Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Amish Country quilts, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

American barn detail

Amish farm, Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Amish buggy, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Amish "whoopie pies," a surprisingly sinful treat. Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Amish dolls in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

America's tallest building, the Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Amish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Amish horse, buggy, and family at a small home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Amish working the field in Pennsylvania

Amtrak employees show off their new uniforms in front of the brand new Acela Train that was put in service in the year 2000. Washington, D.C

Amish vendor sign, Ohio

Amish figures swing in the wind outside an embroidery shop, Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Amish shoo-fly pies, made from a gooey molasses-based filling and sometimes topped with chocolate cream. Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Amtrak Acela train doing a test run in New England before going into service Note: The image in the is reversed from the original. The houses in the background are on Plains Road in West Kingston, Rhode Island.

Dutch Haven in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

An aerial view of the Arlington Memorial Bridge 16927v

Amusement park, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Amusement Park, Kemah, Texas

Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset is assembled at the Bombardier plant in Barre, Vermont

Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset during testing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset, left, at its test site prior to its introduction. Pueblo, Colorado

Amtrak's new Acela Express is in the shop at a maintenance facility outide Union Station, Washington, D.C

Amtrak's new Acela Express trainset, parked at the Union Station yards before its rollout in 2000. Washington, D.C

An Indian Maid pours waters for explorer Hernando De Soto in the men's bath at the Fordyce Bathhouse, Helena, Arkansas

An elegant Victorian mansion. 1020 Main Street, Danville, Virginia.

An early 20th-century matchbook for the "New" Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail, Boston, Massachusetts

An oil refinery on the Gulf of Mexico near Houston, Texas

An old lighthouse stands on a spit of land at the Marina, San Francisco, California

An unusual bridge in Arizona

An ornamental cast-iron staircase is a feature in this room, which was once the Tennessee State Library, in the capitol in Nashville, Tennessee

Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia

Angels Camp, California

Antietam U.S. Soldier Monument Highsmith Archive

Antietam battlefield's Burnside's Bridge, near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

Antique store and other businesses on Tremont Street of South End, Boston, Massachusetts

Apartment building in Washington, D.C

Apartments and a small lake in Reston, Virginia, a planned development not far from Dulles International Airport

Apartment building on Jekyll Island, Georgia

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Houston, Texas

Antique shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Apartment complex, Washington, D.C

Apple Pancake at Millie's

Appalachian Trail crossing, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Appalachian Trail and view of Mount Katahdin, Maine

Appalachian Trail and Fontana Dam, North Carolina

Appalachian Trail, Juniata River Crossing, Pennsylvania

Archaeologist Henry Chapman Mercer collected more then 50,000 antebellum farm implments and tools that became the heart of the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Appalachian Trail quilt on display in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Arcade before the restoration in the early 1980s, Union Station, Washington, D.C

Archiectural detail from the Residence of the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Washington, D.C

Arched architectural detail in the Federal Triangle located in Washington, D.C

Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland

Aquarius bronze and glass grille figure, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Architect Mies van der Rohe's iconic Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

Architectural detail in the Chancery and residence of the Ambassador of Kuwait, Washington, D.C

Architectural detail in the historic Baltimore Basilica, Baltimore, Maryland