Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

View of architect Mies van der Rohe's classic modernist Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

View of Boston, Massachusetts, from the Charles River

View of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., taken from Wisconsin and M Street, N.W

View of Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco Bay, California

View of downtown at Pennsylvania Avenue and 20th Street NW, Washington, D.C

View of downtown and bay bridge, San Francisco, California

View of Georgetown, Washington, D.C

View of Houston, Texas

View of Minneapolis, Minnesota

View of Manhattan skyline, New York, New York

View of Houston from University of Houston located in downtown Houston, Texas

View of Logan Circle, Washington, D.C

View of Market Square, a new condominium development above the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, taken from the roof of the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C

View of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

View of Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C

View of revitalized Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland

View of Ronald Reagan Airport and Washington, D.C. from Crystal City, Virginia

View of San Francisco, California, from afar

View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Arizona

View of the coast from Highway 1 near Big Sur, California

View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim. Arizona

View of the Gus S. Wortham Center and skyline, Houston, Texas

View of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim, Arizona

View of the historic Willard Hotel taken from City Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

View of the Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota

View of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, from which, according to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy in 1961

View of the name plate on Ellis Island, New Jersey, with view of World Trade Center, New York

View of the Thomas Jefferson Building from the U.S. Capitol dome, Washington, D.C

View of the Washington Monument from a distant location on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

View of the Washington Monument from a Willard Hotel window, Washington, D.C

View of the west side of New York City from high above Central Park

View of Watergate Hotel, Washington, D.C

View of the Washington Monument from the Potomac Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C

View of the Willard Hotel from Pershing Park's skating rink, Washington, D.C

View of Washington, D.C. from the White House

View of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York, in the distance

View of the Willard Hotel from Pershing Park, Washington, D.C

View of the Washington Monument from a distant location on the National Mall, Washington, D.C

View, Boston, Massachusetts

View, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

View, Glacier National Park, Montana

View, Chicago, Illinois

View of Willis Tower, formerly known as Sears Tower. Designed and built in 1973 by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Sears, Roebuck & Company, the world's largest retailer at the time.

View of World Trade Center towers and the lower Manhattan skyline through registry room window at dusk. Ellis Island, Jersey City, New Jersey

Villa, South Miami, Florida

Vines are prominent in this onetime utopian village, New Harmony, Indiana

Vintage sign at Bashful Bob's Motel in Page, Arizona

Vintage slot machine at the Casino Legends Hall of Fame at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Vintage Shell station built in 1926 on Route 66 in Mount Olive, Illinois

Vintage motel sign on Freemont Street in Old Las Vegas, Nevada

Vintage Pontiac grille

Vintage fire truck at the Fire Museum, Lutherville, Maryland

Vintage cars at the Strater Hotel, Durango, Colorado

Vizcaya Museum, Miami, Florida

Vista of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado

Vizcaya Garden, Miami, Florida

Virginia's Explore Park is a living history and nature park on thirteen hundred acres of woods in Roanoke, Virginia

Viscaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida

Wagon rim on an Amish farm, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Wagons Ho! statue, Pendleton, Oregon