Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

U.S. Supreme Court and Thomas Jefferson Building, taken from the U.S. Capitol dome, Washington, D.C

U.S. National Holocaust Museum names of victims on glass, Washington D.C

U.S. Treasury building, Washington, D.C

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U.S. Treasury Department Building, Washington, D.C

Union Veterans' Memorial, Bull Run

Union Station, Portland, Oregon

Union station restoration, Washington, D.C

Union Station Great Hall during restoration, Washington, D.C

Unique small theme park in southern Virginia

Union Station train terminal, looking past a statue and fountain dedicated to Christopher Columbus in Washington, D.C

Union Station, Washington, D.C

Union Station in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s restoration, in which a separate shopping arcade level was added to the historic concourse

Union Station under restoration in the 1980s, Washington, D.C

Unique art car and car barn in Houston, Texas

Union Station façade and sentinels, Washington, D.C

Unique coffee shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Union Station train terminal during its wholesale restoration, Washington, D.C

Vacancy in Old Las Vegas, Nevada

Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, Louisiana

Utah's Valley of the Gods

Utah's Zion National Park

Unusual wooden silo at Centennial Village, a historical park in Greeley, Colorado

USS Olympia, docked at the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Uptown home, New Orleans, Louisiana

USS North Carolina, anchored in the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, North Carolina

Utica Mills covered bridge, built in 1850, Thurmont, Maryland

Ursulines Street cottages with stoops in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Uptown fruit market at the Riverbend, New Orleans, Louisiana

Urban farmers in New Orleans

Vegas Vic on Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Vaulted ceiling and Main Hall in Washington's Union Station following a massive restoration. Washington, D.C

Vanna Venturi House by Robert Venturi in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Van Allen office building, designed by celebrated Chicago School architect Louis H. Sullivan, Chicago, Illinois

Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vanna Venturi house, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vehicles given to and driven by President Lyndon Johnson, on display at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Texas

Vaile Mansion, Independence, Missouri

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

VERY old tractor next to the road in the American west

Victorian cottages, Cape May, New Jersey

Veranda of the Biltmore Mansion, America's largest home, Asheville, North Carolina

Veranda of the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Vietnam Buddhist Center, Houston, Texas

View from Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, Texas

View at dusk, Boston, Massachusetts

Victorian parlor of the Molly Brown House and Museum in Denver, Colorado

View from Georgetown of the Potomac River and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C

View down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Old Post Office Tower, Washington, D.C

Victorian downtown of Ferndale, California

View from above of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge

View down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C

Victorian structure built for Simon and Lila Bell (Solomon) Guggenheim in 1905 in Corpus Christi, Texas

View from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

View from the porch of George Washington's Mount Vernon, Virginia home on a winter day

View from Little Round Top at Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania

View from the U.S. Capitol looking northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

View of buildings, Minneapolis, Minnesota

View of Brooklyn, New York

View of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California