[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustra...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+columns. View of mural between...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Painting "Pocahontas Saving the Life of Capitain John Smith" at Court ...
Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 13' 11 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More
Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...
The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Religious illustration above the doorway to Santa Teresa de Jesus Cath...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The church, built in 1912, is home to a parish that is notable as the home of the first Christmas celebration in Texas, in 1683. Cred... More
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 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 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 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 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 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
Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
Time and the elements have taken their toll on this ancient Sheffield,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC... More
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna (also Missio...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Franciscan friars, the mission was originally meant to be a base for converting the Hasinai Indians. In 1731 it relocated ... More
Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Room interior at Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury, New Hampshir...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The historic site and museum preserves a site that was one of a number of Shaker communities founded in the 19th century. The United S... More
[Great Hall. Bust of George Washington. Library of Congress Thomas Jef...
Exhibit caption: "The bronze bust of George Washington is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)." (Source: MyLOC.gov Great Hall exhibit, 2008) Forms part of the Library of Con... More
Interior view of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building is the last visible trace of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocrati... More
Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... More
The Havana Cathedral on the Plaza de la Catedral, in Havana, Cuba
The square took definitive shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Cathedrals construction was begun around 1748 as a temple to the Jesuit fathers. This order was expelled in 1767, the half-fin... More
La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California
Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California
Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More
Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More
Grounds at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More
Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...
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
Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, whi...
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
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More
"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural ...
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
"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photo... More
Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste De Fra...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFras...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More
The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More
The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More
The Telfair Academy Building in Savannah, Georgia, once photographed i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built... More
One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one depicts the moment in 1799 that is considered the founding of Vicksburg, when Rev. Newitt Vick, a Virginia-born preacher, and... More
Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Moses Austin(1761-1821) was a pioneer settler of Texas who, in 1808, founded the town of Herculaneum, MO, the first Anglo American to... More
"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier V...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Peter Vandenberge's wood and earthenware sculpture of William F. "Buff...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of Fran...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...
A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More
View from the Molas Pass Overlook, almost 11,000 feet high in the San ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Of this and nearby scenes, William Henry Holmes, a U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey explorer, wrote in 1876: "If you should, in... More
The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama
Located 23 miles from Mobile and surrounded by 300-year-old oak trees, the Grand Hotel was originally built in 1847 as a two-story building with 40 rooms. The Grand has since expanded to include more than 400 g... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
Stained glass window inside Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1848-54 and designed by Richard Upjohn, it became the church for a parish established in 1821. Starting in the 1870s minor ae... More
A view of the south fork of the American River at Coloma in El Dorado ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Approximately 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in California, at Su... More
Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More
Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Gra...
Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A.A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "O... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail, interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception...
When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the architectural skills of Claude Beroujon, the cornerstone for the new Cathedra... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today the market is a small, crowded park surrounded by municipal buildings and the cityÆs local bus terminal. Credit line: The Lyda ... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Stained glass doors, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, A...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Detail of mosaic, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alab...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Architectural detail of interior, Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepti...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
[North Corridor, Great Hall. Religion ural in lunette from the Family ...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More
View of the Rotunda looking straight up. State Capitol, Montgomery, Al...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and wascompleted in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. Thebuilding has grown over ... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol'sfoundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over ... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
[North Corridor, Great Hall. "Rest" mural in lunette from the Family a...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Mural depicting Alabama history by Roderick McKenzie. State Capitol, M...
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama
The first Capitol building was built in 1847, and was destroyed by fire in 1849. The current State Capitol was built on the previous Capitol's foundations, and was completed in 1851. The building has grown over... More
Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama
Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More
Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama
Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More
A plaque on what is now the Community Supervision Corrections Building...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Stained-glass window in Cowles Hall's Peterson Chapel on the campus of...
Like the chapel in the 1855 building, this and other beautiful windows are unusual for their secular subjects, including the history of the college. A variety of nonreligous activities are held in the chapel. T... More
Stained-glass window in Cowles Hall's Peterson Chapel on the campus of...
Like the chapel in the 1855 building, this and other beautiful windows are unusual for their secular subjects, including the history of the college. A variety of nonreligous activities are held in the chapel. T... More
Stained-glass window in Cowles Hall's Peterson Chapel on the campus of...
Like the chapel in the 1855 building, this and other beautiful windows are unusual for their secular subjects, including the history of the college. A variety of nonreligous activities are held in the chapel. T... More
Stained-glass window in Cowles Hall's Peterson Chapel on the campus of...
Like the chapel in the 1855 building, this and other beautiful windows are unusual for their secular subjects, including the history of the college. A variety of nonreligous activities are held in the chapel. T... More