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The Redwood National and State Parks along the coast of northern California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Whale Shark at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. 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.

A landscape view of Alaska - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Contestants in the Bentley’s Scottsdale Polo Championship at the WestWorld, a multi-use events facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bull elk in Yellowstone National Park, in the northwest corner of the western state of Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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.

Two dogs, Jesse and Maude, await the next portion of their ride in the back of a motorcycle in South Hero, Vermont. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Cattle amble freely in the San Juan Mountains of Conejos County, Colorado, near the New Mexico border. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

This boat on the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, docks is loaded with buoys used to identify the location of lobster traps. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Aerial view of Philadelphia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Neon sign for Billy Bob's legendary “boot-scootin’”western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort Worth. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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

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Above Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada. 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.

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.

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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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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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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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.

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

Cowboy-hat neon in a food tent at the Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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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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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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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.

HMS Beagle by Conrad Martens, Conrad Martens, between 1832 and 1836

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Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

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September 11th remembrance ceremony.

The Webb Telescope's 'Golden Spider'.

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

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Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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

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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.

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

A white lion at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, America's second-oldest zoo, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Dusk shot of Columbus, Ohio, from a point along the Scioto River. 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.

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.

Texas flag, painted on boarded-up window in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Horse within a lovely meadow in the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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.

Chairlifts ascend the mountain at the Snowmass Village ski resort in Pitkin County, Colorado - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Whale Shark at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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

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.

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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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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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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Battle of Ayacucho, Martín Tovar y Tovar

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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.

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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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.

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