Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Stained-glass window at the National Shrine for the Immaculate Conception at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C

Staircase in the Monadnock Building, designed by the Chicago firm of Burnham and Root in 1889. Chicago, Illinois

Staircase inside the U.S. Treasury Department building, Washington, D.C

Stair in Great Hall of Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Stained-glass window, taken in a church in Florida

Staircase in the Homer Building, an office building near Metro Center in Washington, D.C

Stained-glass window at the Neptune Society Columbarium, San Francisco, California

Stairway at the restored Lincoln Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Stairway restoration

Stanford Memorial Arch at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Stanford University's 1903 Memorial Church is seen through the university's elaborate main gate in Palo Alto, California

Standrod Mansion, built in 1902 for Judge D.W. Standrod in Pocatello, Idaho

Stampede Pass through the northern Cascades on the main east-west highway across Washington State

Star Liquors and other stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

State House and Capitol, Boston, Massachusetts

Statue "The Private Soldier," Antietam National Cemetery, near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Stardust Theatre neon, Las Vegas, Nevada

Stately homes in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, developed alongside the Chicago World's Exposition of 1893

Statue and staircase in the Great Hall of the 's Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

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

Statue "Republic" for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

Staten Island ferry boat, New York, New York

Statue at the historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

State of Maine ship, a teaching vessel for the Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine

Statue of Captain John Smith on Jamestown Island, part of the Colonial National Historical Park in Jamestown, Virginia

Statue of Auguste Bertholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the Ellis Island library at the great immigration station, Jersey City, New Jersey

Statue in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Statue of Admiral David Farragut at Farragut Square, Washington, D.C

Statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C

Statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia

Statue of Bishop John Carroll at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

liberator Simon Bolivar

Statue of south american liberator simon bolivar

Statue of Rebecca on Block Island, Rhode Island

Statue of George Washington located on Wall Street in the Financial District of New York City

Statue of Liberty, New York, New York

Statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, College Station, Texas

Statue of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah, Cherokee, North Carolina

Statue of Leif Erickson, on the "Comm Av" mall at the Charlesgate entryway to Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts

Statue of Mary and Dickon from Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" at the reflecting pool of the Conservatory Garden in Central Park, New York City

Statue of Liberty with Ellis Island in the background, New York

Statue of Liberty, New York

Statue of Good and Evil, part of the Peace Fountain outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, New York

Statue of Saint Augustine in a plaza in Laredo, Texas

Statue of South American liberator Simon Bolivar, near the U.S. Department of the Interior building, Washington, D.C

Statue of John McDonogh in Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

Statue of George H.W. Bush, a former CIA director as well as U.S. president, at CIA headquarters in Virginia

Close-up view of the Statue of Liberty in New York City Harbor

Statue of Liberty, officially "Liberty Enlightening the World," Jersey City, New Jersey

Statue of Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Monterey's Italian fishing fleet, Monterey, California

Statue of Theodore Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia

Statue of William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina

Statue of the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, before the U.S. Treasury building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Statue of Union general Philip Kearny at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Statues by sculptor James Earle Fraser outside the U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C

Statues of the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his faithful blue ox Babe, Klamath, California

Steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Railroad sightseeing line, Durango, Colorado

Statue of Union admiral David Farragut in Farragut Square, Washington, D.C