Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Portland, Oregon, beneath Mount Hood

Potomac River dusk with the Kennedy Center in the distance, Washington, D.C

Potomac River from Prospect Peak, West Virginia

Potomac River, Washington, D.C

Portraits of the speakers of the House of Representatives line the wall of the Speaker's Lobby, just outside the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Post boxes at the U.S. Postal Museum, Washington, D.C

Pouring plaster during the renovation of Union Station, Washington, D.C

Portrait of Bessie Bringhurst Galt Smith which hangs in the breakfast room of Rockwood Manor, built by her ancestor, Joseph Shipley II in 1851, in Wilmington, Delaware

Poster for the U.S. Centennial Exposition in 1876, which brought thousands of visitors to town. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Portsmouth Harbor Light, Portland, Maine

Portrait located at the Frederick Douglass home in Washington, D.C

Portland Head Light, Portland, Maine

Portland Head Lighthouse, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Possibly the last days of an old barn, note the leaning silo, in DeKalb County, Illinois

Potomac Yard 80s

Powerhouse for San Francisco's historic cable cars, California

Preparing the floor beneath what will be a new balcony restaurant level in the Main Hall during Union Station's renovation in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

Pouring plaster during the renovation of Washington's Union Station in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

President Woodrow Wilson's Pierce-Arrow in Staunton, Virginia

Pretty horses on the carousel in Burlington, North Carolina

President Ronald Reagan jokes around in the Oval Office of the White House during a photo shoot with each Republican Senator, Washington, D.C

President Woodrow Wilson loved this Pierce-Arrow so much that he bought it on the day he rode to the Capitol with outgoing president Herbert Hoover for Wilson's inauguration. It is shown outside his birth home in Staunton, Virginia

Prettyboy Dam Bridge, built in 1932 in Maryland

President Ronald Reagan's childhood home, Dixon, Illinois

President Ronald Reagan at his desk in the White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C

Presidio pet cemetery, San Francisco, California

President Woodrow Wilson's house in Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Pretzel girl at Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Prisoner lean-tos at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia

Pulpit in the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Private soldier monument, Antietam Battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Pry House, Union Headquarters at Battle of Antietam, Maryland

Pumpjack in rural Texas

Prometheus, God of Fire, one of six Roman gods sculpted by Louis St. Gaudens and placed above the entrance to Union Station, Washington, D.C

Procession of 'hoodoo' formations in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah

Public art in Chicago, Illinois, including the city's most famous sculpture, an unnamed piece by Pablo Picasso, shown across the street

Pry's Mill Bridge over Little Antietam Creek, Keedysville, Maryland, completed around 1835

Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Quaint 'carpenter gothic' houses fill Oak Bluffs, an old Methodist camp meeting town on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Queen Mary ship, Long Beach, California

Quincy Market scene, Boston, Massachusetts

Quirky beer can house, Houston, Texas

Quiet street in National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Quinta Mazatlan, McAllen, Texas

Quite fall scene in a Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C

Quaint toll bridge across the Wabash River from Illinois to New Harmony, Indiana, a onetime utopian community northwest of Evansville

Quiet Chestnut Hill neighborhood shopping area, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Quaint fish house on Bailey's Island, Maine

Quiet scene at Longwood, called the "Unfinished Symphony" of American historic restoration, Natchez, Mississippi

Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York

Radio studio, photographed in the 1980s

Radio station studio

Railroad tracks, Chicago, Illinois

Ramshackled motel, Madison, North Carolina

Railway station in North Conway, New Hampshire

Rainbow over the west Texas prairie

Ravinia Park in suburban Glencoe hosts a summer music festival and other outdoor intertainment. Chicago, Illinois