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Participants in the "Million Indian March" on Washington, D.C., photog...

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

[East Corridor, First Floor. Mosaic in domed lobby at head of stairway...

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.

[Great Hall. View from above of the zodiac in the marble floor. Librar...

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.

[Lobby to Main Reading Room. Government mural by Elihu Vedder. Library...

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...

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. Portrait statue of Plato along the balustrade. Lib...

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

[Great Hall. View of ceiling, displaying sculpture, painting and alumi...

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

Front exterior, Blair House, located across from the White House, Wash...

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[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printers' marks of Th...

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

[North Corridor, Great Hall. Poetry mosaic surrounded by Painting, Scu...

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

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health C...

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1998, oil on canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

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

[Exterior view. Sea Nymph on Sea Horse statue in Neptune Fountain by R...

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

Untitled at Robert C. Byrd Federal Building, Charleston, West Virginia

Artist: David Wilson, 1998. Three are 39 x 10 feet; one is 33 x 32 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the ... More

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printer's mark of Gui...

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

[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Kent along the balustrade. Libr...

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

The Honorable Francis Ricciardone, Ambassador of the United States to...

Left to right: two members of the American Embassy staff; Fawzi Tadros, Area Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress; Ambassador Francis Ricciardone; His Holiness Pope Shenouda III;... More

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

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.

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health C...

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1998, oil on canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More

[Great Hall. Detail of ceiling and cove showing Moses and Herodotus pl...

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

Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln and his horse at the Lincoln Summer H...

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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.

Steel sculpture "The Sentinels of Justice" at the Charles Evans Whitta...

Artist: Beverly Pepper, 1998. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Row houses, Florida Ave. and Q St., 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

Building detail on the 700 block of 6th St., 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

The old San Gabriel Masonic Lodge building, on the courthouse square i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Topped off dramatically with an onion dome, an architectural element common to Eastern Europe, the building was constructed in 1900 a... More

Fireman's Insurance Building, intersection of 7th St. and Pennsylvania...

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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, located on Mt. Pleasant St. near intersecti...

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

Row houses at the corner of 10th and T St., 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

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

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The Pension Building, view from Police Memorial, 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

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

The University charter of March 2, 1867, designated Howard University as "a University for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences." The Freedmen's Bureau provided most of the early financial su... More

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

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The Christian Heurich House Museum, also known as The Brewmaster' Cast...

Built in 1892-1894 of poured concrete and reinforced steel by German immigrant, local brewer and philanthropist, Christian Heurich. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Row houses on Lamont St. near 6th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Youth football game at Cardozo Senior High School, 1200 Clifton St., N...

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Buildings, H St. near intersection with 10th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

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Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

Apartment building entrance way, 4707 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington...

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

Fire station, 5th St. near Rhode Island Ave. N.E., 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

Old Evening Star Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

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Former O St. Market, O St. and 7th St., 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

Back side of row houses, corner of Kenyon St. and Georgia Ave., NW, Wa...

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

View looking east from the top of The Cairo apartment building, 1615 Q...

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

Small office building, Bud Doggett's Way and G Pl., NW, Washington, D....

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

St. Constantine and Helen Greek Church, 16th St. near intersection wit...

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

Street scene, Georgia Ave. and Harvard St., 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

Buildings, Connecticut Ave. near Q St., in the Dupont Circle area, NW,...

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

View of Washington, D.C., taken from the Washington Monument

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Li... More

Bronze equestrian statue of Major General George Brinton McClellan loc...

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

Embassy Row, Massachusetts Ave., 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

Tropicana Eatery, Florida Ave. at intersection with 8th 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

Historic buildings, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood...

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

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

Mural, corner of Barry Pl. and Sherman Ave., 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

Back of row houses, view from Summit St., near intersection with M St....

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

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

Mount Gilead Baptist Church, 13th St., 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

Row houses, Maryland Ave. at intersection with D St., NE, Washington, ...

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

Suntrust bank building, intersection of 15th St. and New York Ave., NW...

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

Street scene, U St. near 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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Buildings, H St. near intersection with 12th St., NE, 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

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Completed in 1910 and considered the architectural wonder of its time. The building was designed and constructed to serve as the headquarters of what today is the world's oldest regional organization, the Organ... More

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Bladensburg Road, NE, 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

Tourist Attraction - Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

In 1807 a burial ground for citizens in the east end of the new federal city was founded. In the first five years, 13 members of Congress, two vice presidents, and numerous military and government officials wer... More

Corner of Rhode Island Ave. and 16th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

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Buildings, H St. near intersection with 10th St., NE, 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

Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...

The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Georgetown Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

The building was severely damaged by a fire on April 30, 2007. As a result, it underwent a complete renovation. Martinez & Johnson Architects, in partnership with Hoshide Williams, were hired to design the reno... More

The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, located at 451 Seventh Street, ...

Designed by architect Marcel Breuer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the design team included Herbert Beckhard and Nolen Swinburne Associates. The builder was John McShain, Inc. The co... More

General Services Administration Regional Office Building located at 7 ...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Mural in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The district, whic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Lunt. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Con... More

Small businesses in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The dis...

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

Brennan Wells; on the black horse, Kayla McShane, on the paint; and Ma...

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

Buildings on the square surrounding the Williamson County Courthouse i...

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

Corner window of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. The Marine School, built about 1872 in northside Fort Worth (Marine was a ... More

The John Deaver Drinko Library,on the campus of Marshall University in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, which opened in 1998, is named for philanthropist John Deaver Drinko, a Marshall graduate Credit line: West Virginia Col... More

Harbor scene in the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Pass Christian (pro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Due to the number of fine late-19th-and early-20th-Century mansions built along the city beachfront that is now a scenic drive, Pass C... More

Guillaume Thomas Reynal / JS [encircled monogram].

Print shows Guillaume-Thomas-François Reynal, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right; in oval with lyre, map of Virginia, and a cherub in the foreground. Engraving attributed to Dupin. Published in: The Ame... More

Fort Harrison in 1812 - A drawing of a castle on a hill overlooking a ...

Print showing Fort Harrison from across the Wabash River, with four Natives in a canoe on the river. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by Modesitt & Hager in the Clerk's office of the Distr... More

Colton's railroad & township map, western states compiled from the Uni...

Detailed map of the north-central states framed in decorative borders indicating drainage, state, county, and township boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, railroads, and proposed railroads. [From publi... More

Keep these off the U.S.A. - Buy more Liberty Bonds / John Norton.

Poster shows bloodstained boots with the German imperial eagle insignia. Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": John Norton's Liberty Bond Poster. While Liberty Bond posters often stressed such positive ... More

Cadastral map of part of the West End, Washington D.C.

Cadastral map showing unidentified tinted lots, lot numbers, and block numbers. Shows cadastral information for area bounded by Rock Creek, P, 22nd, and K streets N.W. Shows block outlines for area bounded by R... More

No. 2, Art gallery, Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864

Photograph shows a view of the paintings and sculpture on one of the walls in the art gallery at the fair sponsored by the United States Sanitary Commission in 1864. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More

Hart-Bolton American history maps - Public domain map

Wall maps. Relief shown by gradient tints and hachures. Title from the separately published Teacher's manual accompanying the Hart-Bolton American history maps. Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert, 1919. Manuals describi... More

Scott's map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

General-content county map also showing rural buildings with householders' names, lot lines in rural subdivisions/villages, and election districts. Relief shown by hachures. Differs from other 1842 ed. in not b... More

Carney's series of medical charts showing location in the United State...

Showing the locations in the U.S. of phthisis, malaria, pneumonia, rheumatism and typhoid fever. Map apparently intended as a base for medical information overprint. No medical data appears on map. Maps with me... More

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Financial pape...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: General Correspondence, 1846-1899; 1882

Plat book of Huron County, Michigan : also patron's business and gener...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes and brief biographies of early Huron County residents. LC copy imperfect: Front and rear boards separated from binding... More

An illustrated historical atlas of Henry Co., Indiana /

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4530 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes, brief history of Henry County, brief histories of Henry County townships, ... More

Combination atlas map of Kosciusko County, Indiana

Title from atlas facsimile. Evansville, Ind. : Unigraphic, 1974. On cover: Kingman Bro's. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4539 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In... More

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, angle from left, Gaffey Street, San Pedro,...

Margolies, John,, photographer...San Pedro Drive-In Theater, angle from left, Gaffey Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California..1979...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, ... More

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, closer view of angle from left Gaffey Stre...

Margolies, John,, photographer...San Pedro Drive-In Theater, closer view of angle from left Gaffey Street, Los Angeles, California..1979...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Titl... More

Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More

Negro sitting on bench at side of barbecue stand made of galvanized me...

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Negro sitting on bench at side of barbecue stand made of galvanized me...

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