Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Wooden cow and calf mailboxes

Woodrow Wilson House, a national historic landmark and house museum in Washington, D.C

World Trade Center, New York, New York

Worker at Mardi Gras World painting floats, New Orleans, Louisiana

Workers restore the lobby of the historic Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., in the 1980s

Work on a mosaic floor during the restoration of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C

World Bank headquarters building, Washington, D.C

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

Work on the Willard Hotel during a 1980s restoration, Washington, D.C

Work on an alcove during the extensive renovation of Union Station, Washington, D.C., in the 1980s

Worker is putting gold leaf on the flame of the dome during the 1980s restoration, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Workers examine state symbols to be placed on the ceiling during the Willard Hotel's restoration, Washington, D.C

Work area at the Johnson Wax Building, headquarters of the S.C. Johnson and Son Co., Racine, Wisconsin

' 'Birth of Aviation' showing Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel P. Langley, Octave Chanute and the Wrights, image is part of the historical frieze in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C

Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on

Yale University was founded in 1701 at the salt box-style Buckingham House in Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York

Yerba Buena Gardens, built atop Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California

Young Trombonist Jackson Square New Orleans Highsmith

Young Musicians Jackson Square New Orleans Take Bow Highsmith

Young Virginia Beach enthusiast at one of the beach community's many public-art displays, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Zion National Park, Utah

Zodiac-theme grill decoration at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Youngster enjoys a display of inflated Easter bunnies for sale on a street corner in San Antonio, Texas

Young driver, old car at a family reunion in North Carolina

Young boys congregate on the corner in front of a mural in a neighborhood in Philadephia, Pennsylvania

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Youngster enjoys Independence Day Parade, Washington, D.C

Zodiac-themed grille at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Zodiac-themed screen decorations at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Columbus City Hall, designed in 1981 by Edward Charles Bassett of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Columbus, Indiana

The Crystal Cathedral Christian church building, Garden Grove, Orange County, California

Peju Winery, established in 1982. California

The easily identifiable (thanks to its huge artistic sign) downtown J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, across from City Hall

George Segal's 1983 bronze creation, "Rush Hour," at the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum that opened in 2000 in Dallas, Texas

Marquee of the Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

Mardi Gras Magic Man in New Orleans, Louisiana

One of three miners' statues in Walsenburg, Colorado, "The City Built on Coal"

Philip Johnson's Glass House

The 1984 painting "Matilda Lockhart Comes Home," by artist Lee Herring, displayed at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

The Contemporary Jewish Museum, founded in 1984 in San Francisco, California

Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C., prior to its closing in 2011

Willard Hotel lobby after cleanup, before restoration, 1984

Wizard and his Wishing Well on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana: Note: Despite the title, the view is clearly Royal Street (not Bourbon 1 block away). Shown is streetcape at the 600 block or Royal, photo taken at or near intersection with St. Peter Street, looking upriver towards Canal Street

Wizard and his Wishing Well on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana: Note: Despite the title, the location is actually Royal rather than Bourbon Street. Royal at St. Peter, French Quarter, looking upriver towards Canal Stret.

Dedication on May 30, 1985 of the USO headquarters building as the "Bob Hope Building," in honor of comedian Bob Hope (light blue jacket), Washington, D.C

Dedication on May 30, 1985 of the USO headquarters building as the "Bob Hope Building," in honor of comedian Bob Hope, Washington, D.C

Exhibit in the Air Heritage Park, dedicated in 1985 at Randolph Field, now Randolph Air Force Base, part of the U.S. Military's Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

Immigrants statue, erected outside the Harrison County Courthouse in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as part of the celebration of the city's bicentennial in 1985

Sculpture "Lines in Four Directions" at 10 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois

Vista International Hotel Pittsburgh

Mary Martin and Carol Channing at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Mary Martin at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, restored Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Oliver Carr, president of the firm that renovated the historic Willard Hotel, speaks at its reopening in 1986, Washington, D.C

President Ronald Reagan at his desk in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C

President Ronald Reagan talks to Senator Dan Quayle at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C

President Ronald Reagan talks to Republican Senators at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C

President Ronald Reagan talks to a staff member outside the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C

Reopening ceremony at the Willard Hotel in 1986, Washington, D.C