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The Garmon Theatre, which opened in the 1940s and closed three decades later in Rio Grande City, Texas, became a home-furnishing store among other uses

The Garmon Theatre, which opened in the 1940s and closed three decades...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Largest "I Love Lucy" mural "California Here We Come" in Jamestown, New York, depicting an episode of the smash-hit "I Love Lucy" television show of the 1950s, starring Lucille Ball. In it, "Lucy Ricardo," her husband Ricky, next to her in the front seat, and the "Mertzes," their neighbors and best friends, take a madcap trip together from their New York apartment house to exotic Los Angeles. Lucille Ball was a Jamestown native and is buried there

Largest "I Love Lucy" mural "California Here We Come" in Jamestown, Ne...

Mural artists: Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr. (Source: jamestownny.squarespace.com, 2018). Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photograp... More

The inaptly named Palace Theater, long abandoned in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distressed cities

The inaptly named Palace Theater, long abandoned in Gary, Indiana, one...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The theater, opened in 1925, was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson. Founded in 1906 by the United States ... More

In 1906 Jefferson Security Bank removed an older brick building from a site in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and erected the current structure, a modified Beaux Arts-style building

In 1906 Jefferson Security Bank removed an older brick building from a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. When the bank moved in 1975, new owners converted the old bank into a restaurant. Though the building's bricks don't look all that yel... More

One of four architectural remnants of the War Memorial Bridge in Dayton, Ohio, which was demolished in 2008 after 82 years of use

One of four architectural remnants of the War Memorial Bridge in Dayto...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. These saved elements that saluted those who served in World War I were moved to Friendship Park, near an approach of the new Edwin C. ... More

An abandoned furniture store in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distressed cities, where the promise of new activity can be questioned

An abandoned furniture store in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most e...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More

Exterior, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Exterior, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...

Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More

Mural in Baltimore, Maryland - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mural in Baltimore, Maryland - Drawing. Public domain image.

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-201... More

Row houses, 3300 block of Sherman Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Row houses, 3300 block of 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

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Murals, Dothan, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mural artist: Cheryl Hardin (Source: murallocator.org, 2017) Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of local an... More

Buildings, H St. near intersection with 9th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Buildings, H St. near intersection with 9th 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

Historic buildings in downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Historic buildings in downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Tuscumbia was incorporated in 1820 as Occocopoosa and is one of Alabma's oldest towns. In 1821 its name was changed to Big Spring and in 182... More

Building, corner of Georgia Ave. and Newton Pl., NW, Washington, D.C.

Building, corner of Georgia Ave. and Newton Pl., 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

Historic downtown Cordova, Alabama

Historic downtown Cordova, Alabama

Cordova is in Walker County. It was originally a settlement on the Warrior River Called "Dent" or "Dent's Place." The city was dubbed "Cordova" by Captain Benjamin M. Long in 1859. He named the city after a cit... More

Historic buildings, 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Historic buildings, 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Campoamor Theatre, Havana, Cuba

Campoamor Theatre, Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Dapper gentleman Joesph Daniel Clipper poses for the camera near 13th and U St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Dapper gentleman Joesph Daniel Clipper poses for the camera near 13th ...

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

Gadsden, Alabama - A building with a green awning in front of it

Gadsden, Alabama - A building with a green awning in front of it

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Historic downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

Historic downtown Tuscumbia, 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

Row houses and buildings, Sherman Ave. near Girard St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Row houses and buildings, Sherman Ave. near Girard St., 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

[Mural by Mars-1 located at Jessie Street and 6th Street, South of Market, San Francisco, California]

[Mural by Mars-1 located at Jessie Street and 6th Street, South of Mar...

Artist name and location from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library o... More

Street scene in the town of Moody in McLennon County, Texas

Street scene in the town of Moody in McLennon County, 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 Ph... More

Scene on East Sixth Street, locally known as "Dirty Sixth," in Austin, Texas

Scene on East Sixth Street, locally known as "Dirty Sixth," in Austin,...

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 old Star hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, is real. Lucky for him or her, the alligator, drawn by the Belgian artist who goes by the name ROA, is not

The old Star hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, is real. Lucky for him or her,...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-12). For... More

The historic Tyson Drug Co. building in Holly Springs, Mississippi

The historic Tyson Drug Co. building in Holly Springs, Mississippi

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

View of the Beacon Building, built in 1957 in Columbus, Ohio

View of the Beacon Building, built in 1957 in Columbus, Ohio

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The corner of the building is clad in polished stone with aluminum fins decorating the southwest facade. Red letters on a teal backdro... More

Abandoned home in Camden, New Jersey

Abandoned home in Camden, New Jersey

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

Commercial building in a historic Water Street block, many of whose structures date to the 1850s, in Augusta, Maine's capital city

Commercial building in a historic Water Street block, many of whose st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Buildings in downtown Lancaster, New Hampshire

Buildings in downtown Lancaster, New Hampshire

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

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

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

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

Street scene in Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. The neighborhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, with one of the largest concentrations of Jews in the United States, and Orthodox traditions rivaling many insular communities

Street scene in Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

View of LaVeque Tower in Columbus, Ohio

View of LaVeque Tower in Columbus, Ohio

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 47-story Art Deco-style skyscraper was the tallest building in Columbus from 1927 until 1974. At 555 feet 6 inches tall, it was d... More

Exterior. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Exterior. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by Architect Moise Goldstein in Neoclassicism... More

The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broad... More

Main Street, Columbus Junction, Iowa

Main Street, Columbus Junction, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Overall highway and Main Street views; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line... More

Set-up for press and convention parties at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4, 2008, CNN Building next to the Xcel Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

Set-up for press and convention parties at the Republican National Con...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Main Street, downtown Greensboro, Alabama

Main Street, downtown Greensboro, 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

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

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

Plaza and fountain, Columbia Heights near 14th and Monroe St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Plaza and fountain, Columbia Heights near 14th and Monroe St., NW, Was...

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 landmark Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi's capital city. Designed in the Art Deco architectural style and completed in 1929, it is (as of 2017) the fourth-tallest building in Jackson

The landmark Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi's...

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 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the classic art deco headquarters of the nation's largest utility company

The 1932 Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, the classic ar...

According to the National Park Service, its architecture "expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. . . . architects Melvi... More

Intersection of Columbia Road and 18th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Intersection of Columbia Road and 18th 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, Keefer Pl. near 6th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Row houses, Keefer Pl. near 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

Historic sign of WENN radio station, Birmingham, Alabama

Historic sign of WENN radio station, Birmingham, Alabama

WENN (1320 AM), is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. Its daytime power is 5,000 watts, and at nighttime, it broadcasts at 111 watts. Formerly known on-air as "The People's Station of Birmingham",... More

Anacostia neighborhood, SE, Washington, D.C.

Anacostia neighborhood, SE, 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, Corcoran St. near 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Buildings, Corcoran St. near 14th 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

Pepsi sign, located at Meeker's Harware store in Danbury, Connecticut

Pepsi sign, located at Meeker's Harware store in Danbury, 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

Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California

Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, Californ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M... More

Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town

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

Bronze statue in the rooftop sculpture garden at the Grohmann Museum, the world's most comprehensive art collection dedicated to the evolution of human work, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Bronze statue in the rooftop sculpture garden at the Grohmann Museum, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues depict men toiling in the field and foundry, heaving hammers or pinching molten metal with hot tongs. Each is about nine f... More

Aerial view of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Aerial view of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Weehawken, New Jersey - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Weehawken, New Jersey - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Aerial view of Charleston, South Carolina

Aerial view of Charleston, South Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

Typical residential neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey

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

Downtown mural painted by, or in honor of, the 2015 graduating class of Clarksdale High School, in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Downtown mural painted by, or in honor of, the 2015 graduating class o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural painted by students; sponsored by Beautify Earth (Source: beautifyearth.org, 2018) Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP... More

Beaches on the New Jersey shore in Sea Isle City, New Jersey

Beaches on the New Jersey shore in Sea Isle City, New Jersey

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

Cassandra Rand was walking her mixed chihuahua-pomsky puppy, Estrella, down a street in Ritzville, Washington, when the dog absolutely demanded a pause and a cuddle

Cassandra Rand was walking her mixed chihuahua-pomsky puppy, Estrella,...

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

Street scene in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough, or county-like administrative jurisdiction

Street scene in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood of New York City's Man...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Classic New York City brownstone apartment building in the Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. Brownstone, a brown Triassic-Jurassic sandstone, was an immensely popular building material in cities across Americain the second half of the 19th Century

Classic New York City brownstone apartment building in the Boro Park (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surrounding area

Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surroundin...

Photographs show chiefly buildings in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Specific sites in Los Angeles include 1000 Wilshire Building, 777 Tower at Citicorp Plaza, ABC Entertainment Center, Ahmanson Center T... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

Exterior view of the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, an 18-acre complex of historic buildings in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas

Exterior view of the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, an 18-acre complex of ...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Color... More

Aerial view of Ellis Island with New York City World Trade Center in the background taken in July 2001

Aerial view of Ellis Island with New York City World Trade Center in t...

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

[Rescue worker reaching into a New York Police car covered with debris while New York City fire fighters spray water on smoldering ruins in background, following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City]

[Rescue worker reaching into a New York Police car covered with debris...

Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of the World Trade Center, New York, New York

Aerial view of the World Trade Center, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Photograph taken about two months before the 9/11/2001 tragedy. Title, date, subject note, and k... More

Former Packard Plant, E. Grand Blvd. at Concord, 2003

Former Packard Plant, E. Grand Blvd. at Concord, 2003

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Only steps left after 2005 Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi coast, Mississippi

Only steps left after 2005 Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi coast, Missi...

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

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

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, Wisconsin Ave., NW, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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.C.

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

Photograph shows an outdoor mural on the former Café Lautrec building at 2431 8th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center ... More

Part of the 1.4-million-square-foot Morgan General Mail Facility, completed in 1933, thought to be the largest mail-sorting location in America (as of 2018), in New York City's Parcel Post Building

Part of the 1.4-million-square-foot Morgan General Mail Facility, comp...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washington, D.C.

Buildings and cars, H St. near intersection with 14th St., NE, Washing...

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A small brick building where lobster rolls are sold stands below the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River

A small brick building where lobster rolls are sold stands below the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Street scene and mural on 14th St. near intersection with Swann St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Street scene and mural on 14th St. near intersection with Swann St., N...

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

Outdoor sculpture at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

Outdoor sculpture at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the capital ci...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association. In 1926, the High family, for whom the museum is named, donated their f... More

Derelict building at the Mississippi Industrial College historical site in Holly Springs, Mississippi

Derelict building at the Mississippi Industrial College historical sit...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The school was a historically black college, founded in 1905 by the Mississippi Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. ... More

Norwalk Harbor, Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk Harbor, Norwalk, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Junk Yard Dog at the Junk Yard Dogs junkyard in San Antonio, Texas

The Junk Yard Dog at the Junk Yard Dogs junkyard in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 2006, artist Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade built this goofy cartoon creature for a friend, who set it up on the sidewalk outside his junkyard... More

Distinctive urban art (mural: "Welcome to Deep Ellum Art Park") in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

Distinctive urban art (mural: "Welcome to Deep Ellum Art Park") in Dee...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

Polymer plant along the Ohio River near the settlement of Apple Grove in Mason County, West Virginia

Polymer plant along the Ohio River near the settlement of Apple Grove ...

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

North Front Street homes on Wheeling Island, part of Wheeling, West Virginia, that lies in the middle of the Ohio River

North Front Street homes on Wheeling Island, part of Wheeling, West Vi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wheeling Island was a rough-and-ready industrial section of town, but also the location of fine homes belonging to those who owned the... More

Colorful downtown building in Elkins, West Virginia

Colorful downtown building in Elkins, 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

Downtown Weston, West Virginia - Drawing. Public domain image.

Downtown Weston, West Virginia - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb adjacent to Washington, D.C

Weller's Dry Cleaning store, built in 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland,...

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

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Cincinnati, Ohio, awaiting rehabilitation and installation at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of the city

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Ci...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of... More

"Gateway to the Blues" sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north

"Gateway to the Blues" sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of th...

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

An October 2017 aerial view of Portland, Maine

An October 2017 aerial view of Portland, Maine

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Historic Ellicott City, Maryland recovering from two devastating floods in 2016 and 2018 that damaged and detroyed homes, businesses, and infrastructures including roads and the town's clock

Historic Ellicott City, Maryland recovering from two devastating flood...

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

The colorful graffiti on this garage stand out vividly in an otherwise architecturally subdued neighborhood in Syracuse, New York

The colorful graffiti on this garage stand out vividly in an otherwise...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Adjoining rowhouse apartment buildings in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan borough, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in sprawling New York City

Adjoining rowhouse apartment buildings in the Harlem neighborhood of u...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

A classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes, in the Harlem neighborhood of the city's Manhattan borough

A classic New York City apartment building, replete with fire escapes,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Mount Vernon Place, Charles & Monument Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Mount Vernon Place, Charles & Monument Streets, Baltimore, Independent...

Survey number: HALS MD-1 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71001037

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

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