Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Egret Roost, Avery Island, Louisiana

Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue between Corinthian Avenue and North 22nd Street in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Effects belonging to Bishop Innocent at what is now called the Russian Bishop's House, a National Park Service historic site in Sitka, Alaska

Edward Steves Homestead museum, built in 1876 in the historic King William District of San Antonio, Texas

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Easternmost of the "Two Lights" on Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Edgartown Light on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Edward Kemeys' guardian lions stand before the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eastern State Penatentury cellblock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Edgartown Light Station, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Fisherman repairs his net in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Elephant, Milwaukee Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Elegant Victorian-style home

Elegant dining room at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, once the west's renowned Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California

Elegant mansion with a mansard roof

Elderly woman in her home, Madison, North Carolina

Electrified candelabra, Russian Embassy, Washington D.C

Elderly woman washing dishes in her cabin, Madison, North Carolina

Elderly woman in rural Madison, North Carolina

Elaborate and exotic parade wagons at Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where the five Ringling Brothers founded their show

Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gage Hotel near Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Texas

Elevated restaurant platform in the Main Hall waiting room area added as part of a wholesale renovation of Union Station, Washington, D.C

Elephants at the Washington National Zoo, Washington, D.C

Gallery Place on 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C.

Elephants at National Zoo, Washington, D.C

Elevated superhighway, Boston, Massachusetts

Ellis Island flag and faces exhibit photograph, Ellis Island, New York, New York

Ellis Island, Jersey City, New Jersey

Elvis Presley's birthplace, Tupelo, Mississippi

Embassy of Canada, Washington, D.C

Embassy of Belgium, Washington, D.C

Elvis Presley-themed wedding chapel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Embarcadero, San Francisco, California

Embassy of Canada looking towards the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C

Ellis Island complex and lower Manhattan view, pre-September 11, 2001

Elvis Presley's birth home in Tupelo, Mississippi

Emlem Physick Estate Highsmith

Empire State Building looms above Manhattan, New York, New York

End of the Trail statue, Waupun, Wisconsin

Embassy of Indonesia, Washington, D.C

Emlen Physick House is a Victorian house museum located at 1048 Washington Street in Cape May, New Jersey

Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C

Empire State Building view of New York, New York

Employee watches the production line at the nation's first Krispy Kreme donut shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Employee cracks and steams crabs at Fisherman's Grotto No. 9 at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California

Emlen Physick House, designed in the "Stick Style" by architect Frank Furness, Cape May, New Jersey

Embassy of Norway, Washington, D.C

Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C

Endless crop in eastern Montana

Empty beach at Miami Beach, Florida

Embassy of South Africa, Washington, D.C

Empire State Building, New York, New York

Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C

Embassy of France, Washington, D.C

Embassy of Italy, Washington, D.C

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Gallery Place on 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C