![[Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTMvMDEvMDEvZmVycmlzLXdoZWVsLWF0LXRoZS1jaGljYWdvLXdvcmxkcy1mYWlyLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "[Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair]")
[Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair]
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Marquee of the Riverside Theater, a conceret hall in downtown Milwauke...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, which opened in 1928, was designed by local architects Charles Kirchoff and Thomas Rose, who designed many theaters, inc... More
The Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room, one of the diplomatic recepti...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The building was designed by architects, Gilbert Stanley Un... More
Union Station train depot in Waterbury, Connecticut
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The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...
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Members of the Berkman family of Houston set off on a canoe trip on th...
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
Highway truss bridge over the Mississippi River, connecting rural Tuni...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The famous swinging bridge atop Grandfather Mountain
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mountain, now a non-profit attraction and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina rises to 5,946 feet which is t... More
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
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
Lamp 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
Exterior, U.S. Courthouse, Toledo, Ohio
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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
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
Leo Friedlander's 1934 high relief carving depicting Meriwether Lewis ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...
Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More
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
View with bridge, Pacific Coast Highway, Scenic State Route 1, a major...
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
El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara in Santa Barbara, California
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Mission San Juan Capistrano, now known as simply "Mission San Juan," w...
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
Formation in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an intern...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created during a geological upheaval along a natural fault line millions of years ago, the area was first called Red Rock Corral. Then... More
The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, a Roman Catholic Church in Ch...
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
This small strip shopping mall in Plainfield, Indiana, includes an unu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Arthur and Janet Ross garden, 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
Side view. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dothan, Alabama
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: James Knox Taylor. Built: 1909-1911. Credit line... More
The Newell Toll Bridge across the Ohio River between Newell, West Virg...
Title devised by Library staff based on information supplied by a researcher in 2019. The bridge (also known as the New Steubenville Bridge) carries U.S. Route 22 across the Ohio River. It replaced the Fort St... More
Tourist Attraction - Pray for Our Nation
September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
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 artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Aerial view from helicoptor, Sedona, Arizona
Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Massive bridge-like arch at Arches National Park, Utah
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More
Coit Tower, San Francisco, California
Coit Tower was built in Pioneer Park atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco; Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Franc... More
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse was designed by William Mooser, III, built in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, and completed in 1929. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Th... More
The Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, the capital city o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Swan House was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inmanon 28 acres in Buckhead, a northern Atlanta community. Noted architect Philip T... More
17-Mile Drive, scenic road through Monterey, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. 17-Mile Drive is a scenic road through Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula in California, much of which hugs the Pacific coastline an... More
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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The Redwood National and State Parks along the coast of northern Calif...
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
Fog rolls across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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Tourist Attraction - Architecture in Mendocino, California
Mendocino, formerly known as Big River, Meiggstown, and Mendocino City, is located sus on a scenic headland surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: ... More
Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith) was design by George Washin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas at Austin
A bronze statue of a horse and a dragon swimming in a pool, America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of the array of bridges connecting Kentucky (to the right)...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
A historical mural in Kingman, Arizona, that touts, among several thin...
Mural artist: Sudnik, '04. 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 Ca... More
Sunset beyond the Astoria-Megler Bridge, a steel cantilever through tr...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Photographs of the John Minor Wisdom U. S. Court of Appeals Building i...
Images show exterior and interior views of courthouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. Details include courtrooms, halls, ceilings and sculptural decoration. Arrangement: Arranged by photographer-assigned number. The... More
Shelter from Arizona's often-sizzling heat at Flintstones Bedrock City...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Sherrill, Iowa
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1889 the original wooden church was replaced by this large, brick and stone Romanesque Revival structure, which remains in use toda... More
Old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, Wes...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
River Walk, the number-one tourist attraction in San Antonio, Texas
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River Walk, the number-one tourist attraction in San Antonio, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Roman Classical-style building, designed by New Yorker Albert Ross, and executed from 1908 to 1912 in brick and white sandstone, w... More
View across water toward the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Co...
Built in 1919 by architect James A. Wetmore. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Interior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rho...
Architect: Clarke & Howe. Beaux-Arts building built in 1904-1908. It is of steel frame construction, clad entirely in grey granite. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.... More
Church of the Purification (1788), southwest view, Bel'sk, Russia
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![[Main Reading Room. Detail of sculpture showing a cartouche supported by two seated female figures just below the dome. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvbWFpbi1yZWFkaW5nLXJvb20tZGV0YWlsLW9mLXNjdWxwdHVyZS1zaG93aW5nLWEtY2FydG91Y2hlLXN1cHBvcnRlZC1ieS10d28tOTllMDI2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "[Main Reading Room. Detail of sculpture showing a cartouche supported by two seated female figures just below the dome. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]")
[Main Reading Room. Detail of sculpture showing a cartouche supported ...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Three levels of Colorado's Seven Falls, a series of seven cascading wa...
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
Sanctuary of the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, als...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1906, the church is considered the "queen" of what Texans call their "painted churches." It is one of the first churches bui... More
Tourist Attraction - Cathedral Caverns, Scottsboro, Alabama
The first thing you notice about Cathedral Caverns is the massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. Inside the cavern, is Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River and some of the most be... More
Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town
The town was the setting for Mark Twain's 1865 short story,"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More
Mono Lake, a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, Californi...
Formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean which has caused high levels of salts to accumulate. The lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine... More
Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
The land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith. He also donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium. The building design was... More
Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California
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Tourist Attraction - Mural in Barstow, California
Artist: Kathy Fierro, 2003. 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 Cong... More
The Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas
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Part of the sanctuary of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, one of two ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The other signature structure is the main administration building, noted for its golden dome. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More
The famous swinging bridge atop Grandfather Mountain
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mountain, now a non-profit attraction and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina rises to 5,946 feet which is t... More
Front facade. Sidney L. Christie Federal Building, Huntington, West Vi...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architect: Parker & Thomas. Built in 1905-1910. Credit line... More
Christ Episcopal Church in Douglas, Wyoming
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1898, the church is the oldest church in Douglas as well as the only wooden church remaining in the city. G.W.G. Van Winkle d... More
The $1-million Louis Tiffany stained-glass window in the gateway chape...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There are also other stained-glass windows, though not Tiffany's, in the nearby chapel of the historic cemetery, which was incorporate... More
East lobby, EPA East and West, located on 12th and Constitution Avenue...
Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Built in 1934, the exterior elevations, particularly at Constitution Avenue, are embellished with Beaux-Arts sculpture. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Service... More
Tourist Attraction - Garden, New Harmony, Indiana
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
45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Mont...
For the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, people walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to recreate the event. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut
Built in 1914, the estate is located on top of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection ... More
Tourist Attraction - Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama
R.A. Mitchell, gave the site to the city of Gadsden. The Falls drop into the Black Creek ravine and are marked with a bronze statue of Cherokee princess Noccalula who, according to local legends, jumped off a c... More
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Montgomery, Al...
Founded in 1877, the current red-brick building was constructed between 1883 and 1889 and is a national historic landmark. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the pastor from 1954-1960, and began his quest for civ... More
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The eastern span replacement of the Bay Bridge has been under construction since 2002. It is scheduled to open to traffic in 2013. Credit line: The Jon B.... More
(Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These partic...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, lake, pond, river stream, trees, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A rock climber tests a wall in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created during a geological upheaval along a natural fault line millions of years ago, the area was first called Red Rock Corral. Then... More
The South Side Bridge over the Kanawha River in Charleston, West Virgi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Wesley United Methodist Church (formerly the First Methodist Episcopal...
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
Sanctuary of the Epiphany Episcopal Church at the Mississippi Agricult...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The George Washington Bridge over The Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Je...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More
Mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," by Mitchell Jamieso...
Date: 1943; dimensions: 148" x 82"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
Riders enjoy (or endure) a spin on the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Ca...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1902 as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company, where riders traveling between Huntington and nearby ci... More
Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...
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
Front exterior. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More
Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 1... More
In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...
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
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed offi... More
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
The Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where state and local lawmen attacked civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery. Named ... More
Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota
The original Corn Palace, called "The Corn Belt Exposition" was established in 1892. Early settlers displayed the fruits of their harvest on the building exterior in order to prove the fertility of South Dakota... More
The Sundial Bridge, which crosses the Sacramento River at Turtle Bay i...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Opened July 4, 2004, the bridge links the north and south campuses of Turtle Bay Exploration Park and serves as a new downtown entrance for ReddingÆs exte... More
Detail of Victorian architecture in Ferndale, a city in Humboldt Count...
Ferndale contains dozens of well-preserved Victorian store fronts and homes and is located near the extensive preserves of Coast Redwood forests. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Lu...
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Close up of sculpture located in César Chávez Plaza is a park in downt...
The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More
Interior detail of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission was stablished in 1731 after an earlier parish in East Texas was abandoned due to French and American Indian incursions in... More
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions ...
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![[Historic Guyandotte Methodist Church, Huntington, West Virginia]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjQvaGlzdG9yaWMtZ3V5YW5kb3R0ZS1tZXRob2Rpc3QtY2h1cmNoLWh1bnRpbmd0b24td2VzdC12aXJnaW5pYS1jYjc4ODYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/40/webp "[Historic Guyandotte Methodist Church, Huntington, West Virginia]")
[Historic Guyandotte Methodist 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
Contrary to first impressions, this is not a church in a quonset hut, ...
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