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Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet above sea level. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Mural across from the San Ysleta Mission in El Paso. The mission was built in 1682 by members of the Tigua Indian tribe who had been forced to flee their ancestral home near what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the oldest mission in Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair. The bar's owners, Diane and Carl Strode, who had lived in distant Miami, Florida, bought the closed establishment, bereft of fixtures, and gradually furnished it with colorful furnishings, Old West figures, and animal trophies and horns. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Saddle-bronc contest in Phoenix at the All-Indian Rodeo, a featured competition, open only to Native Americans with proof of tribal identification, at the annual Arizona State Fair, which has been held since 1884, eighteen years before statehood, when it was a territorial fair. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

This approximately four-fifths-scale replica of England's famous Stonehenge prehistoric monument stands in Odessa, Texas. It was built by students at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin out of 20 stone blocks in about six weeks. The original may have taken 2,000 years to complete! Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, one of the foremost university art museums in the country. Its permanent collection of more than 17,000 works is recognized for its European paintings, an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings, and modern and contemporary American and Latin American art. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Two "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Wes Hughes, left, and Thornton Young) fire away in a showdown on the street at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television-commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Dusk shot of barges traversing a short canal that connects the Sabine Pass waterway separating Texas from Louisians, and the Trinity River, south of Port Arthur, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Giraffe at the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened in 1962, it is the largest privately owned, nonprofit zoo in the United States. The zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the family that owned a famous appliance company. It displays more than 1,400 animals and contains 2.5 miles of walking trails through four main themed areas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Victor Gomez, whose heritage is Seneca, at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an official Native American Pow Wow this is part of the annual, month-long Fiesta San Antonio in Texas. The Pow Wow is sponsored by United San Antonio Pow Wow, Inc., a Texas nonprofit organization devoted to promoting the culture and traditions of the American Indian. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona, where one can indeed “spend the night in a wigwam.” The brainchild of Frank Redford, this is one of what wer originally seven Wigwam Motels nationwide. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

One of several four-legged residents of the Forever Home Donkey Rescue & Sanctuary, a private facility in the Cochise County desert, several miles north of Benson, Arizona. "Each animal has a different story" of abuse, neglect, or abandonment, the sanctuary's staff and volunteers tell visitors. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Sled dogs race through the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves fresh fish and game dishes such as caribou sausage in the alpine setting. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Brown bear, maybe smiling, at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre animal refuge housing more than 350 large animals near Keenesburg, Colorado. The sanctuary specializes in rescuing and caring for large predators that had being ill-treated. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Alamo mission in San Antonio. Here in 1836, following a 13-day siege during the Texas Revolution, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault that wiped out the Texian (yes, they called themselves Texians) garrison, including Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater consolidated the hotels into one that drips with Victorian flourishes. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Action scene featuring a fireball explosion at Old Tucson, a movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona. Built in 1939 for the movie "Arizona" in 1940, it has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns since. They include "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," "Rio Bravo," and the "Little House on the Prairie" TV series of the 1970s-1980s. The attraction was opened to the public in 1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

$Big Tex, 55-foot-tall statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The figure has become a cultural icon of Dallas and Texas. On October 19, 2012, THIS Big Tex was destroyed by an electrical fire that started in the in the right boot and worked its way up the structure. It was replaced a "new" Tex. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.$

Brennan Wells, on the black horse, Kayla McShane, on the paint; and Macy Milbert, on the Appaloosa, ride along Padre Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Wells owns the nearby, aptly named “Horses on the Beach” horseback-riding operation; the women are hands. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1879 by Horace Austin Warner Tabor, one of Colorado's legendary mining magnates, it was one of the most costly and most substantially-built structures in Colorado history, owing to the near inaccessibility of the mining town more than 10,000 feet high in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Neon sign outside a bar -- not Billy Bob's, which is a separate night club and dance hall nearby -- in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Today the Stockyards consist of mainly entertainment and shopping venues that capitalize on the "Cowtown" image of Fort Worth. They are the last standing stockyards in the United States. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Pete’s, a vintage gas station in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,000 or so residents but a well-known place among visitors from around the world. Known as “The Gateway to the Grand Canyon” 60 miles to the north, it is the southern terminus of the scenic railroad that takes tourists there and (in 1984) was also the last town on old Route 66 to be bypassed by Interstate 40 across five southwest states. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The "Texas Room" at Bayou Bend mansion, the former home of philanthropist and collector Ima Hogg in Houston, Texas. Whereas other rooms in the home feature elegant classical furnishings, this room is far more informal and (Texas) thematic. Of special note is the c. 1885–95 rocking chair in the left corner, made from Texas steer horns and jaguar hide, attributed to Wenzel Friedrich. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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An unusual double deer trophy hangs in the Round Room at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The Round Room is the focal point for socializing and cowboy-music singalongs at the ranch. The room is filled with creations by Thomas C. Molesworth, a noted American designer whose iconic “cowboy furniture” incorporates hides, horns, and natural wood. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Sanctuary of the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenberg in Fayette County, Texas. This is considered the "queen" of what Texans call their "painted churches." Its decorative paintings were executed by Ferdinand Stockert and Hermann Kern in 1912. They also painted the walls and ceiling of Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in San Antonio. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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America's first declared national monument (in 1906): Devils Tower in northeast Wyoming, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, by indigenous American Indians. The National Park Service, which manages the attraction, declares each June as a "climb-free" period (with mixed success), out of respect for nearby tribes, who consider the monument sacred and loathe the “Devils Tower” name. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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There was a time when the signs for every decent motel in Tucson shimmered in neon vibrance along the “Miracle Mile” entryway into town. Now all but a handful of them are dark or gone from those days when riding the “open road” was often a family adventure. The 1940s-vintage Tropicana “motor hotel” is long gone, but its sign and three more were rescued, rehabilitated, relocated, and put back on display in 2014 near the downtown campus of Pima Community College. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Coats and a cowboy hat at the "Hole-in-the-Wall" Cabin at Old Trail Town, a historic museum complex in Cody, Wyoming. Hole-in-the-Wall is a remote pass in the Big Horn Mountains of Johnson County, Wyoming. In the late 19th century the Hole in the Wall Gang, a group of cattle rustlers and other outlaws that included Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang met at this cabin, built in 1883 and now preserved at the Old Trail Town museum. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Part of the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home to quarter horses, American bison, abundant wildlife and the Texas longhorn herd. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Cowhand Lars Hollis atop his horse, Catote, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home to quarter horses, American bison, abundant wildlife and a large Texas longhorn herd. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed (by most) assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above Dealey Plaza, along which Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally, who was wounded, and their wives rode in an open touring car on Nov. 22, 1963. Now called the Sixth Floor Museum, the site is operated by the Dallas County Historical Foundation. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Contracts, Library of Congress Baseball Americana, April 2019

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A man and his son, at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Scene from authentic Native American dances at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds of the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city. The Western celebration that is viewed by an estimated 200,000 onlookers, including throngs of tourists, each year in a city of 62,000 people (as of 2015) includes one of the West's most celebrated rodeos, American Indian pageantry, free pancake breakfasts, several Old West-themed parades, and other events. Cheyenne Frontier Days have been a mountain-states tradition since 1897. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas. The more than 200 "mask drawings" in the park -- the most in North America -- are the artistic legacy of different prehistoric peoples who, over several millennia, found water, feed, and shelter at this stone oasis in the desert. The "tanks" are geological depressions that catch rainwater, attracting animals and human settlement in the otherwise-dry high-desert surroundings. The area shown here is restricted because vandals have desecrated other such drawings with graffiti. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder tends to his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin. The cove molding and mantels with mirrors date to the Joseph D. Sayers Administration, 1899-1903. Built in 1854, the building was designed by prominent architect Abner Cook and has been the home of every Texas governor since 1856. The building is the oldest continuously inhabited house in Texas and fourth-oldest governor's mansion in the United States that has been continuously occupied by a chief executive. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A young burrowing owl has found a haven — conviently provided in a piece of storm pipe at the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona. This species, which favors deserts and grasslands, is adept on the ground but does fly. It favors land operations in fall and winter, during breeding and chick-raising seasons. Opened in 1962, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately owned, nonprofit zoo in the United States. The zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the family that owned a famous appliance company. It displays more than 1,400 animals and contains 2.5 miles of walking trails through four main themed areas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Ethnolinguistic groups in Yunnan Province (1971)

Formations in the "Cave Without a Name," located near Boerne in Kendall County, Texas. It has been commercially operated as a show cave and open for public tours since 1939. The cave went largely unnoticed again until the 1920s during the era of Prohibition when a small moonshine distillery was installed in the uppermost cavern. It again fell into obscurity until three local farm children rediscovered the sinkhole in 1935. The show cave received its name after its official opening in 1939, when a young boy suggested that the cave "was too beautiful to have a name." Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Tower of the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, Arizona, a small city and popular tourist attraction thanks to its red sandstone formations, which glow brilliant orange or red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun. The Roman Catholic chapel, which rises among these formations, was commissioned by local rancher and sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude, who had been inspired in 1932 by the newly constructed Empire State Building to build such a church. After an attempt to do so in Budapest, Hungary, was aborted due to the outbreak of World War II, she decided to build the church in her native region. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Samantha and Scarlett Santana have some fun in the ride area of a carnival outside the event locations Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Mexican artillery goes into action at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of war. Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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John Montgomery Ward - How to Become a Player, Library of Congress Baseball Americana, April 2019

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A stylised illustration “THE BULL CHARGED FURIOUSLY” seemingly by HM Stoops. One of two illustrations for the story “THE SPORT OF ROPING GRIZZLES IN CALIFORNIA’S EARLY DAYS” on page 14 of the newspape

Kaylei Weed, her sons Earl Lebeau (left) and Baptiste Lebeau, and her mother, Elaine Ethel Weed, are members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin. The reservation was established for the Eastern Shoshone in 1863 following a unique treaty with Shoshone Chief Washakie, admired by Indians and whites alike, on 45 million acres in the land that their ancestors had occupied on a seasonal basis for thousands of years. The reservation is unique: It is also home to a second, unrelated tribe: the Northern Arapahoe, who were placed on the reservation in 1878 with a promise, never fulfilled, of their own reservation in the future. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Painting, Dawn at the Alamo, by Henry Arthur McArdle, hanging in the Senate Chamber of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas LCCN2014632109

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