Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

This may be the Last Drive In Picture Show (at least that's its name) in Gatesville, Texas. But it's one of a relative handful of the old drive-in theaters still open for business (as of 2014)

Tiffany glass dome in the Dome Bar of the Hotel Camino Real in El Paso, Texas

Time, and vines, have caught up with an abandoned building in Bracketville in Kinney County, Texas

Tile heraldic sign on a building in New Braunfels, Texas, evincing a touch of the city's German heritage

Tile heraldic sign on a building in New Braunfels, Texas, evincing the state's "lone star" with a touch of the city's German heritage

Tile details at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Timothy Culpepper, reclining, and Julian Hamilton outside the Glory Thrift Store, a Christian-based enterprise in a modest section of Dallas, Texas, near Fair Park

Tiny cemetery outside the settlement of Luckenbach in Gillespie County, Texas

Tipi-themed rest stop in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The park, also situated along the Rio Grande River, is adjacent to the better-known Big Bend National Park

Tombstones and other markers at the Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont, Texas

Tools at the blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Tony Casteneda, whose heritage is Lipan Apache, is a dancer at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an official Native American Pow Wow that is part of the annual, month-long Fiesta San Antonio in Texas

Tomb of John Connally at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

Tony Emmitte as a Mexican cavalryman at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto, La Porte, Texas

Topiary clock in the upscale neighborhood of Las Colinas in Irving, Texas

Top of the Sabine Bank Lighthouse. All that remains of a metal, caisson-style lighthouse (not to be confused with the far taller Sabine Pass Lighthouse that stands in Louisiana waters) that guarded the entrance to the Sabine River at Sabine Pass between southern Texas and Louisiana, beginning in 190

Tobacco-product ("Star Tobacco") advertising mural in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Tourist barges loaded with visitors pass each other on a portion of the San Antonio River that winds though San Antonio's lively, underground River Walk, which turned an unsightly slum into an international tourist attraction

Tourists each barbecue in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Train yard in Laredo, Texas

Train yard El Paso, Texas

Trees draped with Spanish moss within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

Trees in a park near Goliad State Park and Historic Site in Goliad, Texas

Trucks and Texas are not an unusual sight. Trucks and giant catfish together are. This art installation appeared at the Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden in Lampasas, Texas

Truck-parts store with a colorful, patriotic-themed painted roof in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Trophies featuring the "Perky Pepper" figure, given to Dr Pepper bottlers for per-capita sales, displayed at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Trinity Lutheran Church, hard by the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, worshipped there when they were at home at the "Texas White House"

Tulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Tulips at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Two of the star-and sun-gazing structures at the McDonald Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Two white-faced Saki monkeys, who roam freely in the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, an educational tourist attraction in Galveston, Texas

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Two "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Wes Hughes, left, and Thornton Young) fire away in a showdown on the street at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio Physical de

Two horses stand amid lush surroundings near Cleveland in Liberty County, Texas

Two customers, Sol Machado (left) and Juan Javamillo, of El Paso, Texas, have a laugh in some unusual barstools at Lil' Red's Saloon in the Stockyards neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

Two "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Thornton Young, left, and Wes Hughes) fire away in a showdown on the street at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio Physical de

Tyler Rose Festival at the Municipal Rose Garden, Tyler, Texas

Tye Wichert of San Antonio, Texas, models one of his two creations exhibited in the "Hats Off to Fiesta!" event, sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures as part of the month-long Fiesta San Antonio celebration

U.S. Air Force jets on the tarmac at Ellington Airport, one of three airports in Pasadena, Texas, outside Houston

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist" artist Donald Judd, though he detested the "minimalist" description, on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion Chinati, a contemporary art museum in Marfa, a surprisingly sophisticated town in the Texas high dese

Upper facade of the Texas Theatre in Marfa, Texas

Unusual parking-garage sign in downtown Dallas, Texas

Upper reaches of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known locally as the "Old Red Courthouse," now a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas

USS Texas, the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship

Used-car dealership that touts its American, Mexican, and Texas loyalty in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Route 180, formerly the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas

Unusual cattle pens at the regionally famous Cattleman's Steakhouse, which is located on old, isolated ranch several miles north of the little town of Fabens, Texas

Upper stairway. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Victor Gomez, whose heritage is Seneca, at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an official Native American Pow Wow that is part of the annual, month-long Fiesta San Antonio in Texas

Veryl Goodnight's "The Day the Wall Came Down" sculpture, a seven-ton bronze creation on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, that depicts horses jumping the collapsed Berlin Wall. The sculpture symbolizes freedom, patriotism, and the expression of human spirit Physical descrip

View along Texas Rt. 170 and the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

View from above the Stockyards Station district, a tourist hub on the location of the old Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. Here twice daily, cowpokes herd Texas Longhorns in a stroll (assuredly not a "running" of the bulls) for the benefit of visitors

Victorian home, built by banker and rancher Matthew Cartwright in 1883 in Terrell, Texas, in Kaufman County, east of Dallas

View from the Reunion Tower in Dallas, Texas, focusing on the Omni Hotel

View from the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto, La Porte, Texas

View inside the Pickard Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

View of a Texas Longhorn in his pen in the Stockyards district of Fort Worth, Texas

View of a stagecoach and driver, carrying tourists up and down Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

View of a Texas Longhorn in his pen in the Stockyards district of Fort Worth, Texas. Twice daily, the longhorns are herded up Exchange Street there for the benefit of tourists

View inside the Tompkins Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

View inside the Foster Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth