Carol M. Highsmith

Figure on the georgia monument at the chickamauga portion national military park

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.

Tennessee

"State Line Big John" stands at the state line between Tennessee and Mississippi

Dusk approaches in Great Smoky Mountains National Park between North Carolina and Tennessee

Painted barn roof advertising Rock City lookout point, Chattanooga, Tennessee

A vintage Texaco Station Arkansas, Tennessee

Barn promoting its owner's collectibles business, East Tennessee

Moonlite Drive-In in Woodbury, Tennessee

Union Battery Before the 'Peach Orchard' at Shiloh National Military Park, Shiloh, Tennessee

Skyline at dusk from the Cumberland River, Nashville, Tennessee

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

Beale Street Pig neon sign, Memphis Tennessee

Beale Street Memphis Music neon sign, Memphis, Tennessee

Sun Records Studio where Elvis Presley got his break into the music business, Memphis, Tennessee

Stax Museum of America Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee

The gates to Graceland where Elivs Presley lived, Memphis, Tennessee

Shiloh National Cemetery

State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee

Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assissinated, Memphis Tennessee

Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site in Memphis, Tennessee

Market Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Bristol sign, Virginia-Tennessee

Christ Church Episcopal, Rugby, Tennessee

Georgia Monument at a Military Park Chickamauga & Chattanooga, Tennessee