Carol M. Highsmith

Boston from the charles river, the skyscraper is i. m. pei's john hancock tower

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.

Massachusetts

Orleans Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

The stepped birch formal peony garden at Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

The historic Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts

The 2015 “There’s No Place Like Springfield,” Springfield, Massachusetts

Pond spillway at Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts

Costumed interpreter in the pottery shop at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Costumed interpreter at work at the shoeshop at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Costumed interpreter knitting at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Costumed interpreter at work as a tinsmith at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

The 1826 round stone barn at Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts

An approachable horse in a field outside Williamstown, Massachusetts

Scene at the boathouse on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts

It’s spring tilling time in a cornfield near Hadley, Massachusetts

The Mill Valley Milk Store, Hadley, Massachusetts

Man harvesting cranberries in Massachusetts

Sunbathers on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Costumed clerk at the restored general store at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Old North Bridge and the Daniel Chester French monument, Concord, Massachusetts

Boston from the Charles River, Massachusetts

The Barking Crab restaurant, Boston, Massachusetts

Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Old Sturbridge, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Oak Bluffs Cottages, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Boston Common, Massachusetts

Cape Poge Light, Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts

Marina, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Harvard's Dunster House, Boston, Massachusetts

Sculling, Charles River, Boston, Massachusetts

John F. Kennedy Home, Brookline, Massachusetts

Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts

Gay Head Light, Aquinnah, Massachusetts

Nantucket Harbor Light, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Charles River view into Boston, Massachusetts