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This road through Otero County, Colorado, follows the original Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail, all right, as attested to by the modern sign. But it's nothing like the rutted dirt road of the mid-1800s when travelers on that important trade route from Missouri to Mexican Territory in what is now New Mexico passed here

Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade route running between Missouri and what is now New Mexico in two branches. The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through this prairie, at a place called Iron Springs in what is now southeastern Colorado Iron Springs was an important watering hole on the often parched prairie

Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade route running between Missouri and what is now New Mexico in two branches. The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through this prairie, at a place called Iron Springs in what is now southeastern Colorado Iron Springs was an important watering hole on the often parched prairie

Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade route running between Missouri and what is now New Mexico in two branches. The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through this prairie, at a place called Iron Springs in what is now southeastern Colorado Iron Springs was an important watering hole on the often parched prairie

A black and white photo of a train in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Office of War Information Photograph

Albuquerque, New Mexico. An engine being carried to another part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops to be wheeled

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it. Office of War Information Photograph

Thoreau, New Mexico. A train stopping at a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico

Still-perceptible wagon ruts at a place called Iron Springs from the Santa Fe Trail period in the early and mid-1800s in Otero County, Colorado. The Santa Fe Trail was an important trade route running between Missouri and what is now New Mexico in two branches

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The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through what is now southeastern Colorado. Iron Springs was an important watering hole on the often parched prairie

Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).

Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)

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Aerial view of Franklin Square, Washington, D.C.

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Jackson Lake Dam, a concrete and earth-filled dam in Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming

Alpine lake above the Crystal River Valley town of Marble, Colorado

A beautiful valley along the dirt Alpine Loop, winding high into the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado

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