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| Keywords: Louis-Emile Durandelle, The Eiffel Tower - State of the Construction, 1888, grayscale.jpg The Centennial Exposition of 1889 was organized by the French government to commemorate the French Revolution Bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot 300-meter tower of open-lattice wrought iron was selected in a competition to erect a memorial at the exposition Twice as high as the dome of St Peter's in Rome or the Great Pyramid of Giza nothing like it had ever been built before This view was made about four months short of the tower's completion Louis-Émile Durandelle photographed the tower from a low vantage point to emphasize its monumentality The massive building barely visible in the far distance is dwarfed under the tower's arches <br> Incidentally the tower's innovative glass-cage elevators engineered to ascend on a curve were designed by the Otis Elevator Company of New York the same company that designed the Getty Center's diagonally ascending tram 1888-11-23 Albumen print Image 43 2 x 34 6 cm 17 x 13 5/8 in Mount 65 x 50 cm 25 9/16 x 19 11/16 in Mat 71 1 x 55 9 cm 28 x 22 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history credit line File Louis-Emile Durandelle The Eiffel Tower - State of the Construction 1888 jpg 61770 Markings Recto mount upper center imprinted in black ink Exposition Universelle de 1889/Etat d'Avancement/Au 188 /G Eiffel Ingenieur et Constructeur <br> Inscriptions Recto print upper center in pencil Panneau 18 lower right inscribed on the negative 23 NOVEMBRE 88 No 49 Recto mount upper left in red and black pencil 1544 accession number 87 XM 121 16 PD-100 Eiffel Tower under construction Eiffel Tower from Champ-de-Mars before 2000 Black and white photographs of the Eiffel Tower Palais du Trocadéro 1888 in Paris Louis-Emile Durandelle Albumen prints 1888 photographs of France Photographs in the Getty Museum | ||||
