Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Part of mural "The Space Mural, A Cosmic View," at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C

Part of the Great Hall at the Thomas Jefferson Building, the 's first building outside the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Part of the 9th Street Italian Market, the nation's oldest working outdoor market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Part of an informal memorial to the victims of United Flight 93, which crashed in a nearby field after passengers fought with hijackers who had taken the plane and directed it to Washington during the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001

Part of the Las Vegas Strip, including the Paris Eiffel Tower replica. Las Vegas, Nevada

Passing train in Prescott, Wisconsin

Patrick Sullivan's Saloon (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Paul Bunyon and Babe the blue ox statues, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Patio in the Henderson House, built in 1923, the residence of the Ambassador of Spain in Washington, D.C

Patrick Sullivan's Saloon in Knoxville, Tennessee

Paul Revere's house, which the silversmith bought in 1770 when the building was already almost a century old. Boston, Massachusetts

Patio of "Boundary Castle," in the residence of the Spanish ambassador to the United States, Washington, D.C

Pathway and garden at the British Embassy, Washington, D.C

Patterson's Mill Country Store, Durham, North Carolina

Peanut vendor sells peanuts on Pennsylvania Avenue

Peace Monument, outside the U.S. Capitol, honors the U.S. Navy's Civil War dead. Washington, D.C

Pemaquid Point Light, Bristol, Maine

Pennsylvania Memorial, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden, Utah

Pennsylvania Avenue view in Washington, D.C

Peacock Alley in the historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C

Pennsylvania Avenue looking towards the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Pennsylvania Avenue façade of the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building, Washington, D.C

Pennsylvania Convention Center, part of the restored and repurposed Reading Terminal and Market, was full of decorative artwork when it opened in 1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Convention Center, part of the restored and repurposed Reading Terminal and Market, boasted imaginative decor when it opened in 1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Penn Theatre Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Peace Monument and U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Pennsylvania Avenue, looking northwest, Washington, D.C. The tower in the distance is part of the Old Post Office Building

Pebble Beach Golf Club, Pebble Beach, California

Pearre Road Bridge, built in 1908, New Windsor, Maryland

Pennsylvania Convention Center exhibition space nearing completion in the renovated Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas

Peaceful New England harbor

Pediment, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Pennsylvania Avenue view of the National Archives building, Washington, D.C

Pentagon City 1980's

Personage and birds statue, outside Chase Tower in Houston, Texas

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Personal meeting with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C

Performers from the "Evening With La Cage," who are dead-ringer male impersonators of female stars. Las Vegas, Nevada

Performance by the illusionists Siegfried & Roy prior to Roy's nearly fatal mauling by one of the show's tigers onstage. Las Vegas, Nevada

People's Drug Store, Washington, D.C.

Petroglyphs at Utah's Newspaper Rock

Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C

Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln was carried and died after assassin John Wilkes Booth mortally wounded him across the street at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C

Philip Sheridan sculpture

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith's family reunion at the log cabins where her Grandfather and Great Grandfather were born in Wentworth, North Carolina

Phillies mural, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire

Philip Pry's house was commandeered as Union Army headquarters at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland

Physicians and nurses at work in a surgical suite

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who had been recording a visual documentation of the renovation of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., catches a shot of herself at work in a mirror

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith in Monument Valley, the Navajo tribal park in northern Arizona and southern Utah

Pier sign at night, Santa Monica, California

Picasso art, Chicago, Illinois

Pike Place Market, coffee cup detail on sign. Seattle, Washington

Pilottown, Mississippi, on the Mississippi River, before Hurricane Katrina

Pig farm in rural Iowa