Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
A tourist horse and buggy pause before the historic Liberty Theatre in...
In 1990, the (then) Bon-Macy department store, now (in 2018) Macy's, incorporated the theater space into its expanded location. The theater seats are said to still be in place beneath a false floor. Title, date... More
Rear entrance to the Paramount Theatre, opened in 1918 as the Marion T...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. These were the days when "colored" people were denied entrance to the main floor of many theaters throughout the American South. They ... More
Largest "I Love Lucy" mural "California Here We Come" in Jamestown, Ne...
Mural artists: Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr. (Source: jamestownny.squarespace.com, 2018). Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photograp... More
It's unclear who erected the "Haunted Hotel" sign outside this long-sh...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is more properly known as the Levy Building, named for its original owner. Until the 1950s, the ground floor was home to... More
The old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station in Grafton, West Virginia, b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the 1960s, passenger traffic had dwindled to a trickle, and the station (and the big Willard Hotel that once accommodated travelers... More
The old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station in Grafton, West Virginia, b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the 1960s, passenger traffic had dwindled to a trickle, and the station (and the big Willard Hotel that once accommodated travelers... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Bronze sculpture "Thermopylae" at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Artist: Dimitri Hadzi, 1966. Dimensions: 16 ' x 7' x 5'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
"Flying Monkey" sculptures atop a building on the Burlington, Vermont,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The steel sculptures were created in the 1970s by artist Steve Larrabee to expand upon the Wizard of Oz theme of a now-defunct local w... More
The Kanawha Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia, was open until the m...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Old truck and automobile outside the "Vehicles You Deserve" used-car d...
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
Remains of burned-out City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, one of A...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By 1975, when the Methodists left the building, its congregation had declined to 300 members. A second congregation occupied the build... More
Exterior. Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1933 by Architect Moise Goldstein in Neoclassicism... More
The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broad... More
View of LaVeque Tower in Columbus, Ohio
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 47-story Art Deco-style skyscraper was the tallest building in Columbus from 1927 until 1974. At 555 feet 6 inches tall, it was d... More
Conservatory of the Pabst Mansion, one of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's most ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once the home to Captain Frederick Pabst, founder of the Pabst Brewing Company, who commissioned Milwaukee architect George Bowman Fer... More
The late-1875 Becker Hotel, and a neighboring building featuring a fad...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Becker was built tocompete with even older Inter Ocean Hotel. Its LeBarronÆsRestaurant served fine foods imported by rail from bot... More
The inaptly named Palace Theater, long abandoned in Gary, Indiana, one...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The theater, opened in 1925, was designed by the prominent movie palace architect John Eberson. Founded in 1906 by the United States ... More
Downtown buildings in Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wisconsin's third oldest city, Mineral Point was settled in 1827, becoming a lead and zinc mining center during the 19th and early 20t... More
In 1906 Jefferson Security Bank removed an older brick building from a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. When the bank moved in 1975, new owners converted the old bank into a restaurant. Though the building's bricks don't look all that yel... More
One of four architectural remnants of the War Memorial Bridge in Dayto...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. These saved elements that saluted those who served in World War I were moved to Friendship Park, near an approach of the new Edwin C. ... More
Exterior, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas
Neoclassical/Art Deco design completed in 1936 by architect Charles H. Page. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by ... More
An abandoned furniture store in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most e...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Front exterior, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More
West High School in Denver, Colorado, whose orgins trace to 1883. In 1...
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. J. Marvin Jones Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Amarillo...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1937-1939 by Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick. Neoclass... More
Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More
The Terminal Annex building, Dallas, Texas
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Architecturally, the Terminal Annex building is typical of ... More
Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
Aerial view of Cincinnati, Ohio trainyards along the 1933 Cincinnati M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. During its heyday as a passenger rail facility in the 1930s and '40s, Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and ... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
A cellblock at the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More
Exterior architectural details on the 1915 Home Building Association B...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed with liberal use of terra cotta tile and mosaics, rather than his usual red brick, by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan,... More
A building in Newark, Ohio, that was saved from demolition and, in 201...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was originally built in 1902 and served as the Crystal Ballroom and a meeting space for Oddfellows frateral organization.... More
Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More
Remnants of the long-abandoned Parry-Shaw Building, once a large apart...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Architectural detail of the Capitol Theatre building, also known as th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broad... More
Aerial view of Geist Reservoir and surrounding housing developments in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The reservoir was constructed in 1943 by damming Fall Creek to provide water for Indianapolis. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M... More
The tower of City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was completed in 1895, at which time it was the tallest habitable building in the United States. The city hall's bell tow... More
Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More
Sidney Yates Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Date built: 1880; architect: James G. Hill. Credit line: Ph... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, New York, New York
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M.... More
Oblique view, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More
Front entrance, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Albany...
Built in 1931-1932. Art Deco style. Five-story building with 8' high sculptured marble frieze continuously wraps around the primary elevations. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Adm... More
The abandoned Rose Garden (once Robinson Grand) Theater in Clarksburg,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 2014, the City of Clarksburg purchased the old movie theater and began searching for funding to restore it as a performing-arts ven... More
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Beaux Arts and Art Moderne design. Four buildings: Library... More
A pawnbroker and payday loan office, one of the few remaining viable b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
The old Licking County sheriff's residence and jail in Newark, Ohio
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Ohio architect J.W. Yost, the Richardsonian Romanesque-style pink sandstone building opened in 1889. The building last hel... More
Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More
Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana Stat...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The structure of Indiana's fourth capitol, designed by Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, was completed in 1888. It is construted i... More
Remnants of a crude wooden mural beneath a train overpass in Gary, Ind...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
The George M. Jacobs Building, erected c. 1903, was long one of Fairmo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
The American Furniture Company Building, constructed in Late Victorian...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Also known as the Masonic Building, it began as a commercial office building, with the Mechanics Savings Bank as its main tenant. It w... More
Roof, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More
Exterior details. The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Court ...
Designed in the art deco style by architects Murphy & Olmstead and built in 1933. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provide... More
Exterior. Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939 by architect/builder Louis A. Simon. Credit l... More
A block in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distresse...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More
The headquarters building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the rural Ohio... More
John W. McCormack U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachuset...
Built in 1931-1933. Architect: Cram & Ferguson. Building consists of three towers rising above a five story base. It is 16 stories tall. The exterior is an excellent example of Art Deco institutional design. Ph... More
Exterior view of the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, an 18-acre complex of ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Color... More
Exterior view of the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, an 18-acre complex of ...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Color... More
Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More
Aerial view of New York City, with a focus on the Twin Towers of the W...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken one month before the towers fell i... More
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
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 Ellis Island immigration station in New Jersey is i... More
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More
A pristine day looking toward lower Manhattan across the East River, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
Aerial view of the World Trade Center taken a month before September 1...
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
Aerial view of New York City, with the World Trade Center Twin Towers ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photograph was taken two months before the towers ... More
Aerial view of World Trade Center, New York, New York, taken a couple ...
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
Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...
Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More
Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More
Aerial view of Ellis Island with New York City World Trade Center in t...
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
Aerial view of the World Trade Center, New York, New York
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Photograph taken about two months before the 9/11/2001 tragedy. Title, date, subject note, and k... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
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 artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Ground Zero under construction, New York, New York
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
Only steps left after 2005 Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi coast, Missi...
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 "Flamingo" at Federal Center Plaza, John C. Kluczynski Feder...
Artist: Alexander Calder, 1974. Painted steel; dimensions: 53 x 24 x 60 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by... More
Fire escapes on brownstone, New York, New York
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
Skyline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Skyline, including PPG Place with the spiked roofline to the far left designed by famous architect Philip Johnson Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's Americ... More
Sculpture "Voyage of Ulysses" located at front plaza exterior, James A...
Artist: David Von Schlegell, 1977. Stainless steel and water. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York
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
Set-up for press and convention parties at the Republican National Con...
Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More
Mural in Baltimore, Maryland - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Aerial, Camden Yards Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is a ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland, which was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium. It is the home field of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. Title, ... More
Mural, Baltimore, Maryland - Drawing. Public domain image.
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
Row houses, Baltimore, Maryland
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
Eola view, U.S. Courthouse, Natchez, Mississippi
Built in 1853 as Memorial Hall, a Greek Revival structure, later turned into a U.S. Courthouse. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provi... More
Nationals Park, baseball stadium, Washington, D.C.
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Row houses, Baltimore, Maryland
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
Historic Fifth Third Bank Building, Main Street, Poseyville, Indiana
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