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Craft. Apprentice. Sec. 2nd

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on... More

806 Royal St., Court, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11836-36-A-2. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purch... More

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, I...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Stairs, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Stairway at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Built in 1915-1917. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line:... More

Stairway detail at the New York Capitol in Albany

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Photographs of the Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals building, ...

Images show exterior and interior views of the the Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals building in Atlanta, Georgia. Details include the courtroom, doors and windows, stairways, and decorative elements su... More

New London Ledge Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, East of main harbor ch...

Significance: New London Ledge Lighthouse, built 1906-1909, is a rare example of a turn-of-the-century, water-bound lighthouse with a masonry, domestic design. While most contemporary lighthouses were construc... More

Sabine Hall, State Route 624 vicinity, Warsaw, Richmond, VA

Significance: Sabine Hall was built in 1730 for Colonel Landon Carter by his father, Robert Carter, of Corotoman, whose extensive possessions in the Colony of Virginia caused him to be called "King" Carter by h... More

Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant, Building No. B-14, 54-58 Grand St...

Significance: B-14 was the Colgate's principal facility for toilet soap manufacture in Jersey City c1903-86, along with adjacent B-15 (HAER No. NJ-71-O), and also housed plant maintenance shops. Although not a... More

Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL

Sometimes referred to as "Mayan" architectural elements. Survey number: HABS FL-322 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79000667

Iolani Palace, King & Richards Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Significance: Residence of the last two royal rulers of Hawaii. Scene of transfer of government to the United States in 1898. From 1898 to 1960s, the palace served as the capitol of Hawaii. When built, the p... More

Quarters B, Kongensgade 32-33, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI

Significance: Built by Germans for a consulate during Danish occupations of island, later used as residence for government secretary, now municipal office. Neo-classical with (front) facade. Unusual staircase... More

Gerald House, Adams & Lawrence Streets, Montgomery, Montgomery County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51 Survey number: HABS AL-604 Building/structure dates: 1851- 1852 Initial Construction

Peking. Summerpalace, Mainbuildings. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Title in General-Photochrom-Katalog, 30. Ausgabe 1911. Photoglob-Abteilung der Vereinigten Kunstanstalten, A.G. Zürich München, 1911: "China-Chine. Peking. Summerpalace. Mainbuildings". Print no. "18802. P.Z."... More

The Lobby, Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017220. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Queen's staircase, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stairway, main corridor, Majestic B. Building, Detroit, Mich

Negative shattered upper right and cracked downwards. "Tripp 2" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043551. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Going to church, Manchester, New ...

Washington, D.C. A boy playing in Meridan Hill Park

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

Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. Staircase

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Office interiors

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Built in 1914, the estate is located on top of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection ... More

[Leland Stanford Mansion, Sacramento, California]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stairs at the Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Missis...

Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Staircase at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally...

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

Stairway details. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisia...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by architect Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

Photographs of the Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals building, ...

Bates-Ryder House, 1399 East Avenue, Rochester, Monroe County, NY

Significance: This large Italianate villa built at the height of this style's popularity is one of the few remaining in the area. It is representative of the earlier residences built along Bast Avenue, Rocheste... More

Lanneau-Norwood House, 417 Belmont Avenue, Greenville, Greenville, SC

Significance: Outstanding example of the Second Empire style and for association with prominent residents of Greenville; Charles Lanneau had the house built for him c. 1877; purchased by John W. Norwood in 1907... More

Exchange Building & Custom House, 122-26 East Bay Street, Charleston, ...

HABS photo numbers are one off from LC call numbers due to an earlier inclusion of a PAEAA image as the first photo of the record. PAEAA image has since been removed to HABS No. SC-131 (1987). Survey number: H... More

Iolani Palace, King & Richards Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Cadwalader Raines House, Macon, Bibb County, GA

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

Merkel Farmstead, House, 8570 Louella Lane, south side of U.S. Route 6...

Survey number: HABS IL-1191-A

Colonel Edward Means House, 604 Pinckney Street, Beaufort, Beaufort Co...

Survey number: HABS SC-220

St. George Tabernacle, Main Street and Tabernacle Streets, Saint Georg...

Significance: This is probably the finest remaining pioneer Tabernacle in the state, immaculately maintained, located in the central city of the Southern Utah Cotton Mission. Unprocessed Field note material e... More

Commercial Union Assurance Company Building, 416-420 Walnut Street, Ph...

Significance: Fine example of late-nineteenth-century multi-story office building designed by architect T.P. Chandler. Survey number: HABS PA-1076

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, VA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, VA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Looking backward / Laura E. Foster.

Cartoon showing a woman at the top of a staircase with steps labeled "Loneliness," "Anxiety," "Suffrage" and "Career", approaching a stand labeled "Fame," as she looks back at children holding out flowers stand... More

["The Breakers," Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue...

Site History. House Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt, 1892-1896. Landscape: Ernest William Bowditch and James Higginson Bowditch. Associated Name: Alice Gwynne (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt II. Today: Public sit... More

Mrs. Moran home at 2320 Bancroft. Spiral stairway in Mrs. Moran's home

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

Broken-down steps, entrance to abandoned house. Winton, Minnesota

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

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Staircase

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

[Staircase detail. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Stairway. The Joel Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Chatt...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Photographs of the Apex Building in Washington, D.C.

Images show exterior and interior views of the art deco Apex Building, the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C . Details include the atrium, doorways, metal grille work and stairways. The ... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Linden Place, 500 Hope Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI

Significance: Linden Place, built in 1810 for General George DeWolf, is an outstanding example of the in-town estates built by the merchant elite in the early 19th century. The mansion, in the heart of Bristol... More

Webb House, 520 Main Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

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

Iceberg Rock Staircase, 727 Carlsbad Cavern Highway, Carlsbad, Eddy Co...

Significance: Iceberg Rock Staircase at Carlsbad Caverns National Park is the last remaining section of wood stairs from the pre-World War II period of cave tourism. Although discovered decades earlier and min... More

Washington St. staircase

Photograph shows staircase at the Central Library, Chicago Public Library. Handwritten on recto: "card 58, Chicago, Ill., Pub. Lib., 4, 8x10 plates." Stamped on recto: "Negative by L.C. Handy." Print from copy... More

[Detroit, Mich., Northwestern High School, main stairway]

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

Spiral staircase, Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah

Photoprint copyrighted by Joseph H. Smith. No copyright renewals. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Staircases; Architecture; Geogr.; Churches; Religion Mormon.

Xiques Mansion, 521 Dauphine St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisia...

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

Mosby Hall, Littleton, Halifax County, North Carolina

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

H.H. Rennell, residence in Sasco Hill, Southport, Connecticut. Stairca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. Staircase

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Central staircase leading to the performance hall at the Morton H. Mye...

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

Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...

Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More

Charles Bissell House, 666 East Avenue, Rochester, Monroe County, NY

Significance: Built between 1852 and 1854, for Mr. & Mrs. Charles Perkins Bissell this Gothic Revival structure is attributed to Andrew Jackson Warner. This inspiration for the exterior treatment was undoubtedl... More

Atlantic Building, 930 F Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Co...

Significance: When the Atlantic Building was completed in 1888, it was the largest commercial structure in the city and one of the first with a passenger elevator. The speculative office building was designed ... More

[Flight of the Empress Eugénie from the Tuileries] / André Castaigne.

(DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Eugénie's month of memories" in Ladies home journal, 31:16 (Jan. 1914). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Morris Landau House, 638 North Faring Road, Los Angeles, Los Angeles C...

Significance: Los Angeles based architect Paul R. Williams designed the two-and-one-half-story, single-family, Georgian Revival style residence for electrical engineer Morris Landau and his wife Mabel. Situated... More

River Street Historic District, 95 Main Street (House), Claremont, Sul...

Survey number: HAER NH-5-G

William H. Bowers House, 254 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg, Peters...

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

William H. Bowers House, 254 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg, Peters...

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

Joseph Magrue House, 1413 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton County,...

Significance: The Joseph Magrue House was an excellent example of an Italianate town house of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It was particularly noteworthy for its elaborate cast-iron front porch ... More

Altitude. Part of Deadwood as seen from big flume, showing steps, stai...

Section of small city showing residential and commercial buildings; trees and mountains in background. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: John C.H. Grabill collection.

Webb House, 520 Main Street, Greensboro, Hale County, AL

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

City Hall, Atlantic & Tennessee Avenues, Atlantic City, Atlantic Count...

Survey number: HABS NJ-815

Damas. Derviche á la mosque / Dumas Ph.

Three dervishs, two on steps, one playing a flute. No. 6011.

[Woman with arms outstretched looking up staircase with shadowy figure...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The Foyer, Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich.

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043060. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

South stairway, first floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexic...

H71007 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1736-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 17, pl. 584.

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Admi...

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

[Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Lazio, Italy. Water theater steps, the ...

Site History. House Architecture: Medieval castle rebuilt in 1663 and 1667. Associated Name: Hervey de Saint-Denis. Other: Walter Gay and Matilda Travis Gay lived here at the time Johnston photographed. Today:... More

William K. Polk House, Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina

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

Live Oak Plantation, Weyanoke, W. Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1800-1810. Related name: Mr. J.R. Mays. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11836-63. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the Sout... More

Residential interior

Interior lobby stairs, Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah

Architect: Hodgson & McClenahan. Built in 1933-34. Art Deco style originally built to provide offices for the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Serv... More

[Leland Stanford Mansion, Sacramento, California]

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Stairway, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

108 West Jones Street (House), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

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

Dimon Sturges House, 114 Park Avenue West, Mansfield, Richland County,...

Significance: This building was Mansfield's largest and finest example of Second Empire style residential architecture. It was one of the most imposing residences along Park Avenue West, which developed in the ... More

Point Reyes Lighthouse, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, CA

Complex has a fog building. Survey number: HABS CA-2250 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 91001100

Kenneth Perry House, River Road, Bound Brook, Somerset County, NJ

Significance: This is a large, well-preserved frame house built about the 1860s. Survey number: HABS NJ-709 Building/structure dates: after 1860 Initial Construction

Old Customs House, King at Sixth Street, Wilmington, New Castle County...

Significance: Of national significance, not only because of its design, the recognized talents of its architect, but also for its role in the development of fire proof architecture and cast iron technology. Hou... More

Grand Rapids City Hall, 35 Lyon Street Northwest, Grand Rapids, Kent C...

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

Edgewater, Lake Street, Otsego Township, Cooperstown, Otsego County, N...

Significance: This house, built between 1810 and 1812, was modeled after a colonial residence in Philadelphia, well known to the Cooper family. Survey number: HABS NY-251 Building/structure dates: ca. 1812 I... More

James E. D. Lanier House, 511 West First Street, Madison, Jefferson Co...

Significance: Designed by locally prominent Madison architect Francis Costigan (1810-1865) and built in 1843-44. The fine proportions and elegant presence of this classical brick structure are emphasized by the... More

Ain Karim, Russian colony

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

Stairway, first floor, Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich.

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

Liberty Bell and stairway, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.

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

Nordley, 4203 Sulgrave Road, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Related names: Mrs. Benj. Hodges Smith. William L. Bottomley, architect. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-44. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of t... More