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 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
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
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 details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
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 wings were... More
Ceiling mural "The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac (Winter)," by ...
Date: 1940; dimensions: 13' 4" x 21'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogra... More
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...
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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
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
Upper stories of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple, designe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building has strong Gothic influences, with its pinnacles, pointed arches and window tracery in terra cotta detailing. Credit line... More
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
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
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
Interiors, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
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 wings were... More
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
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 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
Display case for bulletin, C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, Big Stone...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1912; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More
Sculptor Joe Scarpa executed this playful piece featuring a futuristic...
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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
Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia
Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More
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
The McGrew Mansion, also known as "The Pines," built in 1841, was the ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia
Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More
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
Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitutio...
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
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
Old Huntington High School, a historic high-school building in Hunting...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure, built in 1916, was used as a school until 1995, when a new facility also known as Huntington High School, was completed... More
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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. 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 ... More
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
Confederate and Spanish American war monument at the historic courthou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
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, 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, 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
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
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
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
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
Ministry of Interior building in Plaza de la Revolution (Revolution Sq...
The Iron face on the façade is Che Guevara. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Building at the corner of 6th St. and W 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
An equestrian statue honoring John A. Logan stands in the center of Lo...
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
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
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 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
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
The 1916 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the square befor...
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
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
One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoy...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More
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
Confederate statue in the town square of 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
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
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]
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
Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama
50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... 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
Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California
Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More
Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama
50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... 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
View of ski area and mountains, 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
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
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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. 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 ... More
Saint Stephen Church of God in Christ, Kansas Ave. near intersection w...
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
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
Memorial Fountain on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fountain memorializes the 75 people, including 37 Marshall University football players, who died in a plane crash at Huntington's ... More
Historic buildings near Monroeville, Alabama
Public domain photograph of a hotel, inn, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A depiction at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas, of a mudd...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The street inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the su... More
Views of Selma, Alabama from the Edmund Pettus bridge.
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
Historic downtown 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
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
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
President's study in the First White House of the Confederacy, Montgom...
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, 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
Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...
The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobi... More
Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More
Wooden barn and silo near Decatur, 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
Young Kate Frommert enjoys all the Easter trimmings at the Three Georg...
Founded in 1917 by George Coudopolos, George Sparr, and George Pappas, Three Georges Candy was an immediate hit. By 1922, the company expanded into the Dauphin Street location. Title, date, subject note, and ke... More
Rock Creek Park, 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
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
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
One of the clerestory stained-glass windows at Our Lady of Guadalupe C...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four- story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets,... More
Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More
The 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the...
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
Part of the State of Texas's official longhorn herd, kept at Fort Grif...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort Griffin was once a fort and townsite that served as part of the line of defensive forts from 1867 to 1881. Credit line: The Lyda ... More
Goose Pond Colony Park in Scottsboro, 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
Coosa River 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
[Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old ...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
A clock that depicts African Americans and Booker T. Washington in a d...
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
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, also known as Anacostia Park, NE,...
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
Wisteria covers the front view of this historic home 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
HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama
HillBilly Mall is built with recycled materials: trees from the last big April storm in Notasulga, a used rusty tin from an old demolished house leftover materials gathered from here and there mostly free! Titl... More
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama
Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More
Kreme Delight, Athens, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Founded in 1842, the city of Athens is located 15 miles from the Tennessee State line in Limestone County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More
[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural and architectural ornamentation. Li...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery 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
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
Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.
Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. 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 ... More