Carol Highsmith has donated her life's photography work of tens of thousands of images to the Library of Congress during her decades-long career.  The photography collection at the Library is the most historic photographic collection on earth and includes the work of Dorothea Lange and Frances Benjamin Johnston.  Highsmith has been doing a visual study of America for 40 years and travels the United States for about 10 months a year.

Carol M. Highsmith

Bank building in a restored ghost town near Yuma, Arizona

Peruvian sheepherder Pepe Cruz tends to the flock at a ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming

A farmer pours cattle feed at Big Creek Ranch

Ranchers round up calfs for branding at  Big Creek cattle ranch near Riverside, Wyoming

A calf snagged for branding at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming

Western and Native American merchandise at Hubbell Trading Post

Cowhand Lars Hollis, atop his horse, Catote, ropes longhorn calves and heifers, Chappell Hill, Texas

Man between bull and horse at rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming

A rodeo clown and bronc rider at the “Bad Company Rodeo,” Poteet, Texas

Man onstage at the Lyric Theatre in the small south-central New Mexico town of Carrizozo

Woman riding horse back during a parade during Cheyenne Frontier Days, Wyoming

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Landscape of beaches and rainforests, on the island of Gam, in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Elena Vagengeim

Close up of saddle on brown horse

Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

State Capital, Charleston, West Virginia

Trail West Boots, Hats, Apparel Mural in downtown Nashville, Tennessee

The Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County, West Virginia

Colorful “Epic Rides” wall mural painted on building in Tucson

Cowhands on horseback cross the North Platte River at Wyoming/Colorado state line with dog

A traditional steam  locomotive in action, Cass, West Virginia

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia

Jonathan Wong

Summer Symphony: Roaring River in Yellowstone Canyon

A portion of the in the “Granite Dells,” Prescott, Arizona

One of the houses from Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Lorie Shaull

Ford Fairlane 511 in West Duluth, Minnesota

The Lewis County Courthouse in Weston, West Virginia

Two Native American women in traditional dress holding their children

Facade of Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden, Utah

Historic general merchandise store, Jennings, Wisconsin

Historic Guyandotte Methodist Church, Huntington, West Virginia

Mail Pouch barn in rural West Virginia

Taliesin West property in Arizona designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Mask at the Kultur House in the a Swiss colony Helvetia, West Virginia

Mail Pouch factory, Wheeling, West Virginia

Gopher Bar and Grill in West Duluth, Minnesota

One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, Wheeling, West Virginia

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The Creamery Covered Bridge in West Brattleboro, Vermon

Side view of ‘Big Brutus' strip-mining shovel in southeast Kansas

A vintage gasoline station display at a tourist-cabin site in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

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