Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Shiny horse sculpture outside a small art gallery in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Shriners are often seen cavorting in tiny clown cars or even tricycles at local U.S. parades. But these members of Charleston, West Virginia's, Beni Kadem Shrine found faster, and louder, wheels for the city's FestivALL Art Parade, in which theater groups, visual artists, dancers, street performers

Shriners are often seen cavorting in tiny clown cars or even tricycles at local U.S. parades. But this member of Charleston, West Virginia's, Beni Kadem Shrine found fancier wheels for the city's FestivALL Art Parade, in which theater groups, visual artists, dancers, street performers, art cars, mus

Shriners are often seen cavorting in tiny clown cars or even tricycles at local U.S. parades. But this member of Charleston, West Virginia's, Beni Kadem Shrine found even more imaginative wheels for the city's FestivALL Art Parade, in which theater groups, visual artists, dancers, street performers

Sign for Centennial Ranch in rural Ouray County, between Ridgway and Montrose, Colorado

Sign: The Apteka Liquor, Beer, Wine. Ouray, Colorado

Sign: Ouray Hot Springs, Pool & Fitness Center. Ouray, Colorado

Sign for Spangler's carpet store in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Signs at the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming

Sign for the 6 & 40 Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado

Sign for the Circle S motel in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sign for the Red Men Hall in Empire, Colorado

Sign for the Trail Riders Motel in Granby, Colorado, at the southwestern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park

Sign for the Marble National Historic Site in Marble, Colorado Nearby, columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand

Sign for the historic square, including the town's public library, in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Signature of artist, Bill Sayre, on seawall mural, Huntington, West Virginia

Sign on the window, and reflection of businesses across the street, at the Doc Holliday Casino in Central City, Colorado

Sign for the Wyoming Motel in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Sign for the Dime Horseshoe Bar, a popular "biker bar," welcoming passing motorcycle riders, in Sundance, Wyoming

Sign marking the beginning of the Gaudineer Intrepretive Trail in the Mongongahela National Forest West Virginia

Similarly designed small bungalow homes on one of several brick streets in a neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia. There are so many brick streets remaining there that the entire neighborhood is referred to locally as the "Southside Bricks"

Similarly designed homes on one of several brick streets in a neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia. There are so many brick streets remaining there that the entire neighborhood is referred to locally as the "Southside Bricks"

Silhousette of a jar-shaped cooling tower at a chemical plant along the Ohio River in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The cooling towers are often mistaken for similarly shaped ones used a nuclear power plants

Silhouette of a passing freight train near Pueblo Memorial Airport in Pueblo County, Colorado

Sistersville, West Virginia, City Hall

Silhouette of a jar-shaped cooling tower at a chemical plant along the Ohio River, near Belmont in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The cooling towers are often mistaken for similarly shaped ones used a nuclear power plants

Six-shooter entry-door handle at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

Slogar Bar and Restaurant in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Small outbuilding on the grounds of the Stephen Decatur Lawrence Homestead, Opal Lawrence Historical Park, Mesquite, Texas

Small homes in a row on Wheeling Island, a part of Wheeling, West Virginia, located in the middle of the Ohio River

Smokestacks and cooling towers at a power plant north of Point Pleasant, along the Ohio River in Mason County, West Virginia

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Small turret across the road from the Berkeley Springs Castle. It may have been used as a place marker on the twisting road, along which visitors can otherwise easily pass the castle high above without seeing it. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Small waterfall along the old, one-way, dirt Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

Snow fences are in place in Laramie County, near Cheyenne in eastern Wyoming, in preparation for another kind of storm besides the rainstorm approaching here

South Front Street homes on Wheeling Island, part of Wheeling, West Virginia, that lies in the middle of the Ohio River

Somewhat obscured by two hefty trees is a truly significant sign along the Gaudineer Intrepretive Trail in the Mongongahela National Forest West Virginia

The rodeo arena at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango, Colorado

Sparse roadside sign for the Sands Motel, touting its "clean units" as an amenity in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Spiky lupin flowers in a garden in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

St. Adolphus Catholic Church and Rectory in Wheeling, West Virginia NOTE: The title is correct based on the West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. However, Carol Highsmith incorrectly identifies this as St. Adolphus Catholic Church when, in fact, it is St. Alphonsus Catholic

St. Elmo Hotel, Ouray, Colorado

Spring house at the White House Farm, in the Summit Point Settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Laramie, Wyoming

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Fairmont, West Virginia

Stained glass detail above the main doorway of the Pueblo Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado

Stained-glass window at Christ Episcopal Church in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Stained glass windows inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

Stairs at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Statue honoring those Hampshire County men killed fighting for their country in World War I. Romney, West Virginia

Statue at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Statue of a Virginia frontiersman on a monument at Point Pleaasant Battle Monument State Park, called Tu-Endie-Wei Park locally, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Statue of Adonis, suitably covered for an audience of young students, inside East High School in Denver, Colorado

Statue of Barney Ford in Breckenridge, Colorado Ford, a onetime runaway mulatto slave, who discovered gold on what is now Barney Ford Hill nearby, made a fortune

Statue of Socrates outside the College of Law building and George W. Hopper Law Library at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

Statue of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in a plaza at Marshall University, which takes the famed jurist's name. Huntington, West Virginia

Steam locomotive and tender of a Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train at its northern terminus in Silverton, high in Colorado's San Juan Mountains

Stephenson's Hotel in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Stick figures, and not just stick figures but WALKING stick figures of a leopard and a zebra, at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Stone Manor, a historic house in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia