Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Chinese New Year parade in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Chimney Rock, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia

Christian Science's "Mother Church," part of the faith's world headquarters complex, Boston, Massachusetts

Christ Church Episcopal at Historic Rugby, a settlement of idealistic Americans and Britons that began in 1879 in Rugby, Tennessee

Christmas tree inside the old Riggs Bank building on Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C

Christopher Columbus statue and fountain outside the entrance to the Union Station train terminal, Washington, D.C

Christ Church, Episcopal, the spirtual center of the elitist community, founded in 1879 by wealthy Americans and British in Rugby, Tennessee

Christopher Columbus fountain at Union Station in Washington, D.C

Church interior with murals

Christian Science "Mother Church," Boston, Massachusetts

Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Christmas tree in the historic PNC Bank Building, formerly Bank of America, and Riggs National Bank, at the corner 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C

Chrysler Building in New York City

Chrysler Building tower in Manhattan, New York

Christ Church Episcopal, founded by Englishmen and Americans as a colony for people of high breeding in the community of Rugby near Nashville, Tennessee

City Hall entrance details, Houston, Texas

Circus wagon at the Circus World Museum, former winter home of the Ringling Bros. Circus, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Churchill Statue, British Embassy, Washington, D.C

Circus Circus Hotel and Casino neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Circus wagons at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida

Confiscated guns on a display at the F.B.I. Headquarters, Washington, D.C

Citizens National Bank & Trust building, which opened in 1907 as Citizens Bank when Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was part of the Indian Territory

Circus wagons at Circus World museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin

City at night, Houston, Texas

Cincinnati view and paddleboat, Cincinnati, Ohio

Circus Circus Casino sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

City Hall in Houston, Texas

Circus parade wagon at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, the town in which five Ringling Brothers founded their circus, Baraboo, Wisconsin

CIA HQ, c. 1980

City-County building, Denver, Colorado

City Park elf, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cityscape, San Diego, California

City Hall, Houston, Texas

City of the Dead, New Orleans, Louisiana

Civic Center, Denver, Colorado

City Market, a farmers' market in the heart of Roanoke, Virginia

City Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

City Hall, Portland, Maine

City Hall, San Francisco, California

City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cityscape from Beth Israel Cemetery, Houston, Texas

City Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana

Civil War battlescene at the Atlanta Cyclorama in Atlanta, Georgia

Classic hamburger joint, the Burger Bar, Bristol, Virginia

Civil War Altar of Remembrance, Fort Donelson, Dover, Tennessee

Clara Barton's Home, Glen Echo, Maryland

Civil War battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, across from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Clara Barton House, home of the founder of the American Red Cross, Washington, D.C

Civil War reenactment, North Carolina

Civil War battlefield, New Market, Virginia

Classic Kansas field of waving wheat

Cleaning the statue of Count Casimir Pulaski on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Classic view of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C

Classic skyline view with houses, San Francisco, California

Cliffs of Zion National Park, Utah

Cleveholm Castle, Redstone, Colorado

Classic midwest farmstead in Iowa

Cliffside in Zion National Park, Utah