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),...
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Wooden Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1904), west facade, Shilka, Ru...
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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 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 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 ...
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
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 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
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
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 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...
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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
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
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'...
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
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, 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
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...
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...
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, ...
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 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 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 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 Jeffe...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[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, 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
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
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
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
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
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, 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
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
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.
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 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
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
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.
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 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
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
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...
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, 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...
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
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 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 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
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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 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
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
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
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,...
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 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 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...
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
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
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, 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...
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
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 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
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 ...
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
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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 ...
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...
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]
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, 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
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 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...
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 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 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...
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 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