Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah

Moravian Pottery and Tile works, opened in 1912 on the estate of Henry Chapman, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Monument Valley, the Navajo Nation's tribal park that spreads across northern Arizona and into Utah

More than one-third of the headstones at Shiloh National Cemetery in Tennessee mark graves of unknown Union soldiers

Moscone Center, San Francisco, California

Mothballed Navy ship fleet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship in the foreground is the, and behind it on the right edge of the photo is the.

Most of the buildings other than the main receiving building on Ellis Island were abandoned and left to the elements after the immigration station closed in 1954. Jersey City, New Jersey

Mother and children in a humble neighborhood, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta, at 14,162 feet the highest peak in the California Cascades

Mount Rushmore, Rapid City, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rainier in the distance, above the marina at Gig Harbor, near Tacoma, Washington

Mount Washington cog railway, New Hampshire

Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire's White Mountains

Mount Vernon garden under snow, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Mount Vernon estate, Virginia

Mount Vernon Estate garden in winter, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Mount Washington Resort in New Hampshire's White Mountains

Mount Vernon garden in winter, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate home, Virginia

Mt. Moran, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Movie theater in Washington, D.C.'s, Union Station

Muir Woods, California

Multicolored cliffs of Zion National Park, Utah

Multi-colored mountain, Zion National Park, Utah

Multnomah Falls, one of many waterfalls along the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Cable car in the Castro District, San Francisco, California

Mural and roadside flowers in Fresno, California

Mural at 2nd & Main streets in Menomonie, Wisconsin

Mural detail in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Mural honoring ragtime composer Scott Joplin, who attended the Orr School in Texarkana, Arkansas

Mural on the side of a building in a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mural painting "Entry into the Forest" by Candido Portinari, on the vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading room, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Mural saluting the Red Cross in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Mural painting "Discovery of Gold" by Candido Portinari, on the vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading room, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Murray & Minges General Store, Catawba County, North Carolina

Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

Murdoch's bathhouse sign, Galveston, Texas

Mustard jars at the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum in Wisconsin

Murray-Minges's Mercantile, near a historic gristmill in Catawba County, North Carolina

National Airport, Washington, D.C.

Nantucket Harbor Light, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. house, built in 1807, Duxbury, Massachusetts

Narrow fun house in California's Giant Redwood country

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

National Building Museum (Pension Building), Washington, D.C.

National Hotel, Block Island, Rhode Island

National Building Museum Atrium, Washington, D.C

National Christmas tree on the National Mall in Washington, D.C

National Capital Planning Commssion map of Washington, D.C

National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C

National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

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

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C

National Harbour on the Georgetown waterfront, Washington, D.C

National Archives Building, Washington, D.C

National Capitol columns at the National Arboretum, Washington, D.C

National Cathedral, Washington, D.C