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

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 Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

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 Building, New York, New York

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

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

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

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, Pennsylvania

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, California

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 Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

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

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

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 Norwegian influence

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 Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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" event in Kim, a ranching town with that is a notable success story in a lightly populated section of Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado homes

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 in Marble Falls, Texas

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

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

Designer Tina Westercamp's combination muraltilework, "The Migration of Tradition" on the Rockwood Pottery Building in Cincinnati, Ohio

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 of California

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 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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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"

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

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

Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Arizona

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 Holly Springs, Mississippi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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."

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.

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 on the outskirts of Durham

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, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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

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 in the historic Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama

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

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

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, learn 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

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 site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

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

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

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 unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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 City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

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 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

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 Quotskuwa Nampeyo, displayed at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona a private, not-for-profit museum to the advancement of American Indian art. The jar is 7.5 inches wide and 10 inches high

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

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 Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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

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

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

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 Falls, Texas

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

Dinsmore Shop Cooperage at the Strawbery Banke outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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 Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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 Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas

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

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

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

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 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

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 jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona

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 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."

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 Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

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

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

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

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas. Such chicken yard art is quite popular throughout Texas

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

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

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 Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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

[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.]

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 Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

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

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 characters in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]

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

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

Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri

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

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

[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interior hall and doorway at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Revival villa on the Kensington Plantation, Eastover, South Carolina

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The house had at one time fallen into such disrepair th More