Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Pillow that Abraham Lincoln died on at the Petersen House, Washington, D.C

Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arlington, Virginia, before it moved to a new location on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C

Pine Breeze Villa, built in 1953 as a model Japanese house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pike Place Market sign ("Public Market Center") with clock, Seattle, Washington

Pink Coral Sands State Park, Utah

Pig farm and stys near Lynn Center, Illinois

Pink elephant at the Diamond Inn, an older motor court-style motel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Piece of the Berlin Wall displayed at the Newseum museum, Arlington, Virginia

Pinnacles, Arches National Park, Utah

Pitkin County Courthouse, Aspen, Colorado

Plenty of hay for the winter at this farm in eastern Montana

Playroom at a children's computer center, Rockville, Maryland

Plate from the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, or Vatican Embassy, Washington, D.C

Pirate's Alley, next to St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s

Pizza Plus and other stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., photographed before they were demolished to make way for new buildings

Pinnacle of the Chrysler Building, New York, New York

Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington

Pipe organ detail in the Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C

Plimoth Plantation is a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Play stations at a children's computer center in Rockville, Maryland

Plaque at Unicoi Gap in the Chattahoochee National Forest toward the beginning of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia

The historic Ponce de Leon Hotel, now the main building of Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida

Point Lobos Lion, San Francisco, California

Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, Ponce Inlet, Florida

Point Montara Lighthouse, Montara, California

Police Memorial, Houston, Texas

Poet Kahlil Gibran Memorial in Washington, D.C

Point Montara Lighthouse (now a hostel) near Half Moon Bay on California's Pacific coast

Polar bear poses at the zoo in San Diego, California

Point Judith Light, Rhode Island

Point Fermin Lighthouse and keeper's quarters, Los Angeles, California

Point Fermin Lighthouse on Los Angeles Harbor, which became a park superintendent's dwelling. Los Angeles, California

Point Bonita light overlooks the Golden Gate from a rocky outcropping, California

Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett, Rhode Island

Pocomoke City Bridge, a drawbridge completed in 1920, Pocomoke City, Maryland

Point of Rocks bridge, Maryland

Point Judith Light at entrance to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Point Fermin Lighthouse, San Pedro, California

Police headquarters building, New York, New York

Pocahantas statue, Jamestown Island, Virginia

Point Judith, Rhode Island

Polly Slocum Statue, Moores Creek Battlefield, Currie, North Carolina

Pocomoke City Bridge, built in 1920 in Worcester County, Maryland

Pocomoke City Bridge, built in 1920 on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Point Betsie Light Station

Point Iroquois Light Station in upper Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest stands on the point on Lake Superior where Chippewa Indians halted the rival Iroquois' westward expansion

Poffenberger Road bridge over Catoctin Creek, built in 1878, Burkittsville, Maryland

Pond view of the residence of the Ambassador of Japan, Washington, D.C

Port Isabel Light, Brownsville, Texas

Porch of the Country Gifts & Antiques shop on the Appalachian Trail, Damascus, Virginia

Porch, cabins, and grounds at Virginia's Explore Park off the Blue Ridge Parkway, Roanoke, Virginia

Port of Houston, Texas

Pool in a garden in Washington, D.C

Popeye the Sailor Man is an apt symbol of the South Texas town near which huge spinach farms thrive. Crystal City, Texas

Porte Cochere at the headquarters Building of the Department of Housing and Human Resources, Washington, D.C

Porte Cochere at the headquarters Building of the Department of Housing and Human Resources, Washington, D.C

Portico of Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's mansion above grounds that became Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Potomac Yard - aerial 1980s