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Detail of historic artifacts at Rockwood Manor in Wilmington, Delaware (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

A great horned owl has asserted permanent visiting rights to a tree above the ranch headquarters at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

This is not a fire in the distance, near the settlement of Ganado on Navajo Nation land in far northeast Arizona. It’s a remarkable sunset. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-134 Mission, 16 May 2011.

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The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

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Ticker tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts at New York City.

Pheasants on the Prairie, Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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

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A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Guage Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, navigates a San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex has been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania skyline including PPG Place with the spiked roofline to the far left designed by famous architect Philip Johnson. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bird at Iguazu Falls

Mount Akankagua, Argentina, South America

A perigee full moon or supermoon is seen behind clouds over the United States Capitol, Sunday, August 10, 2014, in Washington.

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Contented cats at Yoder's Amish Home. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

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A ruby-throated hummingbird

Bataille de la baie de Mobile par Louis Prang (1824-1909), Julian Oliver Davidson, 1886

louis prang & company civil war lithographs battle of mobile bay

SanFrancisco1851a, before June 22, 1851

barbary coast, san francisco portsmouth square

View of the launch of the Little Joe-5B spacecraft from Wallops Island on April 28, 1961.

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Contented cats at Yoder's Amish Home. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Tin Family, Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Colorful HIstoric Motel in Wildwood, New Jersey. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed with scientific equipment.

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, drives the Lunar Roving Vehicle during first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

Houston, Texas from Buffalo Bayou Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Spaceship detail with American flag in hangar

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Twice as high as Niagara Falls in the eastern state of New York, these are the highest-volume falls in the Rocky Mountains - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Martha Hepworth's 1964 creation, "Squares with Two Circles," at the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum that opened in 2000 in Dallas. It houses a collection of modern and contemporary sculpture on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Following the postponement on Nov. 14, 2017, the countdown is again underway for the liftoff of the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft.

Exterior. George Howard Jr. Federal Building and U.S Courthouse, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2017) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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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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Cows in Cajun Country Farm. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Sunset on the Chesapeake Bay, not far from Cape Charles on Virginia's long Eastern Shore. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Flag bearer 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.

Fontana Dam, North Carolina, Appalachian Trail. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The mobile launcher platform with space shuttle Endeavour on top comes to rest on Launch Pad 39A.

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Courtroom at the U.S Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky (2013) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photograph taken from the Thomas Jefferson Building. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 8 Aug. 2007.

An owl at the Alligator Adventure in South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Dinosaur statue in Mountainburg, Arkansas (2012) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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The Okefenokee Swamp Park in Waycross, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Carroll House, a hotel in Fullerton, North Dakota (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Ronald Reagan

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Machu Picchu

sightseeing building

Machu Picchu

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Map Of The World

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Money Cash

Suburban Street

At the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform backlight inspection and cleaning on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.

Seahorse at The Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Dolles Salt Water Taffy sign, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Idaho farm and field (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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A turtle at the Alligator Adventure in South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Alpacas bronze statue

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Sandhill crane with chick

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Machu Picchu

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An Amish woman rolls dough to make small fried pies inside the farmhouse at Yoder's Amish Home. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota (2014) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Elephants at the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro, North Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The mobile launcher platform with space shuttle Endeavour on top comes to rest on Launch Pad 39A.

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Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Sounding rocket launches successfully from Alaska and a green aurora dancing over Alaska. All four stages of the rocket are visible in this image. Jan. 28th, 2015.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is captured atop a trail of smoke as it carries six astronauts toward the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission of the year.

Courtroom details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Barber Shop located in Ninth Ward in New Orleans - damaged by Hurricane Katrina 2005. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A turtle glides through the water at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. 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.

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.

Space Shuttle Columbia climbs into orbit from Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 19, 1996.

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Alligator in a pond at Magnolia House and Gardens in Charleston County, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Old gas station along the road in rural upperstate Michigan (2008) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Stairs, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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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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Cougar

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.

World Map Illustration

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Amazing waterfalls at Iguazu Falls

Niagara Falls state park

USA Court

Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist

Mount Akankagua, Argentina, South America

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Nighttime, ground level view of Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the Apollo 13.

The Endeavour at launch pad 39a as a storm passes by prior to the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, April 28, 2011.

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Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Horses graze on a farm in bluegrass, horse country, Lexington, Kentucky (1980-2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Lobby architectural details, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Exterior. George Howard Jr. Federal Building and U.S Courthouse, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2017) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Usa city

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Bolivian woman in traditional costume knitting

Amazing waterfalls at Iguazu Falls

The floating and tourist Islands of lake Titicaca

People walk in a street of Uyuni

Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, James McNeill Whistler, until 1863

symphony in white, no. 1: the white girl (james mcneill whistler - national gallery of art)aestheticism

The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, Thomas Cole, 1834

the course of empire by thomas cole hudson river school

Chichen Itza

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Machu Picchu

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