Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, photographed in 2012, approximately one month before he was destroyed in a fire following an apparent electrical short-circuit in the mechanism that enabled the icon's mouth to move.
- Date
- 2012
- Collection
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,724 × 4,912 pixels
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"Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, photographed in 2012, approximately one month before he was destroyed in a fire following an apparent electrical short-circuit in the mechanism that enabled the icon's mouth to move." (2012). Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Big_Tex,%22_a_52-foot-tall,_metal-and-fabric_talking_cowboy_who_welcomed_visitors_to_the_Texas_State_Fair_for_60_years,_photographed_in_2012,_approximately_one_month_before_he_was_destroyed_in_a_fire_LCCN2013650768.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 128070.
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