Galveston, TX Photo - Dusk Shot of The Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier-

Dusk shot of the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier, an amusement park in Galveston, Texas. Opened in 2012, the Pleasure Pier is built 1,130 feet over the Gulf of Mexico, where an original Pleasure Pier stood from 1943 until it was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961. Later, it was the site of the Flagship, an over-the-water hotel built in 1965 that was demolished after Hurricane Ike in 2008. The original Pleasure Pier featured rides, an arcade, an aquarium, concessions, a large ball room, named the Marine Ballroom, and fishing at the end of the pier.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange.

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.