Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Bust of John Steinbeck in Monterey, California, whose Cannery Row was featured prominently in two of the author's novels

Bust of Washington at George Washington University, Washington, D.C

Businessmen at a fountain in Arlington, Virginia

Children's play area in Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's former mansion, Arlington, Virginia

Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, Houston, Texas

C&O Canal locks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C (Lock 20, Great Falls)

Cabin beside the trail, Pennsylvania

Childen's computer center, Rockville, Maryland

Children's computer center, Rockville, Maryland

Cabrillo statue, San Diego, California

Cadets marching at Virginia Military Institute (VMI), located in Lexington, Virginia

Cable car nears the top of Hyde Street, San Francisco, California

Cacti and flowers, Tucson, Arizona

Cacti and flowers near Tucson, Arizona

Cakes and pies line the tables at a family reunion in Mayodan,North Carolina

Cacti break the monotony of the Nevada desert

Cadets on parade at the Virginia Military Academy, Lexington, Virginia

Cable car turnaround, San Francisco, California

Cable car ascends hill, San Francisco, California

Calf branding on a ranch near San Angelo, Texas

Calico Ghost Town, Yermo, California

California coast, Pacific Ocean

California coastline

California Pacific inlet

California field where flowers are grown commercially

California beach cottages

Called 'Kansas's Tara' by some, this was the home of Alfred B. Seelye, who sold patent medicines out of a factory next to this home in Abilene, Kansas

Cambridge Bridge, Cambridge, Maryland

Canal Street New Orleans Time Exposure Highsmith

Cannons at Cheatham Hill, Kennesaw Mountain battle site, Georgia

Candlestick Park in the forefront of this aerial taken of San Francisco, California

CAMH, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas

Canal at the Venetian Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Cannons at Antietam Battlefield in Maryland

Campus of the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Canal alongside River Walk, San Antonio, Texas

Canal and walking path in Venice Beach, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California

Capitol building, Des Moines, Iowa

Capitol Hill neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge, near Annapolis, Maryland, looking toward Maryland's Eastern Shore

Capitol in winter, Montpelier, Vermont

Capitol and World War I Statue, Olympia, Washington

Cape Hatteras Light, Outer Banks, North Carolina

Cape Henry Lighthouse, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Capitol building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Capitol Hill neighborhood, Washington, D.C

Capitol and grounds, Bismarck, North Dakota

Cape May, New Jersey

Cape Hatteras lighthouse, North Carolina

Capitol building, St. Paul, Minnesota

Capitol building, Salt Lake City, Utah

Capitol building, Springfield, Illinois

Cape Neddick Light Station, York, Maine, known as the "Nubble Light" after a nub or rock that juts into the cape

Cape Cod marina, Massachusetts

Cape Cod harbor, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Cape Florida Light, a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Cape Poge Light is at the northeast tip of Chappaquiddick, an island that is part of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Cape May Light, Cape May, New Jersey

Cannons at Manassas National Battlefield Park, site of the first and second Civil War Battles of Bull Run in Virginia

Capitol building, Des Moines, Iowa (cropped)