Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lexington citizens dress as colonists or British troops on the green in Lexington, Massachusetts

Lenny Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge across the Charles River, Boston, Massachusetts

Left to right, West and East Pierhead Lighthouses, Cleveland, Ohio

Liberace's gaudy automobiles displayed at the Liberace Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

Legacy Golf Club in Henderson, a rapidly growing suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada

Legendary performer Wayne Newton onstage, Las Vegas, Nevada

Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, San Francisco, California

Liberty statue, honroing Charles Etienne Gayarre, one of New Orleans's first great historians, who wrote a four-volume history of Louisiana in French in the early 19th Century

Minerva Mosaic in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

's Thomas Jefferson Building taken from the dome of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Library detail in the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium, Washington, D.C

Light fixture detail in Union Station, Washington, D.C

Light fixture at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Light fixture in Washington's Union Station following a massive restoration. Washington, D.C

Life mask and plaster hands of Abraham Lincoln, preserved at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., where assassin John Wilkes Booth mortally wounded the president in 1865

Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Light beams into an Arizona "slot canyon" near Page, Arizona

Library founded by Englishmen and Americans as a colony for people of high breeding in the community of Rugby near Nashville, Tennessee

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C

Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol all in a row. Washington, D.C

Lighthouses, Pensacola, Florida

Lincoln Box, the box in which assassin John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln during the president's visit to Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C

Lighthouse concession stand, Marina Del Rey harbor, California

Lighthearted statue outside Rappa's Restaurant in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California

Light streams into an Arizona "slot canyon" near Page, Arizona

Lighthouse, Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Lighthouse, Point Vicente, California

Lighthouse on Assateague Island, Virginia

Light pours through an opening in an Arizona "slot canyon" near Page, Arizona

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Little Round Top vista, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Little Norway, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Little Tennessee River crossing, Appalachian Trail

Lions at the zoo, Houston, Texas

Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Little boy with Easter balloons, San Antonio, Texas

Little Wolf Creek footbridge on the Appalachian Trail near Bastian, Virginia

Linus Noel offers beignets and Chicory coffee at Cafe Du Monde, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C

Little church on Oahu Island in Hawaii

Lit Brothers Department Store, opened in 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lit Brothers Department Store, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lincoln Theatre prior to a grand restoration in the 1980s. Washington, D.C

Little Italy neighborhood, New York, New York

Lions statue, Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lion statue outside George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Manor, Asheville, North Carolina

Live Stock Exchange, Fort Worth, Texas

Living room in the residence of the Ambassador of Spain, Washington, D.C

Living room in the residence of the Ambassador of Turkey, Washington, D.C

Llama ranch near Hotchkiss, Colorado

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

Littleton, in northern New Hampshire's White Mountains, across the Connecticut River from Vermont

Living room of the Governor's Mansion, Austin, Texas

Living room of the Woodrow Wilson House and Museum, Washington, D.C., where Wilson lived after he left office in 1921

Living room of the Italian ambassador in Washington, D.C

Living room at the Stanley Rosenbaum House, one the "usonian-style" homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Florence, Alabama

Living room, Robert E. Lee's Arlington House Mansion, Arlington, Virginia

Living room detail in the residence of the Ambassador of France, Washington, D.C

Living room of the 30-room villa once called "Estabrook," which now serves as the residence of the Ambassador of Italy, Washington, D.C