Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Old automobile, Barstow, California

Old building in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento/San Joaqin River Delta in California

Old bronze anchor, Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Old building in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California

Old City Hall on Market Street in Redding, California

Old Chevrolet truck in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento/San Joaqin River Delta in California

Old gas station "Mr. Lubrication," 1629 Del Monte Blvd., Seaside, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

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Old sign for Fireside Inn Motel, Santa Cruz, California

Old Sacramento is a 28-acre National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park along the Sacramento River in California's capital city

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Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

One of many long, straight, black roads in California's Death Valley

One of several remarkable roadside attractions: giant, concrete statues created by a local Auburn, California, dentist, Dr. Kenneth Fox

One of the wine cellers, or "caves," at the Jarvis Winery, in the mountains above Napa Valley, California

One of the wine-cellar "caves" at the Schramsberg Vineyard winery in California's Napa Valley

One of two original Chinese-operated stores in Coloma (formerly Colluma and Culloma) on the south fork of the American River in El Dorado County, California

Original Tommy's World Famous Hamburgers, Los Angeles, California

Orange County Great Park, California

One of what are fairly common bear-crossing signs in California's Sierra Mountains

Ornate terra cotta and metal grill work over the front entrance to the Hearst Building on Market Street and 3rd, San Francisco, California

Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Santa Barbara, California

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Montecito, California

Outdoor shopping center in Los Angeles, California

Pacific coastline, California

Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California

Pacific Coast Highway, Scenic State Route 1, a major north-south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of California

Pacific Ocean scenic in Monterey, California

Pacific Coast sunset at Monterey, California

Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles at the Pacific Ocean waterfront

Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California

Pacific Ocean views in Northern California

Painting at La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Painting of Isabella the Catholic at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana

Bobadilla betrays Columbus

Columbus Coming Ashore

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

Palm trees at the Desert Studies Center at the tiny settlement of Zzyzx, near Baker and adjacent to the Mojave National Preserve in southeast California

Palm trees on along the coast in Santa Barbara, California

Palm & tarot car readings, Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California

Palm & tarot card readings, Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California

Palm trees and sculpture in the Southern California desert

Palm trees in the Southern California desert

Palm lined street in Los Angeles, California

Palm trees in Barstow, California

Palm tree palms form line in a shopping center in Irvine, California

Paramount Pictures back lot sets of New York City streets, headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California

Paramount Pictures back lot set of a parking lot that can be turned into a vast body of water with a sky as the backdrop. Los Angeles, California

Park in the center of Old Town Orange in Orange County, California

Paramount Studios back lot with New York City street scene that has been used as a backdrop to several movies and television shows. Los Angeles, California

Park in Sacramento, the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County

Paramount Pictures, Melrose Avenue entrance, Los Angeles, California

Park bench in Sacramento, the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County

Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Kenneth Gale, depicting Texas history, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Part of a ceramic-tile mural, by Works Project Administration artist Kenneth Gale and depicting Texas history, on the Will Rogers Auditorium, now part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California