Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

A windmill marks the shopping area in Solvang, in the wine country near Santana Barbara, California

A woman and child pass a neighborhood mural in New Orleans, Louisiana

A wolf in the North Carolina woods

Abandoned William Wesley Peters motel, St. Joseph, Michigan

Above Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada

Abandoned car along the road in southern United States

Abandoned furniture, southwest desert

Abandoned gas station in rural North Carolina

Abandoned shack in rural North Carolina

Abandoned adobe one-room schoolhouse in Las Animas County, Colorado

Abraham Lincoln bronze life mask and hands and what was in his pockets the night he died in 1865, kept at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C

Abandoned cabin in the Utah desert

Abandoned farmhouse at the end of a dirt road on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Abandoned barn overwhelmed by kudzu

Abandoned home in rural Maryland

Actors perform on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Actor dressed as George Washington posing with a young lady on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Across the Chief John Ross (Market Street) Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Actress Joanne Woodward poses in front of carriage barn, Museum of Westport History, in Westport, Connecticut

Actors impersonating various historical figures pose on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C

Actual skateboarders mimic those on a street mural, Louisville, Kentucky

Acadia National Park, Maine

Actors impersonating various historical figures, pose on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C

Actors dressed as historical figures greet children on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Absecon Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Administration building of the Arthurdale planned community, a communal town built during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Arthurdale, West Virginia

Panorama view of an adult peep show movie house on 14th Street before the place closed. Washington, D.C.

Aerial of C.I.A. Headquarters in Virginia

Aerial view of a high-rise neighborhood near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Alexandria, Virginia

Aerial of Houston, Texas

Address Known: Salvo, North Carolina's smallest Post Office in America

Aerial of Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Aerial of New York City

Aerial image taken during the 1980s of Washington, D.C

Aerial from Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

Aerial looking straight down Market Street, San Francisco, California

Aerial looking towards Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C

Address on central California's famous 17-Mile Drive, Pacific Grove, California

Aerial view of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Aerial of Washington, D.C.

Aerial of the Mormon Temple in near Bethesda, Maryland

Aerial of Washington, D.C

Aerial of the Astrodome, Houston, Texas

Aerial of Union Station in Washington, D.C

Aerial of San Francisco, California

Aerial of the medical center, Houston, Texas

Aerial of snow covering Mount Vernon, Virginia

Aerial of the Empire State Building in New York

Aerial view from above the U.S. Capitol, looking south, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view from above the U.S. Capitol 17213v

Aerial view from above the U.S. Capitol 17223v

Aerial view from Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

Art stands tall at an office building in Crystal City, Virginia

Aerial view facing Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Potomac River. Georgetown University is in the foreground, Washington, D.C

Aerial view from above the U.S. Capitol, looking west along the National Mall, Washington, D.C

Aerial view down Market Street toward downtown San Francisco, California; in the distance, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Aerial view looking down the tracks leading into Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view looking north, with the National Gallery of Art in the foreground, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view looking down the tracks leading into Union Station, Washington, D.C

Aerial view in which the Federal Triange of federal government buildings is prominent, before the Ronald Reagan Building was built. Washington, D.C