The 1950s-vintage Arizona Motel sign in Tucson, Arizona
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
Stained-glass window at the Cathedral of St. Augustine in Tucson, Ariz...
The mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson was rebuilt from earlier interations in 1897. The original plans called for a Gothic structure, but the spires were never completed. In 1928 the brick s... More
Mural in an Arizona city one can identify by looking at this creation
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Titus Castanza. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith... 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
[Woman posing with the Tucson Ring meteorite at the Smithsonian Museum...
Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The reverse side of the city's famous "Tucson" sign (carrying that wor...
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
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
Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More
Classic neon sign in Tucson, Arizona, near the "Miracle Mile" gateway ...
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
Patio at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona
Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airp...
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
Saguaro cacti at sunset outside Tucson, Arizona
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
Scene at the Asian Lantern Festival at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Ar...
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
Peacock in full display at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona. Found...
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
Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More
The "Goddess of Agave" mural, painted by Rock "Cyfi" Martinez in 2017 ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. According to the "This is Tucson" online site, the mural depicts Martinez's girlfriend, Brandi Watkins. Title, date and keywords based... More
147 West Kennedy Street (House), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: This hip-roofed Anglo-Territorial style dwelling is unique in that it is constructed of stone. Built in 1906-1907, it is more recent than the other buildings on the block, and is the only residen... More
Art deco-style sign for an unnamed hotel (at least on the sign) in Tuc...
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
View of low mountains outside the Old Tucson theme park on the edge of...
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
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
Panorama of Tucson & vicinity, Arizona
H125299 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; April 3, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal.
Historic "iron horse" steam engine at Old Tucson, a movie studio and t...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, Old Tucson has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns sinc... More
"Vergiss," a mural in Tucson, Arizona, by the "on-conformist urbansten...
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
Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana...
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
Official map of Pima County, Arizona.
Scale ca. 1:200,000. Relief shown by hachures. Shows landownership. "Copyrighted by George J. Roskruge, Tuscon, Arizona, 1893." "Adopted as the official map of Pima County by resolution of Board of Supervisors,... More
Saguaro cacti outside Tucson, Arizona
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
Saguaro cacti pepper a hillside outside Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, whose blossom is Arizona's state flower, is native to, and grows in any abundance only in, Arizona's Sonoran Desert and the adjacent Mexican state of Sonora and a limited range in neighboring Calif... More
Convivial mural on a building along historic, turned trendy, Fourth Av...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith... More
Old Main, the signature building on the University of Arizona campus i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1891, it was designed in a style often referred to as "territorial hybrid" and sunk six feet below the surface so the c... More
Controversial Party Banner in Tucson, Ariz[ona], 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street in Tucson with banner raised up across, "Women voters vote against Wilson-Ashurst-Hayden. Their party opposes national woman suffrage. National Woman's... More
Saguaro cacti at sunset outside Tucson, Arizona
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
Saguaros on a hillside in Tucson Mountain Park, just outside Tucson, A...
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
A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airp...
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
San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona view, photochrome print postcard.
Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: San Xavier Mission, Tucson. Similar image in LOT 9052. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53878". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More i... More
400 West Simpson Street (Commercial Building), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-73-46 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000565
Indian Mission Village of Bac, House No. 6, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-111-F
Union 76 gas station, 4th & Stone, Tucson, Arizona
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Tile and Deco stations; Gas stations. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margoli... More
This sign and the motel buildings it advertises remain (in 2018), but ...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the Universi...
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
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
Saguaro cactus at the White Stallion Ranch, a dude ranch on the outski...
The ranch was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-raising operation (with 30,000 birds) and gradually converted into a guest ranch w... More
The "Tucson Greeting Card" mural in Tucson, Arizona
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural was created in 2017 by traveling artists Victor Ving and Lisa Beggs as part of a cross-country mural project called the "Gre... More
Alice and Steven True pause between two saguaro cacti on a ride at the...
The ranch, which sometimes uses the slogan, "Where the pavement ends and the West begins," was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-r... More
Saguaros on a hillside in Tucson Mountain Park, just outside Tucson, A...
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
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
An Apache / Buehman & Hartwell, Congress Street, Tucson, A.T.
Photograph showing head-and-shoulders portrait of an Apache man, facing left, wearing a bandana around his head. Written in pencil on back: "Included in: 1890, Apr. 7 letter, D. Dorchien to E.W. Halford." On m... More
Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More
Saguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Ari... More
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airp...
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
Hoff House, West Franklin Street, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-96
45-51 Miltenburg Street (House), 45-51 Council Street, Tucson, Pima Co...
Miltenburg Street was renamed Council Street. Survey number: HABS AZ-97
Feldman House, First Avenue & Second Street, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-94 Public domain photograph of terrace, cafe, open space, building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
'Old Main' at the University of Arizona, which opened in 1871 as the f...
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
Lobby, James A. Walsh U.S. Courthouse, Tucson, Arizona
Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built between 1929-1930. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Phot... More
Shoe store at dusk in Tucson, Arizona
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
James A. Walsh U.S. Courthouse, Tucson, Arizona
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Sanctuary 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
Stained-glass window at the Cathedral of St. Augustine in Tucson, Ariz...
The mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson was rebuilt from earlier interations in 1897. The original plans called for a Gothic structure, but the spires were never completed. In 1928 the brick s... More
Trellised bougainvillea on a cottage in the Bario Viejo historic neigh...
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
Late-day shadows play on riding horses at the White Stallion Ranch, a ...
The ranch, which sometimes uses the slogan, "Where the pavement ends and the West begins," was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-r... More
Façade detail at the Cathedral of St. Augustine in Tucson, Arizona
The mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson was rebuilt from earlier interations in 1897. The original plans called for a Gothic structure, but the spires were never completed. In 1928 the brick s... More
The Wayward Winds Lodge, once a stop along Tucson, Arizona's, gateway ...
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
Large decorative lamp at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in T...
Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More
Scene in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum outside Tucson, Arizona
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
Colorful Tucson, Arizona, is a city replete with murals, including sev...
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
Library at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona
Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More
Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Little Free Libraries, now found in thousands of American neighborhoods, are book repositories where anyone and everyone is invited to... More
Bougainvillea explode with color outside this Tucson, Arizona, cottage...
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
Saguaro cacti pepper a hillside outside Tucson, Arizona
The saguaro, whose blossom is Arizona's state flower, is native to, and grows in any abundance only in, Arizona's Sonoran Desert and the adjacent Mexican state of Sonora and a limited range in neighboring Calif... More
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Yousef Mosque in Tucson, Arizona
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a fast-growing, reformist international movement within Islam. Founded in 1889, the Community spans more... More
Cactus garden at the Hacienda Del Sol, a historic resort in Tucson, Ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Spanish Colonial-style property got its start in 1929 as a boarding school and, later, a college preparatory school for girls. In... More
Saguaros on a hillside in Tucson Mountain Park, just outside Tucson, A...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the Omni Tuc...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a distant view of the c...
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
"Cancer, There's Hope" Memorial in the Cancer Survivors Park near the ...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a view of the city's lo...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the Mission ...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the neighorh...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the city's c...
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
Cactus garden at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Ca...
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
Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the neighorh...
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
Preciado House, 148-150 West Kennedy Street , Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: One of the oldest houses in the Barrio, this simple adobe row house exhibits the recessed doors and flat roof characteristic of early Sonoran structures. It is set flush with the street and conti... More
Tucson Plant Material Center, Machinery Shed, 3241 North Romero Road, ...
Survey number: HABS AZ-159-A Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1963 Subsequent Work
Tucson Plant Material Center, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima Cou...
Survey number: HABS AZ-159
47 East Alameda Street (House), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-93 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tucson Plant Materials Center, Superintendent's Cottage, 3241 North Ro...
Survey number: HABS AZ-159-D Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
Leon Ranch House, Silver Bell Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS AZ-4 Building/structure dates: ca. 1856 Initial Construction
Tucson Plant Materials Center, Administration Building, 3241 North Rom...
Survey number: HABS AZ-159-B Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction
Leopoldo Carrillo House, 1005 Mission Avenue, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS AZ-5 Building/structure dates: before 1867 Initial Construction
San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson
(DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Along the Mexican Border" by Ernest Peixotto, Scribner's magazine, 59:346 (March 1916).
519-527 South Convent Avenue (Apartments), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: This row of five apartments, built in 1929, is the latest structure on this section of South Convent Avenue. Built of adobe in a Mission Revival style, the sculptured parapet is similar to that o... More
519-527 South Convent Avenue (Apartments), Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: This row of five apartments, built in 1929, is the latest structure on this section of South Convent Avenue. Built of adobe in a Mission Revival style, the sculptured parapet is similar to that o... More
Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More
Diaz House, 483 South Convent Avenue, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: This Mission Revival style dwelling with enclosed front porch adds a distinctive flavor to this portion of South Convent Avenue. Built about twenty years later than the row of Transitional Sonora... More
Bernal House, 571 South Meyer Avenue, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Significance: This L-shaped adobe house with attached porch stands out through its non-characteristic shape and its relationship to the street. Built in a Late Transitional Sonoran style, the gabled and hipped... More
Tucson Plant Materials Center, General Utility Building, 3241 North Ro...
Survey number: HABS AZ-159-C Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction