Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Supreme Court Interior, Washington, D.C

Sunset at Watch Hill, Rhode Island

Sunshine Skyway, Tampa Bay, Florida

Sunflowers in Nebraska

Sunset over Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains, taken from a vantage point on the Appalachian Trail, Virginia

Sunset casts a glow over this dairy barn in Bruce, in northern Wisconsin

Sunrise on a Florida beach

Sunset on the Chesapeake Bay, not far from Cape Charles on Virginia's long Eastern Shore finger of land that stretches down from Maryland

Sunset on the rocky Oregon coast

Superstar Illusionists Siegfried (right) and Roy (and a large feline friend) perform at the MIrage Hotel prior to Roy's nearly fatal encounter with a white tiger on stage during one of their performances in Las Vegas, Nevada

Sunbathers on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Sunset off the shore of Block Island, Rhode Island

Sunflowers in Wisconsin

Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C

Surf fishing from the Hatteras pier on North Carolina's Outer Banks

Sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

Sweet Ts Sno-Balls New Orleans Highsmith

Swan House, Atlanta, Georgia

Swann Memorial Fountain (also known as the Fountain of the Three Rivers) is a fountain sculpture located in the center of Logan Circle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Surfers on the Southern California coast

Tall buildings, Charlotte, North Carolina

Table setting for a formal diner, with window view of U.S. Capitol, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C

Sylvan Terrace's 1882 row houses in Upper Manhattan, New York, New York

Sylvan Terrace row houses in extreme upper Manhattan, New York, New York

Tabor Opera House, Leadville, Colorado

Table at the Hotel atop the Bellevue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Scottsdale, Arizona

Taliesin, the "natural house" of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and one of the nation's most famous homes, Spring Green, Wisconsin

Takoma Theatre, Washington, D.C

Sycamore Public Library, Sycamore, Illinois

Table in the Embassy of the Holy See, or Vatican Embassy, Washington, D.C

Tall ship Elissa, Galveston, Texas

Tarot reader in Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

Temple Emanu-El, Miami Beach, Florida

Tenement Museum, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 97 Orchard Street, New York, New York

Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

Ten-sided stockade barn, Sturgis, South Dakota

Technicians at a pharmacutical company laboratory, Rockville, Maryland

Techniques of sausage-making are expained at the "Streets of Old Milwaukee" exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach, one of the nation's few beaches open to Jews when the synagogue was built in 1947. Miami Beach, Florida

Teapot sign on the "Sears Block" on City Hall Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts

Temple Beth Shalom, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Teepees (Tipis) and arrows at the Hogan Indian arts and crafts post in Mancos, Colorado

Temple Emanu-El, dedicated in 1926, San Francisco, California

Texas Blue and Red Bonnets

Testing of the Amtrak Acela high-speed train in Pueblo, Colorado, before it was put into service on the East Coast

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before putting it into service

Terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Alexandria, Virginia

Texas Capitol dome, Austin, Texas

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before putting it into service. Note: The image in the is flipped from correct orientation. At upper left is Yawgoo Valley Road in West Kingston, Rhode Island.

Texas Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi

The "Julia Belle Swain," one of few steamboats still operating on the Upper Mississippi, cruises from La Crosse, Wisconsin

Texas wranglers converse

Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas

The "Old House," home to two presidents: John and John Quincy Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts

The "World's Largest Six-Pack" tanks at the G. Heilemann Brewing Company, La Crosse, Wisconsin

The 1797 Belle Grove manor house, Middletown, Virginia

The 1684 Third Haven Quaker Meeting House, Easton, Maryland

The 1791 Mission Dolores, the oldest-standing building in San Francisco, California