File:A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas LCCN2015630237.tif

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English: Title: A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas

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Notes: 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.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Taken on 22 May 2014, 16:43 (according to Exif data)

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Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2015630237
Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/30000/30000a.tif
Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.30000

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Carol M. Highsmith (1946–)

	Alternative names	Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith Carol McKinney Highsmith
	Description	American photographer and architectural photographer
	Date of birth	18 May 1946
	Location of birth	Leaksville, North Carolina
	Work period	1981-
	Work location	United States of America
	Authority file	: Q5044454 VIAF: 84615840 ISNI: 0000000121418199 ULAN: 500251255 LCCN: n88121701 NAID: 10571735 WorldCat

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Camera location	33° 38′ 24.04″ N, 95° 31′ 27.8″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	33.640012; -95.524388

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Image title	A replica Eiffel Tower with a Texas accent in Paris, Texas. There's a Texas-sized story of rivalries behind it. There are 15 American municipalities named "Paris," and more than a few have chosen to erect Eiffel Tower replicas to pay homage to their French namesake. 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.
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