Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Front facade, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Fruit stand building beneath the awning of an abandoned gas station in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas

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

Funky art in the isolated Terlingua settlement, just north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

Futuristic picnic pavilion (next to a spaceship-looking sales office, not shown, that served as a sales office of a company selling land) in the area of the Hueco Tanks State Park in El Paso County, Texas

Full-sized and scaled-down models of oil derricks mark a silver of the "World's Richest Acre" that has been preserved in downtown Kilgore in East Texas

Funky metal sculpture outside the Ripley's Believe It Or Not location in Grand Prairie, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth

Funky art car outside the Ripley's Believe It Or Not attraction in Grand Prairie, Texas

Funky art mural "Hardware" in the isolated Terlingua settlement, just north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

Futuristic spaceship-looking building that served as a sales office of a company selling land in the area of the Hueco Tanks State Park in El Paso County, Texas

Garcia Cemetery, a small, country cemetery near the little settlement of Los Indios in eastern Cameron County, near the Rio Grande River border with Mexico

Garden feature at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and nature and birding center located in McAllen, Texas

Garden statue at the Magoffin Home State Historic Site, El Paso, Texas

Garden path and blooming azaleas at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Garden view of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Gas station made of large stones, a common building technique in Texas, in Robert Lee, the county seat of Coke County, Texas

Gateway sign at the University of Texas at El Paso

Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Gate sign recalling the birthdate of Texas outside an old motel in a weathered neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

George Strait's sidewalk star, one of several in the South Texas Music Walk of Fame at the WaterStreet (no space is correct) Market in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas

George Rollow as a Texan artillery commander at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto, La Porte, Texas

George Strait - Arlington, TX - 2014 The Cowboy Rides Away Tour Final Show - Carol Highsmith

Georgia and William Slanina-Wertz and their goat kid at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Gil's Ranch House, a nightclub and bar in Schertz, Texas, a northern suburb of San Antonio

Glass block wall on the campus of the University of Texas-El Paso

Glass block wall at building on the campus of the University of Texas-El Paso

Glass wall at the University of Texas at El Paso

Glass wall and stairway at the University of Texas at El Paso

Goats, part of the attraction, along with fresh strawberries, at Sweet Berry Farm near Marble Falls in Burnet County, Texas

Good Friday pageant at the Oblate Mission's Lourdes Grotto in San Antonio, Texas

Good luck was in short supply at the closed Shamrock Motel in Texarkana, Texas

Grain elevator in El Campo, a small city in Wharton County in southeast Texas

Grace Slanina-Wertz and her goat at the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Grain elevator at a rice plant in El Campo, a town in Wharton County in the Mid-Gulf region of Texas

Grain elevator in Ennis, in Ellis County, Texas

Grain elevator in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

Grain elevators and related agricultural structures along old U.S. Route 66 east of Amarillo in rural Potter County in the Texas panhandle

Grain elevator Louise, a town in Wharton County in the Mid-Gulf region of Texas

Grassland within the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

Gravesite of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

Gravesite of James Wooten McClendon and his wife, Anne Hale Watt McClendon, at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. James McClendon was chief justice of the State Court of Civil Appeals

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

Grounds at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Grounds and buildings at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Gutted old roadside restaurant, made of stone in a fashion often seen in rural Texas, along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Hair salon in a trailer in Austin, Texas

Guru-on-a-platform art piece outside the Nasher Sculpture Garden in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas

Gulls and other birds cavort in the air and in a spit of land in South Bay, below the long causeway that connects Brownsville and Port Isabel in Cameron County, Texas

Haley Hawerton, 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 Ant

Hand-painted sign for a restaurant in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas

Handsome donkey on a farm near Mount Pleasant, Texas

Hay bales are transformed into art in a field in Titus County, Texas

Hat shop display in Del Rio, Texas

Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion Chinati, a contemporary art museum in Marfa, a surprisingly sophisticated town in the Texas high desert that has cultivated a reputation as a center of the art

Headstone of a Confederate cavalryman amid a field of bluebonnets in the Old Livingston Cemetery in Livingston in East Texas

Headstone of a Confederate cavalryman amid a field of wildflowers in the Old Livingston Cemetery in Livingston in East Texas

Headstones amid a field of bluebonnets in the Old Livingston Cemetery in Livingston in East Texas

Herb drying shed in the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

Hilario De La Pena as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. La Porte, Texas

Hindu Temple, Austin, Texas. 9801 Decker Lake Rd, Austin, TX 78724.