Carol M. Highsmith

Madonna of the trail statues this one located along the national road

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.

West Virginia

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

The Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County, West Virginia

Cabin in Swiss colony, Helvetia, West Virginia

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

New River near Sandstone Falls State Park in West Virginia

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

Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia

An old ore car at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, Beckley, West Virginia

Fall scene near Babcock State Park in Fayette County, West Virginia

Vintage green car, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

A traditional steam  locomotive in action, Cass, West Virginia

Blue hallway at the Greenbrier Hotel, West Virginia

Sconce of baby in the Greenbrier historic resort hotel, West Virginia

View from above of a dramatic horseshoe bend of the New River, Ansted, West Virginia

Crowds pack New River Gorge Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia

New River Gorge Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia

Masqued royal at FestivALL Art Parade, Charleston, West Virginia

Mail Pouch factory, Wheeling, West Virginia

Mail Pouch barn in rural West Virginia

Historic Guyandotte Methodist Church, Huntington, West Virginia

An old farm truck and a vintage school bus at Heritage Farm Museum, Harveytown, West Virginia

State Capital, Charleston, West Virginia

The Lewis County Courthouse in Weston, West Virginia

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Grafton, West Virginia

The Jacob Prickett Jr. Log House, Marion County, West Virginia

Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

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