One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
Detail of Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, New York
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Exhibit that tells the story of the Spindletop gusher at the Gladys Ci...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum, McLean, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arling...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Archaeologist Henry Chapman Mercer collected more then 50,000 antebell...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
National Building Museum Atrium, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Elvis Museum. Exhibit with Elvis Presley's personal belongings in Las ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum located on the Upper East Side of Man...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Guggenheim is a well-known museum located on the Up... More
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Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Date provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff with information from nysci.org website, 2015. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith... More
Hirshhorn façade, Washington National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Tenement Museum, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 97 Orc...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tene... More
Train locomotive, Mid-Continent Museum, Wisconsin
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Interior view of the Tenement Museum, located on the Lower East Side o...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Tenement Museum is a five-story brick tenement buil... More
Entrance to the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetar...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Dell's Mill, built in 1864, operated as a flour and feed mill for more...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Techniques of sausage-making are expained at the "Streets of Old Milwa...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Looking east from the Washington Monument, down the National Mall towa...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Note the burned out grass caused by no irrigation and h... More
Exhibit hallway at the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D....
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Juke Box museum in Texas - Drawing. Public domain image.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Lobby mural "Contemporary Youth" at the East Texas Oil Museum on the c...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
The Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata Cou...
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
One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ho...
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
One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
One of many displays tracing the history of refrigeration at the Cedar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, constructed in 1921, currently (2016) serves as the Ice House Museum. The first ice harvest on the adjacent Cedar River ... More
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Internationally acclaimed architect Frank O. Gehry designed the museum's glimmering residence along the Mississippi River. Home to the museum since 1993, this important architectural achievement has become a la... More
Aerial view of Newseum, Washington, D.C.
The Newseum is an interactive museum of news and journalism located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. The seven-level, 250,000 square foot museum features 15 theaters and 14 galleries. Title, date, a... More
Detail of the Bloch Building, Nelson Atkins Museum Bloch, Kansas City,...
Completed in 2007, "The Bloch Building is a significant work of contemporary architecture by Steven Holl Architects that is woven harmoniously into the surrounding landscape of the Kansas City Sculpture Park." ... More
A wall of the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally housed in three buildings at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial commemoration, the museum's principal location w... More
An 1859 larger-than-life anatomical model located in the Mobile Medica...
The museum is housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 and is one of the oldest structures in Mobile. This model was acquired in Paris by Josiah C. Nott for the Medical College of Alabama. Title, date, su... More
One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The second floor serves as a small museum; the furnished room depicts a typical Mobley Hotel bathroom from the hotel's heyday. Built i... More
"Grape Jelly," the whimsical name of a featured exhibit in the Lyda Hi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit displays split views of an unusual, grape-colored geode, a hollow, loosely formed masses of mineral matter. Originally ho... More
Teepees at the National Museum of the American Indian, SW, Washington,...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
The Robert Frost Stone House, which became a museum in 2002, in Shafts...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Robert Frost came to Shaftsbury in 1920 at the height of his career as a poet. He owned two farms during the twenty-year period he liv... More
William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama
Sci-Quest is a hands-on science center with more than 100 permanent, interactive exhibits in seven different subject areas. Unlike a typical "museum," Sci- Quest's exhibits are designed to engage, educate and e... More
The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborho...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1893, for German-born sculptor Elisabet Ney, the limestone building is singular piece of vernacular architecture. After ... More
View of Washington, D.C., taken from the Washington Monument
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Zack Masaitis poses with a mask in the ArtWorks exhibit at the Montgom...
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
Mobile Medical Museum housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 a...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More
William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama
Sci-Quest is a hands-on science center with more than 100 permanent, interactive exhibits in seven different subject areas. Unlike a typical "museum," Sci- Quest's exhibits are designed to engage, educate and e... More
1930s exhibit view of a typical doctor's office located in the Mobile ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More
One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The second floor serves as a small museum; the furnished room depicts a typical Mobley Hotel bathroom from the hotel's heyday. Built i... More
The Dutch Windmill Museum, a tribute to the heritage of Nederland, Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Citizens of the city erected an exact replica of a 40-foot-tall Dutch windmill. The windmill is located within Tex Ritter Park. The f... More
Teepees at the National Museum of the American Indian, SW, Washington,...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
The one and only exhibit at the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, T...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This is a giant storage tank. Constructed for the Shell Oil Company in 1928, using mules and hand equipment, when the area was experi... More
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally housed in three buildings at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial commemoration, the museum's principal location w... More
The Old Depot Museum, Selma, Alabama
The Old Depot Museum is the original train depot in Selma, Alabama, which is the second oldest city in the State of Alabama. This interpretive museum, built inside an original railway depot that was constructed... More
William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama
Sci-Quest is a hands-on science center with more than 100 permanent, interactive exhibits in seven different subject areas. Unlike a typical "museum," Sci- Quest's exhibits are designed to engage, educate and e... More
William and Drew Clark blow bubbles at Sci-Quest, Huntsville, Alabama
Sci-Quest is a hands-on science center with more than 100 permanent, interactive exhibits in seven different subject areas. Unlike a typical "museum," Sci- Quest's exhibits are designed to engage, educate and e... More
One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The second floor serves as a small museum; the furnished room depicts a typical Mobley Hotel bathroom from the hotel's heyday. Built i... More
One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The second floor serves as a small museum; the furnished room depicts a typical Mobley Hotel bathroom from the hotel's heyday. Built i... More
The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...
The main focus of the museum is the history of Kern County, including Bakersfield. One prominent features is its Pioneer Village with over 50 original buildings from around the county. Title, date, and keywords... More
Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...
The main focus of the museum is the history of Kern County, including Bakersfield. One prominent features is its Pioneer Village with over 50 original buildings from around the county. Title, date, and keywords... More
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, in Fort Worth, Texas
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum opened in 1945 as the Fort Worth Children's Museum and moved to its current location in 1954. In 1968, the m... More
Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
A hedge maze at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of tw...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelac... More
Art "Horse" by Elizabeth Frink at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Cal...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit lin... More
A portion of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two a...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelac... More
A portion of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two a...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelac... More
Art "Running Man" by Elizabeth Frink at the Getty Center in Los Angele...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit lin... More
A hedge maze at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of tw...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelac... More
Art at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two art mus...
Photo shows sculpture "Bronze Form" by Henry Moore. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle ... More
A portion of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two a...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Getty Center, in the Brentwood neighborhood, features a collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelac... More
Store window inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
"From the Outside In," a display of photographs on the atria windows o...
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 jukebox inside the period soda fountain at the East Texas Oil Museum...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit, just off the depiction of a crowded and muddy Main Street, describes "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during ... More
Image of a local boy made good: rock-'n'-roll superstar singer and son...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: T.A.R. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of C... More
At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Small-town home scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Ki...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, the 14-story building, which open... More
A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City...
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 cluttered alley off Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kil...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The street depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. h... More
"From the Outside In," a display of photographs on the atria windows o...
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
Street corner recreated inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Alley scene along the recreated "Boomtown USA" at the East Texas Oil M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in d... More
Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Coll...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
An talking banker figure inside a period bank office at the East Texas...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit, just off the depiction of a crowded and muddy Main Street, describes "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during ... More
One of seven castings of sculptor Buck McCain's bronze "Invocation" sc...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. According to the McCain's website, the idea for the monument of a mounted Plains Indian holding high a buffalo skull came to him in a... More
Oil-drilling diorama at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kil...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Animatronic lineman above the recreated street at the East Texas Oil M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Coll...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil fie... More
Old gasoline pumps outside a car museum in Pecos, the seat of Reeves C...
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 an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Mu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Small-town home scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Ki...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Ki...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The scene depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. hi... More
Soda shop at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Colleg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
A peek through the window of the recreated barber shop at the East Tex...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Stained-glass tribute to Texas oil pioneers H.L. Hunt, "Dad" Joiner, a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Ki...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The scene depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. hi... More
A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City...
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