Jackson Hole, Wyoming Photo - Neon sign of the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Neon sign of the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The bar dates to the early 20th Century, when Joe Ruby erected Ruby's Cafe and Beer Garden on the site. In 1937, Ben Goe purchased the bar and changed the name to the Cowboy Bar, for which he received the first liquor license in the state of Wyoming following the repeal of Prohibition four years earlier. (In the United States, Prohibition was a 13-year period in which the manufacturing, storage, bottling, transportation and sale of alcohol -- including alcoholic beverages -- was officially prohibited, though the law was widely flouted.)

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.