A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer still image graphic government publication still image Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. xxu 2014 monographic 2014-05-22 eng
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1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. No known restrictions on publication. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. Both Paris of Texas and Paris of Tennessee dedicated their Eiffel Tower replicas in 1993. Texas's was built by a local ironworker's union and was 65 feet tall. But when Tennessee moved its tower to Paris it asserted its dominance by adding another ten feet, looking down on Texas at 70 feet tall. That left Paris, Texas, and its claim to be the "Second Largest Paris in the World" ringing hollow. So in 1998 town boosters added a large red cowboy hat to the tip of the tower, saucily tilted to push a few extra feet into the lower atmosphere. Alas for both Texas and Tennessee, in 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, erected a 540-foot-tall Eiffel Tower replica along the Strip. At half the height of the original, this Eiffel Tower is nearly ten times taller than the other replicas. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054). Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower cowboy hat. America. United States Texas Paris LC-DIG-highsm- 29999 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.29999 Carol M. Highsmith Archive (DLC) 00650024 Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- 2015630236 LC-DIG-highsm-29999 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/highsm.29999 aacr dcrmg DLC 150107 20250607062942.4 18460016 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)