The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... More
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, 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-201... More
Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... More
Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal B...
Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
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
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...
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-201... More
Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Outside wall displaying archaeological artifacts retrieved from digs o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1,200-acre development is comprised of 32 parcels atop more than 210 archaeological sites from the Anasazi period more than 2,000 ... More
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
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
The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
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
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain photograph of people having fun at picnic in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
This snowman figure, which some might say bears more resemblance to a ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More
A wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was largely settled by Norwegian immigrants, but an arrival from England, George Wright, gave it its name Credit line: Photographs ... More
A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
Participants meet inside the Mustang Pavilion during a 4-H Club "tour"...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the early 2000s, Kim was, in the words of one resident, "about dried up and blowed away." But then a group of residents and area ra... More
A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store...
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
Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona
One of eight Border Patrol Stations with the Tucson Border Patrol Sector located on the Sector's East Corridor. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and su... More
Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rust...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More
Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Depart...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California
The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More
Nook inside the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More
Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... More
Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Departmen...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
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
Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...
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
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
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...
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
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
Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More
Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...
Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More
Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...
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
One section of the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More
Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. For more than a half-century, low-rent houseboats have inhabited Richardson Bay, just north of Sausalito. The inhabitants of 38 houseboats at Gates Co-op ... More
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Blacksmith shop at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of sav...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Unlike actual settlers' cabins on the site that were moved from their orig... More
Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewe...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rust...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More
A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many p...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...
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
Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Designer Tina Westercamp's combination muraltilework, "The Migration o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast o...
The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More
Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
Tile heraldic sign on a building in New Braunfels, Texas, evincing a 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
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
Courtroom, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska
Architect: Louis A. Simon and Gilbert. Stanley Underwood. Built in 1939. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer... More
At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More
Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Ma...
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
Display at the Swiss Historical Village & Museum in New Glarus, Wiscon...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Ari...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Ho...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sisters of Mercy at St. Joseph's Catholic Church were front and center in the care of victims of a virulent yellow fever outbreak in 1... More
Detail inside a cabin at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Oregon and Mormon trails, which had followed the same route across Wyoming, diverged here, the Oregon Trail heading westward into ... More
Some of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in...
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
Used bathtubs and sinks, on display and for sale, along a road between...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Some of the artifacts extracted, cleaned and catalogued, and protected...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Uncovered artifacts turned into art at Boone Hall Plantation and Garde...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More
Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...
Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More
Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in...
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
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
Miscellaneous pots and pans at the general store that is part of the S...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More
Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
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
Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...
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
Dinsmore Shop Cooperage at the Strawbery Banke outdoor history museum ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Strawbery Banke features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Fede... More
Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jeffers...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Mural depicting baseball by Frederic C. Martin. Library of Congress T...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oil painting "Magna Charta" located in stairway of Great Hall, Departm...
Public domain reproduction of artwork, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chi...
William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph related to middle ages, medieval art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...
According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More
[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
Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...
Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More
Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia
Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 36". 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
One of 16 tempura-on canvas murals from Thomas Hart Benton's mural "A ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This piece of the Benton work is one of four Great Depression-era murals mounted in the historic Indiana University Auditorium, built ... More
Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Miss...
Artist: John Steuart Curry. 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 the... More