Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Seul Choix Point Lighthouse on Michigan's upper peninsula helps guide boaters through the dangerous Straits of Macinaw. Gulliver, Michigan

Second National Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Self portrait of photographer Carol M. Highsmith, via a broken mirror that she photographed during the Willard Hotel restoration. Washington, D.C

Seen better times front view of old automobile

Shadows-on-the-Teche is an historic house and garden in New Iberia, Louisiana

Sewall-Belmont House, a women's-history museum on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C

Sheep Barn, Erdenheim Farm Highsmith

Sheep farm and barn west of Oxford, Iowa

Shangra-La is the Honolulu, Hawaii, home of American philanthropist Doris Duke

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois

Shakertown, South Union, Kentucky

Shangri La, home of American philanthropist Doris Duke, Honolulu, Hawaii

Shangri La is the Honolulu, Hawaii, home of American philanthropist Doris Duke

Shay Hexagon House, built in 1876 by Ephraim Shay, who sheathed it inside and out in stamped metal. Harbor Springs, Michigan

Shelter along the Appalachian Trail

Shiloh National Cemetery in Tennessee

Shelburne Farms, Vermont

Sheraton Moana Hotel, Waikiki's first hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

Shore birds in the Everglades, Florida

Shopping mall food court in northern Virginia

Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California

Shops on 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C

Shopping mall food court stands

Ship, Elizabeth II, Manteo, North Carolina

Shopping center, Pentagon City, Virginia

Shops in Mineral Point, Wisconsin's first town

Ship model in Gloria Dei Church, known as -Old Swedes- church, dedicated in 1700 in Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania

Shrimp boat fleet in Louisiana

Showgirl in front of the historic Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Shotgun houses included in a public-art project called Project Row House, Houston, Texas

Short Stop Restaurant, Crown Bar, and retail stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., photographed before they were demolished to make way for new buildings

Shrimp boat and shack in Louisiana

Side view of 'Big Brutus' strip-mining shovel in southeastern Kansas

Side table at the residence of Belgium's ambassador to the United States, Washington, D.C

Spiral staircase at Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse overlooking Lake Ontario in Golden Hill State Park, Barker, New York

Siege gun from USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

Siegfried & Roy and their white lion in their private apartment, Las Vegas, Nevada

Siegfried & Roy by Carol M. Highsmith (cropped)

Spring at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Sign, Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee border

Sign for the Interstate Highway System, saluting President Dwight Eisenhower, who initiated the system in the 1950s

Spring day at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Site where Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston died, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee

Silver mine in Virginia City, Nevada, dates back to 1860

Silver urn at the Spainish ambassador's residence, Washington, D.C

Sitting room at the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium, Washington, D.C

Sitting room in the residence of the Ambassador of Spain, Washington, D.C

Simple treasures at K&J Antique Center in Sheffield, Massachusetts

Silhouette of a barn near Bruce, Wisconsin

Sitting room at the 1882 Hearthstone Mansion, the world's first home to be lighted by a central hydroelectric station, Appleton, Wisconsin

Sitting room at the Danish Embassy, Washington, D.C

Sitting room at Arlington House, once Robert E. Lee's home in Arlington, Virginia

Sitting room in the residence of the Ambassador of England located on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C

Sitting room in the Chancery and residence of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C

Spectacular California coast and coastal mountains

Skating rink inside Galleria Mall, Houston, Texas

Skeleton of an animal in rural Wyoming

Sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, from which, according to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963

Sitting room in the Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C

Sitting room in what was called the Chancery and Residence of the Ambassador of the Russian Republic, at a time when Russia was part of the Soviet Union. Washington, D.C