Meadowbank Farm Poster

A photograph of Meadowbank Farm near Monroeville, Alabama taken by Carol M. Highsmith in 2010. The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine trees and farm animals. The farm is owned by Ann Smith Bedsole, who in 1978 became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. During her early career, Highsmith photographed interior and exterior architecture. But as she and her writer-husband, Ted Landphair, travelled the country to every state and major city to work on the Random House "Photographic Tour" and smaller "Pictorial Souvenir" book series, Highsmith’s scope broadened to be a photographic documentarian. She photographed ordinary people and everyday sites as well as soaring architecture, natural landscapes, national parks and monuments, Civil War battlefields, and engineering marvels. Her book subjects included the cities San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, and Chicago; New York's five boroughs; the states of Florida, Colorado, and Virginia; the Pacific Northwest and New England Coast; as well as lighthouses, barns, Amish culture, and the Appalachian Trail.