Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Mural in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The district, which likes to call itself "Dallas's Most Independent Neighborhood," is home to more than 60 Independent boutiques as well as restaurants, bars, coffee shops, theatres and art galleries

Mural in Hico, a small town in Hamilton and Erath counties in the Hill County of central Texas

Mural in Terrell, Texas, depicting a Primary Trainer PT-17 Stearman Kaydet plane, used in the training of American and British pilots in Terrell during World War II

Mural describing the arrival of the railroad painted on the wall of a lumber company in Ingram, Texas

Mural depicts the surprising arrival of camels at the U.S. Army's Camp Verde in the county. Painted on the wall of a lumber company in Ingram, Texas

Mural detail. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Mural on a metal building across from the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, El Paso, Texas

Mural outside the regionally famous Cattleman's Steakhouse, which is located on old, isolated ranch several miles north of the little town of Fabens, Texas

Mural on side of La Chiquita Bakery depicting Mexican-American family life in San Antonio, Texas

Mural painted by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting an early movie poster, on the rear wall of the Books and Crannies bookstore located in the old Iris Theater building in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Mural reflecting on the profitable drives of cattle up to Kansas that fueled the rise in longhorn cattle ranching in the area. Painted on the wall of a lumber company in Ingram, Texas

Mural on the wall of the Masons Clinic, a low-income medical and dental clinic in Dallas, Texas

Mural outside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Muralist's tribute to Hernan Cadena, a Del Rio blacksmith who built and began his blacksmith shop in the 1890s and later provided automobile-repair service

Museum Tower, a luxury high-rise apartment building in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas

Naomi Brander, of San Antonio, aboard her horse Punch at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio. Naomi was one of the youngest contestants in the festival's "Bad Company Rodeo"

Native peoples from three eras depicted their civilizations in rock pictures at what is now Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

Neon sign for an Austin, Texas, Mexican restaurant

Neill-Cochran House Museum, a historic home in north-central Austin, Texas

Neon sign inside Lil' Red's Saloon in the Stockyards neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon cigarette-company sign inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for the Prairie Dog drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas

Neon sign outside a bar, not Billy Bob's, which is a separate night club and dance hall nearby, in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for Billy Bob's western nighclub and honky-tonk bar in Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for the Leddy's boot company in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Neon sign for the Hunter Brothers' H3 Ranch steakhouse restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas

Nine flags fly outside the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas. They represent the flags of six entities that have ruled Texas territory (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America and United States of America), plus three representing revolutionary forces that briefly oc

Nine-year-old Harold Hazeltine Clifford, left, and his eight-year-old brother John Matthew Clifford, part of the civilian contingent in the Texan camp at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacin

Nine-year-old Harold Hazeltine Clifford, left, his eight-year-old brother John Matthew Clifford, and their mother, Jamie Clifford, part of the civilian contingent in the Texan camp at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of th

Nook inside the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Not a lot is super at the superette in the tiny settlement of Detroit in Red River County, Texas

Nostalgic sign announcing the Marfa Hill House, or Marfa House on the Hall, an adobe retreat in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Not only is that a helicopter, or the remains of one, under the overhang, but also the building is the headquarters of the local American Legion, post 653, in sparsely settled Terlingua in Brewster County, Texas, north of Big Bend National Park

Now-incomplete depiction of a Texas flag on a building in Van Horn, Texas

Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Office doorways in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Oil derrick outside Spindletop Park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Beaumont, Texas

Office towers in the upscale Las Colinas neighborhood of Irving, Texas

Oil painting "Morgan's Raiders" at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Oil storage tanks in Brownsville, Texas

Oil-drilling diorama at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Old advertising wall poster in Dublin, Texas

Old bread advertising sign in El Paso, Texas

Old Bull Durham tobacco advertising poster in Giddings, the seat of Lee County, Texas, east of Austin

Old cars beneath an awning at a re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Old cabin in Hunt County, Texas, near Greenville

Old cabin in Hunt County, Texas

Old Dr. Pepper advertising sign on a downtown building in Pittsburg, Texas

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas

Old Dr Pepper mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Old Coca-Cola advertising mural in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Old Dr Pepper soft-drink outdoor advertisement on a building near the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Old dray wagon outside the regionally famous Cattleman's Steakhouse, which is located on old, isolated ranch several miles north of the little town of Fabens, Texas

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in downtown San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

Old cemetery in Lajitas, Texas, a tiny town that abuts Big Bend National Park in southwestern Brewster County, on a bluff overlooking the Rio Grande River in the northern part of the Chihuahuan Desert

Old cotton gin converted into a restaurant near the town of Bardwell in Ellis County, Texas

Old freight wagon at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Old gas station and pumps near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas

Old gas pump near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas

Old foot-itch product advertising mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas