Carol M. Highsmith

A group of people taking photos through the glass floor of an elevator on the outside of a tall building

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.

Illinois

Statue of Abraham Lincoln outside the Logan County Courthouse, in Lincoln, Illinois

Front view of the Springfield, Illinois Capitol Rotunda

Rotunda of the state Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Downtown Chicago with a focus on the Wrigley Building

Nicole Fightmaster and her dog, Odessa, living on the street in Chicago

Crown Fountain interactive art by artist Jaume Plensa in downtown Chicago, Illinois

The Union Stockyards Gate in Chicago Illinois

Railroad tracks leading to downtown Chicago

Side entrance to a Bloomingdale’s Department Store in downtown Chicago, Illinois

Lion sculptures outside the Art Institute of Chicago by Edward Kemey

Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain by artist Marcel François Loyau

Tour boat on the Chicago River in downtown Chicago

Artist Ju Ming’s Gentlemen statue grouping in downtown Chicago

Night view of Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois

A crosshatch shadow pattern dominates this street scene in downtown Chicago, Illinois

Night view of the Red Flamingo stature in the Chicago’s Federal Center Plaza

Statue of the Republic in Jackson Park built by Daniel Chester French

Aerial view of downtown Chicago from Lake Michigan

Front view of the Farnsworth House by architect Mies van der Rohe's, now a property of the National

View of architect Mies van der Rohe's classic modernist Farnsworth House

Vintage Shell station on Route 66 in Mount Olive, Illinois., Built in 1926

Historic site of Ulysses S. Grant’s home in Galena, Illinois

Farm in central Illinois

Chicago's skyline appears in silhouette at sunset

Entrance sign to Hamel, Illinois on Route 66

Billy Goat Tavern, Chicago sports fan's Landmark

Berwyn car spindle was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler

Mother and child in front of a Chicago Firefighter Mural

View of architect Mies van der Rohe's classic modernist Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

Chicago Marina boat rental

Indoor view of the Farnsworth House built by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A glass elevator outside the 100th floor of a building in downtown Chicago, Illinois