Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Sign above one of many small, and in some cases roadside, eateries in South Austin, a vibrant neighborhood below downtown Austin, Texas

Sign for Hunt Oil Company headquarters in Dallas, Texas

Sign "Sweet Texas Ranch Life" 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

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an artsy neighborhood below the Texas capital

Sign for an old cotton gin, converted into a restaurant, near the town of Bardwell in Ellis County, Texas

Sign and bust of former U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower located in Denison, Texas

Sign for an old, now-vanished, motel in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Sign for a camping park in Alpine in southwest Texas

Sign for a toy-book exchange at one of the locations of the Little Free Library in Austin, Texas, where normally only books are given and taken

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

Sign, El Capitan Hotel, Van Horn, Texas

Sign on the lawn of Rose Hill Manor, also called the Woodworth House, in Port Arthur, Texas

Sign for the Desert Air Motel in Marathon, Texas (This is in Sanderson, Texas not Marathon)

Sign for the distressed Hondo Motel in Hondo, the seat of Medina County, Texas

Sign for what is now a nonexistent truck stop along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Sign on a fence that rings a small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

Sign for the Swan Dive, a downtown Austin, Texas, entertainment venue and "dive bar"

Sign for the Broken Spoke, a dance hall and self-proclaimed "honky-tonk," or bar that provides musical (usually country) entertainment, in Austin, Texas

Sign for the Maurice Levy Overlook at White Rock Lake, a reservoir located in east Dallas, Texas

Sign for the old Man's Store antiques and collectibles business in Cisco, Texas

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Downtown Arts District in Dallas, Texas

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

Sign for the Phoenix Midtown apartment building in Dallas, Texas

Signs on a hillside above the Stockyards neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, identifying two giant meat-packing companies that operated massive operations nearby

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

Silhouetted windmill in "Trans-Pecos" Texas

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

Skateboarders zip past a colorful row of small businesses in downtown El Paso, Texas

Six of the skilled young riders who performed at a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, monthlong Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Skilled ropers perform at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Skyline view of El Paso, Texas

Skyline view of Dallas, Texas, taken from Lake Cliff Tower, a onetime hotel, now condominium building south of the Trinity River

Skyline of Houston, as seen from the roof of the 41-story Marathon Oil Tower, headquarters building of the Marathon Oil Corporation, located several miles west of downtown Houston, Texas

Slightly marred (by graffiti) sign outside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Small grotto outside the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

Small parlor inside the birth home of former U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denison, Texas

Small businesses 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

Small stained-glass window inside Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residence by Kim and Terry Young in the hills below Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

Small-town home scene recreated at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Small-town home scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Small shrine outside the San Ysleta Mission. The mission wasbuilt in 1682 by members of the Tigua Indian tribe who had been forced to flee their ancestral home near what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico. Located in El Paso, Texas

Small unique building in Bethesda, Maryland, serves Chinese Food (Golden House), by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014 - master-pnp-highsm-49200-49201a

"Professor Thaddeus Schmidlap" (historical intrepreter Ross Nelson), the resident snake-oil salesman at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Soda fountain at the combination drug store-medical office the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, Texas

Soda shop at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Soda fountain booths and display at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Some of the buildings at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas

Some of the 70 bronze steers in a large sculpture in Pioneer Park in Dallas, Texas

Some of the 70 bronze steers in a large sculpture in Pioneer Park in Dallas, Texas, that commemorates nineteenth- century cattle drives that took place along the Shawnee Trail, the earliest and easternmost route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken to northern railheads

Some of the genuine Old West possessions displayed inside a bunkhouse, a small railroad office moved to the location and converted for ranch use, on a ranch owned by Annie Young Shelton and Ferol Shelton near Clarendon in the Texas panhandle

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Spotted horse near Segovia, Texas

Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, Texas

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

Susana Decado at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Spring flowers 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

Stained glass Texas star

Stagecoach and saloon at the Old West town audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video set at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country

Stagecoach and team in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas