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Portrait of John II Casimir Vasa., Daniel Schultz, circa 1658

portrait of john ii casimir vasa by daniel schultz (royal castle in warsaw)baroque

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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The Banjo Lesson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1893

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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828

expulsion from the garden of eden by thomas cole hudson river school

Grand National Golf Course - Part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail in Auburn/Opelika, Alabama. 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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An American flag flaps proudly in the wind in front of space shuttle Atlantis on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Benny Hopson from the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium in Alaska drills a core sample from sea ice in the Chukchi Sea on July 4, 2010.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket vents liquid oxygen propellant vapors during fueling for the lift off of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

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A bighorn sheep in Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Pops Restaurant on Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma. This sculptural take on a soda bottle and straw soars 66 ft. into the sky. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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July 4th Fireworks. Washington DC is a spectacular place to celebrate July 4th! Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Ranch manager Mark Dunning oversees a roundup at the Big Creek cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite aboard, at the Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launches with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite onboard from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

A Boeing Delta II rocket is framed between the ghostly silhouettes of two press photographers as it launches Deep Space 1 on its mission from Launch Complex 17A.

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Details from the million dollar courthouse, the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist

DSCOVR (2015).

The floating and tourist Islands of lake Titicaca

Machu Picchu Peru, Southa America, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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View of the Americas on 12.13.14.

Sunrise El Avila. Caracas

Landscape and bridge along the Connecticut River

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Highway Car

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Emtpy Highway

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Amazing waterfalls at Iguazu Falls

Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (2015).

PAZ Mission (2018).

Machu Picchu Peru, Southa America, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Colorful and Plankton-Full Patagonian Waters

Money Cash

Brooklyn Bridge

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

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.

A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle lifts off with NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter on Dec. 11, 1998, from Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station.

Murals, Louisville Murals-Stock Farming, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Murals, Louisville Murals-Rural Free Delivery, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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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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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.

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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Murals, Louisville Murals-City Collections, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Murals, Louisville Murals-Post Office Rail Car, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Infrared view of barn in rural Montana, USA. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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North Carolina Outer Banks Scene. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" separates from the NASA 747 carrier aircraft S77-28931 to begin its first "tailcone-off" unpowered flight over desert and mountains of Southern California. Oct 12th 1977.

Bald Eagle

Crew Demo–1 Mission (2019).

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Crew Dragon Interior (2015).

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DSCOVR (2015).

BFR in flight (2018).

Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (2015).

CRS–8 (2016).

ORBCOMM (2014).

Dama gazelle

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American Buffalo Bull scanning the area.

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Money Background

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Two Dollar

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The First Baptist Church in La Junta, Colorado.

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GovSat–1 Mission (2018).

Iridium–5 Mission (2018).

Skylon Tower Elevator ride to the top of tower

Crew Demo–1 Mission (2019).

SES–9 launch (2016).

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CRS–15 Mission (2018).

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Inmarsat–5 Mission (2017).

Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist Aerial View

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Green Heron

Two Dollar

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Hooded skunk

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Spider monkey

Piranha

George Washington, Gilbert Stuart, 1797

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Slaves waiting for sale, Richmond, VA, Eyre Crowe, 1861

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First floor lobby, Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

A young goat, named Emmit, at the Dunnum Family's Top of the Town dairy farm near Westby in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Capitol1846, John Plumbe, 1846

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Bicyclists round the James Scott Memorial Fountain on Detroit's Belle Isle, a once-posh island park in the Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in Wyoming's capital city. The Western celebration has been celebrated since 1897. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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CRS–13 Mission (2017).

Iridium–3 Mission (2017).

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CRS–15 Mission (2018).

Niagara Falls, and Maid of the Mist Tower

Niagara Falls, and Maid of the Mist Tower

Special Rescue Operations firefighters with NASA Fire Rescue Services at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida practice vehicle extrication training at an auto salvage yard near the center.

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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A photograph of the Apollo 12 lunar landing site taken during the extravehicular activity (EVA) of astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot.

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Spaceflight SSO–A Mission (2018).

Dragon to Mars (2015).

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CRS–14 Mission (2018).

Interplanetary Transport System (2016).

NROL–76 Mission (2017).

Spaceflight SSO–A Mission (2018).

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CRS–13 Mission (2017).

CRS–8 (2016).

Amazing image of the United States of America at night.

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Machu Picchu Peru, Southa America, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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