Carol M. Highsmith

Folk art in a tourist town known for it’s natural springs

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.

Arkansas

Johnny Cash childhood home, AR

Johnny Cash boyhood home AR

Abandoned water mill, AR

Sunset in the prairies of Gillett, AR

Lake in Dewitt, AR

Pine Bluff Sunbeam, AR

Pine Bluff, Public Library, AR

Pine Bluff Courthouse, AR

Country Club in Little Rock, AR

Old State House, Little Rock, AR

Pine Bluff University of Arkansas

Clock tower at Pine Bluff University of Arkansas

The 1922 Quapaw Bathouse, AR

Quapaw Bathouse in Hot Springs, AR

Ozark Bathhouse in Hot Springs, AR

The Victorian-style Short-Dodson House, AR

Bailey’s Dairy Treat Stand, AR

A menacing Triceratops dinosaur figure in a protective mask, AR

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, AR

Cityscape of Little Rock, AR

The Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock, AR

Round Service Station in Sherwood, AR

Old Mill North Little Rock One, AR

Bentonville, AK Crystal Bridges, AR

Benton Ct Courthouse Bentonville, AR

Akransas The Scott Family Amazeum, AR

Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR

Sign from Siloam Springs, AR

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, AR

Walton's in Bentonville, AR

A nickel-and-dime Cadillac in Bentonville, AR

The Crescent Gazebo, protecting one of several grottoes and community springs in Eureka Springs, AR

The Basin Spring bathhouse in Eureka Springs, an Arkansas Ozark Mountains city, AR

Christ of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, AR

Gnome and other assorted displays at the Art Colony, an artists’ community in Eureka Spring, AR

Akransas Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, an Arkansas Ozark Mountains city, AR

The Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel in Bella Vista, AR

Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, Bella Vista, AR

Biker in Rogers, AR

Woodlawn House in Washingotn, AR

Hempstead County Courthouse, Washington, AR

Gray stone facade of federal courthouse in Texarkana

T. Rex statue roadside attraction in Arkansas

Cubist oil painting “Bauzite Mining” by Julius Woeltz

Glass exterior of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Jazz piano mural on side of building

Vintage podiatry equipment in old-fashioned medical room

Magnolia Mobil Gas station in Little Rock

The nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall in Eureka Springs, AR