339 Free Photos of Old Library Of Congress

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The “sheriff” of Old Tombstone, now an Old West tourist attraction in southeastern Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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"Texas" sign on an old building in Stanton, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Grain elevator, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.
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Old gas station along the road in rural upperstate Michigan (2008) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.
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Barn, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.
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An old turtle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress collection.
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Utah's Valley of the Gods. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Wagon wheel against a stone fence at Hueco Tanks State Park, northwest of El Paso, USA. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Lifeguard stand at the shore in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Black and white intrared view of an old train car found in a back lot of the warehouse district in Selma, Alabama. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Highway leading to the Mojave Desert in California. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Northern California. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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View of Monument Valley in Arizona, USA. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Old Gasoline Pump in rural Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Mural Bauzite Mining, by Julius Woeltz, in Saline County Courthouse in Benton, Arkansas (2011) photography by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.
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View of Pinnacles, Arches National Park, Utah. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Pipes and vats at the Old Country Cheese plant in Cashton, Wisconsin. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Garden, Old Salem, North Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Dunloup Falls near the largely abandoned old coal town of Thurmond in Fayette County, West Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Beautiful scenics along Route 46 in California. State Route 46. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Tip Top Drive In & Out, Lewiston, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.
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Natchez Trace parkway in Florence, Alabama. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Utah's Red Canyon. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Dutch-style windmill at the extreme western end of the Golden Gate Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Building exterior, St. Louis, Missouri. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Grand Canyon Panorama. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Mock shootout, strictly for visitors’ benefit, in Old Tombstone in southeast Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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New York City with World Trade Center. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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An old-style crank telepone inside a prairie "I house," part of the Ackley Heritage Center. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Shellfish traps in Wanchese, an old fishing port on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Sunset through the trees in Rougemont, near Durham, North Carolina. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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A representation of the sign for the Texas portion of the old U.S. Highway 66, posted during a short portion of that road still existing in Amarillo, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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North Window, Arches National Park, Utah. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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The State of Texas raises longhorn cattle at Abilene State Historical Park on the site of old Fort Griffin. 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.
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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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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.
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At the Trinidad Mining Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, old-timers Tom Hay, Alex Gerardo, Gerald Renner, and Bob Butero (left to right) relive some memories of their days in the nearby coal mines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.
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Some of the genuine Old West possessions displayed inside a bunkhouse — a small railroad office moved to the location and converted for ranch use — on a ranch owned by Annie Young Shelton and Ferol Shelton near Clarendon in the Texas Panhandle. 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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The Library of Congress in the U.S. Capitol Building LCCN2010649528
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Main Hall of the Library of Congress, U.S. Capitol. LCCN2017646705
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Library of Congress, showing three levels crowded with stacks of books and newspapers LCCN2017646700
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Old Capitol library LCCN2016819491
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Library of Congress. Charge desk (Librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford's table) LCCN2017646703
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On the old apple tree LCCN2005694552
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Library of Congress. Charge desk (Librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford's table) LCCN2017646704
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Old Philadelphia Inns LCCN2006682664
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Scene in the old Congressional Library, Washington, D.C., showing present congested condition LCCN99614270
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Old Chinese made by Makudsu LCCN94514903
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In the good old summer time LCCN2005692216
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The Old Year Out...The New Year In LCCN2005693319
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Robt. E. Olds LCCN2014718637
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Antarctica 1912
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Old Esquimau LCCN2015645600
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A rare old game of shuttlecock LCCN2007683046
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Beijing 1926 GBWO
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Lakeside and old tower LOC matpc.11374
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Old Bedouin woman LOC matpc.06834
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Tianjin 1899
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Antarctica 1912
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A Narrow street in old Havana, Cuba, church on left LCCN89707768
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Old Olive tree in Gethsemane LOC matpc.11378
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Beijing 1936
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Beijing 1934
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Dog River and old bridge LOC matpc.07125
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Typical street in old Aleppo. LOC matpc.02164
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Hama (Hamath). Old bridge LOC matpc.02151
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View of Tripoli with the old castle LOC matpc.09538
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Hangzhou 1864-1874
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Wuhan 1864
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Xinjiang 1759 - 10
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Xinjiang 1759 - 04
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Xinjiang 1759 - 14
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Xinjiang 1759 - 07
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Xinjiang 1759 - 11
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Xinjiang 1759 - 09
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The Samaritans of Nablus (Shechhem). Old Samaritan. LOC matpc.01828
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Beijing 1848 RU
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Anyang County 1900-1910
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Beirut. Dog River and old bridge LOC matpc.05228
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Tripoli. Tripoli and its old castle. LOC matpc.02125
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View of Hebron LOC matpc.06763
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Wuhan Wuchang 1883
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Xinjiang 1759 - 06
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Xinjiang 1759 - 03
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Jerusalem. The Old City. Typical grocer LOC matpc.15156
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Kalat Siman. Remains of old monastery LOC matpc.02179
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Laizhou 1800-1850
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Shanghai 1983
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