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Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

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

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputedly one-armed) fisherman on the acade of the Champion Building, Port Isabel, Texas

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More

Stained glass windows, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama

Stained glass windows, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Po...

Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...

Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More

Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Kenneth Gale, depicting Texas history, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More

Mural by Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition

Mural by Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1...

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

Mural. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Mural. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More

Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. Albans, Vermont

Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...

GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' ; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. Albans, Vermont

Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...

GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More

The old company-town movie theater in the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

The old company-town movie theater in the "ghost town," some of which ...

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

[Old truck,] rural Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

[Old truck,] rural Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Statue of former Dallas mayor and state-fair president Robert Lee Thornton at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue of former Dallas mayor and state-fair president Robert Lee Thor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University, New Haven, 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

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University, New Haven, 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

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Photograph shows the main entry to the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photogra... More

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University, New Haven, 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

[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California]

[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francis...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More

This old vaudeville house, built in the 1930s in Alpine, Texas, was purchased by Indian immigrant Avanish Rangra, a chemistry professor at Sul Ross State University locally, and his wife, Anju, in the 1970s. In 2002 their son, Amit, told a local newspaper, "We're not exactly a multiplex as much as a 'biplex'" movie theater. At one time, the upper windows were also covered with depictions of Hollywood movie stars

This old vaudeville house, built in the 1930s in Alpine, Texas, was pu...

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

The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama

The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama

The American Village opened on November 30, 1999, as Alabama's civic education center. It's buildings are replications of famous buildings in American history. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, Maryland

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...

The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, Maryland

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...

The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, Maryland

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...

The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

At the requst of Chief Justice Arthur Tuttle, the courtroom from the previous building (built in 1896) was disassembled and stored during construction, then reassembled in the new building. It contains more tha... More

Stained glass details at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland

Stained glass details at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the lib...

Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More

Architectural details at the Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building

Architectural details at the Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Bu...

Built in 1933 and located on the State line between Texas and Arkansas. It is a courthouse for both states. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keyword... More

Interior lobby, Richard B. Anderson Federal Building, Port Angeles, Washington

Interior lobby, Richard B. Anderson Federal Building, Port Angeles, Wa...

Originally a post office that was completed in 1933. General Services Administration took over the building in 1978 when the Post Office moved out. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More

Interior mailbox. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Interior mailbox. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More

U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Lamp detail. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Lamp detail. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, G...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Office doorway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Office doorway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

Interior postal window detail, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Trenton, New Jersey

Interior postal window detail, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U...

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 d... More

Stairway at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Stairway at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More

Courtroom doors in Lobby at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Courtroom doors in Lobby at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexing...

Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More

Ceiling details at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Wilmington, North Carolina

Ceiling details at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...

Built in 1919 by architect James A. Wetmore. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...

Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More

Lamp post at Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lamp post at Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Originally constructed as a post office, this neoclassical style building was built in 1915 by architect James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More

Elevators, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Elevators, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is ...

Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Door, Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Door, Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Fl...

Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More

Exterior. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Exterior. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Stairway at Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine

Stairway at Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine

Designed by architect James Knox Taylor and built 1908-1911. Addition in 1931-1932 by James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords fr... More

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More

Architectural detail at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Architectural detail at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Te...

Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi

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

Doorway detail. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Doorway detail. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh, North Carolina

Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...

Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More

Hallway. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Hallway. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More

An old jalopy outside an abandoned stone building in the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

An old jalopy outside an abandoned stone building in the "ghost town,"...

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

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, K...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More

Exterior view, full front. U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Exterior view, full front. U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Built in 1930 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreographed dance team that first formed in 1940

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More

The Fort Worth Masonic Temple, designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and built in 1931, sits on a dominant hillside on the southwest end of downtown Fort Worth, Texas

The Fort Worth Masonic Temple, designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and built...

Public domain photograph of masonic lodge building, masons, freemasons, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia

Exterior. U.S. Court House, Augusta, Georgia

Designed by architect Oscar Wendroth and built in 1916, the courthouse is a 3-story Renaissance Revival federal building, executed in white marble. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More

Tourist Attraction - Tulsa, Oklahoma Federal Building

Tourist Attraction - 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

Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland

Interior of the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Hall, on the Jo...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Exterior window detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Exterior window detail, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Greek Revival building built during 1853-1879 by architect Ammi B. Young. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More

Lobby door. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Lobby door. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

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

Sculpture "Young American Man" near courtroom doors at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Sculpture "Young American Man" near courtroom doors at Federal Buildin...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More

Stairs at U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Stairs at U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Da...

Built in 1931 by architect James A. Wetmore. Originally designed as a U.S. Post Office on the main floor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject ... More

Sculptor Joe Scarpa executed this playful piece featuring a futuristic Airstream trailer in Southside Park in Sacramento, California's capital city

Sculptor Joe Scarpa executed this playful piece featuring a futuristic...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to the Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Entrance to the Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pen...

Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More

Exterior, Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Exterior, Federal Building and U.S. Court House, Peoria, Illinois

Built in 1938 by architect Howard Cheney. Neoclassical/Art Deco design. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Wagon Wheel lamp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Wagon Wheel lamp. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Corridor. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Corridor. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

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

Order of Myths, Mobile's first and oldest Mardi Gras society, Mobile, Alabama

Order of Myths, Mobile's first and oldest Mardi Gras society, Mobile, ...

One of Mobile's most secretive, the OOMs (Double-Ohh-Mms) secret society was founded in 1867, one year after Joe Cain's fateful first ride through the streets of Mobile in the guise of Chief Slacabamorinico, an... More

Historic train bridge in Gadsden, Alabama

Historic train bridge in 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

St. John's Episcopal Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

St. John's Episcopal Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Organized in the 1830's, the present building was first used in October 1852. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Pho... More

Main Street, downtown Greensboro, Alabama

Main Street, downtown Greensboro, 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

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... More

Old Brick Church built in 1839 on Lauderdale Street, Mooresville, Alabama

Old Brick Church built in 1839 on Lauderdale Street, Mooresville, Alab...

Mooresville is the oldest incorporated town in Alabama (November 16, 1818). The entire town, characterized as a picturesque early 19th century village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The... More

Skiers on ski lift, Mammoth Lakes, California

Skiers on ski lift, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More

Historic buildings in Tuskegee, Alabama

Historic buildings in Tuskegee, 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

Rural Alabama in the spring - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Rural Alabama in the spring - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (Alabama project). Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's Amer... More

Pope Mansion, built in 1814 on the highest hill in Huntsville, Alabama

Pope Mansion, built in 1814 on the highest hill in Huntsville, Alabama

LeRoy Pope, a prominent American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama who purchased much of the land on which downtown Huntsville now stands. Title, date, subject note, and keywords pro... More

Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 Goodall Wooten House

Hotel Ella, a boutique hotel in Austin, Texas, that occupies the 1900 ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built by local doctor and benefactor Goodall H. Wooten and his wife Ella and was noted for its Classical Revival architecture ... More

Detail from the Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas

Detail from the Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Alfred Gage came to Texas from Vermont in 1878, eager to make his fortune as a rancher, banker and businessman. In 1927, Gage commiss... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

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

Houses, Mammoth Lakes, California

Houses, Mammoth Lakes, California

In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

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

Tinsley Harrison sculpture by Cordray Parker, University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama

Tinsley Harrison sculpture by Cordray Parker, University Boulevard, Bi...

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

Railway station, Tuscumbia, 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

[Holly Pond Town Hall, Holly Pond, Alabama]

[Holly Pond Town Hall, Holly Pond, Alabama]

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).... More

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