Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Wagon rim on an Amish farm, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Walls of Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina

Wall of Remembrance at the U.S. National Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C

Wall detail in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Wall art at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Wall and sculpture at the Carmel Mission Basilica, California

Wall of ceramic birds of Denmark embellishes the Chancery and residence of the Ambassador of Denmark in Washington, D.C

Washington Monument, seen from the Potomac Tidal Basin at Spring cherry blossom time, Washington, D.C.

Washington Monument in Washington, D.C

Washington Monument from Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C

Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located along the Capital Beltway in Kensington, Maryland

Washington's Union Station Great Hall of Union Station before the restoration work began. Washington, D.C

Washington Monument, seen from the Potomac Tidal Basin at Spring cherry blossom time, Washington, D.C

Wash basins in "Amish Country," Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Wash on a clothesline in "Amish Country," Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Washington Convention Center under construction behind a vintage D.C. Public Library building, Washington, D.C

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore, Maine

Washington Monument in scaffolding, Washington, D.C

Washington Mitchell-Oge house, San Antonio, Texas

Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C

Washington's Union Station great hall before the restoration. Washington, D.C

Wash hanging on the line on an Amish farm, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Washington's Friendship Arch, entering the city's Chinatown neighorhood, under construction. Washington, D.C

Water works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Water treatment at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C

Washington, D.C. panorama

Waterfront-route streetcar stops at Occidental Park off Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington

Water view of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wasteland, a shop on San Francisco, California's Haight Street, once the center of the "hippie movement," selling vintage clothing and eclectic party supplies

Water falls at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Waterfall and cherry trees at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C

Watergate Hotel, site of the scandalous break-in of Democratic Party Headquarters during the Nixon Administration. Washington, D.C

Waterfalls at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C

Water feature at the U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C

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Watt House, Union Headquarters at the Battle of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

Waterworks Building, Beverly Hills, California

Web of highways in and around Las Vegas, Nevada

Welcome sign to Pensacola Beach on Florida's Panhandle

Weathered old tobacco barn, Stecoah, North Carolina

Wells Fargo branch at Market and Grant Streets, built as the Union Trust Bank in 1910 in San Francisco, California

Westerfield House on Alamo Square, San Francisco, California

West Hall shopping area in renovated Union Station, Washington, D.C

West Hall shopping arcade in Washington's Union Station following a massive restoration. Washington, D.C

Western Plaza, a wide space on Pennsylvania Avenue, was renamed Freedom Plaza in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington, D.C

West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the contiguous United States and the closest point to Europe from a point in the fifty States

West Virginia Capitol, designed by Cass Gilbert, in Charleston, West Virginia

Wheelhouse of the Riverboat Nenana, a sternwheel packet steamer that once plied the interior rivers of the Last Frontier, before finding at home as a floating museum in the harbor of Fairbanks, Alaska

White tiger at the Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida

When Pablo Picasso's untitled, fifty-foot abstract sculpture appeared on a plaza on Washington Street in 1967, it became, to some, Chicago's Eiffel Tower, a symbol of the vibrant city

Whitlow's Restaurant and retail stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., photographed before they were demolished to make way for new buildings

Wheatfield Monument, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

White Hall at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

White House in the foreground, with the Washington Monument, shrouded in scaffolding for renovation, in the distance. Washington, D.C

Whitlow's Restaurant and retail stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Wicker or rattan furniture scene

Whitlow's Restaurant, Coffee Roasters, and other stores at 11th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., photographed before they were demolished to make way for new buildings

Willard Hotel ballroom during complete restoration, Washington, D.C.

Willard Hotel ballroom during the hotel's extensive restoration during the 1980s, Washington, D.C.

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