Carol M. Highsmith

Golden carousel horse on display in the museum

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.

Connecticut

The Sloan-Raymond-Fitch house in autumn, Wilton, Connecticut

Cat carousel ride in Lake Compounce located in Bristol, Connecticut

The Old Store in Sherman, Connecticut

Maplecrest Farm, Woodstock, Connecticut

Interior of the Capitol of Connecticut located in Hartford

St. John Cemetery, Darien, Connecticut

Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut

Squantz Pond, New Milford, Connecticut

Pumpkin patch near Litchfield, Connecticut

First Congregational Church, located in Litchfield, Connecticut

Ancient Cemetery, located in Hartford, Connecticut

East Granby Congregational Church, East Granby, Connecticut

Old Lighthouse Museum, Stonington, Connecticut

Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Yale University

Beluga, Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut

Chapman Falls in East Haddam, Connecticut

State Capital, Hartford, Connecticut

"Roseland Cottage,” Woodstock, Connecticut

Bedchamber in Huntington Tavern, Norwich, Connecticut

Glass House designed by architect Philip Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut

Wooden Ship figureheads at Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum, Mystic, Connecticut

Ingall’s Ice Arena in New Haven, Connecticut

Glass house in autumn in New Canaan, Connecticut

The New England Carousel Museum, located in Bristol, Connecticut