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Photographs of the United States by David Henry, featuring pictures of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Alabama, Covington, Kentucky, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, Los Angeles, Hollywood, the Huntington botanical gardens, Newport Beach, the La Brea Tar pits, Detroit, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, New Jersey, and Providence, Rhode Island. Regardez cette page en français…

Go to the index of pictures of the United States, or take look at pictures of… All of these pictures are available as high-resolution TIFF scan files, and naturally, any of these pictures can be converted to black and white. Many others were taken at each photo shoot, so there are plenty of other choices if you don’t see exactly what you are looking for…

Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs opened the first Mel’s drive-in back in 1947 in San Francisco

Mel’s Drive-In, Hollywood

 Henry Huntington began developing the Botanical Gardens in 1903.

A field of cacti at the Huntington botanical gardens, San Marino
A pleasant diversion among the bonsai in the Japanese section of the gardens.

A stand of bamboo at the Huntington botanical gardens

 Some features of the Japanese garden are the temple bell, the canyons with spring-flowering trees, stone lanterns and pagodas.

The Japanese house on the hillside across the lake in the Huntington botanical gardens
True to Hollywood form, the church of Scientology counts Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, and John Travolta as members

The Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard

 The El Capitan Theatre opened on May 3, 1926, as “Hollywood’s First Home of Spoken Drama,” featuring elaborate East Indian design by San Francisco architect G. Albert Lansburgh.

The El Capitan movie theater on Hollywood Boulevard
The handball court belongs to the city’s school.

A handball court on Newport Beach, near Los Angeles

 The L. Ron Hubbard Christmas village on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles

The L. Ron Hubbard Christmas “Winter Wonderland” on Hollywood Boulevard
Prehistoric animals having fun in the warm Californian sun

The Rancho La Brea Tar pits Museum of Los Angeles County

 This structure was briefly the tallest in the city, until the Los Angeles City Hall was built in 1932

The Hollywood First National Bank on Hollywood Boulevard
The front lawn and porch of a house in Lexington, Kentucky decorated with dozens of lawn ornaments and flowers.

A house with lawn ornaments in Kentucky

 Much of what he sells is his own creation

A man selling crystal jewelry on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Is it true that the best things in life are free?

A sign offering free dirt, Alabama

 A man who keeps his beer on a leash

Beer drinker, Covington, Kentucky
A family waiting to enter Elvis Presley’s mansion

Waiting to enter Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

 Face to face with my airplane

The last picture I took on American soil in 1996, Detroit, Michigan
Someone who might know a lot on many subjects: sports, religion, cigars, etc.

The Cigar Priest, Baltimore, Maryland

 Slated for destruction in 1969 because of the structure’s dilapidated condition, Lucy the Elephant was rebuilt, renovated and reopened to the public in 1978

Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey
Geno’s was opened in 1966 at 1219 South 9th Street, at the corner of Passyunk.

Geno’s Philly Cheese Steak Restaurant, Philadelphia

 A display of Police department badges from around the United States, testimony of support for officer Daniel Faulkner, allegedly killed by taxi driver Mumia Abu-Jamal, December 9th, 1981.

A memorial to officer Daniel Faulkner at Geno’s Philly Cheese Steak Restaurant
Downtown Providence during the Fire-Water festival

A fifty-year-old diner built inside a tractor trailer truck, Providence, Rhode Island

 A man selling freshly-picked catnip on the sidewalk in New York City for $2 per bag with all kinds of other cat regalia around him: collages, a book, photographs, clippings from magazines, etc…

A man selling catnip in Manhattan
A homeless man bent over, arranging cigarette butts in to little cross configurations on the sidewalk in New York’s Times Square.

A man fiddling around with cigarette butts in the Theater District in Manhattan

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Enter the gallery of Parisian photographs

Take a look at the photographs I have taken on trips to Italy

See the pictures I published in the Traveler’s Companion series of tourism/travel guide books, pictures of Canada, New England, and Mediterranean France

Portraits in Paris: with your family, friends and loved ones in the City of Lights, and the famous monuments of Paris in the background.

Photography workshops in Paris: Learn the secrets behind these pictures!

See the pictures I took on a trip through Alsace-Lorraine, France

Take a look at the pictures I took on a trip through Switzerland
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