Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2000s

Lobby, Herbert C. Hoover Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C

Lobby, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is a monument five-story limestone building in Little Rock, Arkansas

Main Reading Room Highsmith

Lobby, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lobby, U.S. Custom House, Houston, Texas

Lobby, U.S. Courthouse, Tallahassee, Florida

Lobby, U.S. Post Office & Court House, Lexington, Kentucky

Lobby, U.S. Court House, Austin, Texas

Logging plant, Washington

Long coal train, South Dakota

Michael S. Wolfson Park, Palm Springs, California

Long trains glide across the western United States skyline in Nebraska

Department of State, Harry S. Truman Building, Washington, D.C

Main doorway, James A. Walsh U.S. Courthouse, Tucson, Arizona

Main entrance oblique, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska

Main entrance doorway, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska

Mailboxes at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Mailboxes at the Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building

Main entrance, Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska

Mailbox, Robert A. Young Federal Building, St. Louis, Missouri * More information — General Services Administration

Main lobby, Joseph P. Kinnerary U.S. Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio

Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Marble revetment, front, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Masonic Temple, Alexandria, Virginia

Maze, New Harmony, Indiana

Medallion at the Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building

Mementos left at Michael Jackson's house, 2710 Palomino Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada

Memorial Day, Vietnam Memorial, Washington, D.C

Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska

Mercury Commuter Car at the Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona

Metalwork at the Winston E. Arnow U.S. Post Office and Court House, Pensacola, Florida

Mid-century modern home built by the Alexander Construction Company, Palm Springs, California

Miles and miles of homes, Las Vegas, Nevada

Minneapolis Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mission San Juan Capistrano, the seventh of twenty-one missions to be founded in Alta California

Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi

Mission Street façade, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California

Monte Carlo Hotel view with the Mirage Hotel in the background. Both are located on the Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada

Mono Lake, California

Monument Valley View, Arizona, by Carol M. Highsmith

Monument Valley View, Arizona

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Monument Valley, Arizona

Mural "Insular Possession: Alaska," by James Michael at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C

Motel sign, Page, Arizona

Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park

Mount McKinley and other rugged peaks, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount Hunter, Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska

Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali Park

Mount McKinley's Wickersham Wall and other peaks on Mt. McKinley's north side above Denali National Park, Alaska

Mr. D'z Diner, Route 66, Kingman, Arizona

Mural "An Alternative History of Ft. Myers" in exterior courtyard of new Ft. Myers Federal Building, Ft. Myers, Florida

Mural "Apple Industry," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C

Mural "Harvest Dance" by James Auchiah at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C

Mural "Bauzite Mining," by Julius Woeltz, located in the Saline County Courthouse in Benton, Arkansas

Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C

Mural "French explorers and indians," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C

Mural "Ben Franklin, colonial postmaster," by George Harding at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C