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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Religious illustration above the doorway to Santa Teresa de Jesus Cath...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna (also Missio...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Franciscan friars, the mission was originally meant to be a base for converting the Hasinai Indians. In 1731 it relocated ... More
Interior view of 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
Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... More
La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California
Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More
Grounds at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More
Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... 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
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
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
Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...
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
Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and...
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
Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Moses Austin(1761-1821) was a pioneer settler of Texas who, in 1808, founded the town of Herculaneum, MO, the first Anglo American to... More
A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier V...
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
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of Fran...
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
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama
Located 23 miles from Mobile and surrounded by 300-year-old oak trees, the Grand Hotel was originally built in 1847 as a two-story building with 40 rooms. The Grand has since expanded to include more than 400 g... More
A view of the south fork of the American River at Coloma in El Dorado ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Approximately 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in California, at Su... More
Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More
Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Gra...
Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A.A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "O... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail, interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception...
When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the architectural skills of Claude Beroujon, the cornerstone for the new Cathedra... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today the market is a small, crowded park surrounded by municipal buildings and the cityÆs local bus terminal. Credit line: The Lyda ... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, A...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Detail of mosaic, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alab...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More
View of the Rotunda looking straight up. State Capitol, Montgomery, Al...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and wascompleted in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama
Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More
Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama
Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More
A plaque on what is now the Community Supervision Corrections Building...
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
Historic Blakeley State Park, scene of the last major battle of the Ci...
The Battle of Blakeley was fought at Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865 at 5:30 p.m. Historic Blakeley State Park was created in 1981 to preserve the National Register Site and its 5 1/2 miles of pristine breastwor... More
John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...
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
John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...
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