Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain image of a zoo, safari park, wild animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Adventureland Theme Park Miniature Golf, Dothan, 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
Buildings, H St. near intersection with 12th St., NE, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Mexican Cultural Institute, located on 16th St., near intersection wit...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Southeastern Livestock Exposition Championship Rodeo, Montgomery, Alab...
Started in 1958 by Jim Adams, J. Ernest Lambert, W.O. Crawford, E. Ham Wilson, Aubrey H. Fleming, C. Ed Teague, Edward Wadsworth and W.H. Gregory, The Southeastern Livestock Exposition was formed to promote the... More
Alabama native Percy Sledge sang "When A Man Loves A Woman" and the au...
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
Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landcaping, ampitheatre and art at ...
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
Barrio Chino: Chinatown in the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba
Chinese have been a part of Cuba's history since at least 1847. Chinese Cubans are estimated at only about 500 today and Chinatown is only a few blocks in downtown Havana. Title, date, subject note, and keyword... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama
Known as "Jerusalem in Miniature," this four-acre park (dedicated in 1934) was designed to provide a setting for 125 miniature reproductions of famous historic buildings and shrines the work of Brother Joseph Z... More
Most of the fans wear crimson and white with the name of the football ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Skyline views of downtown area, Montgomery, Alabama
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Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...
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
Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...
The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobi... More
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
Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More
Apartment building, 2029 Connecticut 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
Gee's Bend, Alabama - A group of people standing next to a body of wat...
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Logan Circle, NW, Washington, D.C.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Mont...
Sign for the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M.... More
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
Historic buildings in Monroeville, 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
Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, 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
Memorial to Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925) March 25, 1965) was a civil rights activist from Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by... More
Ski slope, Mammoth Lakes, California
In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More
Skiers near sign for Mammoth Mountain, Mammoth Lakes, California
In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More
Order of Myths, Mobile's first and oldest Mardi Gras society, Mobile, ...
One of Mobile's most secretive, the OOMs (Double-Ohh-Mms) secret society was founded in 1867, one year after Joe Cain's fateful first ride through the streets of Mobile in the guise of Chief Slacabamorinico, an... More
Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...
Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... More
Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporate...
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
Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More
March from Selma to Montgomery recreating the important Civil Rights e...
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
Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Da...
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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
The 1890s Davis House at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-ac...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More
President's Ranch Trail marker at the old "Hye" store and post office ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The store is named for Hiram "Hye" Brown, who opened a store on this site in 1880. The present structure, replete with Bavarian metal... More
Historic houses, North Capitol St., 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
Barrio Chino: Chinatown in the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba
Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century fashion, China or Chinese-inspired design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Apartment building, 2101 Connecticut 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
Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...
The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobi... More
Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in ...
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
Historical interpreter (and actual blacksmith) Robert Swin, at work at...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in...
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
Abraham Lincoln statue at the Old District Courthouse, Indiana Ave. be...
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Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the site forme...
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
Part of Fair Park Esplanade, a 700-foot-long reflecting pool capped wi...
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
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed offi... More
Aerial view of Montgomery, Alabama
Title, date, 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 Photographs Divisi... More
Since the 1930s, Big Al, the Alabama Crimson Tide football team mascot...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Two little boys play in a water fountain locared at the Smithsonian Ar...
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
Ornamental details in the Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Emile Weil and built in 1927, it is an example of Old Spanish architecture. The theater was built by Jefferson Amusement ... More
Statue of John Allen Wyeth, Confederate soldier, surgeon and author, 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
Entrance to tunnel, Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Calif...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. Credit line: The Jo... More
Street scene, Florida Ave. near intersection with 8th St., NW, Washing...
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
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
Logan Circle, NW, Washington, D.C.
Logan Circle is a traffic circle, neighborhood, and historic district in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The primarily residential neighborhood includes two historic districts, properties listed on t... More
View showing the piggery and other out buildings at Bryce Hospital Tus...
Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility. First known as the AlabamaState Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insan... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
The Kinney County Courthouse in Bracketville, Texas. It was built in 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 P... More
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, ... More
Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1867 along the anks of the Concho Rier, the fort's 40 buildings supported up to infantry and cavalry troops, sent to T... More
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
[Historic Bridge built by the WPA, Spring Park, 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
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
The Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron, Texas, the fourth stru...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect A.O. Watson of Austin, the courthouse at one time featured a Second Empire-style roof and a cupola with a four-... More
Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama
50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More
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
Group of skiers, Mammoth Lakes, California
In 1877, prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town. By the end of 1878, 1500 people settled in the mining camp called Mammoth City. Today the area is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski... More
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More
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
A scene from the play "To Kill A Mockingbird," performed in Monroevill...
This special presentation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, a native of Monroeville, Alabama. Many literary scholars and local residents believe ... More
Mardi Gras decorations hang from a cast iron balcony on Royal Street 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
Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama
Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More
Grand National Golf Course, part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, Opel...
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
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four-story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets, ... More
Map of Alabama sculpted by Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews in 2005 ...
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
[Leland Stanford Mansion, Sacramento, California]
Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More
Veterans Memorial in Florence, 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
This small taxi was an inexpensive way to get around 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
Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presidio along the Rio Grande...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the creation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell...
The gardens first opened to the public in 1932, while a national garden club meeting was taking place in Mobile. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More
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
The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) in...
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 1890s Davis House at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-ac...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch is a living-history partnership of the Fort Bend County Museum Association and The George Foundation that preserves and int... More
Arts on Foot Festival, 7th and F St. at Penn Quarter, 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
Railway station, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1888 as a district headquarters between Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the station became part of the Southern Railway System after a merger with Southern in... More
The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...
Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More
[Railroad bridge], Decatur, Alabama
Decatur, located along the Tennessee River, was a hub for travelers and cargo between Nashville/Chattanooga, and Mobile/New Orleans. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More
Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...
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First Presbyterian Church, established in 1818, was the first church 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
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
Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, built on the site forme...
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
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
Staff of Ben's Chili Bowl, 1213 U 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
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