Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

us route 66

public
14 media by topicpage 1 of 1
Round barn on US Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma

Round barn on US Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

Grain elevators and related agricultural structures along old U.S. Route 66 east of Amarillo in rural Potter County in the Texas panhandle

Grain elevators and related agricultural structures along old U.S. Rou...

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

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along U.S. 40 (the old U.S. Route 66) near Groom in the Texas Panhandle

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The free-standing cross can be seen twenty miles away. Surrounding the base of the cross are life-sized statues of the fourteen Stati... More

A grain elevator and related buildings in Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

A grain elevator and related buildings in Groom, a tiny community alon...

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

A reminder, in the grass behind the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a popular Amarillo, Texas, restaurant, of the days when the old, two-lane U.S. Route 66 wound through town

A reminder, in the grass behind the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a popular A...

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

A hat made of barbed wire, one of several exhibits at an unusual dual-themed museum in the little town of McLean in the Texas panhandle

A hat made of barbed wire, one of several exhibits at an unusual dual-...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Most of the space is occupied by the "Devil's Rope Museum," a collection and explanation of the history of barbed wire, the material ... More

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S. Route 66 in Williams, Arizona

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S...

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

Vintage Phillips 66 Gas Station and historic cars, Route 66, Chandler, Oklahoma

Vintage Phillips 66 Gas Station and historic cars, Route 66, Chandler,...

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

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along U.S. 40 (the old U.S. Route 66) near Groom in the Texas Panhandle

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The free-standing cross can be seen twenty miles away. Surrounding the base of the cross are life-sized statues of the fourteen Stati... More

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community ...

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

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of historic U.S. Route 66 still runs through town

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of hist...

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

A depiction of an old roadside diner, part of an unusual dual-themed museum in the little town of McLean in the Texas panhandle

A depiction of an old roadside diner, part of an unusual dual-themed m...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description