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A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas

A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in A...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout Texas. This one stands just outside the university town of Alpine in southwest Texas

For some reason, large metal chickens are popular yard art throughout ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pit" at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

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

[North Reading Room, east wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the characters in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]

[North Reading Room, east wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustr...

Photograph shows left half of the mural on the east wall. According to the inscription the figures are (left to right): "The Merchant, with his Flemish beaver hat and forked beard; the Friar; the Monk; the Fran... More

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...

Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba

The square took definitive shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Cathedrals construction was begun around 1748 as a temple to the Jesuit fathers. This order was expelled in 1767, the half-fin... More

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, which is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, A...

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

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...

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

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...

The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More

Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama

Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama

Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

Stained glass windows, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma, Alabama

St. Paul's parish was established in 1838. The original sanctuary building was burned during the Battle of Selma. The current building, designed by the New York firm of Richard Upjohn, was completed in 1875. Th... More

An untitled 1932 oil painting by George Sanderson Bickerstaff, displayed at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

An untitled 1932 oil painting by George Sanderson Bickerstaff, display...

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

Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built and began his blacksmith shop in the 1890s and later provided automobile-repair service

Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built an...

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

Part of an elaborate "fish mural," painted in 1906 by a local (reputedly one-armed) fisherman on the acade of the Champion Building, Port Isabel, Texas

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

Scenes from Alabama on bronze doors at Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Scenes from Alabama on bronze doors at Alabama Department of Archives ...

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

West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

West courtroom, mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indi...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The building is a steel-framed, flat-roofed structure clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central ca... More

Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Artist: Kenneth Washburn. An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title infor... More

Fresco painting above room 5138 entrance, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Fresco painting above room 5138 entrance, Department of Justice, Washi...

Artist: Henry Varnum Poor, 1936. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs i... More

Mural showing Native Americans by artist Gerald Nailor at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural showing Native Americans by artist Gerald Nailor at the Interior...

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

Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Oil painting "Immigration Scene" located on fifth floor, elevator no. 10, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "Immigration Scene" located on fifth floor, elevator no. ...

Artist: Louis Bouche, 1937. Dimensions: 11' x 2' 8". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Mural: "Winter Roundup," by Ernest Fiene at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: "Winter Roundup," by Ernest Fiene at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 94" x 69 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. Credit ... More

Mural "Haying" by Philip Von Saltza, located in Federal Building, St. Albans, Vermont

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 "Religion," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Religion," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 107" x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Mural "The Security of the People" by Seymour Fogel located in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "The Security of the People" by Seymour Fogel located in the Wil...

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

Sculptor James Rice's statue of the outlaw Billy the Kid, firing his gun, in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Sculptor James Rice's statue of the outlaw Billy the Kid, firing his g...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is a somewhat controversial statue, for this is the figure of Ollie P. Roberts, usually known as Ollie L. Roberts, "Brushy Bill" ... More

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Sculpture "Harvesting Sugar Cane," by Armin Alfred Scheler at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building in New Orleans, Louisiana

Sculpture "Harvesting Sugar Cane," by Armin Alfred Scheler at the F. E...

Date: 1941; dimensions: 8' x 9'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit ... More

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town 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

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Mural "Positively Haight" in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Fran...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

Wall paintings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Wall paintings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, Cali...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district i... More

Exterior doorway detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Exterior doorway detail of the Hall of State at Fair Park, site of the...

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

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the colors of nearby blossoms this time of year, in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the...

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

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Statue at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and...

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

Old car way out in the North Carolina countryside

Old car way out in the North Carolina countryside

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Part of a frieze, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cen...

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

Sculpture "The Voice of Reason, Oscar S. Straus Memorial Fountain," by Adolph Alexander Weinman at the Environmental Protection Agency, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture "The Voice of Reason, Oscar S. Straus Memorial Fountain," by...

Date: 1947; dimensions: 5' 4" x 11' 5" x 5'; medium: bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer... More

American vintage cars line up near the Havana, Cuba, Capitol and Chinatown in Old Havana, Cuba

American vintage cars line up near the Havana, Cuba, Capitol and China...

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

Neon sign from the Floridita Bar, Havana, Cuba

Neon sign from the Floridita Bar, Havana, Cuba

Ernest Hemingway frequented the Floridita Bar when he lived in Havana in the 1950s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Old cars and old façades in Havana, Cuba

Old cars and old façades 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

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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, 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

The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-Half," although any plane that carries the president of the United States is Air Force One when it's in the air. This Lockheed JetStar, now permanently displayed at the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas, flew Lyndon Johnson in and out of the ranch when he was vice president and president in the 1960s. Johnson traveled on a Boeing 707 for most trips when he was president, but he also had a fleet of smaller planes available to him, including several JetStars

The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-...

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

Detail of a historic car, Country Classic Cars, Staunton, Illinois

Detail of a historic car, Country Classic Cars, Staunton, Illinois

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona

Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the Zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Carrie A. Tuggle Memorial, 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

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...

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

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

[Betts House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut]

Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information from the Yale University website. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M... More

The Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O to house travelers and important railroad employees, and, to its left, the old B&O terminal in Grafton, West Virginia

The Willard Hotel, built in 1911 by the B&O to house travelers and imp...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Rail traffic increased as the B&O expanded, reaching 30 passenger trains a day by the 1920s. The old Grafton House, containing both ho... More

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...

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

Detail view of oil painting "Life Before the Pioneer Era" at C. Clifton Young Federal Building and Courthouse, Reno, Nevada C. Clifton Young Federal Building and Courthouse Reno, Nevada

Detail view of oil painting "Life Before the Pioneer Era" at C. Clifto...

Artist: Richard Guy Walton, 1966. Dimensions: 6.5' x 24.5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.... More

The Kanawha Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia, was open until the mid 1970s. It was closed for a time and then converted to a bar

The Kanawha Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia, was open until the m...

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

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa, Texas

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was the Marfa Opera House before its cinematic incarnation, but closed in the 1970s. As of this photograph in 2014, a local illust... More

An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, ...

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

Aerial view of the Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington, Virginia

Aerial view of the Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Amphitheater, ...

Dedicated in 1920, three memorial services are held there annually, on Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; so... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Challenger Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

Carol M. Highsmith - Challenger Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Robert E. Lee's onetime home, Arlington House, looms above the Kennedy Family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery

Robert E. Lee's onetime home, Arlington House, looms above the Kennedy...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento...

Artist: Holley Junker, 1999. Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 75 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. Both Paris of Texas and Paris of Tennessee dedicated their Eiffel Tower replicas ... More

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Etched stone at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Etched stone at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, Cali...

Artist: Jenny Holzer, 1999. Architectural Arts: 99 square paving stones, each measuring 12 x 12 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, an... More

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealon Federal Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealo...

Artist: Paul Housberg, 1999. Glass blocks. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... 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

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Etched stone at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Etched stone at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, Cali...

Artist: Jenny Holzer, 1999. Architectural Arts: 99 square paving stones, each measuring 12 x 12 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, an... More

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M. Shaw U.S. Courthouse, Lafayette, Louisiana

Sculpture "Urns of Justice" at exterior entrance plinith of the John M...

Artist: Diana Moore, 1999. Cast concrete, dimensions: 5' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, Maryland

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

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

The American Village, Monetvallo, Alabama

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

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, California

Textile "Chinadom" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento...

Artist: Holley Junker, 1999. Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 75 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... 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

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealon Federal Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Architectural art "Lightfall" at building entrance to William J. Nealo...

Artist: Paul Housberg, 1999. Glass blocks. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More

Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

Exterior detail, 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 Administrat... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington

Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More

Assembly Hall at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

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

Lamp post at Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

Courtroom gold eagle, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Courtroom gold eagle, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

Interior, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California

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.

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

Courtroom, David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Miami, Florida

Courtroom, David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Miami, ...

Architect: Phineas E. Paist and Harold D. Steward. Mediterranean Renaissance Revival style. Built between 1931-1933. Primary material: Key Largo Coquina limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the ... More

Entrance, Herbert C. Hoover Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

Entrance, Herbert C. Hoover Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, Was...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More

Fresco "Steel Industry" at U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fresco "Steel Industry" at U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the U.S. General Services Administration. Artist: Howard Norton Cook, 1936. Fresco painting, dimensions: 10' 6" x 17' 6". Title information, date, and subject note prov... More

Ceiling mural "The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac (Winter)," by Vahe Kirishjian at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Ceiling mural "The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac (Winter)," by ...

Date: 1940; dimensions: 13' 4" x 21'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogra... More

Lobby door. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Lobby door. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by architect Edward Neild. Art Deco style. Cr... More

Oil painting "Nautical Signal Flag" located on first floor rotunda ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Nautical Signal Flag" located on first floor rotunda cei...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, it is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. At 57 stories it remains one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States. Title, date,... More

Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Exterior bas-relief, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit ...

Building constructed in 1932. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More

Lamp post at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Lamp post at the J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Built in 1906, the building is one of the finest Neoclassical Revival style federal buildings in the state of North Carolina. There was an addition in 1937. Architect is James Knox Taylor. Photographed as part... More

Sinopia for the Roosevelt mural at Mitchell H. Cohen U.S. Courthouse Annex, Camden, New Jersey

Sinopia for the Roosevelt mural at Mitchell H. Cohen U.S. Courthouse A...

Artist: Ben Shahn, 1937. Sinopia under drawing on plaster, 10' x 40'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the pho... More

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