Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Re-enactors converse at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Reading Terminal under restoration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Reading Terminal builder Charles McCaul prepared this lithograph of Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania's new train terminal and market for the building's opening in 1893

Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Re-enactors pose at Mt. Vernon, Virginia

City of the Dead," in which tombs must be above ground because of the high water table in New Orleans, Louisiana: Location is actually Rayne Louisiana, not New Orleans. Visible beyond the cemetery of St. Joseph Catholic Church. At left of the photo business visible include "Champagne's Supermarket"

Re-enactors at Fort Washington Park, Maryland, a National Park Service site across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon

Reading alcove at the 1895 Miramont Castle Museum, a restored Victorian mansion, Manitou Springs, Colorado

Reading Terminal during a restoration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rear view of Oatlands mansion, now a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Leesburg, Virginia

Reading Room, Washington, D.C.

Recumbent Robert E. Lee, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

Red Canyon route, Zion National Park, Utah

Red rock "window" at Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

Red round barn built in Arcadia, Oklahoma in 1898. It now stands on Route 66

Reception area of the Spanish Embassy, Washington, D.C

Red sandstone Moss Mansion, Billings, Montana

Red Line Metro subway train going one way arrives to join a train about to head the other direction at Metro Center Station, a transfer station to other lines beneath downtown Washington, D.C

Reconstruction at Ground Zero, site of the attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York, New York

Red Rocks Amphitheater above Denver, Colorado

Red Road through Zion National Park, Utah

Red barns on a tidy Amish farm in St. Mary's County, Maryland

Reception area of an office building in Washington, D.C

Reconstruction of Revolutionary War general Henry Knox's home, Thomaston, Maine

Red sandstone formation in Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Red-rock formation at Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Red's Java House is a longstanding breakfast and sandwich joint frequented by longshoremen, San Francisco, California

Reenactors pose at Fort Washington State Park in Maryland

Reflection Bay Golf Club, near Las Vegas, Nevada

Refinery storage tanks near Houston, Texas

Reenactors at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate home in Virginia

Remington statue, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Remnant of Catharine Iron Furnace, Chancellorsville Battlefield, Virginia

Regal City Hall, San Francisco, California

Religious icons of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C

Rehabilitation of a building's mansard roof, Washington, D.C

Refurbishing of equestrian statue of Polish Count Casimir Pulaski. Washington, D.C

Renovated lobby of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. just prior to the hotel's reopening in the 1980s

Replica of "The Little House in the Big Woods" at the Laura Ingalls Wilder House, Pepin, Wisconsin

Renovation of Union Station, Washington, D.C

Remote Eastport, Maine

Remote church on Hawaii's island of Oahu

Remote stretch of the Columbia River as seen from the Oregon side, facing Washington

Renwick art gallery, Washington, D.C

Remote seashore on Oahu, Hawaii

Remnants of the springs, site of the original settlers, Las Vegas, Nevada

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it

Remnants of famous signs at the "Neon Boneyard" in Las Vegas, Nevada

Replica of Trinidad Head Light in northern California

Replica of the Brooklyn Bridge, Las Vegas, Nevada

Rental boats, Chicago Marina, Chicago, Illinois

Repairs in order at the Old North Carolina homestead

Residence of the Italian ambassador to the United States, Washington, D.C.

Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden in Washington, D.C

Residence of the Ambassador of Venezuela, Washington, D.C

Residential interior

Residence of Ambassador of the Netherlands in Washington, D.C

Residential staircase

Residence of the Italian ambassador to the United States, Washington, D.C