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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

Exterior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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 Vahe Kirishjian at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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

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

Upper stories of the Charleston, West Virginia Masonic Temple, designed by Charleston architect H. Rus Warne and constructed in 1915

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 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

Interiors, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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 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

Display case for bulletin, C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

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 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

Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

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

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 home of James Clark and Persis Hagans McGrew in Kingwood, West Virginia

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

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. 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

Exterior elevation, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. and part of the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.

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

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 Huntington, West Virginia

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, 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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

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 courthouse on the square in Carrollton, Alabama

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

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

Ministry of Interior building in Plaza de la Revolution (Revolution Square), Havana, Cuba

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.

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 Logan Circle, Washington, D.C.

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 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

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

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 before the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown, Texas

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

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' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

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, 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

Confederate statue in the town square of Tuskegee, Alabama

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, 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

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

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 Bellingrath in Theodore, Alabama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 with Quincy St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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, 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, West Virginia

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

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 muddy street in "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. history was discovered

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.

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

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 Francisco, California

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, 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

President's study in the First White House of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama

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.

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-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats

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

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

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 Georges Southern Chocolate Candy Store on Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama

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.

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 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

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 Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

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 Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

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 contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

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 Griffin, a state historic site in Shackelford County, Texas

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

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

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 capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama]

[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 degrading light, found in a box of antiques linked to Booker T. Washington and Frances Benjamin Johnston, in Cordova, Alabama

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, Washington, D.C.

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

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, 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

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.

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. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[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

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

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.

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

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