Carol M. Highsmith

These barn advertisements were painted from 1890 to 1992, and there are approximately 20,000 mail pouch barns

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.

Indiana

Llamas peer at a passerby from their copse on a farm near Plato in LaGrange County, Indiana

A 1931 Studebaker Six Roadster at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana.

Sanctuary of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

A 1935 Studebaker President convertible sedan at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

The Main Hall, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

Display at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Red car at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Neon advertising sign at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Cream vehicle, displayed at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Vintage convertible at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Metal-art sculpture outside the Avanti Guest House and Mini-Museum in South Bend, Indiana

Mannequin dressed in Sugar Daddy candy pattern, Wakarusa, Indiana

The massive Red Barn, once the dairy barn, South Bend, Indiana

An Amishman guides his horse and buggy south of Middlebury in Elkhart County, Indiana

Rows of relocated tourist cabins, National Automobile and Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana

A 1936 Auburn 852 Hearse, at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, Indiana

Artist Seward Johnson's "Return Visit" street art in Warsaw, Indiana

A 1930 Duesenberg, displayed at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, Indiana

Re-creation of an early gas station at the National Automobile and Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana

Neon sign at the Fort Wayne Famous Hot Dog shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Frog Baby" fountain on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana

Minnetrista, a cultural museum in Muncie, Indiana

Old-style McDonald's "golden arches,” Muncie, Indiana

Falls Park, Pendleton, Indiana

First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana

“Conversation pit" at the Miller House, Columbus, Indiana

An area outside the bedroom of the boys' shared bedroom at the Miller House, Columbus, Indiana

The recessed "conversation pit," at the Miller House, Columbus, Indiana

Stately red barn near the settlement of Guion in Parke County, Indiana

A horse and farm scene in Parke County, Indiana

Aerial view of the State Capital, Indianapolis, Indiana

“Young Abe Lincoln” statue Indianapolis, Indiana

Depew Memorial Fountain, Indianapolis, Indiana

Male Herm marble statue,  Indianapolis, Indiana

Old, rusted truck outside the Cutler General Store in the Carroll County, Indiana

Refurbished Coca-Cola sign, Lafayette, Indiana

The Door Prairie Barn, La Porte, Indiana

The shoreline in Indiana Dunes State Park, Lake Michigan in Porter County, Indiana

Indiana Dunes State Park,  Lake Michigan in Porter County, Indiana

Raccoon painting on bench, Porter County, Indiana

Artist Omri Amrany's sculpture, "The Fusion," Gary, Indiana

Cast iron and aluminum statue of standing men, Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana

Cast-iron sat on bench, on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana

Entrance to its Arts and Sciences building in Valparaiso, Indiana

Man throwing away garbage statue, Crown Point, Indiana

A jovial hot-dog peddler statue, Crown Point, Indiana

Grant Wood's classic "American Gothic" figures reimagined, Crown Point, Indiana

The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Columbus Learning Center, Columbus, Indiana

One of the surviving "Mail Pouch barns," near the town of Flora in Carroll County, Indiana