Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Views along scenic Route 199 in Northern California

Views from Howard Street hotel, San Francisco, California

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

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Vineyard in Napa Valley, California

Views of the Providence Mountains from the desert floor in the Mojave National Preserve in southwestern California

Vineyards in the Paso Robles area of California

Views of shore along 17-Mile Drive, a scenic road through Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula in California

Vintage art mural on an abandoned building in Sacramento, California

Vintage truck carrying wine casks at the B Cellars Winery in California's Napa Valley

Vintage oak barrels in the wine-cellar "caves" at the Schramsberg Vineyard winery in California's Napa Valley

Vintage mining equipment, part of a local landowner's display of old-time vehicles and mining gear near the settlement of Bangor, south of Oroville in Butte County, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign on an outside wall of a grocery store in Oakville, north of Napa in California's Napa Valley

Vintage wine making equipment in Napa Valley, California

The town of Volcano, California, is 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

Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Grass Valley, California

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War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California

Walt Disney Center Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California

Wall paintings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Water wheel of the Bale Grist Mill, now a California Historic Park, operated by the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District on California Highway 29 between St. Helena and Calistoga, California

Waterway in the city of Newport Beach, located in the coastal center of Orange County, California

Waving white grasses and weather worn trees along the highway in northern California

Watson Drugs and Soda Fountain, a premier drug store and soda fountain shop for over 100 years located in Old Town Orange, California

Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Western Motel in Santa Clara, California

White albino alligator (one of fifty in the world) at the National Academy of Science in San Francisco, California

What's left of an old jalopy in Weaverville, a popular tourist destination in the Whiskeytown-Shasta National Recreation Area, northwest of Redding, California

Wild mustard plants bring color to the otherwise dormant vines of California's Napa Valley in wintertime

Wind Turbines in the Mojave Desert in Southern California

Wind turbines in the California desert

Wine barrel and wagon at the Heitz Winery on the St. Helena Highway in Napa Valley, California

Winter view of field of lemon trees in the Central Valley of California

Winery in Sonoma, California

Windsurfer ride at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Woman riding horse at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Wooden barn along the road in Northern California

Woodwork detail at the John Work Garrett Library, part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Baltimore, Maryland

World War II Memorial in San Francisco, California

WPA Mural in the Terminal Annex building on Alameda, Los Angeles, California

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in California

Yerba Burna Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California

Zipper ride at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Richard Ortiz is a migrant worker in Nipomo, California where famous photographer Dorothea Lange took a photograph of the Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson in the 1930s

Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, California

Follow Your Dreams" float, designed by the Phoenix Decorating Company, in the 124th Rose Parade, Pasadena, California

Americanization," one of four "great eras of California history" murals by Dean Cornwell at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, California

"Mission Building,"

Statue of Civilization," by Lee Lawrie, at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, California

The Dreamer" sculpture, by David Phelps, in Palm Desert, California's, Civic Center Park

A carefully restored early Conoco gasoline station in the town of Shamrock, in the Texas panhandle

A commercial building on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California

A fishery worker processes a catch in Morro Bay on California's Central Coast

A hedge maze at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, one of two art museums that are part of the Getty Museum

A house in Palm Springs, California, that was once the winter home of Hollywood movie stars Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

A kitesurfer leaves the waves at Ventura Beach in Ventura, California

A long freight train approaches between a wind-turbine farm and desert land outside the town of Cabazon in Riverside County, California

A neon sign from Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

A portion of the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Country Club, a favorite haunt of local winterime residents Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason in Palm Springs, California

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California