Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Jack Phillips, a nine-year-old fiddling prodigy, performing at the Cowtown Opry in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Jack Phillips, a nine-year-old fiddling prodigy, joins older performers in the Cowtown Opry in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Isolated Terlingua settlement, just north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

Isabel Espinoza 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

President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas

James M. McGroarty, the King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Jam session in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

James M. McGroarty and Stella Tedesg, the King and Queen of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Jim Kerwin standing in the Members Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building at the, Washington, D.C

Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the annual Mardi Gras parade with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Javier Rodriguez at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Jeannette (left) and Paulina Rodriguez, attending a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, monthlong Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Jessell Segura, 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

Jennifer Osife and her daughter, Dakota Prairie Rose Osife, 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

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Jodi Almendariz Vella, a participant 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

John Dubuffet's "Monument Au Fantome" sculpture in Houston, Texas's Discovery Green Park. Its title means "Monument to the Phantom" or imaginary city, in French

John Porter, a descendant of Walter C. Porter, at the still-working Porter Farm near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

John Wayne-like street figure outside the Star Cafe in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

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

Joy Lindsey of New Braunfels, 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 San Antonio, Texas, Fiesta celebration

Julia Gonzales, 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

Julie Crawford, who helps care for her father, Frank Smith, a World War II veteran who spends much of his time on the streets of Fort Worth, sits in front of the Aviation Wall of Honor in General Worth Square in downtown Fort Worth, Texas

JPMorgan Chase Tower, Houston, TX (cropped)

Kaci Herman and Will Davis look at a small heifer at the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Juxtaposition of residential and industrial scenes in the tiny Gulf Coast settlement of Sabine Pass, Texas

Kevin Alvarez, a student at the the Academy of Careers and Technologies Charter School in San Antonio, Texas, models his snack-themed 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 Fi

Kyndal Britt Peevey of Leander, Texas, skips through a field of bluebonnets near Inks Lake in the Texas Hill Country

Kinnie Lee takes a load off his feet in front of a mural outside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Kitchen table at the birth home of former U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denison, Texas

La Posada Hotel in Laredo, Texas

Land ready for cultivation on the grounds of the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch, once his and his wife, Lady Bird's, home and the location of the "Texas White House" now both a national and state park near Stonewall, Texas

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many parts of West Texas. This one stands in little Fabens, near El Paso, Texas

Lariat salesman at the carnival, outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) 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

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) lead a group of "fleeing" civilians 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, Tex

Large mural on an exterior wall of the building housing the Log Cabin Collectibles store in downtown Cisco, Texas

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) 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

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns 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

Large communications tower outside Mesquite Memorial Stadium in Mesquite, Texas

Late-day scene in rural Gillespie County, Texas, near Stonewall

Late-winter garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Lemonade stand at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Lifesize bronze sculpture, "Granite Sun," by sculptor Jesus B. Morales, in the Marshall R. Young Courtyard of the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Light fixture 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

Limestone blocks in the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County. Initials on many of the stones show masons' claims for work

Likeness of the Texas Lone Star state flag, painted on the bricks of a building in Cisco, Texas

Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap Historic Village, museum of fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th century located in the small town of Buffalo Gap south of Abilene, Texas

Log church at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

Light fixture, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Lisa's Cocina, a small restaurant in Sweetwater, Texas. In Spanish, a "cocina" is a kitchen

Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas at Austin, with the historic University of Texas Tower in the distance

Littlefield Fountain, a monument by Italian-born sculptor Pompeo Coppini located on the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas

Little Davan and Whit Cullen Maloney soak up the scene in the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto

Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas at Austin

Little Davan and Whit Cullen Maloney soak up the scene in the Mexican encampment 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

Little Davan Maloney soaks up the scene in the Mexican encampment 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

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

Log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas