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The birthplace of Anna Jarvis, credited by many as the creator of the Mother's Day holiday, in the unincorporated town of Webster in Taylor County, West Virginia

The birthplace of Anna Jarvis, credited by many as the creator of the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Anna Jarvis' mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, was a social activist, founder of Mother's Day Work Clubs, and a unifying force within her com... More

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...

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

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1901 and originally named in honor of J.S. Spencer, a local judge and steamboat-company operator, the hotel was operated by t... More

Detail in the interior of the Capitol building "El Capitolio," Havana, Cuba

Detail in the interior of the Capitol building "El Capitolio," Havana,...

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 and cost 17 million pesos. Title, date, subject note, and keywords pr... More

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West Virginia

The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907-1908, it is is a four-story, rectangular brick and limestone building in the Beaux-Arts-style. Passenger service there c... More

Building, 1901 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, D.C.

Building, 1901 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Courtroom, 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

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1909; architect: James Knox Taylor. Credit line... More

Courtroom, Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine

Courtroom, 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

Clifton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library System located on the corner of 20th and Wolfe Streets, Baltimore, Maryland

Clifton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library System located on the corner...

The site was donated by Frank and Florence Novak in 1914. The branch was later erected in 1916 with funds given by Andrew Carnegie. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office ...

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

Sculpture "Timothy Pickering, former postmaster general," by Gleb W. Derujinsky at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "Timothy Pickering, former postmaster general," by Gleb W. D...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 2' 10"; material: wood. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahoma

Exterior. Lawton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Lawton, Oklahom...

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

George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, is part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Baltimore, Maryland

George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute ...

In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a...

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

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas

A carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The small, triangular building dates to 1935. Two men, Franklin Bryant and Lynn Fuller, who specialize in restoring gas pumps and vin... More

Tools at the blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Tools at the blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in th...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Old voting house on the Johnston property, where everyone in Washington County would go to cast their votes during the early 1900s. Leroy, Alabama

Old voting house on the Johnston property, where everyone in Washingto...

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

Mr. George F. Landegger, sponsor, speaks at the podium at the 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama

Mr. George F. Landegger, sponsor, speaks at the podium at the 13th Ann...

The 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium involves two days of author readings, panel discussions, and literary entertainment, all moderated by some of Alabama's finest literary scholars. The Harper Lee Award f... More

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Fountain along an esplanade in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, once home to the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, which produced the lion's share of buidings in the park

Fountain along an esplanade in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, once home t...

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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

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

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

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

Mural located in SE neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Mural located in SE neighborhood, 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

Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition

Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Californi...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is the only one still situated on its original site. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a ...

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

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 hune log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pi... More

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

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

Phoenix Fire Museum, Mobile, Alabama

Phoenix Fire Museum, Mobile, Alabama

The Phoenix Fire Museum is in the restored home of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company No. 6. This building houses turn-of-the-century horse-drawn steam engines and early motorized vehicles. The gallery on the s... More

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

Historic buildings, 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

Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama

Desoto State Park is accented by rushing waterfalls and fragrant wildflowers. The atmosphere of the CCC further enhances the restaurant, lodge and cabin facilities. Nestled atop beautiful scenic Lookout Mountai... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

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

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 hune log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pi... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Industrial site logo in Monroeville, Alabama, showing the bird and the old Monroe County Courthouse used in the play "To Kill a Mockingbird" by resident Harper Lee

Industrial site logo in Monroeville, Alabama, showing the bird and the...

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

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed before the turn of the century, it was purchased by the City of Monterey in 1913 and has been reconstructed several times. Orginally used to h... More

The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

A long-abandoned Swift and Company facility, high above the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

A long-abandoned Swift and Company facility, high above the Stockyards...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A major branch of the nation's leading nineteenth-century meat-packing firm and one of the nation's Big Four meat-packers of the early... More

Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, Alabama

Rural Studio architecture, Newbern, Alabama

The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-c... More

Classical Revival style building built in 1925, 14th and G St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks nei...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Sculpture at Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Sculpture at Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, A...

The Alabama Department of Archives and History was established by an act of the legislature on February 27, 1901. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F.... More

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon, Havana, Cuba

Necropolis de Colon (Havana's Cemetery) has 131 years of history. Also known as Christopher Columbus Cemetery. It was built by Galician architect Calixto Areliano de Lorira y Cordoso. The first work in the ceme... More

Historic buildings in Perdue Hill, Alabama

Historic buildings in Perdue Hill, 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

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Lincoln High School's band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, passes in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

Lincoln High School's band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, passes in t...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More

Neighborhood along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

Neighborhood along the Malecón 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

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Located in historic downtown Monroeville, Alabama

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

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

Civil Rights Memorial at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, 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

Gadsden, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gadsden, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Incorporated in 1871, Gadsden is the county seat of Etowah County. It's known as "The City of Champions" and was named an "All America City" in 1991. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the phot... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Cubans dress up and pose for the tourist camera like these women on the Plaza de la Cathedral Square in Havana, Cuba

Cubans dress up and pose for the tourist camera like these women on th...

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 Kennedy-Warren apartment building, 3133 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

The Kennedy-Warren apartment building, 3133 Connecticut Ave., NW, Wash...

Also known as the "Old Lady", the Kennedy-Warren is a historic 11-story apartment building located between the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods. The Art Deco building was constructed from 1929 to 1... More

Pickensville, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Pickensville, 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

Gravestone in an historic cemetery, Camden, Alabama

Gravestone in an historic cemetery, Camden, 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

Hay bale art, located on U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region

Hay bale art, located on U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabam...

Motorists driving along U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama's mostly rural western Black Belt region do a lot of double-takes as they gaze over at Jim Bird's pastures to see all sorts of strange crit... More

Historic building in Monroe County, Alabama

Historic building in Monroe County, 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

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art in the historic Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art i...

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

The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Point on Catalina Island off the coast of California

The Catalina Casino, built on the site formerly known as Sugarloaf Poi...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

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

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

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California

Dedicated on August 14, 1929 in with the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Love... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claiborne, Alabama

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company in Claibor...

Family day is a big "Thank You" to all the employees and their families for running such a successful business for owner George F. Landegger and his family. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by t... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

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

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

Rural Alabama in the spring - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Cottages at Freedom Village just a few blocks from downtown Montgomery, Alabama

Cottages at Freedom Village just a few blocks from downtown Montgomery...

The cottages are now boarded up and the signs are tattered and torn. Hopefully, the Heritage View Apartments will have a better fate. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... More

This is an amazing stone wall constructed single-handedly by a man named Tom Hendrix in Florence, Alabama

This is an amazing stone wall constructed single-handedly by a man nam...

Hendrix's great great grandmother was a 14-year old Yuchi Indian girl who was forcibly moved along with thousands of others to an Oklahoma reservation during the early 1800's. From the reservation she ran away ... More

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

Room decorations in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a ...

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

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, California

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Also known as the Royal Presidio Chapel, the Roman Catholic cathedral was built in 1794, and is the oldest continuously operating parish and the oldest st... More

Cast iron fountain with acanthus leaf motif, Bienville Square, Mobile, Alabama

Cast iron fountain with acanthus leaf motif, Bienville Square, Mobile,...

Bienville Square is a historic city park, built in 1842, in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The square was named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. It takes up the entire ... More

The WVU Coliseum, a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena located on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia

The WVU Coliseum, a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena located on the Eva...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The circular arena features a poured concrete roof. It was built with state funds and replaced the WVU Fieldhouse, which seated 6,000.... More

Water feature and garden wall at the Gamble House in Pasadena, California

Water feature and garden wall at the Gamble House in Pasadena, Califor...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Designed by brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene of the architectural firm Greene and Greene and constructed in 1908 and 1909 as a home ... More

The Rose Queen and her royal court pass by in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California

The Rose Queen and her royal court pass by in the 124th Rose Parade in...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The first parade was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club. According to the parade's official program, the club was made up of former ... More

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in Orange Beach, Alabama

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

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

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River t...

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 hune log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pi... More

Campers enjoy some moments of fun on the Guadalupe River at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Campers enjoy some moments of fun on the Guadalupe River at Camp Walde...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name translates as "Sea of the Woods" from the German. Camp Waldemar, an all-girls' camp, was founded in 1926 by Ora Johnson, the... More

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded hilltop, Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...

The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More

Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama

Historic Rikard's Mill is a truly historic site near Beatrice, Alabama

Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Title, date, subject n... More

Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Built and settled in the 19th and early 20th century, Japanese immigrants began moving into the area following the 1906 Earthquake. By World War II, the n... More

Paramount Pictures back lot sets of New York City streets, headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California

Paramount Pictures back lot sets of New York City streets, headquarter...

Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, Paramount is the third oldest existing film studio in the world. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B.... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... More

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Plant located in Tuscaloosa County, A...

This plant is responsible for more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region, and has an annual economic impact of more than 1.5 billion. In addition, MBUSI has become the state's largest exporter, wit... More

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... More

[Librarian's Room. Dome with the central disc displaying the mural Letters by Edward J. Holslag. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Dome with the central disc displaying the mural Let...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Lamp detail on the Barcardi Rum Building in Havana, Cuba

Lamp detail on the Barcardi Rum Building 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-... More

Purple Martin bird gourd houses, Hamilton, Alabama

Purple Martin bird gourd houses, Hamilton, 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

The Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, was built in 1928 in neoclassical design. It is the fifth structure used as the county courthouse, having replaced the previous building constructed in 1890

The Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, was built in 1928 in ne...

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

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller grew up, Tuscumbia, Alabama

The grounds and interiors of Ivy Green, the house where Helen Keller g...

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

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, was founded in 1682 by the Franciscan order to serve displaced American Indians (the Piro, Tano and Jemez) from New Mexico, who fled during the Pueblo Revolt. El Paso, Texas

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... More

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama

A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Ni...

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

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Rural Alabama in the spring

Rural Alabama in the spring

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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