Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fortune teller sign at the Boardwalk Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Fort McHenry, where the "Star-Spangled Banner" was inspired by a battle in the War of 1812. Baltimore, Maryland

Fort Washington is the site of Fort Washington Park, which was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington D.C

Fort McHenry, the place where Francis Scott Key observed that the "flag was still there" and wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" following an engagement with the invading British during the War of 1812. Baltimore, Maryland

Fortification at San Juan harbor, Puerto Rico

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fountain, Savannah, Georgia

Four statues pay tribute to the bishop and townswomen who participated in La Rogativa, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Fountain above the Senate garage between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Four Points Bridge over Toms Creek, built about 1876 in Emmitsburg, Maryland

Four Corners Monument, marking the only spot in the United States where four states (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) come together

Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Virginia's National Memorial Park cemetery

Founded in 1940, the Wee Kirk o'the Heather is the longest-running among dozens of marriage chapels in Las Vegas, Nevada

Fountain in the rear of the Texas Governor's Mansion, Austin, Texas

Fox hunt in Virginia

Four exterior door panels at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Fountain in San Antonio, Texas

Fountain in Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia

Fourth Ward School, Virginia City, Nevada

Frederick Douglass House in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Franklin's "House" art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Franklin Park on K Street in Washington, D.C

Frederick Douglass visited this small stone house in the back of his lot in Washington, D.C. for time away from everyone

Frady's corner food store in back-of-town New Orleans, Louisiana

Frederick Douglass House in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Frank Lloyd Wright's "Taliesin West," his winter home and architectural school, which he began in 1937 in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Arizona's Sonoran Desert

Frederick Douglass den at his home in Washington, D.C

Franklin School in Washington, D.C

Franklin Statue, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Frederick Douglass House parlor, Washington, D.C

Frederick C. Robie House in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois

Franklin Square on K Street, Washington, D.C's "power corridor"

Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Florence, Alabama

Frank Lloyd Wright designed house "Wingspread" in Racine, Wisconsin

French Quarter mule ride, New Orleans, Louisiana

Freedman's Town, Houston, Texas

French Embassy interior, Washington, D.C

French Quarter clown, New Orleans, Louisiana

French Ambassador's home, Washington, D.C

French Ambassador's house, Washington, D.C

Freedom Tower, Miami, Florida

WPA fresco "California Life" at Coit Tower, San Francisco, California

French Quarter balcony with classic ironwork, New Orleans, Louisiana

Front bedroom at the Petersen House, Washington, D.C

Frolickers at the Ice Festival, St. Paul, Minnesota

Frog mural by artist Robert Dafford in Rayne, Louisiana, the "Frog Capital of the World"

Frog mural in Rayne, Louisiana, the "Frog Capital of the World"

Friendship Gate, entryway to Chinatown, Washington, D.C

Friends outside a humble home with a message, New Orleans, Louisiana

Friends relax in front of a home with a message, New Orleans, Louisiana

Fried pies, a southern culinary tradition, laid out on a community table at an annual family reunion in North Carolina

Friendship Arch in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown

From the looks of the paint job, this farm could be under new ownership

Front door of the National Academy of Sciences building, Washington, D.C

Fruit Market Carrollton New Orleans Highsmith

Frye's Measure Mill, Wilton, New Hampshire