Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Depression-era artwork at an overpass in the Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Outer banks scene, North Carolina

Owl's Head Light, at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay, Owl's Head, Maine

Pacific Ocean and rocky California coast

Oyster boat in North Carolina

Owner Tom Vaughan looks at an old ledger at the T.C. Lindsey General Store, which his great uncle founded in 1847 in Jonesville, Texas

Pacific coastline of northern California

Owens-Thomas House, completed in 1819 in Savannah, Georgia

Painted glass located in the lobby of the Empire State Building, New York, New York

Painted barn near Port Orchard, Washington

Palm tree silhouette

Pal's drive-in restaurant in Bristol. Pal's has outlets in extreme southwest Virginia and northeastern Tennessee

Palm and other trees in Twenty-Nine Palms, California, which has many more than that number of palm trees

Panorama aerial of Tysons Corner, Virginia

Panorama aerial of Chicago, Illinois

Panorama aerial view of Washington, D.C

Panorama aerial of Georgetown in Washington, D.C

Panel at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C

Panorama aerial of Washington, D.C

Panorama aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pamphlet cover for which Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sought a copyright; from the Library's collection. Washington, D.C

Panorama aerial view of Crystal City, Virginia

Panorama view of Market Square, a condominium development on Pennsylvania Avenue at the site of the old Center Market, Washington, D.C.

Panorama view of Market Square, with statue is of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock, Washington, D.C.

Panorama view of lower Pennsylvania Avenue

Panorama view of the Willard Hotel ballroom before the hotel's 1980s restoration. Washington, D.C.

Paper Mill Road bridge, Baltimore County, Maryland

Pappadeaux's fish restaurant neon sign, Houston, Texas

Panorama of construction during the restoration of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C

Panorama of Dulles Airport, Virginia

Panorama view of lower Pennsylvania toward the U.S. Capitol with the FBI Building at the left, Washington, D.C

Panorama view of the Willard Hotel ballroom before the hotel's 1980s restoration. Washington, D.C

Panorama view of Market Square, with statue is of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock, Washington, D.C

Panorama view of Market Square, a condominium development on Pennsylvania Avenue at the site of the old Center Market, Washington, D.C

Panorama view of an adult peep show movie house on 14th Street before the place closed. Washington, D.C

Panorama view of Market Square on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Panorama view of Washington, D.C

Paramount Pictures entrance gate, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Park Avenue, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Paris Casino and Aladdin Hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada

Paramount Theater, Bristol, Virginia Description: Paramount Theater, Bristol, Tennessee (at 518 State Street, with State Street forming the state border to Virginia, hence sometimes credited as Paramount Theatre, Bristol, Virginia)

Park Avenue, New York, New York

Parked buggies in "Amish Country," Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Paris Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Paris Las Vegas Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Parlor in Frederick Douglass house, Washington, D.C

Parlange, America's oldest family plantation, New Roads, Louisiana

Parlor, Miles Brewton House, Charleston, South Carolina

Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana

Parlor at Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's house at Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Parlor at the Miles Brewton House, which dates to the late 1760s, Charleston, South Carolina

Parlor at the manor house of Parlange, the oldest U.S. plantation still in the same family, New Roads, Louisiana

Parlor at the New York City Tenement Museum, New York

Parlange Plantation in New Roads, Louisiana

Parlange Plantation manor house, New Roads, Louisiana

Parrot poses on a tree in Florida

Parlor at Parlange Plantation, New Roads, Louisiana

Parlor of Arlington House, once the home of Robert E. Lee, Arlington, Virginia

Parlor at the Bolling Haxall House, headquarters of the Woman's Club of Richmond, Virginia

Part of a cast-iron gate at the Cascade Dining Room of Timberline Lodge, built and furnished by Works Progress Administration laborers and artists during the Great Depression on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon