Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Stained glass at the Hotel Paisano in Marfa, Texas

Stained-glass window at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Stained-glass tribute to Texas oil pioneers H.L. Hunt, "Dad" Joiner, and "Doc" Lloyd at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Stained-glass window at the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas

Staircase at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally known as the Draughon-Moore home. The house was built in 1885 in roughly the shape of the "club" figure on the ace of clubs card in a poker deck, with three octagonal wings and a rectangular wing. According to legend, the house w

Stained-glass window in The Prayer Tower, perhaps the most recognizable landmark in Pittsburg, Texas, with four Paccard bells from France that chime every hour and a chapel that never closes

Stained-glass window in Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Roma, a small, historic city along the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

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

Stairway and man made waterfall at the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio, a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio, Texas

Stairway, Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota

Stairway, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Stairway, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Stairway details. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Stan Wojcik as Sam Houston 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

Stan Wojcik as Sam Houston, and John Baker as his aide 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

Stan Wojcik as Sam Houston at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto

Stairway. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Statue in the likeness of "Bevo," the University of Texas longhorn sports mascot, in faithful burnt-orange and white school colors

Statue of Anthony of Padua, Saint Anthony, holding the Child Jesus, located along the subterranean public walk known as River Walk bordering the San Antonio River in San Antonio, Texas. It is Saint Anthony from whom a Spanish mission in the area, and the city itself, got their names Physical descrip

Statue of Fray Garcia de San Francisco, by sculptor John Hauser. El Paso, Texas

Statue of Euterpe, the Muse of Music, at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Statue of Ben Milam at the Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron, Texas, the fourth structure to serve in that capacity

Statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Denison, Texas, birthplace of the former U.S. General and President, a Texas State Historic Site

Statue of Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin in San Agustin Plaza in Laredo, Texas

Statue of Saint Louis outside the St. Louis Catholic Church in Castroville, Texas

Statue of Jesus on the cross outside the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas

Statue of Moses Austin in City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas

Statues of Jesus, some say this is an unidentified angel, are not unusual in American cemeteries. Nor are monuments like this one at the grave of small-town businessmen. What makes the statue at this final resting place of Willet Babcock in Paris's Evergreen Cemetery unusual and uniquely "Texas" are

Statue of William Bonney, or "Billy the Kid," in the arts district of little San Elizario, near El Paso, Texas

Statue to (South) Vietnamese Martyrs in a Hoa-Binh (Area of Peace) in Port Arthur, Texas. The small park also features gardens and statue of Mary three times life size was built by parishioners of Queen of Vietnam Martyr's Catholic Church, in gratitude for their escape from war-torn and the city tha

Statue, by artist Betty Jean Alden, of Samuel Gompers, founding president of the AFL (American Federation of Labor, later part of the AFL-CIO), erected in San Antonio, Texas, in 1982. Gompers died in San Antonio

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

Stella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, outside the 11th Street Cowboy Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Steve Schmidt is the sheriff in town 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. Schmidt, a rancher and retired B52 pilot, owns the ranch

Steve Schmidt, the sheriff in town 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, checks on one of the ranch's buffaloes. Schmidt, a rancher and retired B52 pilot, owns the ope

Steve van Roeder as a Texan artillery gunner 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

Steers feeding in pens at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Sterne Fountain in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

Steer-riding on Padre Island, Texas

Stone gateway to Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Stone archway at Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better known today simply as "Mission Espada," in San Antonio, Texas

Stone building detail at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Stonehenge replica on the campus of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas

Storefront museum honoring local boy-made-good Roy Orbison, who became a superstar rock-'n'-roll singer and songwriter after leaving little Wink, Texas

Storefront of a dress shop in downtown El Paso, Texas

Stone wall, a brick oven, and a simple arbor at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Store window inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Stone version of Texas in outline in the grass outside the Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas

Stone wall at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Store sign in tiny Crawford, Texas, which (in the second decade of the 21st Century) has returned to its quiet state following eight years of media attention and occasional crushes of visitors during the U.S. presidential administration of George W. Bush in the early 2000s. The former president and

Street scene in downtown Alpine, Texas

Street scene with sign for Granada movie theater in downtown Alpine, Texas

Street scene in downtown Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

Strawberry field at Sweet Berry Farm near Marble Falls in Burnet County, Texas

Street scene in the town of Moody in McLennon County, Texas

Street corner recreated inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Street vendor in downtown El Paso, Texas

Streetscape in the Crockett Street entertainment district of downtown Beaumont

Street view of El Campo, a small city in Wharton County in southeast Texas

Street view of the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas