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The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skyscraper

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

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man in the moon at large, British Cartoon Print

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building, New York, New York

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

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 Francisco, California

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

Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California

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

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

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

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 outside the home of Archie and Mary Hanson, founders of Indian Camp Ranch, a highly unusual development of residential estates atop a plateau in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County, near Cortez

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 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

The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Hermanville, Mississippi was discovered by the land's owner Spurgeon C. Mangum in 1936 where he discovered human remains and pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture prevalent during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries

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 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

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

This snowman figure, which some might say bears more resemblance to a frog, stands outside the Mount Washington Valley Children's Museum in North Conway, New Hampshire

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 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

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several rustic, one-room cabins at the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in Boone, North Carolina. The backwoods village was assembled by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association with support from the Town of Boone and more than 1,000 local businesses. The museum's re-enactments and craft demonstrations focus on Western North Carolina's settlement period 200 years ago, "when folks who settled into this region had to grow, create, and trade for the necessities of life."

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, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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

Nook inside the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

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

Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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

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

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

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

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that were used in batteries, phonograph records and other inventions, at The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey

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

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

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 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

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

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

One section of the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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

Blacksmith shop at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

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

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

Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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 touch of the city's German heritage

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 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

Courtroom, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska

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 students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

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

Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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 Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

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, Wisconsin, a town largely settled by Swiss settlers that now (2016) calls itself "America's Little Switzerland"

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

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Holly Springs, Mississippi

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 in the tiny Uinta County town of the same name in the southwestern corner of that state. Established by "mountain man" Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez in 1843 as an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail, the fort was obtained by the Mormons in the early 1850s, and then became a military outpost in 1858

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 Simi Valley, California

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 Oxford and Batesville in Lee County, Mississippi

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 in this "curation room" at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado. These objects eventually are given to the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado, which displays the culture and history of the Ancestral Pueblo people

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 Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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

Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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 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

Miscellaneous pots and pans at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

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

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

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

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

Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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

Design drawing for stained glass window with Christ before Pilate and text "My Kingdom Is Not of This World"

Design drawing for stained glass window with Christ before Pilate and ...

Annotations on drawing: P, G 5244, [crossed out: G 5152], MHT 46. DGS Slide no. 1475. Sticker: Gothic. Assemblage. Labeled "(Transfiguration);" perhaps prior to recovering with new image? Purchase, Donald Sami... More

Design drawing for stained glass window with text "And I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth"

Design drawing for stained glass window with text "And I Saw a New Hea...

Annotations on drawing: M 74, G 6196. DGS Slide no. 262. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Design drawing for three stained glass windows showing AcolytesUshersParishioners at Prayer

Design drawing for three stained glass windows showing AcolytesUshersP...

Annotations on drawing: KLT '70s, C6-4. DGS Slide no. 797. Sticker: Stained Glass Association of America, Gothic Northvale. Yellow note paper attached with metal paperclip. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/P... More

Design drawing for stained glass memorial window with The Resurrection for St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Louisa, Virginia

Design drawing for stained glass memorial window with The Resurrection...

Annotations on drawing: SM #48. DGS Slide no. 1678. Sticker: 2 Gothic Stamps, CL. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Design drawing for stained glass window with pastel Nativity

Design drawing for stained glass window with pastel Nativity

Annotations on drawing: NA 100, D, G 5491, G 5319. DGS Slide no. 1088. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Abraham, Father of Believers; and David, Poet and King

Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Abraham, Fath...

Annotations on drawing: 8. See Lamb #788-90. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

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

Design drawing for stained glass window with Samuel

Design drawing for stained glass window with Samuel

Annotations on drawing: T 28, F. DGS Slide no. 299. Sticker: 20thP. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Design drawing showing St. John the Evangelist in simplified, abstracted Medieval illumination-style framing panels with text "Holy Holy Holy"

Design drawing showing St. John the Evangelist in simplified, abstract...

DGS Slide no. 783. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

Design drawing for stained glass window with Christ and woman

Design drawing for stained glass window with Christ and woman

Annotations on drawing: MHT 100. DGS Slide no. 1374. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

An illuminated page of the...Gutenberg Bible...

An illuminated page of the...Gutenberg Bible...

Color reproduction. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Printing...; Illuminations; Shelf.

[North Reading Room, west wall. 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, 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

Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

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 Social History of the State of Indiana" that Benton painted for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

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, Missouri

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

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

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Washington, D.C. Side elevation, German Renaissance]

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room French Renaissance chateau, Asheville, North Carolina

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...

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

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modified Renaissance)]

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modifie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

[Rathaus, Cologne, Germany, its handsome Renaissance portico of 1569-1571 designed by Wilhelm Vernickel, not long after the 1881 restoration]

[Rathaus, Cologne, Germany, its handsome Renaissance portico of 1569-1...

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Forms part of the Königliche Preussische Messbildanstalt collection. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Arch.; BI.

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Washington, D.C. Side elevation, German Renaissance]

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

Public domain image of palace, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Washington, D.C. Front elevation, German Renaissance]

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, bust portrait, facing right]

[Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, bust portrait, facing right]

Sculptor & painter. K32153 U.S. Copyright Office. Halftone reproduction of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Cross-section of Ohio and Erie Canal

Cross-section of Ohio and Erie Canal

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Amerigo Vespucci, 1451-1512, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Amerigo Vespucci, 1451-1512, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Reproduction of anonymous painting. "Ed. Alinari. Firenze - R. Galleria Uffizi. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustrade. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustra...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Coat of arms of Hernando Cortes, granted him by Emperor Charles V - Drawing from 5th sheet of grant

Coat of arms of Hernando Cortes, granted him by Emperor Charles V - Dr...

Original is in the Edward S. Harkness Collection, Manuscript Division. Black-and-white reference print in Prints & Photographs Division Biographical File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Page with mathematical essay in Greek, decorated initial, and mathematical drawing]

[Page with mathematical essay in Greek, decorated initial, and mathema...

Public domain scan of a decorated illuminated manuscript page, medieval, 13th-14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congr...

Title from shelflist card. Numerous pencil notes on verso. Ex. coll.: Enzenbert (Lugt, 845).

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

Plate 8 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 7]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 7]

Plate 7 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 3]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 3]

Plate 3 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Les Danseurs à la flûte et au tambourin (Dancers with flute and tambourine)

Les Danseurs à la flûte et au tambourin (Dancers with flute and tambou...

after an etching by Jacques Callot, painter, draughtsman, etcher and engraver, 1592-1635 (artist notes) Unknown (artist nationality) Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635 (original artist) Recto: l. l.: (within image) 7 ;... More

Recorder Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

Recorder Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Dirck van Baburen, painter, ca. 1595-1624 (artist notes) Dutch (artist nationality) painter, draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Baburen, Dirck van, ca. 1595-1624 (original artist) Recto:... More

Experience de la machine areostatique

Experience de la machine areostatique

Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Caption (French): Experience de la machine aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier d... More

[Design for a memorial with tempietto. Elevation]

[Design for a memorial with tempietto. Elevation]

Stamp on verso: EGC. No. 11. Title from inventory: Tempieta. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Gift; Kenneth H. Walker; 1999; (DLC/PP-2000:029). Conserved and rehoused May 2008. No conservation number on item. Un... More

Adoration of the Shepherds - Public domain scan / engraving

Adoration of the Shepherds - Public domain scan / engraving

after a painting by Jacob Jordaens, history and portrait painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver, 1593-1678 (artist notes) Dutch (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678 ... More

Painting "Pocahontas Saving the Life of Capitain John Smith" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

Painting "Pocahontas Saving the Life of Capitain John Smith" at Court ...

Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 13' 11 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Adriaen van Ostade - Le  Trio Flamand (The Flemish Trio)

Adriaen van Ostade - Le Trio Flamand (The Flemish Trio)

Photograph of a painting by Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-1685 (artist notes) Dutch (artist nationality) Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685 (original artist) Verso: bottom center: (in pencil) Adriaen van Ostade / 208 A.... More

Charles-Émile Jacque - Adriaen van Ostade - Le  Trio Flamand (The Flemish Trio)

Charles-Émile Jacque - Adriaen van Ostade - Le Trio Flamand (The Flem...

after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade, painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, etcher, 1610-1685 (artist notes) French (artist nationality) painter, etcher, illustrator (artist role) Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-168... More

[Christ raising the daughter of Jarius?] / A. I. Jordaens.

[Christ raising the daughter of Jarius?] / A. I. Jordaens.

The subject appears to be Christ healing a woman, or possibly Christ raising the daughter of Jarius from the dead, which is mentioned in Mark 5:21-43, Matthew 9:18-26, and Luke 8:40-56. Inscriptions: Recto low... More

[Composite figures in cubist and surrealistic style composed of materials such as chain links, tubes, sieves and tennis racquets]

[Composite figures in cubist and surrealistic style composed of materi...

50 plates (t.p., frontis., Medici coat of arms to whom the work is dedicated, and 47 etchings). Illus. in: only known complete copy of Bizzarie di varie figure of Giovanni Battista Braccelli, publ. in Livorno, ... More

Alcázar of Madrid. Ground floor plan

Alcázar of Madrid. Ground floor plan

Architectural drawing shows ground floor with rooms, courtyards, and garden. Caption on verso: "No. 2. Planta baja al andar de los patios del Alcazar de Madrid; have de ver con la relacion en 15 de Julio de 16... More

Alcázar of Toledo. Main floor plan

Alcázar of Toledo. Main floor plan

Architectural drawing shows main floor with rooms and staircase. Caption on verso: "No. 4. Planta al andar del suelo principal del Alcazar de Tholedo. Juan Thomas de Mora." Although the name on the drawings is... More

Baldassare Franceschini - [Studies for a church]

Baldassare Franceschini - [Studies for a church]

Inscribed in pencil: Lot no. 8, srB. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Item conserved and/or rehoused. See Supplementary Material for prior mats and mounts. Gift; Kenneth H. Walker; 1999; (DLC/PP-2000:029). Exhibi... More

The sots coat of arms, British Cartoon Print

The sots coat of arms, British Cartoon Print

Drunkards drinking, playing cards, fighting, vomiting, being taken from home and put in stocks. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data fro... More

[First sketch for the chapel of Bonaventura at Potenza (Italy), in (church) San Francesco]

[First sketch for the chapel of Bonaventura at Potenza (Italy), in (ch...

Inscribed: Primo schizzo p[er] la capella dal Bonaventura a Potenza in S. Francesco. Drawing not signed; attribution to Franceschini (known as "Il Volterrano") based on Walker Collection files. Item conserved ... More

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