Carol M. Highsmith

Soldier and women in traditional dress pose outside a red brick fort

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.

Maryland

The Concord Point Light, Havre de Grace, Maryland

The Surratt House, Prince George's County, Maryland

Row of houses, one pink, Baltimore, Maryland

The George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, between Eastern Shore and Anapolis, Maryland

Hooper Strait Light, St Michaels, Maryland

“Digges Country Store,” Stevensville, Maryland

The Dover Bridge, Talbot County, Maryland

Covered red bridge, Maryland

State Capital, Annapolis, Maryland

Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Clara Barton's Home, Glen Echo, Maryland

Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland

Statue of 'The Private Soldier,' Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Pry House, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Colorful row houses, Baltimore, Maryland

Train mural in Baltimore, Maryland

Mural in Baltimore, Maryland

Paper Mill Road Bridge, Baltimore County, Maryland

Sunset at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland

Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland

Point of Rocks Bridge, Frederick County, Maryland

Train yard near Baltimore, Maryland

Antietam Battlefield's Burnside Bridge, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Barn in Rural Maryland

Scarecrow in farmland, rural Maryland

Drum Point Lighthouse, Solomons, Maryland

The Seven Foot Knoll Light, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

Dunker Church, Antietam Battlefield, Washington County, Maryland

Bloody Lane, Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Reenactors pose at Fort Washington State Park, Fort Washington, Maryland