Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

An old bar in Van Horn, the seat of Culberson County, Texas

An old home with a steep pitched roof, frequently seen in Texas, has seen better days in the countryside around the town of Ballinger in Runnels County, Texas

An old guns-and-ammunition (and apparently, from the looks of the doorway, locksmith) shop in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas

An old billboard in remote Presidio County, Texas, for the Motel Thunderbird, up ahead in the town of Marfa, Texas

An old grocery store in Marfa, Texas, which was converted into a "Marfa Lights and Lamps" shop

An Old West display at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

An old and bent live oak on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

An old Boeing 707 jet, parked at Ellington Airport, a general-purpose airfield that used to be Ellington Field at Ellington Air Force Base in Pasadena, Texas, a Houston suburb

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

An old cotton gin in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County in East Texas

An old "dogtrot" cabin at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

An old company sign appears on the wall of a Coca-Cola bottling plant outside Alpine, Texas

An old store in Van Horn, the seat of Culberson County, Texas

An old railroad bridge in Jefferson, an old river-port city in East Texas

An old feller gives a lariat lesson at the Cowtown Opry in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

An unusual small bank vault at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

An unusual longhorn steer (check the cant of his horns) rests at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

An old, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas

An old-style neon place marker for Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

An unusual representation of the lone-star Texas State Flag, minus its usual red, white, and blue colors, on a street in Amarillo, Texas

An old, weathered wagon, possibly a peddler's wagon, outside the Marathon Motel and RV Park in Marathon, Texas

An oversized armadillo, the informal mascot at Bussey's Flea Market, a gathering of merchants selling assorted wares from tables over a several-block area in Schertz, a northern suburb of San Antonio, Texas

An talking banker figure inside a period bank office at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

An old, or at least old-style, drug store sign in Galveston, Texas

Andi Dema of Bloomington, Indiana, a company member of the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Animal horns serve as a fence decoration outside this property in tiny Bracketville, the county seat of Kinney County, Texas

Animal skull and horns outside a shop in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Andrew De Luna, 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

These are longhorn cattle, and they ARE in Texas. But they are not traditional Texas longhorns. They are Ankole-Watusi, also known as Ankole longhorns, at the Houston Zoo

Anna-Laura Block, of San Antonio, Texas, models her creation 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

Animatronic lineman above the recreated street at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Anthony Paukner drew these images of star singer Roy Orbison, a local boy made good, on the front of the storefront museum in tiny Wink, Texas

Anthem performance at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Building on the campus of the University of Texas-El Paso

Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Archaeological dig on the site of the discovery of a Columbian mammoth near Italy, Texas

Apt silhouette (for Texas) near the University of Texas at Austin campus

Architectural detail from the River Walk, a popular gathering spot along a portion of the San Antonio River that winds beneath the streets of San Antonio, Texas

Architectural detail on a building in Mineral Wells, Texas

Building, 100 W. Garland Street, Grand Saline, Texas

Architectural details at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Architectural detail, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

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

Architectural details of U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spends many of his days on the streets of Dallas, Texas His daughter lives with him and helps with his care

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spends many of his days on the streets of Dallas, Texas. His daughter lives with him and helps with his care

Array of bluebonnets in the corner of a schoolyard in Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

Art gallery in the university town of Alpine, which is one of the distant "gateways" to Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas

Art installation at the Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden in Lampasas, Texas

Artwork above the doorway to St. Jude Catholic Chapel, a downtown church in Dallas, Texas

Assorted tongs at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

At first glance, this scene looks out of place in modernist Marfa, a community known for its art galleries and other art installations, in Presidio County, Texas. But upon close inspection it seems to be making an artistic statement of its own

Assorted bottles at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Auditorium detail Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas

Auditorium chandelier Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas

Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin

AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys National Football League team in Arlington, Texas. The stadium is famous for its enormous video board, seen above, here depicting the Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleaders in action

Attractive horse in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas