Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

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

Residential wildflower garden

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

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

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

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

Residents of Parrot Jungle and Gardens, south of Miami, Florida

Residential interiors

Restoration of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., which was saved from the wrecking ball, restored, and reopened in the 1980s

Restoration work on the Willard Hotel in the 1980s. Washington, D.C.

Restaurant in a restored church building in Houston, Texas

Restoration expert John Barianos works on an architectural detail from the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., during its 1980s rehabilitation

Restoration work on the Union Station train terminal, Washington, D.C

Restoration work on Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Restoration work at Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Restoration work at Union Station in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

Restoration work at the Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Restoration work on the "Hotel of Presidents," The Willard, Washington, D.C

Restoration of the Statue of Freedom at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Restoration of Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Restoration work on the historic Willard Hotel in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

Restoration of Union Station in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s

Restoration of Peacock Alley hallway in the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the 1980s

Restaurant located on the top floor of the historic Bellevue Hotel, Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rest stops such as the Johnny Reb Motel, near Fontana Dam in North Carolina, abound near the southern reaches of the Appalachian Trail

Restoration specialist at work on art at the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Restoration of the U.S. Capitol Statue of Freedom, Washington, D.C

Restoration work at Union Station, Washington, D.C

Restoration work in a hallway of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Restoration work on the historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C

Restoration work at the historic Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Revolutionary Army Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Restored Broadway Street in the historic Third Ward, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Results of a pecan harvest in Texas

Restored corn crib and smaller building on the Edwin Holt Plantation in Alamance County, North Carolina

Restoration workers at the renovation of the historic Willard Hotel in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

Restoration work on Union Station, Washington, D.C

Restoration work on Union Station, in which a balcony shopping level was added to the historic train concourse. Washington, D.C

Restored office building in downtown Washington, D.C

Restored train coach at the Grand Canyon Railroad, Arizona

Restorers at work on Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virginia

Restoration work on Union Station, Washington, D.C. in the 1980s

Restoration work on the Willard Hotel in the 1980s. Washington, D.C

Rich farmland in Iowa

Rice University, Houston, Texas

Riders at the King Ranch, a cattle spread larger than Rhode Island in South Texas

Riders at the King Ranch, which is larger than Rhode Island, near Kingsville, Texas

Riffe Lake, south of Tacoma in the Toutle Mountain Range, Tacoma, Washington

Revolutionary War re-enactment

Richmond, Virginia's restored Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1928

Riffe Lake, south of Tacoma, graces the Toutle Mountain Range, Washington

Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida

River Walk, San Antonio, Texas

River Walk, the number-one tourist attraction in San Antonio, Texas

Road past an industrial facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Riverboat Nenana, a sternwheel packet steamer that once plied the interior rivers of the Last Frontier, before finding at home as a floating museum in the harbor, Fairbanks, Alaska

Riverbank Antiques barn, Wells, Maine

Road through the mountains of Utah, cut by the builders of the Transcontinental Railroad

Robert E. Lee Motel in Bristol, Virginia

Rock Creek Park view of Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C