Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Statue of Thomas Jefferson in the lobby of the historic Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia

Statue to Spanish-American War veterans outside Municipal Auditorium Wichita Falls, Texas

Statue of Union Admiral David G. Farragut, sculpted by Vinnie Hoxie in 1881, located in Farragut Square in Washington, D.C

Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, and a marker to the C.I.A's fallen at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia

Statue of Union general Philip Sheridan at Sheridan Circle on Massachusetts Avenue's "Embassy Row," in front of the Egyptian ambassador's residence, Washington, D.C

Steam engine of the Grand Canyon Railroad, which runs from Williams, a small town near Flagstaff, up to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

Sterling silver displayed in the dining room of the Chancery and residence of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C

Stinkwood room paneling and fireplace at the residence of the ambassador of South Africa, Washington, D.C

Steamer "Louise" plies Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Steeple and Dome at the Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland

Steps connecting lower and upper town, National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Steinway piano factory in Queens, New York

Stone House Tavern, used as hospital during both Bull Run battles, Manassas, Virginia

Stone house in Brooklyn, New York, New York

Stone bridge in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C

Stone farmhouse used by George Washington as his headquarters during the bitter winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the Revolutionary War

Stone grotto built by Father Matthias Wernerus, pastor of the local Catholic church, Dickeyville, Wisconsin

Stone round barn and round shed

Stony Man Overlook on Skyline Drive, which is also a crossing point of the Appalachian Trail, in Northern Virginia

Store and administrative offices of the Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, the National Trust for Historic Preservation property

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

Stonewall Jackson statue erected in 1938 at Bull Run, First Manassas National Park, Manassas, Virginia

Store and administrative offices of the Farnsworth House, the National Trust for Historic Preservation property in Plano, Illinois

Storefront at the historic Harrison Brothers Hardware, Huntsville, Alabama

Strawberry Mansion Bridge with 8

Street clock, Seattle, Washington

Street scene in Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C

Storm in the mountains, Yosemite National Park, California

Street in Deadwood, South Dakota, which was extensively refurbished thanks to money from proceeds of the town's casinos

Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Strata in Zion National Park, Utah

Stratosphere Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Strand Theater, Key West, Florida

Storm clouds over rural Minnesota barn

Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Street in Chintown, San Francisco, California

Street scene in Deadwood, South Dakota, a town that underwent extensive rehabilitation using money raised from casino proceeds

Straight-on view of the Aladdin mining tipple, which carried coal down a mountainside to waiting freight cars, Aladdin, Wyoming

Street in Chinatown district of Chicago, Illinois

Street-level view of the flatiron Columbus Tower, also called the Sentinel Building, and the Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Streetscape view of City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Streetscape, much of which is now a National Historic Park at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

Street-level view of San Francisco, California, with a focus on the 1972 Transamerica Pyramid, the city's tallest building

Stretch of Skyline Drive in Virginia

Street sculpture "Little Sipper," by James Barnhill, Asheville, North Carolina

Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota

Vintage Nash Rambler

Strolling in Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Subway train arrives at a station in Brooklyn, New York

Striated rock outcropping in the Utah desert

Structures in Stevensville, Maryland

Studio of scuptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Cornish, New Hampshire

Striated rock outropping in the Utah desert

Structure at Arthurdale, West Virginia, a planned community housing destitute families during the Great Depression

Study at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home, Charlottesville, Virginia

Stunning light shaft in Slot canyon, Page, Arizona

Study in the residence of the Ambassador of Italy, Washington, D.C

Sunbathers along the New England coast

Sumner School, named for U.S. Senator Charles Sumner, Washington, D.C

Sunrise silhouette of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.