Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Painting of the Texas flag on a building in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Painting of the American and Texas flags on a building in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Painting of Sam Houston, by William Henry Huddle, in the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

Painting, "Dawn at the Alamo," by Henry Arthur McArdle, hanging in the Senate Chamber of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas

Painting, "The Settlement of Austin's Colony," (1875) by Henry Arthur McArdle, in the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol. Stephen F. Austin is shown rallying his colonists against the Karankawa Indians around 1824, as an unnamed scout comes to the cabin door to sound the alarm Phy

Painting, "Surrender of Santa Anna," by William Henry Huddle, in the South Foyer of the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Paintings inside the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas

Parked freight trains at the Kansas City Southern yards in Wharton County in southeast Texas

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Park bench for resting along a path 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

Rearward view of the House of Representatives chamber in the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

Part of a 200-head longhorn herd 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

Part of "Stonehenge II" in the Texas Hill Country

Parrots at the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, an educational tourist attraction in Galveston, Texas

Part of a much-used, now-abandoned "western" movie set along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend Ranch State Park in lower Brewster County, Texas

Part of a large private bowling center at Mount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home

Part of a colorful western-themed mural, one of several inside the Cattlemen's Steakhouse in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Part of a fancy saddle for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Part of a large wind farm in rural Carson County in the Texas panhandle

Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Part of an edible (or lickable) building, sort of, in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County of East Texas

Part of an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Part of the grounds at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion and nature and birding center in McAllen, Texas

Part of the Amistad National Recreation Area, outside Del Rio, Texas

Part of the back-entry hallway of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

Part of the 200-head longhorn herd 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

Part of the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

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

Part of the "artscape" within the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Corpus Christi, Texas

Part of the grounds at Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residence by Kim and Terry Young in the hills below Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

Part of mural, Dublin, Texas

Part of the humble station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, a hand-operated cable car/pedestrian ferry that travels across the Rio Grande River between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, in Mexico Physical descri

Part of the Imperial Sugar Company's huge sugar-refining complex, (as of 2014) the oldest extant business in Texas

Part of the procession at the annual Western Weekend Parade in Woodville, a town in Tyler County, Texas

Part of 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

Part of the State of Texas's official longhorn herd, kept at Fort Griffin, a state historic site in Shackelford County, Texas

Part of the washing and bottling line at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Part of the shrimp-boat fleet moored in Redfish Bay at Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi, Texas

Part of the Imperial Sugar Company's sugar-refining complex

Part the Wildseed Farms wildflower farm complex in Fredericksburg, Texas

Path and footbridge 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

Passenger cabin of the Flagship Knoxville, a fully restored DC-3 aircraft at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum on the campus of the American Airlines Flight Academy, at the southern end of DFW International Airport near the world headquarters of American Airlines

Path 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

Paul O'Flaherty of Weatherford, Texas, is the "Blue Bell (ice cream) Man" in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

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

Path and rock formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the Texas panhandle

Path 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

Pearl's Dancehall & Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Peanut processing factory in Giddings, the seat of Lee County, Texas, east of Austin

Pecan processing plant in Cuero, Texas

Phallioan Dyson, a young visitor, gets into the wild west spirit at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West town, audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video venue outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hi

Performers in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show listen to the playing of the U.S. National Anthem inside the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith pauses between clicks of her Phase One 80-megapixel professional camera at the Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. A sheer rock wall in Mexico is to the left, one in the United States to the right

Physician's desk in the back room of the combination drug store-medical office the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, Texas

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith photographs former U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, on their ranch near Crawford, Texas

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith creates a visual record of a portion of the Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennon County, near Crawford, Texas, owned by former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. In this field, they are helping to bring back a tiny part of what was once a tallgrass

Philosophy discussion on the side of a building in Marfa, in Presidio County, Texas

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith gets her moment before the camera, alongside a new, long-horned friend, at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Pig races at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Pigeons on a popular roosting site above Kermit, Texas