Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Third Haven Meeting House, built in 1684 by Quakers in Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore

This eight-acre lake in front of the Bellagio Hotel and Resort comes to life with swirling water shows produced by more than one thousand submerged fountains. Las Vegas, Nevada

This abandoned dairy farm near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was once a thriving, advertising-minded operation

Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse in Golden Hills State Park on Lake Ontario, Baker, New York

This old dairy barn features a forebay, or overhang, a style traced to the early cantons of Switzerland. Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

This turkey farm barn near Bristol, Illinois, holds 4,500 birds

This sign outside Monson warns Appalachian Trail hikers that they are about to enter the dreaded 'Wilderness,' a 90-mile stretch that offers few human contacts and almost no amenities

This pier, owned by the Edgewater Lodge on Long Key in the Florida Keys, often becomes a virtual bird sanctuary

This statue of Michelangelo's "David" at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, is the only one in the Western Hemisphere

Thomas Edison's laboratory at his winter home, which he called 'Seminole Lodge,' in Fort Myers, Florida

Thomas Jefferson's home "Monticello" in Charlottesville, Virginia

Thomas Viaduct over the Patapsco River, completed in 1835, Elkridge, Maryland

This much-overlooked 1901 memorial statue on Scott Circle, Washington, D.C., depicts Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the homeopathic medical discipline

Throwing American currency into a wastebasket

Ticket to the 1928 Democratic National Convention, held in Houston, Texas

Three expert hikers pose on the Appalachian Trail near Damascus, Virginia

Tiger poses at the Zoo, Miami, Florida

Tigers Den at Zoo, Miami, Florida

Tilework at Timberline Lodge, constructed and decorated by W.P.A. artists during the Great Depression on Oregon's Mount Hood

Times Square, New York, New York

Tiffany stain glass window at the Hay House in Macon, Georgia

Tile entryway in Ybor City (Tampa) Florida

Times Square, which is actually triangular, in New York, New York

Tile detail on a park bench in Houston, Texas

Tiles from Puebla, Mexico at the Mexican Cultural Institute, depict the shields of the Mexican states and a view of the ancient cities of Popoca-tepetl and Ixtacihivatt. Washington, D.C

The top floor of the historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Tomb of the Unknowns seen from below. Arlington, Virginia

Top floor of the Willard Hotel during restoration. Washington, D.C

Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Tony Bennett wax figure at Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada

Tobacco warehouse district, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco-curing barn near Budd's Creek, Maryland

Trading floor, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

Town center, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Tourist barge on the old C&O Canal in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C

Tractor under a shed lean-to in rural North Carolina

Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York City

Trademark of the Wells Theatre above an entryway to the restored historic theater's auditorium, Norfolk, Virginia

Trading floor of the Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tourist barge on the C&O Canal in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C

Tourist barge at the Georgetown lock on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Washington, D.C

Tractor out of the sun under a lean-to in rural North Carolina

Trading floor room of the Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Train yard, La Junta, Colorado

Train platform, 30th Street station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Train tracks in Alexandria, Virginia looking towards Washington, D.C., in the far distance

Train yard near Baltimore, Maryland

Train yards, Houston, Texas

Train comes into the Metra Station in Chicago, Illinois

Train track to infinity on the eastern Colorado plains

Train locomotive, Mid-Continent Museum, Wisconsin

Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Transco Tower, Houston, Texas

Tribute to Confederate stalwarts at Stone Mountain, Georgia

Treasure in the Neon Museum's "boneyard" in Las Vegas, Nevada

Treffle Bolduc poses with the snowshoes he makes by hand, North Conway, New Hampshire

Trout stream deep in the Cascade Mountains, Washington

Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island

Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts