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 ...
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 B...
Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
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
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Outside wall displaying archaeological artifacts retrieved from digs o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1,200-acre development is comprised of 32 parcels atop more than 210 archaeological sites from the Anasazi period more than 2,000 ... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's 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
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
[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_111_2.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Replacing ineffecient light bulb. Date Picture Taken: 2007-03-29T20:15:11.073-04:00 Byline: Vance, Eric,... More
Free images of scientific ship 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_130
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Name: 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_130.jpg Date Picture Taken: 8/17/2010 10:18:45 AM [Original] Caption: Top two centimeter... 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
Cherokee Hills Byway - Traditional Cherokee Artist
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Jane Osti is one of the Native American artists in the Tahlequah, Oklahoma area. She is surrounded by several of her large pottery piece... More
Environmental Images: 2004 - Children [412-EPD-Drinkingwater.fountain1...
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain photograph of a environmental protection, work of US government, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain photograph of people having fun at picnic in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
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 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...
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"...
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...
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 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
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 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
[Sustainability 2] 412-DSP-2-Sustainability_011.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Replacing ineffecient light bulb. Date Picture Taken: 2007-03-29T20:13:58.082-04:00 Byline: Vance, Eric,... More
Environmental Images (Farmland, People, Trash, Pollution, Waste, Deer)...
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain photograph related to environment protection in the United States, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Depart...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
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...
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, Departmen...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
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
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
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...
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 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
Free images of scientific ship 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_057
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Name: 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_057.jpg Date Picture Taken: 8/16/2010 12:46:15 AM [Original] Caption: Near surface water... More
Free images of scientific ship 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_128
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Name: 412_DSP_BoldVACoastSurvey_128.jpg Date Picture Taken: 8/15/2010 11:23:54 AM [Original] Caption: Top two centimeter... 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
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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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
[Water Runoff 2] 412-DSP-2-Runoff_216.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Combined sewer pipes, Rock Creek, Washington, DC. USEPA photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2014-09-1... 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 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 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 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
412_DSP_Hazard-Regulated_056 - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ph...
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Name: 412_DSP_Hazard-Regulated_056.jpg Date Picture Taken: 5/4/2007 11:33:13 AM [Folder Topic: Hazardous] 412_DSP_Hazard... More
Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
EPA Set 1 - 2003 - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph
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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
Environmental Images (Wetlands, Waterways, Drainage)
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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...
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 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
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 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
Web Environmental Photos: 2/7/2001 - 9/2/2004 - Mount St. Helens
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Assorted Web Environmental Photos: 1/6/2001, 1/13/2001, and 1/31/2001
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain photograph related to environment protection in the United States, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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, 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Garde...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More
EPA Set 5 - 2003 - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Outer Banks Scenic Byway - Decoy Carving Demonstration
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Renowned decoy carver Roy Willis demonstrates his skill for elementary school students visiting the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heri... More
Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More
WEB Environmental Photos, June 11, 1998
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment
Environmental Images: 2002 - 2003 - Anacostia Cleanup [412-EPD-Anacost...
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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 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, 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
[Water Runoff 2] 412-DSP-2-Runoff_180_1.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Combined sewer pipes, Rock Creek, Washington, DC. USEPA photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2014-09-1... More
Environmental Images ( Water Treatment Plant, Vegetables, Sculptures, ...
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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