Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Dallas, Texas, "philanthropreneur" Lyda Hill. Behind her is a portion of her prized mineral collection, more of which is displayed elsewhere in Dallas in the Lyda Hill Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Dallas, Texas, "philanthropreneur" Lyda Hill, the granddaughter of legendary Texas oil pioneer H.L. Hunt. Behind her is a portion of her vast collection of gems, geodes, and other minerals from around the world. Many more form the central feature of the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the nearby

Dallas Cowboys' and Denver Broncos' kickers and other "special-teams" players warm up prior to a National Football League game at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas

Dandy donkey in a field in Erath County, Texas

Daniel Casillas, a San Antonio, Texas, marketing professional, models one of his two elaborate creations, this one a pinata, exhibited in the "Hats Off to Fiesta!" event, sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antoino's Institute of Texan Cultures, as part of city's month-long Fiesta celebratio

Dallas Hall on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Daytime view of a neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas

Darkroom enlargement camera from Edgerton's Photography Studio at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, Texas

Fanciful facade decoration on a downtown building, Uvalde, Texas

Decorative detail on a building at 203 E. Mills Avenue in El Paso, Texas

Decorative facade on a building on North Mesa Street in downtown El Paso, Texas

Decorative end seat Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas

Deep, rich furrows in farmland east of Lamesa in Dawson County, Texas

Decoration on City Hall in Anson, the county seat of Jones County, Texas

Decorative terracotta fountain on the facade of the Faust Hotel in New Braunfels, Texas, near San Antonio

Decorative sign ("Texas, The Lone Star State") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorative sign inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorative women's-restroom door, featuring an early Dr. Pepper advertising figure, at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Decorative architectural detail of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas

Decorative boot outside the Saddle Club tapas bar and restaurant in Alpine, Texas

Decorative sign ("The Famous Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon") inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorations inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Decorative men's-restroom door, featuring an early Dr. Pepper advertising figure, at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Depiction of Erik Sprague, the "Lizard Man," who, among other things, has a forked tongue, in the "odditorium" portion of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not attraction in Grand Prairie, Texas Even Sprague calls himself "The Freak"

Deserted truck stop in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas

Desert plants in West Texas

Detail from a downtown bank building in Marfa, in Presidio County, Texas

Depression-era bas-relief on the facade of Centennial Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas

Desert flowers in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Derelict motel along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Detail from the decorative terracotta fountain on the facade of the Faust Hotel in New Braunfels, Texas, near San Antonio

Destiny Villarreal 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

Fancy belts for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Detail of building on Rio Grande Street, Austin, Texas

Detail from the Radha Madhav Dham, the main U.S. center of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a nonprofit spiritual organization located on more than 200 acres of land in Hays County, south of Austin, Texas

Detail of mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil boom in which the Shell Oil Company created a giant, open oil storage tank that later became a local museum attraction the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, Texas

Detail of the restored "civil jail" at the Fort Griffin townsite, near the U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin in Shackelford County, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the aereated pool of the Fort Worth Water Gardens, designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, Fort Worth, Texas

Details from the facade of a building in downtown El Paso, Texas

Details over courtroom window. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Details over interior door. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Dilapidated sign and gate announcing "Badlands Fossils" stand along the road that connects Big Bend National Park with its state equivalent, Big Bend Ranch State Park, in southern Brewster County, Texas

Dining room at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

Dirt road through the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Dirt roadway through Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Dirt and planked pathway through the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Distant view of two facilities at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Locke, above the city of Fort Davis in the Davis Mountains of West Texas

Distant view of one of the stellar observatories at the McDonald Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Distinctive sign of the long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

Display cases at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Display of company sodas on the bottling line at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Distant view of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, part of the AT&T Center complex in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas

Distant view of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre (edited)

Distinctive street art in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

Distinctive street art (mural) in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

Distinctive urban art in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

Distinctively banded cattle on a ranch in Bosque County in central Texas