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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

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

Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona

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

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

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

Woman posed as sphinx - Egypt, autochrome process

Woman posed as sphinx - Egypt, autochrome process

Accession Number: 1983:0063:0002..Maker: Dr. W. Simon..Title: Woman posed as sphinx..Date: ca. 1910..Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process..Dimensions: Image: 8 x 8 cm Overall: 10 x 12.6 cm..George... More

Couple, Autochrome Color Photograph

Couple, Autochrome Color Photograph

Accession Number: 1977:0083:0080..Maker: Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell..Title: Couple..Date: ca. 1910..Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process..Dimensions: Image: 15.8 x 12.6 cm Overall: 17.9 x 12.6 cm..Ge... More

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night II

World's Fair. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Building at night II

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Photograph shows Sign on building: Wolfe County Office WPA Project Superintendent; sign on car: Jesus saves.

World's Fair. Arctic Girl's tomb of ice II

World's Fair. Arctic Girl's tomb of ice II

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Mission Mfg. misc, ''Miss Mission'' series in color

Mission Mfg. misc, ''Miss Mission'' series in color

Title: Mission Mfg. misc, ''Miss Mission'' series in color ..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: August 1944..Place: Houston, Texas ..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection..Physical Desc... More

Mission Mfg. misc., ''Miss Mission'' series in color

Mission Mfg. misc., ''Miss Mission'' series in color

Title: Mission Mfg. misc., ''Miss Mission'' series in color ..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: August 1944..Place: Houston, Texas ..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection..Physical Descri... More

Mission Mfg. misc. field shots, World War II photo

Mission Mfg. misc. field shots, World War II photo

Title: Mission Mfg. misc. field shots ..Alternative Title: [Mission Manufacturing Co. miscellaneous shots]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: August 1944..Place: Houston, Texas ..Part Of: Robert Yar... 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

Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton, Pennsylvania

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, 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

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

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 wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwegian influence

A wall in downtown Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin that embodies the town's Norwe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was largely settled by Norwegian immigrants, but an arrival from England, George Wright, gave it its name Credit line: Photographs ... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's 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

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

Participants meet inside the Mustang Pavilion during a 4-H Club "tour"...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the early 2000s, Kim was, in the words of one resident, "about dried up and blowed away." But then a group of residents and area ra... More

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store 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

Exterior, Border Patrol Station, Naco, Arizona

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."

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

Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

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

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

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

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

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

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra 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

A HopiTewa Indian ceramic jar, created between 1985 and 1992 by Dextra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

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

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...

Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More

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

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

Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona

A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Carefully reconstructed and reimagined interior of one of several 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

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

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many parts of West Texas. This one stands in little Fabens, near El Paso, Texas

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many p...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at t...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Large metal chickens for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in 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

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Inside the kitchen building at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Histori...

Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from ... More

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

Roadside stalls selling Indian jewelry and pottery near Tuba City, Ari...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in 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

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

Designer Tina Westercamp's combination muraltilework, "The Migration o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast of California

Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast o...

The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More

Cabin interior at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site in the 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

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

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

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil painting "Magna Charta" located in stairway of Great Hall, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "Magna Charta" located in stairway of Great Hall, Departm...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chicago, Illinois; and Andi Dema of Bloomington, Indiana, are three members of the company of the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Michael Thatcher of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chi...

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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

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

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

Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Mural, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Binghamton, New York

Artist: Kenneth Washburn. An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title infor... 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

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church at Five Points, Birmingham, Alabama

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14ht-15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Sculpture "The Resources of Nature" at U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, Tennessee

Sculpture "The Resources of Nature" at U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, T...

Artist: William Zorach, 1939. Wood, dimensions: 37 1/2" x 8" 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photogra... More

Sonoma Mission, Sonoma, California

Sonoma Mission, Sonoma, California

Public domain image of a medieval or Renaissance sculpture, statue, artwork, painting, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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

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

Religious illustration above the doorway to Santa Teresa de Jesus Catholic Church in Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Texas

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

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

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

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

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

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