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The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1901 and originally named in honor of J.S. Spencer, a local judge and steamboat-company operator, the hotel was operated by t... More

Three grouped stained-glass windows at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many of the church's windows were produced by Tiffany Studio of New York, and others by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey. Left to right: ... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... More

Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landcaping, ampitheatre and art at ...

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

Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landcaping, ampitheatre and art at ...

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

Mural, Georgia Ave. near Keefer Pl., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Purple Martin bird gourd houses, Hamilton, 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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More

Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

Fountain and front view of Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, Californ...

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

This small taxi was an inexpensive way to get around in Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...

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Views of Birmingham, Alabama, from Vulcan Statue

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

Hyundai's first assembly and manufacturing plant in the United States ...

This $1.4 billion automotive plant is one of the most advanced assembly plants in North America. This plant is spotless. Not one speck of dust anywhere. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Twin Sears houses built from kits ordered from the Sears Department St...

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

Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, Alabama

The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Cast iron fountain with acanthus leaf motif, Bienville Square, Mobile,...

Bienville Square is a historic city park, built in 1842, in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The square was named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. It takes up the entire ... More

Industrial site logo in Monroeville, Alabama, showing the bird and the...

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 Art Deco, 1100 New York Ave., NW., Washington, D.C.

Building was once a Greyhouse Bus depot. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Hig... More

El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba

The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929. The building cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution of 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then Ministry of S... More

View of Havana, Cuba, from Morro Castle

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

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 grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller g...

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

Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...

Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

The Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where state and local lawmen attacked civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery. Named ... More

Building right off the Melacón in Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More

Adventureland Theme Park Miniature Golf, Dothan, 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

Scenic downtown Huntsville, 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

Neighborhood along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

The 1908 Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond, Texas, southwest of ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands a statue of Georgia native, later Richmond resident, Mirabeau B. Lamar, who held three offices, including president,... More

Rural Alabama in the spring

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The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed offi... More

"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds b...

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

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...

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

FAME Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, 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 white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

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

Mural "Harvest Dance," by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior ...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 96" x 600". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograph... More

Stamford Cone at the UBS building in Stamford, 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

Fire Station 4, Columbus, Indiana

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[Looking out over the marshes in Long Island Sound near Westport, Conn...

Date provided by the photographer. Title from information photographer provided for related adjacent image LC-DIG-highsm-18895. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the ... More

Auditorium with mural at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washing...

Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is stripped classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More

Tobacco barns in Suffield, Connecticut

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Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Aerial view of Staples Center during the X-Games. Los Angeles, Califor...

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

A typical scene of houses located on one of the hills in San Francisco...

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

The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More

Sea turtles at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California

Founded in 1984, it holds thousands of plants and animals, including stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine species. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the bes...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1899, the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House is Fort Worth's premier example of Queen Anne-style Victorian architec... More

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Lu...

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East Jesus Art project located in Slab City, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. East Jesus Art project is located in the Colorado Desert of Southeastern California.Slab City. It consists of the forlorn remnants of the WWII-era Camp Du... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith and Welcome sign in Mojave Desert, Cal...

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

Playground for children at Southside Park in Sacramento, California

Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley, the city was cited by Time magazine as America's most ethnically and ra... More

Bicyclists, Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angel...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M... More

[Amusement park rides in Santa Cruz, the county seat and largest city ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer for similar group of images: LC-DIG-higsm-21615 thru LC-DIG-highsm-21624. Chartered in 1866 and located on the northern edge of the Mo... 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

The Pantages Theatre located at Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, Califor...

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Sather Tower, University of California at Berkeley, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Visible for miles, the tower is the third tallest bell and clock-tower in the world. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs... More

Ticket box at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California

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Lone cypress on the 17-Mile Drive, Monterey Peninsula, 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

Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town

The town was the setting for Mark Twain's 1865 short story,"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

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

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More

Close up of sculpture located in César Chávez Plaza is a park in downt...

The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More

Snowboarders, Mammoth Lakes, California

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The Sundial Bridge, which crosses the Sacramento River at Turtle Bay i...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Opened July 4, 2004, the bridge links the north and south campuses of Turtle Bay Exploration Park and serves as a new downtown entrance for ReddingÆs exte... More

Likeness of movie star Marilyn Monroe at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum i...

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

View of coast Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of C...

The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More

Skyline view of Los Angeles, 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

The City of Glendale, California's, "Living the Good Life" float in th...

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Aerial view of the pier, Oxnard, 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

Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Cred... More

Skyline view of Los Angeles, 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

The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Part of the shrimp-boat fleet moored in Redfish Bay at Aransas Pass, 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

"Austin, Texas" mural on Guadalupe Street, north of the University of ...

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Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birdin...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The word "quinta" in Spanish translates to a country house, villa or estate. When the owners, Jason and Marcia Matthews, began buildi... More

Ships in an inlet of Galveston Bay, above Galveston Island in Texas

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

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More

Dusk view of the Valero Energy Corporation's refinery in Port Arthur, ...

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

The Texas Theater in little Bronte, a town in Coke County, Texas, west...

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

View of downtown San Antonio, Texas, from the Tower of the Americas

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

Kitchen area of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Built about 1848 on land east of Birdville in Tarrant County, the cabin ro... More

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

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Barrel racing at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo....

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 modern-day replica of the "Come and Get It" flag in Gonzales, Texas

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Aerial view in 2014 of the Houston Ship Channel and surrounding energy...

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

John Wayne-like street figure outside the Star Cafe in the Stockyards ...

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

Citizens enjoy an outing on Lake Georgetown and its small dam on the S...

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

Streetscape in the Crockett Street entertainment district of downtown ...

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

Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Gr...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve was established for the protection of migratory birds in 1943. Its unique location at the... More

Parked freight trains at the Kansas City Southern yards in Wharton Cou...

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

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