Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The San Ysleta Mission, built 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

The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

The Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas

The scene at photographer Carol M. Highsmith's photo shoot of former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush at their 1,600-acre Crawford Ranch near Crawford in McLennon County, Texas. An aide to the president looks on

The sheer faces of Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas, frame the Rio Grande River. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right

The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas

The Shaw cabin and gristmill at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

The shadow of a telephone pole accents an old Coca-Cola sign on a building outside Alpine, Texas

The sign says "Welcome," but the vines tell another story at an old gas station near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas

The Senate Chamber of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas

The stained-glass dome, by the acclaimed J&R Lamb Studios, inside the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas is the only opalescent glass dome in the United States

The Spanish Colonial-style Plaza Theatre, built in 1927 as a movie house. It is now a performing-arts center in El Paso, Texas

The State Dining Room, looking towards the west wall of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

The Stagecoach Inn in Salado, a small town on the historic Chisholm cattle-drive trail between Waco and Austin in Texas

The statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

The statue of Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals in a pleasant garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

The Stillman House Museum, among the oldest surviving structures in Brownsville, Texas

The Steinbach House in Castroville, Texas, which is known as the "Little Alsace of Texas"

The Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas

The Tejano Monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas

The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs mansion in Austin, Texas

The Texas movie theater in Crawford, Texas

The three semi-feral cats in the foreground have become one of the popular attractions at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

The Thompson House, erected by Judge James G. Thompson in the 1840s. The house now stands at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

The Texas Theater in little Bronte, a town in Coke County, Texas, west of Abilene

The Texas Theatre, which closed in 1983 in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

The Texas star, used a building decoration in Albany, the seat of Shackelford County, Texas

The Tejano Monument, a sculpture on the Texas Capitol Grounds that salutes Texas's first cowboys, Spanish "Tejanos" from Spain's New World empire, then Mexico, and then Texas, as well as other Spanish-speaking settlers

The Texas state capitol in Austin

The Tarrant County Courthouse and adjacent buildings in Fort Worth, Texas

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

The United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Laredo, Texas

The U.S. border station and point of entry in Laredo, Texas

The True Blue tattoo and body-piercing parlor in Austin, Texas

The United Daughters of the Confederacy's monument of a Rebel soldier was dedicated in front of the Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, and still stands there

The University of Texas at El Paso

The Val Verde County Courthouse in Del Rio, Texas

The Val Verde County public library in Del Rio, Texas

The Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, was built in 1928 in neoclassical design. It is the fifth structure used as the county courthouse, having replaced the previous building constructed in 1890

The USS "Lexington," once called the "Blue Ghost" by enemy Japanese in the Pacific Theater raging battles during World War II, is now a floating museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, Bay

The vineyard at Mendelbaum Cellars Winery in Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country, between Fredericksburg and Johnson City

There's an old-timey feel, all right, at Blackburn's Antiques, east of Paris, Texas

There's not much to graze on for these horses in the rugged terrain north of Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

The Yellow Rose, a store that sells various western gear and antiques in the tiny town of Crawford in McLennon County, Texas

There's no doubt it's a cold day in downtown Paris, Texas

They're off in the pig race at the Start of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

This is not Havana, Cuba. It's a colorful scene in the corner of a vendor's operation in Havana, Texas, a tiny town in Hidalgo County, Texas

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, Texas, at the time of this photograph, at least. The name is a takeoff on the 1971 movie "The Last Picture Show," about a dying Texas town.

This business in Fredericksburg, in the Texas Hill Country, calls itself the "Talk of the Town." Perhaps it's because of the elephant and lacy rail over the door. It's the former White Elephant Saloon

This alligator is a gator out of water at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, and he (or she) doesn't look all that happy about it

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, A cowboy-themed cake by Charlotte Harris, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, with all of the attendant decorations and food, followed the big parade

This looks like one of the funky artistic neon signs that are everywhere in the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It is that, perhaps, but it also directs one to the actual Deep Eddy municipal pool

This sign is the only remaining evidence of a long-gone cafe in little Roby, Texas, northwest of Abilene

Thistle Hill, one of several "cattle barons' mansions" in Fort Worth, Texas

This oversized boot, and others like it, are popular street decorations in Gatesville, a town in Coryell County, Texas

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas. A wedding, with all of the attendant decorations and food, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, with a cake and attendant decorations by Charlotte Harris, followed the big parade

This statue of an American bison outside the Scurry County Courthouse in Snyder, Texas, is dedicated to J. Wright Mooar, a "champion hunter of buffalo" in the Texas Panhandle.