Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Column, Astoria, Oregon

Condo parade, Miami Beach, Florida

Conch-shell motif of the La Concha Motel in Las Vegas, which seemed futuristic when the motel opened in 1961. It has long since closed as new more modern high-rise buildings take the place of historic old motels

Computer data storage in a modern office building

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

Computer terminals at the headquarters building of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or WSSC, Laurel, Maryland

Confederate Memorial, Richmond, Virginia

Concrete milkhouse which abuts the elegantly decorated, louvered barn in Duncannon, Pennsylvania

Conductor on a train belonging to the Grand Canyon Railroad, which runs from Williams, a small town near Flagstaff, up to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York

Construction next to the Washington Star building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Constantino Brumidi art detail on the U.S. Capitol walls, Washington, D.C

Construction of the Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1980s

Conowingo Dam Bridge, which opened in 1927, Conowingo, Maryland

Construction of some of the electrical components of Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset, Barre, Vermont

Construction of Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset, Barre, Vermont

Conservatory of flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

Constantino Brumidi art on U.S. Capitol wall, Washington, D.C

Conservatory, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina

Conservator working on a historic poster at the Madison Building, Washington, D.C

Construction of the Market Square condominium development on Pennsylvania Avenue, near part of the site of the historic Center Market in Washington, D.C

Construction of Market Square condominium development on Pennsylvania, near the onetime site of the city's famous Center Market, Washington, D.C

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas

Cooperative Mercantile Buildings, Ephraim, Utah

Conversion of the old Atlantic Coast Line building into a larger, modern office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington, Virginia

Contestants at a Scheer's Lumberjack Show on the Namekagon River, Hayward, Wisconsin

Container facility at harbor, Oakland, California

Construction work during the renovation of the Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Construction on a glass and steel office building

Containers at Port of Houston, Houston, Texas

Contraption on wheels in Alaska

Construction worker cleans the mosaic floor during restoration of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., in the 1980s

Construction worker pours molten metal at the restoration of the Reading Terminal and Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Constuction of Market Square condominium complex on Pennsylvania Avenue, in view of what was once the city's famous Center Market in Washington, D.C

Construction workers on the job

Convention center, Washington, D.C

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Cornfield ready for planting near Mabel, Minnesota

Coral Castle, the creation of reclusive Edward Leedskalnin, who, using only hand tools, moved more than 1,100 tons of coral several miles, then sculpted them into a series of stone tributes to his wife

Corner of the 's historic Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened in 1894 in Washington, D.C

Corner of the courtroom in Independence Hall, Wheeling, West Virginia

Corporate conference room

Corcoran School of Art Lion Statue, Washington, D.C

Corner of a window, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cornstalk fence and hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah

Coral Castle by Carol M. Highsmith

Corridor, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Costumed clerk at the restored general store at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts

Costumed interpreter with a mule on the canal towpath at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 20

Country club, Houston, Texas

Country cabin, lean-to and hay bale, North Carolina

Costumed interpreters at Fort Concho, San Angelo, Texas

Cottage on lower Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

Costumed interpreter with a mule on the canal towpath at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Maryland

Cottage in northern Virginia

Cottage that employs the city's symbol, the fleur de lis, Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cottage at Jekyll Island, Georgia