Carol M. Highsmith

One of two known surviving sterling streamliner locomotive-style diners still in operation

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.

Rhode Island

“Transportation & Distribution of the Mail" Stone Sculpture, Providence, Rhode Island

The old Ashton Mill, Cumberland, Rhode Island

A statue to the "sons of Rhode Island,” Providence, Rhode Island

Restaurant sign in Providence, Rhode Island

Playful mural in Little Italy, Providence, Rhode Island

Temple to Music, Providence, Rhode Island

Botanical center, Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island

Clouds Hill, a Victorian mansion, East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Keepers' quarters at the Rose Island Lighthouse, Newport, Rhode Island

Hotel Manisses, Block Island, Rhode Island

Rose Island Lighthouse it at night, Newport, Rhode Island

Coastal house with statue, Block Island, Rhode Island

Modern Diner interior, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

The Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

“National as Sovereign Power" sculpture, Providence, Rhode Island

Rose Island Lighthouse, Newport, Rhode Island,

Boat docked in Port Judith, Rhode Island

Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island

Sunset off the shore of Block island, Rhode Island

Block Island Southeast Light, Block Island, Rhode Island

National Hotel, Block Island, Rhode Island

The Modern Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island