Carol M. Highsmith

Group of women and girls in a boat for the ocean city yacht club at the baby parade

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.

New Jersey

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, New Jersey

Working farm in Branchville, New Jersey

Inside Ye Ole Country Store and Post Office, Sussex, New Jersey

Little girls on a street in Camden, New Jersey

Bronze statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton, New Jersey

Abandoned passenger train car in Lambertville, New Jersey

Ian Ferry and his work horses at The Howell Living History Farm in Lambertville, New Jersey

Red barn and horse drawn farm wagon at The Howell Living History Farm in Lambertville, New Jersey

Beach scene in Long Branch, New Jersey

7 1/2 West End Court, former home of Bruce Springsteen, Long Branch, New Jersey

Out building in the historic village of Batsto in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey

Lifeboat along the boardwalk at the Steel Pier in Atlanic City, New Jersey

The Steel Pier on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Lifeguards and lifeboat along the Jersey Shore in Cape May, New Jersey

Sluice Creek in Cape May Court House, New Jersey

The Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Marshlands on the New Jersey Shore near Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey

Immigration processing re-enactment inside the Ellis Island, New Jersey

Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, New Jersey

The 108th Annual Ocean City Baby Parade along the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey