Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Ceiling of the Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Ceiling, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Ceramic sculpture "Ikaros" at the Hawthorne Federal Building, Hawthorne, California

Central Park vista, New York, New York

Chair for the priest in the Sanctury of the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C

Ceremony at Meade Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C

Chandelier at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Central California coast

Chairs and rabbit on porch

Challenger Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

Central Park courtyard and fountain, New York, New York

Central Park and New York's Upper West Side

Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Chamber in the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C

Ceremony at the National Shrine, Catholic University, Washington, D.C

Channel, Houston, Texas

Charles W. Morgan whaling ship, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut

Charles River cityscape, Boston, Massachusetts

Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse, Rochester, New York

Chapel of St. Basil, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas

Chapel at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C

Charles River view of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The tall building, Boston's most recognizable, is I.M. Pei's John Hancock Tower

Charles Keck's statue honoring three North Carolina-born U.S. presidents: James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Johnson, outside the state capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina

Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St Louis" airplane, hanging at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum on the National Mall, Washington, D.C

Chapel at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, or Vatican Embassy, Washington, D.C

Chapel Hall, the main building of Gallaudet University, once the National Deaf Mute College, Washington, D.C

Changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Chapel Tower, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Chapel of St. Basil by architect Philip Johnson at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas

Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Cherubs, U.S. Capitol art, Washington, D.C

Cherry Blossoms, Washington, D.C

Chatham House, Union headquarters, later field hospital, Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia

Charters of Freedom Hall, National Archives, Washington, D.C

Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C

Chef and the pastry table at the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Checker players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina

Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Maryland

Chef Howard Wong prepares "Chinoise" at Tommy Toy's restaurant in the Financial District, San Francisco, California

Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin with Japanese Lantern placed in the park in 1954. Washington, D.C

Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Annapolis to Maryland's Eastern Shore Original

Children play on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Children clamber on a prehistoric dinosaur figure on the National Mall, Washington, D.C

Chicago silhouette, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois

Child's room at the Manship House, built by Thomas Manship, a future Jackson mayor and postmaster of the Confederacy in Jackson, Mississippi

Chestnut Hill College, a coeducational Roman Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children's Museum of Houston, Texas

Children at an elementary school in Boston, Massachusetts

Chicago Merchandise Mart, the world's largest wholesalers' building. Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Marina, Chicago, Illinois

Chesapeake Bay sunset, Maryland

Children play on Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan

Children stand in wonder at a mural of astronauts at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C

Chinese New Year parade Washington, D.C.

Chinese New Year Celebration in Chinatown in Washington, D.C

Chinese New Year parade and celebration in Chinatown, Washington D.C

Close look at the outside of a round barn on U.S. 66 near Arcadia, Oklahoma

Chisholm Trail mural, located in Sundance Square, Fort Worth, Texas