temple, shrine

[View of a mausoleum in the neighborhood of His Holiness Karacaahmet] ...

Karacaahmet Cemetery. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. In album: Mosques, fountains, mausoleums, and views of Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Middleton Place, Ashley River vic., Dorchester County, South Carolina

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Sherrill Inn, Hickory Nut Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1804. Related name: Gordon McClure. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-11. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, L... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Small shrine outside the San Ysleta Mission. The mission wasbuilt in 1...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the oldest mission in Texas, now run by Catholic Diocese of El Paso. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs... More

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated the... More

Korean and other Asian shops and organizations in the Lakewood neighbo...

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, scenes of Korean and other Asian shops and organizations on N. Clark St. on or near the 3300-3400 block; 3-4, exterior of Sam Mee Korean Restaurant, 3370 N. Clark St.

Chinese Music Club, 211-B West Cermac Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-3, shrine to Chinese god of music in headquarters of Chinese Music ... More

Rock painting, Bud Rondeau, Galilee and Providence, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-9, Bud painting in his van in Gallilee; 10-13, Bud's handmade memorial altar for his son, Steve, who died at age 22 in an automobile accident. Altar appears inside in Bud and Margaret's bedroom on... More

Tripoli Shrine Temple, 3000 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwauke...

Survey number: HABS WI-367 Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 86000142

Simpsonville Mill, West side of Cedar Lane at Guilford Road, Columbia,...

Significance: Simpsonville Mill is significant as a surviving eighteenth century mill with associated features. The Simpsonville Mill was an important local industry in Howard County, and its history reflects ... More

Thornhill Plantation, County Road 19, Forkland, Greene County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-238 Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84000618

The beautiful Temple of Heaven, where the Emperor worships at the sols...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churches; Ph. Ind.; Geogr.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Japan. Public domain artistic photograp...

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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PRESIDENT GREETS SHRINE HOSPITAL HEADS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, SEATED, G...

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Saints Sergius & Herman of Valaam Russian Orthodox Chapel, Well House,...

Survey number: HABS AK-52-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Ma-Tsu (Heavenly Mother) Temple of the USA, San Francisco, Califor...

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 branch of a temple of the same name in Taiwan, is o... More

[Memorial for the victims of the September 11th terrorist attack on th...

Title devised by Library Staff. Published in: Lamentation 911 / text by E.L. Doctorow ... photographs by David Finn. Millwood Pub., 2002. Exhibited: "Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions" at the Libr... More

The "Green Folly" at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, an Ame...

It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), a renowned antiques collector and horticulturist. Until recently, it was known as the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. The Green Folly is con... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More

The Chinese Pavilion at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, an ...

It was the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), a renowned antiques collector and horticulturist. Until recently, it was known as the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. The Chinese Pavilion i... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

New Chinatown in Los Angeles, California

This area was originally Los Angeles' Little Italy. In the 1920s and 30s, the Chinese moved in. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California ... More

Mr. Kean Sea Park, brush artist, Chicago; home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, Chic...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Mr. Kean Sea Park, brush artist, 6244 N. Claremont, Chicago; 12... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Norris Museum, Museum Building, North of Steamboat Geyser & southwest ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1118 Survey number: HABS WY-146-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001445

Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Iron City Cemetery, Iron City (historical)...

Survey number: HAER CO-26-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kykuit, Japanese Tea House, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills, Westcheste...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N261 Survey number: HABS NY-6334-D

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Photo shows the famous "floating torii" at Itsukushima Shrine in Miyajima, Japan.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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[Unidentified garden. Shrine to the Virgin Mary]

Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens. Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Col... More

Burial of an Unknown soldier, [11/9/21]

Mrs. Edward Harkness, residence at 1 E. 75th St., New York City. Jade ...

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[Monk fixing clock above painting, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[A young girl, Kimu, praying in front of a giant Buddha statue at the ...

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel, California

Also known as the Carmel Mission, it remains a parish church today. It is the only one of the California Missions to have its original bell tower dome. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cr... More

This temple, in the Butte County seat of Oroville, was built in 1863 t...

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Jefferson Rock, a promontory above Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from ...

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The Rustic Mantel Trading Post, an eclectic gift shop in the Jefferson...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Easter vigil and baptism, Nueva Esperanza Church, Oblate Hispanic Miss...

Index data: Easter vigil and baptism, Nueva Esperanza Church, Oblate Hispanic Mission. 1-4, View from balcony with 85mm lens, Father Leo LeBlanc at lectern, with cross in background; 5-6, Long view of Father Ja... More

Chelmsford Buddhist Temple during Maha Visantara Jakata Desana, Chelms...

Index data: The following photographs were made at the Chelmsford Buddhist Temple during Maha Visantara Jakata Desana. See Michael Bell's field notes for details. 1, Monk John Massey and M.B. in John's room in ... More

Eddie Martin, Buena Vista, Georgia, South Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Photographs of the South Georgia Folklife Project documenti... More

Missing Pieces Exhibit: Eddie Martin, Buena Vista, Georgia

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Craftwork by Natividad Falcon, Lowell, Massachusetts; Transfiguration ...

Index data: NATIVIDAD FALCON. 1, Religious habit on chair by television set; 2, Close-up of religious habit, worn in devotion to a particular saint; 3-4, Place mats and pillowcase on couch; TRANSFIGURATION GREE... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

St. Jacob Russian Orthodox Church, Napaskiak, Bethel Census Area, AK

Significance: The vitality of the Russian Orthodox religion among the Eskimos is illustrated by recent church buildings such as this. The main block of the church is 40'-2" x 68'-1", with a 20' x 12' vestibule.... More

St. Jacob Russian Orthodox Church, Napaskiak, Bethel Census Area, AK

Significance: The vitality of the Russian Orthodox religion among the Eskimos is illustrated by recent church buildings such as this. The main block of the church is 40'-2" x 68'-1", with a 20' x 12' vestibule.... More

[Stone lantern on shore and a torii in a lake] / Y. Ito.

Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of 19th-century landscape drawing, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Another inside of above / See-Tay, photographer, Tientsin.

Photograph shows shelter within rock garden at the palace of I-huan, prince Chʻun, Peking, China. Liang Shitai was also known as See-Tay. (Source: Brush and shutter: Early photography in China: http://www.getty... More

[Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, Japan]

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

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Trampas, New Mexico. Photographs on the wall of Grandfather Romero's b...

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[Inside Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 001 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Brass or golden guard, standing, with right hand on hilt of sword, wi...

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Carol M. Highsmith - Vietnam Buddhist Center, Houston, Texas

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

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Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More

Chesterwood, Daniel Chester Wood's studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The studio has a standard-gauge railroad track used to roll large sculpture outdoors for v... More

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Also known as the Royal Presidio Chapel, the Roman Catholic cathedral was built in 1794, and is the oldest continuously operating parish and the oldest st... More

Manzanar War Relocation Center, Military Police Post, Independence, In...

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Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Stoney-Baynard House, Plantation Drive, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort C...

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Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, 395 Biddle Boulevard, Leavenworth,...

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Stan Hywet Hall, 714 North Portage Path, Akron, Summit County, OH

Significance: Stan Hywet Hall is one of the most outstanding examples of Tudor Revival architecture in the United States. As a house museum, it is notable for its high degree of architectural integrity and for ... More

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Mission Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Suggested address, Mission Road, not verifiable in documentation. Less common element keywords for complex include: conventos, canales, cimborios, grotoes, & sacroriums. Significance: Date of Erection, 1797. A... More

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Fountain of the Dolphins]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Also: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere. Associated Name:... More

Chinowa no fuji, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a priest standing next to a torii with a large wreath attached through which Mount Fuji is visible in the distance; on the left, two men and a woman are bathing at a cistern fed by water pouring fro... More

Buddha, Hakone, depicting Mount Fuji

Photograph shows four men, three sitting on Buddha's lap, at a statue of Buddha in Hakone. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a waterfront scene with Mount Fuji(?) in the background in the upper right and ... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Ikonostas v t︠s︡erkvi Ioanna Bogoslova. Rostov Velikīĭ

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In the Temple area, the Moslem mosque of el-Burak, int[erior]. In the ...

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Altar. Bedecked statue of the Virgin above the altar of 13th station [...

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Alva Vanderbilt's tea house behind the Vanderbilts' sumptuous Marble H...

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Ivolginsk Buddhist Datsan, main temple interior, Buddha shrine, Ivolga...

Number assigned by photographer: ivol004. Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Courtyard details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Our Lady of Lourdes' Shrine, Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Kykuit, Japanese Shrine, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills, Westchester C...

Significance: The Japanese Shrine was constructed as part of William Welles Bosworth's design for the gardens of the country estate of John D. Rockefeller Sr., built between 1908 and 1910. The shrine is one of ... More

Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco-American Day School, Lowell, Massac...

Index data: OUR LADY OF LOURDES GROTTO, FRANCO-AMERICAN DAY SCHOOL. 1, Long view of Grotto at dusk, with Christmas lights outlining the grotto; 2-3, Close-up of figure of praying girl and Virgin Mary; 4, Side v... More

Bienvenida Figaroa and Natividad Falcon, Lowell, Massachusetts

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, T︠S︡erkovnyĭ pokrov dli︠a︡ Sv. Darov, shityĭ ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, between Yaroslavl, Vla... More