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Parrots at the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, an educational tourist attraction in Galveston, Texas.

APOLLO XII - countdown demonstration test (CDDT).

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A view of lower Manhattan a month before 9/11. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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As dusk approaches, balloons land at the National Balloon Classic, a hot air balloon exhibition in Indianola, Iowa, a town near the state capital of Des Moines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Sailboats on Lake Mendota, one of two large lakes that residents of Madison, Wisconsin. 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.

Interior tools and milling equipment at the Bale Grist Mill, now a California Historic Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

With a tugboat's help, an exceptionally heavy-laden oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

An oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Slot Canyons. Gently carved from the Navajo sandstone over the course of countless millenniums. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Fat and sassy prairie dogs on the grounds of Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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View of Cincinnati, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Night skyline of New York. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Chicago View. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Corvette Car outside the Route 66 Hackberry General Store in Hackberry, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

View of spectacular Monument Valley, one of the most-photographed scenic locations in Arizona, on Navajo lands east of the Grand Canyon. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Some of the stunning red rocks for which Sedona, in nothern Arizona, is famous. These are some of the most-photographed formations — especially at sunrise and dusk — in a state that’s replete with them. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Baltimore's revitalized Inner Harbor in the 80s. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building built by Charles Z. Klauder. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Beautiful day below Diamond Head at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. 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.

Beautiful sunset near the town of Ovid (and close to the Nebraska border) in Sedgwick County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Northern California elk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Boundary Layer Ingestion.

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Monument 151 de Tonina, prisonnier, exposition "Mayas", Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

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The Statue of Liberty. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis.

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Franklin County REA Power Plant Museum near Hampton, Iowa.

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Alaska Pipeline. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The United States Courthouse. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Elk at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's elk refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a valley on the edge of Grand Teton National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, AL, where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Infrared view of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Alligator Adventure, a fourteen-acre theme park of sorts that calls itself the "Reptile Capital of the World" in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Idaho scene (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Grain elevator, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

View of the Rocky Mountains, USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Minneapolis skyline at dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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One of of American artist James Turrell’s more than 82 “Skyspace” installments around the world. This one stands on the Rice University campus in Houston. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Spring field of rapeseed flowers in Benton County, Mississippi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A young bald eagle surveys the world below in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A fire road just off the trail to Bearfence Hut on the Appalachian Trail in Northern Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A steam train crosses the 156-foot-tall Bass Point Creek Bridge. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Night skyline of Atlanta, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Colorado Aspens. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bridge to Lewiston, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Wind Turbines in rural Missouri. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The moon is seen rising behind the Space Shuttle Endeavour on pad 39A.

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The parachute system for Orion

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Element of new rocket during construction at factory

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Busto de Graciela Rincón Calcaño 2

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Special Rescue Operations firefighters with NASA Fire Rescue Services at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Barn, Idaho (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Parrot poses on a tree in Florida. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

New York Times Square at Night

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The majestic peaks of the Teton Range reflect in a mountain stream in Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent. 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.

Canal Street, New Orleans. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, AL, where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

New York World Trade Center Towers, 90 West St. Bldg. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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City of Houston by Night. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Golden Spike National Historic Site, where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads came together in on May 10, 1869. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Mountain-sunset view from Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Grand Canyon excursion railroad runs, complete with train-robber “shootouts,” from Williams Arizona, up to the South Rim of the canyon. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Decatur, Alabama annual Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival. 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.

The federal courthouse and post office in Texarkana (2014) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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A squirrel at the Lowcountry Trail. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Cheetah at Myrtle Beach Zoo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Magnolia Mobil Gas station, Arkansas (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Cheetah at Myrtle Beach Zoo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

'Fluid Dynamics,' mixed media by Tina York depicts fluid dynamics studies at the Ames Research Center.

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The flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., deployed on the surface of the moon.

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An old turtle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress collection.

Cupola, Federal Building and U.S Courthouse, Port Huron, Michigan (2008) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Carnival rides and games, including a Ferris wheel, in Phoenix 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.

Young fans of the Colorado Rockies major-league baseball team wait and hope for player autographs at a Spring Training game between the Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Scottsdale, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone formations on the Colorado Plateau lie mostly in Arizona but also into Utah. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Pier pilings at dusk along the Gulf of Mexico, between Waveland and Bay St. Louis in Hancock County, Mississippi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

"Alpine Loop" San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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A harvesting combine kicks up dust during its work in field near the tiny town of Carpenter in southeast Wyoming's Laramie County. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Small parts of a branch of the Dogwood: Cornus Nuttallii (Boxwood of North America) enlarged 12 times, Cornus Nuttallii (Boxwood of North America) enlarged 8 times, and  Cornus Florida (Flowering Dogwood) enlarged 25 times from Urformen der Kunst (1928) by Karl Blossfeldt.

Rolling irrigation sprinkler at work along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas. 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.

Climber at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a natural gorge within walking distance of the city of Ouray, Colorado. It is home to more than 200 named ice and mixed climbs. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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