Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Living room view of the Boggs home on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Living rom at Hearthstone, the 1882 Victorian mansion that was the world's first home to be lighted by a central hydroelectric station, Appleton, Wisconsin

Living room at Chinqua-Penn mansion, Reidsville, North Carolina

Living room at "the Hideout," the Northwoods retreat of Chicago gangster Al Capone during Prohibition, Couderay, Wisconsin.

Living room of architect Mies van der Rohe's classic "glass house," the Farnsworth House, which became a National Trust for Historic Preservation property, Plano, Illinois

Lobby hallway at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California

Lobby of an office building, Washington, D.C

Lobby of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Lobby of the Chicago Union League, Chicago, Illinois

Lobby of the Willard Hotel soon after its restoration in the 1980s. Washington, D.C

Lobsterman on his boat, Northern Maine

Lobsterman holds up one from his catch, Thomaston, Maine

Lobster pier, Friendship Harbor, Maine

Log cabins where photographer Carol M. Highsmith's great-grandfather, Pleasant Jiles Carter (1847-1931), and grandfather, Yancey Ligon Carter (1873-1947) were born and lived, Wentworth, North Carolina

Log huts, Fort Donelson, Dover, Tennessee

Log cabins in Wentworth, North Carolina

Locals painted a boulder to welcome Appalachian Trail hikers and other visitors to Baxter State Park in Maine. It lies at the foot of Mount Katahdin, which is the northern terminus of the great footpath that winds its way all the way to Georgia

Logan Circle neighborhood in Washington, D.C

Lone lobster boat in Eastport, Maine

Lone cactus on the West Texas prairie

Longhorn cattle in rural Texas

Lone Sailor statue at the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Lone Sailor statue, part of the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Longest U.S. covered bridge, Windsor, New Hampshire sic: actually Windsor, Vermont

Lone Star Centennial Statue, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas

Longwood by Highsmith 01

Longwood by Highsmith 02

Looking W at Netherlands Carillon - GW Memorial Parkway - Arlington VA USA - between 1980 and 2006

Looking out over the National Mall from the roof of the Archives, Washington, D.C.

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Longwood Plantation in spring, Natchez, Mississippi

Looms inside the old Boott Cotton Mill No. 6 in Lowell, Massachusetts

Longwood House, located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi

Longhorn steer raised at Abilene State Park, Abilene, Texas

Looking out over the National Mall from the roof of the Archives, Washington, D.C

Longwood gardens, Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Longhorn steer, raised at Abilene State Park, Abilene, Texas

Lookout Point Reservoir in central Oregon

Looking up at the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, California

Looking for clams on Lincolnville Beach, Camden, Maine

Looking down on the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Lorenzo's Pizza sign on South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Treasury Department grounds, toward the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Looking northwestward on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Loys Station covered bridge, Thurmont, Maryland, built in 1900

Louis Armstrong statue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana "Steamboat House," New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana's South Bass Point (sic) South Pass Point Lighthouse

Lovely cove in a remote part of Oahu Island, Hawaii

Luck Co. stone quarry, Manassas, Virginia

Luck Stone Co. quarry workers, Manassas, Virginia

Louis St. Gaudens's centurion statues in Union Station in Washington, D.C

Louisiana shrimp boats, Grand Isle, Louisiana

Loy's bridge, Frederick County, Maryland

Louisiana tree with Spanish moss

Louisiana lean-to shack

Louis XIV drawing room now holds the instruments of a traditional Indoesian gamelan orchestra in the Embassy of Indonesia, Washington, D.C

Lou Wille's 'bumper art' made from automobile bumpers, such as this statue in Aspen, can be found in several Colorado towns

Low House, built in 1849 for wealthy cotton farmer Andrew Low in Savannah, Georgia