Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The flag of Texas, depicted on a downtown wall in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas

The First Christian Church in Marfa, in Presidio County, Texas

The flags of Texas and the United States, a longhorn steer, and a Robin Hood-like figure are featured on this mural in downtown Cameron, Texas, in Milam County. "Yoemen" is the nickname of C.H. Yoe High School's sports teams in Cameron

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

The former City Hall, on Market Square in Brownsville, Texas, became home to various city departments, as well as the bus terminal for the urban system

The firm of Mason, Martin, Byrnes & Johnston designed this 1886 Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, Texas

The gas prices, but not the "open" sign, are accurate at this little truck stop east of the town of Sabinol, Texas, for the pumps have long been dry

The Galloway House, a historic house in Burnet in the Texas Hill Country. The original part of this house was built in 1856

The Garmon Theatre, which opened in the 1940s and closed three decades later in Rio Grande City, Texas, became a home-furnishing store among other uses

The ginger-brick Rains County Courthouse in Emory, Texas

The George W. Bush Presidential Library building on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

The Gonzales County, Texas, courthouse

The graffiti on this boxcar along a siding in Fort Worth, Texas, is unusually artistic

The grand staircase of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

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

The HA-19, also known as Japanese Midget Submarine "C" by the US Navy, a historic Imperial Japanese Navy Type A Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarine displayed at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas

The Hi Way Cafe in little Valentine in Jeff Davis County, west Texas

The historic Hotel El Capitan in Van Horn, the seat of Culberson County, Texas

The happiness of the birthday for Sanderson, a dot of a town in Terrell County, Texas, is open to question, judging by this structure. The town of 800 or so at the time of this photograph is, however, the county seat. The rest of the county adds only about 200 more residents

The headquarters building of Hunt Oil, an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas

The headstones of Darrell K. and Edith Thompson Royal at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Darrell Royal was a legendary head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns football team

The historic Waco Suspension Bridge, now a pedestrian and bicyclists' bridge across the Brazos River in Waco, Texas

The Hyde Park Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, uses a fork as a giant signpost out front. The tines of the fork are updated periodically with different art pieces that may or may not have anything to do with food

The husband-and-wife, cowboy-cowgirl team of Lars Hollis and Lacey Elick Hollis 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

The homestead of Sam Ealy Johnson, grandfather of future U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, in Johnson City, Texas. From this place, Sam Johnson and his brother, J.R., started thousands of cattle up trails to the railhead in Kansas

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, regarded by many as the most beautiful courthouse in Texas

The Isaac McFarlane House, home of merchant, judge, cotton broker, and former Texas Ranger in Richmond, Texas, southwest of Houston

The Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area

The Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, an upscale community in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex

The Jones County Courthouse in Anson, Texas

The John Bremond House, the spectacular centerpiece of what's known as the "Bremond Block" in downtown Austin, Texas

The Johnson Family Cemetery on the grounds of the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas. The two slightly larger middle stones mark the final resting places of First Lady Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson (somewhat more brightly illuminated by the sun) and President Lyndon B. Johnson

The Jefferson Historical Museum in a former U.S. courthouse, built in 1888 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

The Landrum (sometimes called Los Flores) Cemetery, a country graveyard established in the 1920s near the community of San Benito in Cameron County, along the Rio Grande River in far-south Texas

The Kinney County Courthouse in Bracketville, Texas. It was built in 1910 and is an example of Beaux Arts Classicism architecture

The Lamesa Motel, featuring covered parking for guests next to their rooms, in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

The Junk Yard Dog at the Junk Yard Dogs junkyard in San Antonio, Texas

The Leather & Lace Store in downtown Santa Anna, a town in Coleman County in Central Texas

The long-closed Caprock Cafe in the town of Gail, seat of Borden County, Texas

The Library in the southeast corner of the original portion of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The luxurient "back yard" of the Alamo, site of a turning-point battle in the Texas fight for independence, in San Antonio, Texas

The lone remaining original building, once home to a black sharecropper, at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

The long-empty (as of 2014) Forest Theatre, once a community institution in a low-income neighborhood of Dallas, Texas The Forest Theatre opened in 1947, with 1,400 seats

The long-closed (as of 2014) Texas Theatre in McGregor, Texas

The long-derelict Palomino Motel in Sweetwater, Texas

The long-closed HiWay Cafe in Van Horn, Texas

The Manuel Guerra residence and store building in the historic district of Roma, a small city along the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

The Mary Couts Burnett Library buiding on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas

The Marine School at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

The main stone lodge at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

The main street in Crawford, Texas

The Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron, Texas, the fourth structure to serve in that capacity

The Mexican artillery goes into action 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

The Mexican artillery goes into action at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living- history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

The Maurice Levy Overlook at White Rock Lake, a reservoir located in east Dallas, Texas

The Mercury Studios Building, long known as The Studios of Las Colinas, in Irving, Texas

The modernist Austin City Hall and Public Plaza in Austin, Texas

The nearby Big Bend National Park gets prominent billing in this mural in downtown Alpine, Texas

The Nathelyne Archie Kennedy Architecture and Art Building at Prairie View A&M University, located in Prairie View, Texas