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Hay bales dot the landscape of the 69.2 acre farm near Carrollton, Alabama. 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.

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.

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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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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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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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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Yosemite National Park, United States. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens is also known as Anacostia Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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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Infrared view of barn in rural Montana, USA. 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.

North Window, Arches National Park, Utah. Old Mammoth Road. 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.

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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Murals, Louisville Murals-Horse racing, 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.

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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A steam train on a heritage railroad that operates excursions in Boone County, Iowa, 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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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.

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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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.

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 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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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.

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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Baltimore's revitalized Inner Harbor in the 80s. 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.

An oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. 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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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The Maroon Bells, just outside Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountains USA - Fall aspens in San Juan County, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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North Carolina Outer Banks Scene. 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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Monument Valley, Arizona. 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 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.

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.

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

Guntersville is a city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. 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.

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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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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.

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

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Dusk shot of Santa Barbara, California, and the Pacific shore, taken from bluffs high above the city. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Holstein dairy cows 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.

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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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City of Houston by Night. 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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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.

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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Point Iroquois Light Station in upper MIchigan's Hiawatha National Forest stands on the point on Lake Superior where Chippewe Indians halted the rival Iroquois' westward expansion (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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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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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.

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

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.

Canal Street, New Orleans. 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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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.

"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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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.

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.

Grand Teton National Park view. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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.

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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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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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.

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.

The Maroon Bells, just outside Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountains USA - Fall aspens in San Juan County, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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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.

The Maroon Bells, just outside Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountains USA - Fall aspens in San Juan County, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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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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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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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.

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.

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.

Ground Zero under construction New York City. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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.

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet above sea level. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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.

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.

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.

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