Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Great Hall. Detail of cherubs representing America and Africa with putti (fisherman and farmer) on Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

Great Hall, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

Great Hall. Detail of cherubs representing America an Africa with putti (fisherman and farmer) on Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

Great Sand Dunes National Monument at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southwest Colorado

Great Northern Railway clock tower

Great photo op for a little girl at her family's annual reunion in Mayodan, North Carolina

Great time for the great pandas at the Washington National Zoo, Washington, D.C

Grief statue, Chicago, Illinois

Grief statue, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C

Greenwood School, Des Moines, Iowa

Green Hills Farm, the Bucks County home of Nobel and Pulitizer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck in Dublin, Pennsylvania

Guardian Angel Catholic Cathedral, Las Vegas, Nevada

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

Grounds of Taliesin East, home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring Green, Wisconsin

Grinnan Villa in the Garden District in New Orleans, Louisiana

Grounds of Vizcaya Gardens, once the winter retreat of James Deering, co-founder of the International Harvester Co., Miami, Florida

Grogan's Court, a now-abandoned motel, Madison, North Carolina

Grille detail at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Grounds of the Mormon Temple in Las Vegas, Nevada

Grogan's Motel in Madison, North Carolina

Grogan's Tourist Court, a now-abandoned motel, which opened in Madison, North Carolina in 1931. Each guest had his or her own garage

Grinnan Villa in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana

Grinnan Villa estate in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana

Haig Point Lighthouse, Daufuskie, South Carolina

Guitarist on Pennsylvania Avenue during a concert, Washington, D.C

Haceta Head Lighthouse, Yachats, Oregon

Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Guitar Art along the road in rural Virginia

Gulls on a Florida beach

Gun battery at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina

Halal meat market in Chicago, Illinois

Gulls take over a tiny outcropping off the California coast

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

Hammersmith Farm, Newport, Rhode Island

Hallway with crumbling plaster at the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hallway and parlor at the Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C

Hall of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives, Washington, D.C

Hallway at the Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee

Hall and stairway in the home of the Belgian ambassador to the U.S., Washington, D.C

Hallway at the now-abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hall of Statues at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Hallway and staircase in the U.S. Treasury Department building, Washington, D.C

Hall in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Hallway in the Chancery and residence of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C

Hall where the nation's Charters of Freedom are displayed, National Archives, Washington, D.C

Hallway of the 's Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Hallway in the 's Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Hancock Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Apartment building in Bethesda, Maryland

Hammersmith Farm, the childhood summer home of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; it was also the summer White House when she was First Lady from 1961 to 1963

Harry G. Ochs butcher shop, at Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Harold Washington Library Center, Passing 'El' Train, Chicago, Illinois

Hanover Street, in front of the 1804 Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, is decked out for the Festival of Saint Agrippina, Boston, Massachusetts

Hanover Street Bridge, built in 1916 in Baltimore, Maryland

Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois

Harrah's Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Harbor at Maryland's capital city, Annapolis

Harbour Town Light, Hilton Head, South Carolina

Harbor, Jacksonville, Florida

Hanover Street, Boston, Massachusetts