Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Booker T. Washington cabin, Hardy, Virginia

Boott Cotton Mills complex, Lowell, Massachusetts

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Boston, Massachusetts, from the Charles River

Boston, Massachusetts

Bollman Truss Suspension Bridge, completed in 1869 in Savage, Maryland

Bog in the Florida Everglades

Bottle house detail, Beaumont, Texas

Bollman truss suspension bridge, built in 1869. Savage, Maryland

Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Branding cattle in Texas

Boxes in a scrapyard, Illinois

Bowling alley, Chicago, Illinois

Bridge in spring, Little Hope, Wisconsin

Bridgebuilder's plate on the Bullfrog Road Bridge in Frederick County, Maryland

Bridge on U.S. 1 along the California coast

Bridge over the Monacacy River, Maryland

Bridge and tunnel entrance in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C

Bridge over the Royal Gorge, the world's highest suspension bridge, completed in 1929, Cañon City, Colorado

Breakwater 'Bug' Light built in 1875, Portland, Maine

Bridge, Thurmont, Maryland

Breathtaking aerial view of the historic Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire

Bronze door detail ("Aristotle") at the National Academy of Sciences building located in Washington, D.C

Broadfording Road Bridge, completed in 1829, Cearfoss, Maryland

Brotherton cabin at Chickamauga Battlefield site, Georgia

Bronze doors to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York

Bronze window panel, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Brooklyn Bridge, New York, New York

Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges from the air, New York, New York

Brownstone apartment, Manhattan's Upper East Side, New York, New York

Brownstone row houses in Boston, Massachusetts

Buckingham fountain, Chicago, Illinois

Bryant Park in New York City

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bruno Lucchesi's 1976 statue of Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom North Carolina's capital city is named

Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, Texas

Building detail on John D. Van Allen's "House of Fashion" in Clinton, Iowa

Building heating room

Building in Penn Quarter, just north of Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

The building of the Navy Memorial on Pennslyvania Avneue, Washington, D.C., in the 1980s

Building, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C

Building, Nebraska City, Nebraska

Building, globe, and grounds of the S.C. Johnson and Son headquarters building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Racine, Wisconsin

Building on fabled Cannery Row, Monterey, California

Building on Pennsylvania Avenue long known as Sears House because it was the Washington, D.C., office of the national retailer. Famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady kept his portrait studio in this building

Building where Margaret Mitchell wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta, Georgia

Buildings at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C

Buildings, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C

Buildings on North Capitol Street building near the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Bullfrog Road Bridge in Frederick County, Maryland

Built as a tavern for sailors in 1847, this building became California's first theater three years later. Monterey, California

Built in the 1920s as Fire Hall No. 1, it become a moderate-income residence as part of several rehabilitations in town. Devils Lake, North Dakota

Buoy display in New England

Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Park, Maryland

Bunker Hill monument, Boston, Massachusetts

Burned forestland in the foreground, Mount St. Helens volcano in the distance, several years after a cataclysmic eruption in 1980

Bywater shotgun house, New Orleans, Louisiana

Byodo-In Temple in the Valley of the Temples below the Ko'olau Mountains on Hawaii's Oahu Island

Busy marina, Essex, Connecticut, just up the Connecticut River from Long Island Sound

Bust of George Washington in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C