Carol M. Highsmith photos

Long-abandoned hospital building, used to quarantine sick arriving immigrants, on Ellis Island immigration station

Santa Claus drifts off while reading about Abraham Lincoln, whom Mathew Brady photographed in the same building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Wright Brothers plane in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C

Empire State Building at night.

Aerial view looking north across National Mall 16059v

Aerial view of Washington, D.C., offering a good view of the "triangle" in the Federal Triangle row of federal office buildings

Aerial view showing the Reflecting Pool 17233v

Hammering Man" art, Seattle, Washington

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana: Comment: Location shown is actually Royal Street (1 block from Bourbon Street), in the block between St. Peter and Orleans streets, looking downriver. Physical d

Aerial of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois, featuring Willis Tower, known as Sears Tower when this photo was taken in the 1990s

Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois featuring Willis Tower, known as Sears Tower when this photo was taken in the 1990s

Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois

Aerial view of skyline, with a focus on Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Almost literally within the shadow the the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the Tropicana Motor Park, photographed in the 1990s, was a vestige of hardscrabble days in Las Vegas, Nevada

2000 block of Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington, D.C

Beatley Central Library, Alexandria, Virginia

An open space and fountain outside a shopping and restaurant row, part of a wholesale renovation of this close-in (to Washington, D.C.) Maryland suburb of Silver Spring in the 2000s

Chinatown scene, San Francisco, California

Colorful Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Columbus Learning Center, Columbus, Indiana

Dusk view of the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, built from 2000 to 2003 in Pueblo, Colorado

Eutaw is a city in Greene County, Alabama. At the 2000 census the population was 1,878. The city is the county seat of Greene County and was named in honor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War

Button" bed made specially for Jefferson Davis who was 6'3" while he was living in the First White House of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama

Old shoes made new" sign above the Montgomery Book Factory on Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama

Architectural details in the Camara de Representantes building in Havana, Cuba

"Majesty of Law" statue

"New Deal" WPA art

State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

"Spirit of Justice"

Bogue's Restaurant sign in Birmingham, Alabama

1 Dancers and marchers visit the 2020 Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the White House

1 Black Lives Matter Art and signs during the 2020 Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C

2 Black Lives Matter Art and signs during the 2020 Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C

2020 Juneteenth Celebration signs and vendors on Juneteenth, a few days after the Black Lives Matter Protest in Washington, D.C

7 Black Lives Matter Art and signs during the 2020 Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C

8 Black Lives Matter Art and signs during the 2020 Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C

A Fence in Lafayette Square across from the White House on Juneteenth, a few days after the Black Lives Matter Protest in Washington, D.C

A Frisco line Meteor steam locomotive displayed at the Route 66 Historical Village, a nostalgic park along historic U.S. Route 66 as it winds through Tulsa, Oklahoma