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Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Center visible

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 20 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Pinnacle of the Chrysler Building, New York, New York

Pinnacle of the Chrysler Building, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Staff of Sylvia's, a legendary soul-food restaurant in Harlem, New York

Staff of Sylvia's, a legendary soul-food restaurant in Harlem, New Yor...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Skyline view of Brooklyn, New York

Skyline view of Brooklyn, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the Ellis Island immigration station, with the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York City, in the distance

Aerial view of the Ellis Island immigration station, with the World Tr...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

View of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York, in the distance

View of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York, in the distance

Photograph taken from the grounds of the Ellis Island immigration station visitor center. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ betwee... More

Las Vegas, Nevada's headlining illusionists Siegfried & Roy (Siegried Fischbacher and Roy Horn) in their private apartment at the Mirage Hotel on the Vegas Strip, along with one of their performing white lions

Las Vegas, Nevada's headlining illusionists Siegfried & Roy (Siegried ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This was prior to the mauling of Roy, left, by a white ... More

Slot machine arcade at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Slot machine arcade at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Ne...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Celebrities cloned at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum inside the Venetian Hotel include the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who built the Flamingo Hotel. Las Vegas, Nevada

Celebrities cloned at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum inside the Venetian ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

New York Monument, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

New York Monument, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Penn...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Uptown home, New Orleans, Louisiana

Carol M. Highsmith - Uptown home, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mardi Gras doll, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras doll, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Frady's corner food store in back-of-town New Orleans, Louisiana

Frady's corner food store in back-of-town New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the winding Mississippi River through New Orleans, Louisiana

Aerial view of the winding Mississippi River through New Orleans, Loui...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Living room view of the Boggs home on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Living room view of the Boggs home on Bourbon Street in the French Qua...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The home of Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, kno... More

Louis Armstrong statue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Louis Armstrong statue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Point Lobos Lion, San Francisco, California

Point Lobos Lion, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Giraffe at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois

Giraffe at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

World Trade Center with the Brooklyn Bridge in view, New York, New York

World Trade Center with the Brooklyn Bridge in view, New York, New Yor...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Skaters at Rockefeller Center, New York, New York

Skaters at Rockefeller Center, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Powerhouse for San Francisco's historic cable cars, California

Powerhouse for San Francisco's historic cable cars, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

Bas relief at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Loui...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939, the building is a large, modernistic, eleven... More

Aerial of New York, New York - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Aerial of New York, New York - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in 2001. Title, date, subject note, an... More

Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada in which the Luxor Hotel pyramid is prominent

Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada in which the Luxor Hotel pyramid is p...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Image taken in 2001. Title, date, subject note, and key... More

Aerial of the World Trade Center, New York City, taken about two months before the 9/11 tragedy

Aerial of the World Trade Center, New York City, taken about two month...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Illusionists Siegfried (left) and Roy and friends onstage at the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, just months prior to Roy Horn's career-disabling mauling by a white tiger in 2003

Illusionists Siegfried (left) and Roy and friends onstage at the Mirag...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Cities of the Dead Cemetery tombs, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cities of the Dead Cemetery tombs, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana

The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, ... More

Ornate tower of the 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the classic art deco headquarters of the nation's largest utility company

Ornate tower of the 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York...

According to the National Park Service, its architecture "expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. . . . architects Melvi... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco, the park is on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Fr... More

Fog rolls across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Fog rolls across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. In 2012 the Golden Gate Bridge celebrated its 75th anniversary. Title, date, ... More

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More

Advertising kiosk on the streets of downtown San Francisco, California

Advertising kiosk on the streets of downtown San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California

2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbia... More

City Lights bookstore, San Francisco, California

City Lights bookstore, San Francisco, California

Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, it's one of the truly great independent bookstores in the United States. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs ... More

The Capitol Records Tower, a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine, Los Angeles, California

The Capitol Records Tower, a major landmark near the corner of Hollywo...

Capitol Records is a major American record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but as of 2011 operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, ... More

The historic Waco Suspension Bridge, now a pedestrian and bicyclists' bridge across the Brazos River in Waco, Texas

The historic Waco Suspension Bridge, now a pedestrian and bicyclists' ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For many years, cattle were driven across the suspension bridge in its early days, when it was covered with dirt. It is now lined wit... More

Storefronts, including that of the Planet of the Vapes, along Guyon Avenue in the Oakwood Heights neighborhood on the New York City borough (or county-like administrative jurisdiction) of Staten Island. Vaping is a shorthand term for smoking e-cigarettes. The store name also plays on the popular Planet of the Apes series of movies

Storefronts, including that of the Planet of the Vapes, along Guyon Av...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

This purveyor has most aspects of mind reading covered in the business's outdoor advertising in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan borough in New York City

This purveyor has most aspects of mind reading covered in the business...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Expressive, perhaps a little eerie, street mural in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in sprawling New York City

Expressive, perhaps a little eerie, street mural in the Spanish Harlem...

Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmi... More

Aerial view of Buffalo, New York, with a focus on the historic Buffalo Central (rail) Terminal

Aerial view of Buffalo, New York, with a focus on the historic Buffalo...

From the air, the building and its many boarding areas and outbuildings look vibrant, but they have all been closed in 1979, and the view of their decayed buidings with blown-out windows is (as of 2018) quite d... More

Pencils and pens, deposited by admirers of the renowned American writer and humorist Mark Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, at his gravesite in Elmira, New York's, Woodlawn Cemetery

Pencils and pens, deposited by admirers of the renowned American write...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Nightime view of Times Square in New York City

Nightime view of Times Square in New York City

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Sunset view of the Manhattan (borough) skyline and the Hudson River from the Empire State Building in New York City

Sunset view of the Manhattan (borough) skyline and the Hudson River fr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

A nearly abandoned shopping mall in Binghamton, New York

A nearly abandoned shopping mall in Binghamton, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Double rainbow (the upper one is faint) over tiny Antares along historic U.S. Route 66 in Arizona

Double rainbow (the upper one is faint) over tiny Antares along histor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

Neon sign for the Route 66 Motel at dusk, near Seligman along the historic highway in Arizona

Neon sign for the Route 66 Motel at dusk, near Seligman along the hist...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

Michael Shawn Cordero's "Spirit of East Harlem" mural in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan borough, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in sprawling New York City

Michael Shawn Cordero's "Spirit of East Harlem" mural in the Harlem ne...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Part of the elevator lobby of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan (borough) in New York City

Part of the elevator lobby of the Empire State Building in midtown Man...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watson Court of International Trade in New York, New York

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watso...

Images show exterior and interior views of U.S. federal building and Court of International Trade in New York, New York. Details include the courtroom, lobby, plaza, and mosaics. Arrangement: Arranged by phot... More

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Faithfully reproduced kitchen set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I Love Lucy" television comedy show at the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, part of the Comedy Center complex in Jamestown, New York, Ms. Ball's hometown

Faithfully reproduced kitchen set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I Love ...

The show followed the madcap adventures, many improbable but all hilarious, of New York apartment-dwelling Ball and Arnaz, as "Lucy and Ricky Ricardo," and their best-friend neighbors, "Fred and Ethel Mertz." T... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Panorama aerial of Chicago, Illinois

Carol M. Highsmith - Panorama aerial of Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Garden at Filoli, a country estate south of San Francisco, owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Woodside, California

Garden at Filoli, a country estate south of San Francisco, owned by th...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Dusk view of Manhattan Skyline, New York, New York

Dusk view of Manhattan Skyline, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of New York City, looking toward Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Bridge (below) and Manhattan Bridge are shown crossing the East River

Aerial view of New York City, looking toward Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Br...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

The original Yankee Stadium, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Bronze doors to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York

Bronze doors to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. In 1853, renowned architect James Renwick was engaged t... More

Empire State Building, New York, New York

Empire State Building, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

"Ignorance to Wisdom," a totem scupted and painted by Lane Technical High School teachers and students, Chicago, Illinois

"Ignorance to Wisdom," a totem scupted and painted by Lane Technical H...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of San Francisco, California

Aerial view of San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Old Valley Motel sign on historic Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Valley Motel sign on historic Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Fortune teller sign at the Boardwalk Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Fortune teller sign at the Boardwalk Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Clown face on a casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Clown face on a casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1990s. Title, date, subject not... More

Vintage motel sign on Freemont Street in Old Las Vegas, Nevada

Vintage motel sign on Freemont Street in Old Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Kids order sno-balls, the New Orleans Louisiana version of what others call sno-cone]

[Kids order sno-balls, the New Orleans Louisiana version of what other...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Date provided by the photographer. Title and keywords f... More

Families on a stoop in New Orleans, Louisiana

Families on a stoop in New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orle...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Beautiful sky over Transamerica Tower, San Francisco, California

Beautiful sky over Transamerica Tower, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

The Venetian Hotel on the Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Venetian Hotel on the Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada

Built in 1999 on the same spot as the historic Sands Hotel once stood, Sheldon G. Adelson, Chairman of the Board of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, set out to authentically recreate the famous Italian city of Veni... More

Oil painting "Curacao" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Oil painting "Curacao" at Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New Yo...

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, 1912. Dimensions: 4.5' x 9'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Center visible

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More

The First Presbyterian Church in Seneca Falls, New York, the town known as the Cradle of the Women's-Rights Movement

The First Presbyterian Church in Seneca Falls, New York, the town know...

The church itself is a New York State Women's History Site. The National Women's Party came to Seneca Falls in 1923 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1848 (women's rights) Convention. On the church steps... More

An art deco-style bas relief on the 1932 Buffalo City Hall building in Buffalo, New York

An art deco-style bas relief on the 1932 Buffalo City Hall building in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Reading room of the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Reading room of the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of th...

It is one of the most visible and recognizable landmarks on the university's River Campus. Dedicated in 1930, it is named after Benjamin Rush Rhees, the university's third president. Title, date and keywords ba... More

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More

Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photograph taken during the 2011 Mardi Gras celebration. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Details in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photograph taken during the 2011 Mardi Gras celebration. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More

[Art mural "The color therapy of perception" by Chor Boogie located at 1028 Market Street, San Francisco, California]

[Art mural "The color therapy of perception" by Chor Boogie located at...

Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural information from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California

2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbia... More

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, it was designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. Cr... More

San Francisco Giants baseball team plays the Chicago Cubs at AT&T ball park in San Francisco, California

San Francisco Giants baseball team plays the Chicago Cubs at AT&T ball...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

View from the Empire State building of Central Manhattan, including other skyscrapers, in New York, New York

View from the Empire State building of Central Manhattan, including ot...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Citi Field, a baseball stadium that is home to the New York Mets in the Flushing Meadows neighborhood of the New York City borough, or county-like jurisdiction, of Queens

Citi Field, a baseball stadium that is home to the New York Mets in th...

The stadium's name is derived from its "naming sponsor," Citibank, the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer... More

Robert John Burck, better known as the almost Naked Cowboy street performer, is a regular at Times Square in the New York City borough of Manhattan

Robert John Burck, better known as the almost Naked Cowboy street perf...

There actually is a Naked Cowboy variety of oysters of the sort Mr. Burck touts on his guitar. They're wild oysters harvested from Long Island Sound by the Blue Island Oyster Company. Title, date and keywords b... More

Scene along West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough

Scene along West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of Victorian living room was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the house in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day house the notorious jail

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Entrance to the elephant compound, note the decoration above the door, at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo, New York

Entrance to the elephant compound, note the decoration above the door,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Carpenter shop at Historic Richmond Town, an authentic town and farm museum complex in the neighborhood of Richmondtown on Staten Island, one of five county-level divisions within sprawling New York, New York

Carpenter shop at Historic Richmond Town, an authentic town and farm m...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural by Ethel Magafan, at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photo... More

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