Country Music Legend Hank Williams statue, Lister Hill Plaza in Montgo...
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
Intersection of Columbia Road and 18th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The University charter of March 2, 1867, designated Howard University as "a University for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences." The Freedmen's Bureau provided most of the early financial su... More
Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Aust...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Part of the 1914 addition, this area's width of this changed slightly during another restoration completed in 2012. Built in 1854, th... More
Row houses, Keefer Pl. near 6th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California
Designed by Timothy Pfleger in 1931, the landmark features a resplendent Art Deco auditorium with bas-relief sculptural panels, a grand ceiling, and a 1931 Wurlitzer organ. Title, date and keywords based on inf... More
Mural at Cherokee High School, Cherokee, Alabama
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Lela Davidson and Josie Aronor wave Alabama flags in their red dresses...
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
Skyline views of downtown area, Montgomery, 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
Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama
The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More
Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alab...
Started in 1958 by Jim Adams, J. Ernest Lambert, W.O. Crawford, E. Ham Wilson, Aubrey H. Fleming, C. Ed Teague, Edward Wadsworth and W.H. Gregory, The Southeastern Livestock Exposition was formed to promote the... More
Rural scene in 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
To Kill A Mockingbird play, based on Harper Lee's book, outside the hi...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
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
Beautiful landscaped trees line 5th Avenue in the wealthy district of ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Doorway detail of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More
Horse and buggy in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial, a monument to U.S. President Joh...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Philip Johnson and erected in 1970, the concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Da... More
Historic building near the intersection of 6th and E St., NW, Washingt...
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
Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood...
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
Historic buildings in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods
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
1200 block of Rhode Island Ave., 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
Mardi Gras displays and details in store windows during the Mardi Gras...
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 - 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
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
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
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
Spring Park, 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
[Sign for DeKalb Theater,] Fort Payne, Alabama
Fort Payne is the county seat of DeKalb County. It bills itself as the "Official Sock Capital of the World." That title, however, may be changing since "sock manufacturing" has been outsourced to China. Title, ... More
Longhorn cattle on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre wor...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
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
Façades and details in residential neighborhoods in Old Havana, Cuba
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama
The 1903 Old Courthouse Museum offers permanent exhibitions on two famous Monroe County citizens: Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee. It is also the site of an annual three-week production of a stage version of... More
View of 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
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
Bronze equestrian statue of Major General George Brinton McClellan loc...
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
2013 President Sally M. Bixby and her husband, Harlan, pass by in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former... More
Historic sign of WENN radio station, Birmingham, Alabama
WENN (1320 AM), is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. Its daytime power is 5,000 watts, and at nighttime, it broadcasts at 111 watts. Formerly known on-air as "The People's Station of Birmingham",... More
Historic buildings, 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Detail inside the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas C...
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
Prehistoric indian mound, Florence, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Alabama World War Memorial, part of the Alabama Archives and History M...
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 house, Logan Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Details of Taft Bridge, NW, Washington, D.C.
Taft Bridge, also known as the Connecticut Ave. bridge or William Howard Taft Bridge, carries Connecticut Ave. over Rock Creek and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, connecting the neighborhoods of Woodley Par... More
Street scene near intersection of 14th St. and S St., NW, Washington, ...
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
Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural 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
Street scene, near the intersection of 14th St. and Parkwood Pl., NW, ...
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
Scenic downtown Huntsville, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Cemetery at Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California
Several thousand Chumash, as well as many early settlers and Franciscan padres, are buried in the cemetery. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
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
Boyhood home of Hank Williams in Georgiana, 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
Fort Gaines, Alabama during American Civil War
In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More
Looking down the river toward Mobile, Alabama
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Fishing in Monroe County, 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
Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Walter Frederick Anderson, age 1, and Saleah Rose Bruinton, age 2, pos...
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 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
Float in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More
Row houses, New Hampshire Ave. near intersection with Otis Pl., NW, Wa...
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
Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washingto...
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
Historic buildings in Camden, 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
Early-20th Century farm equipment, retained as a reminder of harder da...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The farm was the site of the first cooperative farm demonstration, organized by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture... More
Panoply Arts Festival in Huntsville, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
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
Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama
The Muscle Shoals Music Association, an organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals created the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board in 1980 with a manda... More
Historic buildings in Peterman, 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
Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Wintzell's is known far and wide for its "Oysters-fried, stewed, or nude." Wintzell's Oyster House was founded in 1938 as a 6-stool oyster b... More
Outbuildings behind the William Braxton Barr House, a historic farmhou...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Set on Sprinkle Road and now part of a wedding and event operation, the mansion was built for cotton merchant Willian Braxton Barr an... More
Alabama Motel in 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
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
Fort Morgan is a historic fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama
Known as "one of the finest examples of military architecture in the New World," the post was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan. Construction was completed in 1834. Title, date, subject not... 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
A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...
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
Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama
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University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Valley Hunt Club members pass by in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena,...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More
Entrance hallway in the Bayou Bend house museum, the Museum of Fine Ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975), the collection is one of the finest show... More
The Wilson Dam spans the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and...
Construction of the dam began in 1918 and was completed in 1924. It is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograp... More
Architectural details at the Catalina Casino, built on the site former...
The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
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
"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Tuskegee Airmen's Museum, 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
Committee of the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) hand painted murals a...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
The old "Hye" store and post office in Blanco County, west of Johnson ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The store is named for Hiram "Hye" Brown, who opened a store on this site in 1880. The present structure, replete with Bavarian metal... More
Almost any small street in Old Havana, Cuba has a view of the Capitol ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
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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
Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a sharecropper's cabin ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
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
Murals by John Augustus Walker on permanent display in the Museum of M...
John Augustus Walker (1901-1967) was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration. Walker's preferred... More
Masonic Lodge No. 3, Perdue Hill, Alabama
Built in 1824, it also served as a Baptist Church and a courtroom. General LaFayette visited here in 1825. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More
Anacostia neighborhood, SE, 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
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
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Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...
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Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
Established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. Later it was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In 1989 it underwent a major expansion encompassing over 48 acres and 700 different spe... 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
Buildings, Corcoran St. near 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
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