Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Cemetery in little Los Ebanos, a community on the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

Cementerio San Antonio de Escobares in the tiny town of North Escobares, near the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

Champion Hall, which served as the medical laboratory and isolation ward at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, until World War I

Chandelier and stage inside the auditorium of the Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center complex in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas

Child gathers stones at the shoreline of the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Chicken decoration outside a structure in Hondo, the seat of Medina County, Texas

Child at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Children enjoy a lovely pond and fountain away from the animals at the Houston, Texas, zoo

Child's cowgirl dress for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Children and their rabbit at the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

China Gourmet, Presidio, Texas

Christ the King Monastery, home to the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration order, in El Paso, Texas

Church chapel inside one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

City hall in Castroville, Texas. The building was the first permanent county courthouse for Medina County before the county seat was moved to Hondo, Texas. The building became a school and then city hall

Chyian Guajrdo a student at the the Academy of Careers and Technologies Charter School in 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 Anto

Cindy Njegovan Comfort of 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

Cindy Njegovan Comfort, left, and Anna-Laura Block, both of San Antonio, Texas, model their creations 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 Physical des

Cinco de Mayo obelisk outside City Hall, San Antonio, Texas

Citizens enjoy an outing on Lake Georgetown and its small dam on the San Gabriel River at Georgetown in Williamson County, Texas

City hall in Laredo, Texas

City hall in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Classic "Elsie the Cow" advertising sign at a still-operating Borden's Dairy plant in Dallas, Texas

Claudia Arambula, Jenae Jacaman, Cecile Jacamon, Aurora Chapa and Aurora Chapa Mtz at a carnival stand at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Classroom of the Marine School at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

Clock tower of the Tarrant County Courthouse and adjacent buildings in Fort Worth, Texas

Clocks and other memorabilia in the always-cluttered office of W.P. Kloster, the longtime general manager at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Close up view attire of Carlos Lara of the Los Liberadores group at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Clothing displayed at A.L. Gibson's Dry Goods Store at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Coca Cola advertising mural, Grand Saline, Texas

Cockpit of the Flagship Knoxville, a fully restored DC-3 aircraft at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum on the campus of the American Airlines Flight Academy, at the southern end of DFW International Airport near the world headquarters of American Airlines

Closed business address of a wrecking yard that is itself a wreck in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

Coca-Cola sign on the side of a Mexican restaurant near the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Colorful donkeys on a ranch near Mount Pleasant, Texas

Colorful "pumpjack," a type of small oil pump that's a common sight in West Texas, along U.S. 83 near the town of Winters in Runnels County, Texas

Colonnade and atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin

Colorful cafe sign near Mission Concepcion" in San Antonio, Texas

Colorful display of soda drinks at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Colorful wall and estate entrance on San Bernardo Avenue in Laredo, Texas

Colorful, or as one facade calls it, "funky," storefronts in Nederland, Texas, near Port Arthur

Colorful opening pageant at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Colorfully decorated walls on a building at Mercury Studios, long known as The Studios of Las Colinas, in Irving, Texas

Colorful shop in downtown Mesquite, Texas

Colorful home in a modest section of Dallas, Texas, near Fair Park

Colorful mural depicting the history of Trinidad, Texas, on the wall of the Refuge General Store in Trinidad

Column design flourish on Battle Hall at the University of Texas, Austin

Construction of a high-rise condominum behind the central core of the old City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas

Corner window of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

Corner of a barn at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

Corncob decorations on a log cabin at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

Costumed cow and pig characters interact with Courtney Delaughter and Karlin Kocfanta at a carnival outside the event locations Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Costumed cow and pig walk the carnival grounds at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Costumed civilians fleeing the engagement at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

Corridor. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Corridor, Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota

Corridor, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Corridor, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Corridor. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Corridor. Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Corridor. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo