The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... more
Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... more
Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... more
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
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 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
Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... more
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba
The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929, cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution in 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then the Ministry of Science, T... more
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... more
Detail of BAMA Theatre sign in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Designed by architect David O. Whilldin of Birmingham, construction began on the Bama Theatre in 1937 and was completed the following year through funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA) program... more
![[Sailboats] on Lake Guntersville, Guntersville Alabama](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTAvMDEvMDEvc2FpbGJvYXRzLW9uLWxha2UtZ3VudGVyc3ZpbGxlLWd1bnRlcnN2aWxsZS1hbGFiYW1hLTUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "[Sailboats] on Lake Guntersville, Guntersville Alabama")
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
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
In 1807 a burial ground for citizens in the east end of the new federal city was founded. In the first five years, 13 members of Congress, two vice presidents, and numerous military and government officials wer... more
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
Logan Circle, NW, Washington, D.C.
Logan Circle is a traffic circle, neighborhood, and historic district in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The primarily residential neighborhood includes two historic districts, properties listed on t... more
Details on the statue honoring Maceo on 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
Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...
Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... more
Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, 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
Row houses, Lamont St. near 6th St., 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
To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the hi...
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
Wooden indian statue at antique store in Florence, 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
Row houses, 3300 block of Sherman Ave., 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
Former O St. Market, O St. and 7th St., 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
Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama
The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... more
Gaineswood, a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama
Gaineswood, completed in 1861, is considered to be Alabama's finest neoclassical house. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... more
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
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... more
RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama
The building, Alabama's tallest, is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... more
Detail of Morro Castle with view of Havana, Cuba, in background
Morro Castle was built in 1589 when Cuba was under the control of Spain and was later captured by the British in 1762. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Caro... more
Murals, Dothan, Alabama
Mural artist: Wes Hardin (Source: murallocator.org, 2017) Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of local and s... more
Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... more
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... more
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
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
Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monaste...
Just over an hour from Huntsville in Hanceville, Alabama near Cullman, you can witness a magnificent shrine with an unusual story. A cloistered community, where the nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, and obed... more
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... more
Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama
The first thing you notice about Cathedral Caverns is the massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. Inside the cavern, is Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River and some of the most be... more
Fort Gaines, Alabama
In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... more
Architectural details in the Camara de Representantes building in Hava...
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
Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit ...
Building constructed in 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... more
Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.
East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... more
![[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDcvbGlicmFyaWFucy1yb29tLXNvdXRoLXdhbGwtbHVuZXR0ZS13aXRoLXBhbmRvcmEtb3BlbmluZy1ib3gtbGlicmFyeS1vZi1jb25ncmVzcy0wZjAyZTctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]")
[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Librar...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...
Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... more
Buildings, H St. near intersection with 9th St., NE, 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
Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama
Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... more
Historic buildings, 14th St., 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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama
Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama, in 1703, when it was a colony of French soldiers. Today, colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of choc... 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
Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...
Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... more
Aerial view of the University of Alabama football stadium, Tuscaloosa,...
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... more
Earlyworks Children's History Museum, the South's largest hands-on his...
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 Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
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 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Alabam...
The Shoals is home to two 18-hole championship courses and lies between the Wheeler and Wilson dams on the Tennessee River. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The... more
Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama
Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... more
![[Historic buildings in Peterman, Alabama]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDMvaGlzdG9yaWMtYnVpbGRpbmdzLWluLXBldGVybWFuLWFsYWJhbWEtNDk3OGI4LTEwMjQuanBn/40/26/webp "[Historic buildings in Peterman, Alabama]")
[Historic buildings in Peterman, Alabama]
Title from related image in same group: LC-DIG-highsm-08020. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol... more
Buildings on the Prado in front of the Capitol, 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
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... 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
Rural Alabama in the spring
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
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... more
War memorial, Gadsden, 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
Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit ...
Building constructed in 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... more
Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...
The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... more
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...
This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... more
The grounds of Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The University charter of March 2, 1867, designated Howard University as "a University for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences." The Freedmen's Bureau provided most of the early financial su... more
The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...
Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... more
Downtown views along Route 80 in Selma, 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
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... more
Andrea Michelle Pittman stands in front of the Shorter Mansion, Eufaul...
The Shorter Mansion, with its 18 freestanding Corinthian columns serves as the headquarters for the Eufaula Heritage Association. It was built in 1884 by Eli Sims Shorter II, a cotton planter and nephew of Civi... more
McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.
The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... more
"New Deal" WPA art, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U.S. Courtho...
Built in 1932 and designed by architect James Wetmore. The exterior of the Trenton Federal Building is a well executed design with a "Stipped Neo-Classical" form, with both Classical and Art Deco terra cotta de... more
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... more
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... more
Order of Myths, Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama
The Order of Myths, Mobile's first and oldest Mardi Gras society, also remains one of its most secretive. The OOMs (Double-Ohh Mms) was founded in 1867, one year after Joe Cain's fateful first ride through the ... more
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...
This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... more
Gilbert White mural, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D....
Building also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building. It was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped w... more
East grate detail, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution...
Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... more
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... more
Thousands of chickens live in this large place where their main functi...
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 art at Cardozo Senior High School, 1200 Clifton St., N.W., Washi...
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
Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, Colbert County, 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
Performance of "The Flying Dutchman" Opera in Mobile, Alabama
Mobile Opera Guild Auxiliary (affiliated with the Metropolitan Opera Guild) presents mainstage productions and opera excerpts throughout a five-state area. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by th... more
Building at the corner of 11th and U St., 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
