Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

View of a happy mannequin who helps hawk wares at the Traders Village Flea Market, a sprawling yard sale in Grand Prairie, Texas

View of a portion of the house designed by acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei in the Westover section of Fort Worth, Texas

View inside the Tompkins 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 an old, decorative stairway leading to the long-abandoned Swift and Company facility, high above the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

View of downtown San Antonio, Texas, from the Tower of the Americas

View of garden bench and a portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

View of downtown Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County. The portion of the adjoined brown buildings to the left is Albany's City Hall

View of Johnson Nature Park in Lampasas, Texas

View of HemisFair Arena, home of the San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball team, taken from the nearby Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas

View of the Guadalupe Mountains in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Hudspeth County, Texas

View of the Dallas, Texas, skyline, taken from Reunion Tower

View of the Rio Grande River along Texas Rt. 170, which runs through Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

View of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsville, Texas

View of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, a Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge over the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas

View of the maze of freeways and railway lines that intersect in downtown Dallas, Texas

View of the upper facade of the Scholz Garten (also known as Scholz Beer Garden), a beer garden and restaurant in downtown Austin, Texas

View of the twice-daily herding of Texas Longhorns in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Viewing walkway amid the marshland of Sea Rim State Park in far-southeast Texas

View, in 2014, of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963

View through a gateway at the "Clio Garden" and the figure of the muse, Clio, at Bayou Bend, the longtime estate of Houston philanthropist and collector Ima Hogg in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

View, in 2014, of Dealey Plaza from a seventh-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, one floor above the window of a sixth-floor storeroom where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963 Physica

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

Vintage 1940s quonset buildings at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

Vintage advertising clocks at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Vintage crank telephone at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Vintage Gulf gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Conoco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Texaco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Sinclair gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage lion gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Mobil pegasus (flying horse) gas station insigia along a road in East Texas

Vintage marquee for Buford Drug Store in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Vintage Dr. Pepper advertisement on an exterior wall of the Dr Pepper Museum in a former plant that bottled the soft drink in Waco, Texas

Vintage Dr Pepper posters at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Vintage Phillips 66 gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Skelly gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Virginia Van Cleave, a history professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, models her creation exhibited in the "Hats Off to Fiesta!" event, sponsored by the university's Institute of Texan Cultures, as part of the month-long San Antonio, Texas, Fiesta celebration

Vintage decorative plates advertising the Dr Pepper soft drink at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Visitor to a carnival held outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, San Antonio, Texas

Visitors to San Antonio take a barge ride along the River Walk, a portion of the San Antonio river that winds beneath the streets of the city

Vivid red barn in East Texas

Vivid field of wildflowers in the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas

Visitors to the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Wagon wheel against a stone fence at Hueco Tanks State Park, northwest of El Paso, Texas

Wagon wheel and remnants of an old wall from the 20th-Century period when what is now Hueco Tanks State Historic Area near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas, was a privately owned ranch

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Wade Meador of Marietta, Oklahoma, is the horse trainer at the Cannon Quarter Horse ranch near the town of Venus in north-central Texas

Wade Meador, a horse trainer based in Marietta, Oklahoma, trains horses at the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch near Venus, Texas

Wagon outside the stock-farm house at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Waldine Tauch was chosen by the Texas Centennial Commission to create "The First Shot Fired For Texas Independence" (1935), a life-sized bronze bas-relief, set in granite seven miles southwest of Gonzales, near the site of the Battle of Gonzales that ignited the Texas Revolution

Wall art at the Tigua Indian Cultural Center at the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, which celebrates more than 300 years of tribal history in El Paso, Texas

Wall and ceiling details in the Dome Bar of the Hotel Camino Real in El Paso, Texas

Wall decorations inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Wall display at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Water feature outside the headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas

Water feature below the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas

Waterside view of the Amistad National Recreation Area, at the confluence of the Rio Grande, Devils, and Pecos rivers near Del Rio, Texas. The reservoir created there by the Amistad dam is famous for its deep and dangerous underwater caves, popular with elite scuba divers

Water tower above the Adam Hats Building in the Deep Ellum section of Dallas, Texas

Wayen Slanina-Wertz and his goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Watery portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas