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Third annual sports meeting of the government schools of the Jerusalem...

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Potato race for children at Labor Day celebration, Ridgway, Colorado

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Race meeting (horse & camel). Beersheba. Well on the go

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[ Danny Kaye holding up a baseball jersey that reads "40 Kid From Broo...

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Bingo game. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

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A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Helena Rubinstein, 16 E. 55th St., New York City. Blue room, to lucite...

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Spectators at horse races, Warrenton, Virginia

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The sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

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Spectators at paddock fence between races. Warrenton, Virginia

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Judge at the horse races. Warrenton, Virginia

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At the finish line of the sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

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A large group of people standing on top of a grass covered field. Offi...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Turning on a hand lathe the outside surface of a partially-dried blank...

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A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

The four freedoms. Equal justice under the law is just one of the plan...

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Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York....

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Neck and neck in the stretch. Appearing l...

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Spectators at horse races. Warrenton, Virginia

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Spectators at the baseball game on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Basketball game. Children living at the FSA (Farm Security Administrat...

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Baseball game, schoolyard, homestead school. Dailey, West Virginia

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A group of people standing around a car. Office of War Information Pho...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Watching a shuffleboard game. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

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An entrant in the sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

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Holy Child School, Suffern, New York. Tennis

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Holy Child School, Suffern, New York. Game room

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Detroit, Michigan. Kids at a ball game at Briggs Stadium

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United Services Athletic meeting at Tel Aviv Maccabiah Stadium on Sat....

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New York, New York. Sunday croquet game in Central Park

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Children's horse race at the Imperial County Fair, California

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Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball game at the Ellipse between garage e...

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Detroit, Michigan. Detroit vs. Cleveland ball game at the Briggs Stadi...

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Washington, D.C. Spectators at a baseball game: wives, sweethearts and...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Bantam is hoping eventually to get a new post off...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower...

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Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball team recruited from garage workers w...

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Race Point, Massachusetts. Portuguese surf boat crew, U.S. Coast Guard...

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New York, New York. Croquet game on Sunday in Central Park

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Butte, Montana. John D. Eddy, former miner, now living at 3030 Amherst...

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U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Practicing lacrosse

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Jubilant spectators a...

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Washington, D.C. Soldiers waiting between trains enjoy a card game at ...

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. A boxing match, part of th...

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. A boxing match, part of th...

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. A boxing match, part of th...

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. A boxing match, part of th...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Playing a game of ...

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Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson High School team leaving the field aft...

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Washington, D.C. Sally Dessez (in the light sweater), a student at Woo...

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Washington, D.C. Soldiers waiting between trains enjoy a card game at ...

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Gibson, Indiana. A game of cards at the railroad (YMCA) Young Men's Ch...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Playing baseball duri...

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Two men are boxing in a black and white photo. Office of War Informati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Gibson, Indiana. A game of cards at the railroad (YMCA) Young Men's Ch...

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[Woman wearing tennis outfit, seated on wall, with one leg on top of w...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 22. Published in: Harpers Bazaar. [New York : Hearst Corp., etc.] (1... More

[Stop motion: Basketball and flying Coca-Cola bottles]

First National City Bank Tennis & Racquet Club. Before I

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Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island. Infield II

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Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island. Vista through planting

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Hole in the Wall Golf Club, Naples, Florida. Porch

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Stop SALT II - A poster with a picture of a rocket on it

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Baseball game at historic Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois

Photo shows baseball game played between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals on May 1, 1996 (Source: Society for American Baseball Research, 2016) Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to repres... More

Inter-District physical training competition, etc. at Arab College, Je...

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Chicago Bulls basketball game at the United Center, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided... More

Boys playing basketball; graffiti-covered walls are behind them.

Forms part of a group of images depicting graffiti murals that were painted on walls near School Number 15 as part of an organized, city-approved demonstration by graffiti artists from the metro area; School Nu... More

A soccer-related photograph. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting John Granata's Prudential insurance company office.

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Highland Oaks Golf Course, Dothan, Alabama

Highland Oaks Golf Course is part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photograp... More

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Youth football game at Cardozo Senior High School, 1200 Clifton St., N...

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The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

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A portion of the Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa in Lajitas, an unincorpor...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The resort sits on the site of a onetime cavalry fort established in 1916, when the interruption of commerce by Francisco (Pancho) Vi... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Aerial view of the University of Alabama football stadium, Tuscaloosa,...

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Alabama welcomes the newest addition to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Tr...

Beautifully carved into the rolling terrain of Shannon Valley, Ross Bridge has 18 holes and hosts major golf tournaments each year. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Dedication ceremony at the Hank Aaron Boyhood Home Museum at the Hank ...

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Murals "Louisville Murals - Horse racing," by Frank Weathers Long at t...

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Innis Arden Golf Club in Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Shorehaven Golf Course, Norwalk, Connecticut

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Angel Stadium of Anaheim, California

Originally Anaheim Stadium and later Edison International Field, is the home ballpark to Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels and previously home to the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. The stadium is often referr... More

Frieze depicting Texas history on the outside walls of Cowboys Stadium...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Bust of Jackie Robinson, the baseball star and civil-rights pioneer, w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Both were Pasadena natives. The two nine-foot-tall statues, across from Pasadena City Hall, were created by sculptor Ralph Helmick in 1997. Credit line: ... More

A portion of the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Country C...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The resort is now owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. H... More

Aerial view in 2014 of Houston, Texas, with a bird's-eye view of Relia...

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

AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys National Football League team...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

"SMU Mustangs," a 2005 sculpture by artist Miley Frost, on the campus ...

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