Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More
A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
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
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputed...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Formerly a 1899-vintage dry-goods store owned by Charles Champion in Port Isabel, Texas, the building is now the town's historical mu... More
Small stained-glass window in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in t... More
Stained glass windows, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Po...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...
Construction on the Sanctuary Building began in 1907, and with it came a new name for the congregation, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After two years construction, the Spanish Renaissance Revival... More
Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More
Mural by Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1...
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
Mural "Irrigation," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior ...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 92" x 68". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs... More
Mural "Desert," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior Buil...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 92" x 68". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs... More
Mural. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More
Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...
GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' ; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. ...
GSA Fine Arts Program. FA492-A, c. 1939; dimensions: 6' x 16' medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by th... More
Art at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Completed between the years 1939-1940, by architect Charles Z. Klauder. Architectural style is Stripped Classicism. Originally constructed as and called the Social Security Building, it was renamed in 1988 for ... More
The old company-town movie theater in the "ghost town," some of which ...
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
[Old truck,] rural Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
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
"One is Man Controlling Trade," 1942 statue by Michael Lantz, at Feder...
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
Vintage cars are everywhere on the Paseo de Martí (del Prado)
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
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride Plan psychiatric hospital operated from 18... More
Statue of former Dallas mayor and state-fair president Robert Lee Thor...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More
Vintage cars are everywhere in Old 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
Vintage America car rolls out of the narrow street in Old 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
Yale University, New Haven, 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
Yale University, New Haven, 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
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Photograph shows the main entry to the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photogra... More
Yale University, New Haven, 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
[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francis...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More
Chickens at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Not to be confused with Heritage Station downtown, Heritage Farm Museum displays a wide collection of historical items related to Appa... More
This old vaudeville house, built in the 1930s in Alpine, Texas, was pu...
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Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...
Formerly the National Bank of Washington which was the oldest bank in Washington, D.C. It closed around 1999 when it was taken over by the FDIC. It was designed by Alfred C. Bossom and Jules-Henri de Sibour. Pl... More
The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama
The American Village opened on November 30, 1999, as Alabama's civic education center. It's buildings are replications of famous buildings in American history. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided b... More
Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...
Formerly the National Bank of Washington which was the oldest bank in Washington, D.C. It closed around 1999 when it was taken over by the FDIC. It was designed by Alfred C. Bossom and Jules-Henri de Sibour. Pl... More
Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Wa...
Formerly the National Bank of Washington which was the oldest bank in Washington, D.C. It closed around 1999 when it was taken over by the FDIC. It was designed by Alfred C. Bossom and Jules-Henri de Sibour. Pl... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
At the requst of Chief Justice Arthur Tuttle, the courtroom from the previous building (built in 1896) was disassembled and stored during construction, then reassembled in the new building. It contains more tha... More
Stained glass details at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the lib...
Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More
Architectural details at the Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Bu...
Built in 1933 and located on the State line between Texas and Arkansas. It is a courthouse for both states. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keyword... More
Interior lobby, Richard B. Anderson Federal Building, Port Angeles, Wa...
Originally a post office that was completed in 1933. General Services Administration took over the building in 1978 when the Post Office moved out. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy
The Havana Capitol, built from April 1, 1926-1929, cost 17 million pesos. After the Revolution in 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then the Ministry of Science, T... More
Sign at the entrance to the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market di...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More
Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida
Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More
Interior mailbox. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1936 by architectural firm McGhee Frazer Lippincot... More
U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Architect was Alexander Thompson Wood. Built between the years 1848-1881, the building occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville and Decatur Streets. The entire... More
Mural: Bureau of Indian Affairs: Indian & Soldier, by Maynard Dixon at...
Date: 1939; dimensions: 105" x 157 1/2"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...
Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More
Lamp detail. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, G...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More
Office doorway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...
Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More
Interior postal window detail, Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building & U...
Built in 1932 and designed by architect James Wetmore. The exterior of the Trenton Federal Building is a well executed design with a "Stipped Neo-Classical" form, with both Classical and Art Deco terra cotta d... More
Stairway at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky
Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More
Courtroom doors in Lobby at the U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexing...
Neoclassical design. Built in 1934 by architect H.A. Churchill and John P. Gillig. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More
Ceiling details at the Alton Lennon Federal Building and U.S. Courthou...
Built in 1919 by architect James A. Wetmore. The style is Neoclassical. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...
Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More
Assembly Hall at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also k...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The camp was established in 1921 as the first statewide 4-H camp in the United States. The district includes buildings related to the ... More
1912 Railway Terminal in 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
Clock at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Lamp post at Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Originally constructed as a post office, this neoclassical style building was built in 1915 by architect James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
The Star Theatre in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where movies were...
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
Elevators, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is ...
Built in 1932 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More
Door, Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Fl...
Built in 1938-1939 by architect Rudolph Stanley Brown. Designed in a simple Mission style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from informatio... More
Exterior. The Jack Brooks Federal Building in Beaumont, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by Architects Fred C. Stone, and F.W. and D.E... More
Corridor, C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1912; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More
Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More
Model of Cabin No. 8 at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Sprin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. The small model was built by the Ci... More
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More
Stairway at Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine
Designed by architect James Knox Taylor and built 1908-1911. Addition in 1931-1932 by James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords fr... More
Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More
Executive suite, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
Iglesia de Jesus de Miramar, Havana, Cuba
The second largest church in Cuba. It was begun in 1948 and completed in 1053. The murals were painted by Spanish painter, Cesareo Marciano Hombrados y de Onativia (1909-1977). Title, date, subject note, and k... More
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More
Architectural detail at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Te...
Built in 1937 in the Art Deco style of architecture, the building is significant as a representation of the federal government in Galveston for over 60 years. Photographed as part of an assignment for the Gener... More
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1910; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More
Overlooking what what were once bustling rail lines of the Baltimore &...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. To the right are the Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O, and the old B&O terminal. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, re... More
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
Centro Gallego, was a Galician social club in 1914. The National Balle...
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
Carriage house at Yellowwood, a log structure in The Boulevards, an ex...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1911 as a hunting lodge. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... More
The Mississippi River Commission building, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More
Doorway detail. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Tyler, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1934 by architect Shirley Simons. Neoclassical sty... More
The High Gate Mansion in Fairmont, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. James Erwin Watson, pioneer coal baron, banker and businessman, purchased land in Fairmont to erect one of the most magnificent homes ... More
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Built between 1874-1878 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Additions were added between 1936-1938. The style is Second Empire. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, ... More
The Snodgrass One-Room Schoolhouse on the campus of Fairmont State Uni...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1840 William Snodgrass erected a log building about 300 yards from his house for use as a schoolhouse and a church. Three separate ... More
Hallway. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Designed by Architect Oscar Wenderoth, the three-story, neo... More
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba - Drawing. Public domain image.
This beautiful room, once used when congress was in session, now sits empty and unused. The Havana Capitol was built from April 1, 1926-1929; the building cost 17 million pesos and is bigger than the U.S. Capit... More
An old jalopy outside an abandoned stone building in the "ghost town,"...
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
Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, K...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. U.S. Courthouse built in 1910 by Architect James Knox Taylo... More
One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located al...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. They were installed in each of the twel... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia
Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More
Exterior view, full front. U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Built in 1930 by architect James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: P... More
World War I Memorial, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D...
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More
Interior details, James L. Whitten Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Also known as the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building, it was the first large Beaux-Arts building in Washington, D.C. Designed by Rankin, Kellogg and Crane architects, the L-shaped wings were... More
Waldomore, a lavish home built in 1839 for state senator Waldo P. Goff...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure's name was coined by combining the names of the original owners Goff and his wife, Harriet L. Moore. The Classic Revival... More
Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...
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