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Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Aerial view of Washington, D.C. in the 80s. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Art made of "code" named Kryptos sits on the grounds of the C.I.A. Headquarters in Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge (commonly known as the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Mount Katahdin, Maine, Appalachian Trail. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Wolf on the run at the Wild Animal Sanctuary near Keenesburg, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Dusk view of Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Aerial view of Las Vegas at night. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Aerial photograph of the Las Vegas Strip. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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USS Texas, the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Webb Telescope's 'Golden Spider'.

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New York City Skyline - World Trade Center. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The rebuilt St. Paul Catholic Church in Pass Christian after the original was destroyed during 2005 Hurricane Katrina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Harbor scene in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

One of the star attractions at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

American bison, or buffaloes, in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Row houses, Florida Ave. and Porter St., NE, Washington, D.C. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Construction of the Reading Terminal and Market renovation in the 80s. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Utah's Zion National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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An Art Deco interpretation of a classical style. Built in 1935. Architect: Conrad & Cummings. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The J.J. Pickle Federal Building in downtown Austin, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Horses head for the corral in the daily roundup of horses, Riverside, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Sedgwick County, near Julesburg, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Commercially grown flowers in California field. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Hercules ship at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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

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New Carrollton Federal Office building in Baltimore, home to 4,400 federal employees. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Lafayette, Lousiana Swamp. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Playa de las Americas Beach

Artist concept of the Mercury capsule with its launch escape system.

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Squirrel monkey

American flag hanging in industrial futuristic factory

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Painting of the American and Texas flags on a building in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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.

Horse in the training, racing, and polo grounds section of Aiken, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Reconstruction at Ground Zero, site of the attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas Strip. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A lone and lean coyote makes the best of wintertime in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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.

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Tule Lake Refuge. 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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White Bengal tiger at the Montgomery Zoo, it was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The American Flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium, California. 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.

A saguaro cactus dominates the scene at dusk in the garden of the White Stallion Ranch, a dude ranch outside Tucson, Arizona. 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.

Alligator Alley has 20 acres of natural cypress swamp land, where alligators roam freely in a protected environment. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Mature corn, almost ready for harvesting, on a farm in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Road through Smugglers' Notch, a narrow mountain pass surrounded by high bluffs in Lamoille County, Vermont. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Infrared view of a forest of trees in Montana. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress collection.

American bison, or buffaloes, in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Atlantic City (Maryland) at Dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The George Washington Bridge over The Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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September 11th remembrance ceremony.

Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

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Sunset scene in rural Tom Green County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Lucio Jimenez, Pablo Martinez, Carlos Lara and Javier Rodrigjez of the the Los Liberadores Group pose menacingly at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Above Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Las Vegas Strip. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Mudpots and hot springs color the terrain in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. 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.

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Aerial view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A fat and sassy prairie dog 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.

A farmer kicks up dust as he readies the ground for planting near Bristol in Prowers County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A mixed herd of wild and domesticated horses frolics on the Ladder Livestock ranch, at the Wyoming-Colorado border. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Two lionesses are less than excited about their chance to star in a photo shoot at the Santa Barbara, California, zoo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

White Bengal tiger at the Montgomery Zoo, it was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A farmer kicks up dust as he readies the ground for planting near Bristol in Prowers County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Battle of Ayacucho, Martín Tovar y Tovar

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APOLLO XII - countdown demonstration test (CDDT).

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

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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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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.

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.

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.

Inca-Spanish confrontation, Theodor de Bry

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Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama. 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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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.

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

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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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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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