... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stables, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise C...

Significance: Seven Cavalry Stables at Fort Huachuca, a military installation located in southeastern Arizona, were completed in 1916, utilizing a standardized quartermaster corps plan. The structures are eligi... More

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicinity, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Double-Compound Steam Engine "Sierra Nevada", Seaplane Anchorage vicin...

Significance: A presently rare example of an engine representing, in general, an important stage in steam engineering and, specifically, a form of engine once widely used for ferryboat propulsion. Unprocessed ... More

Town of Hillsboro, Hillsboro, Sierra County, NM

Town of Hillsboro, Hillsboro, Sierra County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1939 Survey number: HABS NM-142

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS AZ-210-A Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Bella Vista Terrace, Mountain Trail & Alegria Avenue, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, CA

Bella Vista Terrace, Mountain Trail & Alegria Avenue, Sierra Madre, Lo...

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Bella Vista Terrace (1910), located in Sierra Madre, California, is nested against the southern foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. Architect Irving John... More

Apache Lake, Summit of Sierra Blanca Mountains, about 35 miles east from Camp Apache, Arizona, and 10, 500 feet above sea-level.

Apache Lake, Summit of Sierra Blanca Mountains, about 35 miles east fr...

Original negative number: 4. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 30. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieu... More

North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Creek, Arizona / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Creek, Arizona / T. H. O'Sullivan, pho...

Photograph showing cliffs and trees. Plate no. 4. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in con... More

[Cal. - Los Angeles County: bird's-eye views of Los Angeles, looking toward ocean; Wilmington, looking toward Sierra Madres; and Santa Monica, looking South to ocean and Santa Monica Mts.]

[Cal. - Los Angeles County: bird's-eye views of Los Angeles, looking t...

3 lithographs on 1 page of atlas, copyrighted by E.S. Glover. In G&M Division. Reference copy may be available in LOT4390-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Sierra del Abra, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Sierra del Abra, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co. - Public domain ocean liner image

S.S. Sierra, Oceanic S.S. Co. - Public domain ocean liner image

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kerckoff Dam on San Joaquin River, part of power project in the Sierra Nevada Mts., Calif. / photographed, copyrighted and sold by Philip Brigandi, Los Angeles, Cal.

Kerckoff Dam on San Joaquin River, part of power project in the Sierra...

Stereograph showing view from elevated vantage point of the Kerckoff Dam and spillway. J262183 U.S. Copyright Office. Series: The California Missions and the State of California. Irrigation 10. No. (176). Copy... More

Main Street (House), Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Main Street (House), Sierra City, Sierra County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-2337 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Modesto Sierra, rehabilitation client, displays some of the fine iceberg lettuce he produces on his farm in Costilla County, Colorado

Modesto Sierra, rehabilitation client, displays some of the fine icebe...

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

Aerial tram at the Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

Aerial tram at the Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mounta...

Best known for skiing and snowboarding, Squaw Valley was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Fox Parlor, Sierra City, California

Fox Parlor, Sierra City, California

The area is part of the Tahoe National Forest. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Proje... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Ol...

Best known for skiing and snowboarding, Squaw Valley was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Placerville Hardware in the gold-country mining town of Placerville in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains

The Placerville Hardware in the gold-country mining town of Placervill...

title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. It opened in 1852 and is the oldest operating hardware in the American West. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Caro... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas fault in California's Sierra Madre Mountains, midway between Bakersfield and Santa Barbara

Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas fault in California's Sier...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The geological fault runs roughly 810 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Cre... More

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