Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Lobby door. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Lobby, F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lobby. View of interior metal screen and stairway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

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

Located in a building that once housed an early Buick dealership in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas, Eggemeyer's General Store sells a variety of vintage goods

Lone steer blends nicely into the background north of Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

Long-abandoned water tower in the ghost town of Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Longhorn cattle on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Lone Star detail from the speaker's desk in the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Lonely, little-used stretch of railroad tracks in the Texas Hill Country, near Burnet

Long-fallen branch in 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

Lone steer in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Longhorn cattle graze in a thicket in rural Kinney County, Texas

Long-abandoned souvenir shop along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Lone tree in a valley on the edge of Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Hudspeth County, Texas, near the New Mexico border

Lone tree silhouetted at sunset in the Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Texas

Longhorn cattle at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, a working ranch in Boerne, Texas, whose Old West Town is often used in movies and videos

Looking at this photo, you can easily guess that it was taken in Paris. Texas

Longhorn steer wooden sculpture in the arts district of little San Elizario, near El Paso, Texas

Lonnie Flanagan's Junk Barn, a collection of "mechanical sculpture art" in Beaumont, Texas

Longhorn-cattle relief on the Brownwood Coliseum, a sports and events venue in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas

Longhorn that accompanies Old-timey cook up the road from the "Cowboy Mardi Gras" in little Bandera, Texas, west of San Antonio

Longhorns at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Longhorn weathervane atop the Gonzales County Courthouse in Gonzales, Texas

Longhorn steers take a break from grazing at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Looking up at the dome of the Senate Chamber of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

Longhorn steers return to their pens following the latest in what is a twice-daily parade of the longhorns (for the enjoyment of tourists) in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Lucio Jimeniz of Los Liberadores group at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Lovely combination of shade trees and vivid wildflowers on the LBJ Ranch, once home to President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, near Stonewall in the Texas Hill Country

Lucio Jimenez, Pablo Martinez, Carlos Lara and Javier Rodrigjez of the Los Liberadores Group at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

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

Lovely view of the Guadalupe River in Gonzales, Texas

Machinery at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Mail box, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California

Mailboxes in lobby. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Main house at Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas, north of Dallas, where two runs of the popular TV show "Dallas" were filmed

Mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Manuel Gonzalez-Ortega, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member attending a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, month-long Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Manmade structures leading to Longhorn Caverns, now a state park in Burnet County in the Texas Hill Country

Many U.S. cities have decorated their downtown areas with statues of particular animals: cows, donkeys, elephants, etc. In San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas, it's sheep statues, about 50 of them. Sheep ranching flourishes in that part of west-central Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

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

Mario Duran, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member attending a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, month-long Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Marisa Mesa a student at the the Academy of Careers and Technologies Charter School in San Antonio, Texas, holds 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

Marker at the Chamizal National Memorial, located in El Paso, Texas, along the United StatesûMexico international border

Marquee Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas

Marquee of, and entrance to, the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas

Marquee of the Uptown Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas

Marshy corner of Lake Fork, near Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County in northeast Texas

Masonic Hall, one of several former Masonic lodges or halls in Waxahachie, Texas, a Dallas southern suburb

Mascots ham it up at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Marvin Gallia and Lois Snyder outside Ms. Snyder's barber shop in downtown Mesquite, Texas

Matthew De Luna Banda, left, and his cousin, Andrew De Luna are dancers 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

Matthew De Luna Banda, 18, 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

Matthew De Luna Banda, left, and his cousin, Andrew De Luna, flanking their grandmother, Rose Mary De Luna, are dancers 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

Meadow in 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

Meadow in 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

Melissa Lauppe carries the U.S. flag aboard Tex, and her daughter, Jessi the Texas flag aboard Ironhead, in the annual Mardi Gras parade with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Members of the Berkman Family of Houston (right) receive canoeing reminders from a Far Flung river-tour company guide before setting off to navigate the Rio Grande River through Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to

Members of the Berkman family of Houston set off on a canoe trip on the Rio Grande River through Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right