Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Old sign for State Hotel, Seattle, Washington

Old Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Old tow truck in the desert southwest

Old State Capitol building, Springfield, Illinois

Old stone portal leading to the Balsams Hotel and Resort, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire

Old Stone House, the oldest known standing structure in Georgetown, Washington D.C

Old Seaboard Coast Line and Norfolk Southern train station in Aberdeen, North Carolina

Old Town street clock, California

Old streetcar barn building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Old rural county farm tractor, North Carolina

Old Senate office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Old Post Office, Washington, D.C

Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts

Old tractor near Moab, Utah

Old, abandoned gas station in North Carolina

Old west deserted cabin in Utah

Old Valley Motel sign on historic Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Union Station, now a U.S. Courthouse, Tacoma, Washington

Old-timey business block

Olney frieze at Langston Terrace Dwellings 1

Olney frieze at Langston Terrace Dwellings 2

Olympic rain forest, Washington

One Liberty Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Once the centerpiece of a huge dairy farm, Highland Croft became rental property in Littleton, New Hampshire, known as the hub of the rugged White Mountains

On a tidy farmstead, a barn with a good-sized cupola, helping ventilation located in rural Illinois

On this mural at an "El" station on Chicago, Illinois' East 55th Street, figures of diverse backgrounds address the question, "Where are you going?"

On a pre-Christmas visit to Carol Highsmith's studio in Washington, D.C., Santa Claus gets a wish list from a little girl

One of 15,000 or so mounds built by Woodland people on the sandstone bluffs above the Saint Croix River, a wide Mississippi tributary, Hudson, Wisconsin

One of many wedding chapels in Las Vegas, Nevada

One of more than 50 street clocks in Seattle, Washington

One of many Catholic Churches in San Francisco, California

One of relatively few carved signs along the Appalachian Trail footpath from Maine to Georgia, or Georgia to Maine if you're hiking north. Monson, Maine

One of several cannonball monuments marking campites at Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee

One of several fresco murals inside Coit Tower, San Francisco, California

One of many mansions built on Main Street in Lake Geneva in southern Wisconsin by wealthy Chicagoans (and others)

One of many cluttered but nostalgic walls inside the Harrison Brothers Hardware store, a sort of classic general store on the town square, Huntsville, Alabama

One of six allegorical statues by sculptor Louis St. Gaudens that stand above the front façade of Union Station, Washington, D.C

One of several modernist outbuildings on the estate that includes architect Philip Johnson's famous Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

One of several vintage jukeboxes at the Jukebox Museum, Pharr, Texas

One of six allegorical statues by sculptor Louis St. Gaudens on the façade of Union Station, Washington, D.C

One of three tall-masted ships-replicas of the three English ships that sailed to Virgnia in 1607 lie at anchor in the James River at the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia

One of three buildings remaining at Fort Phantom Hill, Abilene, Texas

One of the first known barns in South Dakota, and believed to be the oldest standing. Deadwood, South Dakota

One of two 50,000-pound Rodman guns remaining as exhibits at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina

Opening day ceremony after the 1980s restoration of Union Station, Washington, D.C

Oregon dunes along the Pacific Ocean

One of what were 55 street clocks in Seattle, Washington, which was known as the "City of Clocks"

Open area at the Johnson Wax Building, headquarters of the S.C. Johnson and Son Co., Racine, Wisconsin

One of what were once thousands of painted barn roofs and sides, advertising chewing tobacco and, in this case, an amusement park on Chattanooga, Tennessee's Rock City

Oregon History Center, Portland, Oregon

Open buggy in "Amish Country," Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Oregon's rocky Pacific coast

Originally the St. Marc Hotel at 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Orleans harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Originally built in 1892 and modified several times, the Corn Palace, which doubles as an auditorium and tourist attraction, is refreshed each year with corncobs of many colors, grown locally. Mitchell, South Dakota

Our treasured monuments at night, Washington D.C

Outdoor advertisement in New York, New York, for Amtrak's new Acela Express high-speed train prior to its rollout in 2000

Outdoor sculpture at Capitol building, Hartford, Connecticut

Out of Damascus, the Appalachian Trail heads into the mountains and Feathercamp Ridge, Damascus, Virginia

Out buildings at the Latta Plantation in Huntersville, North Carolina