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Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More

Garrison Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, (around 1900), west view , Razdol'e, Russia

Garrison Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, (around 1900),...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wooden Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1904), west facade, Shilka, Russia

Wooden Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1904), west facade, Shilka, Ru...

Public domain image of a historic place, portal, arch, doorway, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Commerce Society Building (late 19th century; 1916), Arkhangel'sk, Russia

Commerce Society Building (late 19th century; 1916), Arkhangel'sk, Rus...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Riverboat Nenana, which once plied the interior rivers of Alaska but became a moored tourist attraction at Alaskaland in Fairbanks, Alaska

Riverboat Nenana, which once plied the interior rivers of Alaska but b...

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 French Gothic Revival-style, Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pueblo, Colorado

The French Gothic Revival-style, Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, with its soaring steeple, was built on this site as a parish church in 1913, replacing a church that burned elsewhere in... More

The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks in the United States, in the city that took its name from it: Moundsville, West Virginia

The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The heart of the site is the largest of the Adena people's burial mounds. A massive undertaking, the effort required the movement of m... More

Column detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Column detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

Dillon room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C.

Dillon room fireplace detail, Blair House, located across from the Whi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The Blair House serves as the President's guest house, and therefore is the guest house of the nation. Built in 1824. Title, date, ... More

Lobby, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Lobby, Federal Building, San Francisco, California

Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934-36. Beaux Arts style. Part of the United Nations Plaza. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note pr... More

Courtyard at the Hotel Mercure Sevilla located in Old Havana, Cuba

Courtyard at the Hotel Mercure Sevilla located in Old Havana, Cuba

One of Havana's oldest hotels built in the 1908 and had ties to the Italian-American mafia. Al Capone stayed at the Sevilla. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Th... More

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 185...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1854, it was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook and has been the home of every Texas governor since 1856. Credit lin... More

Cathedral of the Hodigitria Icon of the Virgin (1741-85), south facade, Ulan-Ude, Russia

Cathedral of the Hodigitria Icon of the Virgin (1741-85), south facade...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

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

Church of the Savior (1775), southeast view, Urik, Russia

Church of the Savior (1775), southeast view, Urik, Russia

Number assigned by photographer: urik002. Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Church of the Kazan Icon of the Virgin (1814-16), southwest view, Tel'ma, Russia

Church of the Kazan Icon of the Virgin (1814-16), southwest view, Tel'...

Number assigned by photographer: telm001. Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Front exterior, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina

Front exterior, 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

Exterior eagle, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Exterior eagle, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisc...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1909; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Window detail, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Window detail, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built in 1911. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Bas relief at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, occupies an entire block between West Broadway, West Okmulgee Avenues and Fifth Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Bas relief at the Ed Edmondson Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1915 by Architect James Knox Taylor, the building ... More

Opulent anteroom of a ladies' restroom at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, which after its deterioration and closing in 1969 came as close as the width of the gap between a wrecking ball and three determined preservationists, standing in the way, to demolition

Opulent anteroom of a ladies' restroom at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The grand theater had opened in 1928 as a movie palace designed by noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb. The Spanish Baroque-style t... More

Apartment building (Peace Prospect 12), (1952), Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, Russia

Apartment building (Peace Prospect 12), (1952), Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Great Hall. Cartouche of Hugo. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. Cartouche of Hugo. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson B...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Main Reading Room. Detail of paired column capitals. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Main Reading Room. Detail of paired column capitals. Library of Congr...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Main Reading Room. The Rotunda Clock by John Flanagan. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Main Reading Room. The Rotunda Clock by John Flanagan. Library of Con...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Main Reading Room. Interior of dome. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Main Reading Room. Interior of dome. Library of Congress Thomas Jeffe...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall, second floor, south corridor. Pompeiian panel depicting Courage, by George W. Maynard. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall, second floor, south corridor. Pompeiian panel depicting C...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

National Archives building detail, Pennsylvania Avenue façade, Washington, D.C.

National Archives building detail, Pennsylvania Avenue façade, Washing...

The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with ... More

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Architect: Rodney Leon. Began in 1991, when, during excavation for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans. The site is a national Monu... More

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Second Floor, Southeast Pavilion, the Pavilion of the Elements. Lunette with mural Air by William De Leftwich Dodge. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor, Southeast Pavilion, the Pavilion of the Elements. Lunet...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Chain of Rocks bridge, Route 66, St. Louis, Missouri

Chain of Rocks bridge, Route 66, St. Louis, Missouri

The bridge is for walking only and is one mile long. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift... More

Tower at the Country Club Plaza shopping mall, Kansas City, Missouri

Tower at the Country Club Plaza shopping mall, Kansas City, Missouri

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

Historic buildings in Perdue Hill, Alabama

Historic buildings in Perdue Hill, 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

Historic buildings in Fort Deposit, Alabama

Historic buildings in Fort Deposit, 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

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

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

Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Moved from its original lot, it now sits abandoned in an empty lot. The Drish House ca. 1825-32 was built by Mr. John Drish. It is brick and stucco built with slave labor. It was originally a plantation house a... More

The University of California, Santa Barbara, California

The University of California, Santa Barbara, California

Founded in 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system. Title, date, and keywords provided by... More

The Castello di Amorosa winery is located near Calistoga, California

The Castello di Amorosa winery is located near Calistoga, California

First opening its doors to the public in April 2007, it is the pet project of 4th generation vintner, Dario Sattui who also owns and operates the V. Sattui Winery named after his great-grandfather who originall... More

National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington D.C.

National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington D....

The Lincoln Memorial is an American memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and was dedicated on May 30, 1922. Th... More

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama

This church, built in 1827, is Alabama's oldest house of worship and is still in essentially original condition. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Montpelier Methodist Church, Stockton, Alabama

Built in 1895 and located in Baldwin County in a scrap metal yard. Does not currently operate as a church. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

D.C. Court of Appeals, Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th St., NW, Washi...

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

Tourist Attraction - Selma, Alabama

Tourist Attraction - 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

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

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

Boulder Bridge, Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Boulder Bridge, 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

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum located in NE, Washington, D.C.

National Capitol columns at the United States National Arboretum locat...

The National Capitol columns originally supported the old East Portico of the United States Capitol (1828). The columns were removed during expansion of the Capitol in 1958, and placed at the National Arboretum... More

Historic O'Neal Bridge on the Tennessee River in Florence, Alabama

Historic O'Neal Bridge on the Tennessee River in 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

Old Courthouse Museum, Monroeville, Alabama

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

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

Jefferson Memorial, aerial view, Washington, D.C.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical bui... More

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian girls by Weinert with the central disc displaying the mural Letters by Edward J. Holslag. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian g...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama

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 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

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California

Completed in 1927, it is a significant architectural example of the City Beautiful movement of the 1920s. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of C... More

Steplike ridges along one of Colorado's Seven Falls, a series of seven cascading waterfalls in South Cheyenne Canon. The tourist attraction, which opened in the early 1880s, is now owned by the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort below, in Coloado Springs

Steplike ridges along one of Colorado's Seven Falls, a series of seven...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Gaineswood, a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama

Gaineswood, a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama

Gaineswood, completed in 1861, is considered to be Alabama's finest neoclassical house. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of A... More

Lutheran Church of the Reformation, East Capitol St. near intersection with 2nd St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Lutheran Church of the Reformation, East Capitol St. near intersection...

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

Presbyterian Church built in 1895, Athens, Alabama

Presbyterian Church built in 1895, Athens, Alabama

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

The Surrogate's Courthouse in New York City's Manhattan borough, or county-like administrative jurisdiction

The Surrogate's Courthouse in New York City's Manhattan borough, or co...

Also known as the Hall of Records, this Beaux Arts municipal building, which opened in 1907, houses the city's Municipal Archives, as well as providing courtrooms for the Surrogate's Court for New York County o... More

A couple of Colorado's Seven Falls, a series of seven cascading waterfalls in South Cheyenne Canon. The tourist attraction, which opened in the early 1880s, is now owned by the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort below, in Colorado Springs

A couple of Colorado's Seven Falls, a series of seven cascading waterf...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Tourist Attraction - Cornwall bridge in Connecticut

Tourist Attraction - Cornwall bridge in Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and south of Bushnell Park in Hartford, Connecticut

The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and s...

The Capitol building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the House of Representatives. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograph... More

Elizabeth Park, located in Hartford, Connecticut

Elizabeth Park, located in Hartford, 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

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

Tourist Attraction - Church, Scotland, Connecticut

Tourist Attraction - Church, Scotland, 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

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel, California

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

Cowboys Stadium, a domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas

Cowboys Stadium, a domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington,...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Dallas architectural firm HKS, Inc, the stadium serves as the home field of the National Football League's ... More

John Pugh's mural on a façade of Taylor Hall at California State University at Chico can easily cause double-takes

John Pugh's mural on a façade of Taylor Hall at California State Unive...

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

The Bale Grist Mill, now a California Historic Park, operated by the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District on California Highway 29 between St. Helena and Calistoga, California

The Bale Grist Mill, now a California Historic Park, operated by the N...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The water-powered mill was once the center of social activity as Napa Valley settlers gathered to have their corn and wheat ground into meal or flour. The... More

Pico House on Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

Pico House on Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles...

The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... 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

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Bridge, 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

[Bridgeport Covered Bridge over the Yuba River, Nevada County, California]

[Bridgeport Covered Bridge over the Yuba River, Nevada County, Califor...

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with the capital of California, Sacramento, in Sacramento County to the east

The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge's style represents a rare use of Streamline Moderne architectural styling in a lift bridge, making it an expression of the social and architec... More

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, California

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

Statue of Father Junipero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, a city in San Benito County, California

Statue of Father Junipero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in Sa...

Named after Mission San Juan Bautista, it is primarily an agricultural town. The Juan Bautista de Anza House, the General Jose Castro house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District are National Histor... More

Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California

Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California

Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More

The 2,000-pound cast bronze chandelier beneath the mosaic dome in the downtown Central Library in Los Angeles, California

The 2,000-pound cast bronze chandelier beneath the mosaic dome in the ...

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

Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County, California

Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County, California

Named after Mission San Juan Bautista, it is primarily an agricultural town.The Juan Bautista de Anza House, the General JosÚ Castro house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District are National Histori... More

Iconic sign for the town of Beverly Hills, an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, surrounded by the City of Los Angeles

Iconic sign for the town of Beverly Hills, an affluent city in Los Ang...

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

Santa Inés Mission in Santa Ynez, California

Santa Inés Mission in Santa Ynez, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Cred... More

Courtyard of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Courtyard 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

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

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

Visitors to San Antonio take a barge ride along the River Walk, a portion of the San Antonio river that winds beneath the streets of the city

Visitors to San Antonio take a barge ride along the River Walk, a port...

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

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better know...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A portion of a classic, now-abandoned, western-movie and music-video set in what is now the ghost town of Contrabando in Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas

A portion of a classic, now-abandoned, western-movie and music-video s...

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

(Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These participants enjoy the water in Prince Solms Park on the Comal River in New Braunfels, near San Antonio, Texas

(Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These partic...

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

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Known as the "Queen of the Missions", this is the largest of the missions and was almost fully restored to its original design in the... More

The Philippi Covered Bridge across the Tygart Valley River in Philippi, West Virginia

The Philippi Covered Bridge across the Tygart Valley River in Philippi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1852 by Lemuel Chenoweth, one of America's master covered bridge builders. Made of yellow poplar and incorporating the famous... More

[First Guyandotte Baptist Church, Huntington, West Virginia]

[First Guyandotte Baptist Church, Huntington, West Virginia]

Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055). Forms... More

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, ca...

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

The Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church in Gerrardstown, West Virginia

The Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church in Gerrardstown, West Virginia

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

The historic B&O Railroad bridge over the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

The historic B&O Railroad bridge over the Potomac River at Harpers Fer...

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

Chimney Rock National Monument, a 4,726-acre U.S. national monument in San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado

Chimney Rock National Monument, a 4,726-acre U.S. national monument in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This area, in Archuleta County between Durango and Pagosa Springs, includes a significant archaeological site. One of America's newest... More

Rock formation at the Garden of the Gods, a geological upheaval that is now a city park and popular tourist attraction in Colorado Springs, Colorado. If you view this image in full screen, note the "hole" toward the top left of the largest formation. Above it, two rocks appear to "touch noses." They are known, affectionally, as the "Kissing Camels"

Rock formation at the Garden of the Gods, a geological upheaval that i...

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

The "Purple People Bridge" across the Ohio River to the northern Kentucky suburbs from the Cincinnati, Ohio, waterfront

The "Purple People Bridge" across the Ohio River to the northern Kentu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Officially called the Newport Southbank Bridge, the bridge opened in 1872 as a railroad bridge connecting Cincinnati to Newport. The b... More

Footbridge on the grounds of the Magnolia House and Gardens plantation site in North Charleston, South Carolina

Footbridge on the grounds of the Magnolia House and Gardens plantation...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Magnolia was originally a rice plantation, with extensive earthworks of dams and dikes built in fields along the river for irrigating ... More

Six-year-old Gregorio Drozco III does what a lot of people do in a Seattle, Washington, alley when he blows a bubble, preparatory to wadding up his gum and sticking it to a wall next to the Market Theatre that has become a kitschy tourist attraction

Six-year-old Gregorio Drozco III does what a lot of people do in a Sea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

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