MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | The San Jacinto Monument, a 567-foot-high column located near the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas LCCN2014633453.tif.tiff (4912x7360) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: The San Jacinto Monument, a 567-foot-high column located near the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas LCCN2014633453.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution The monument constructed between 1936 and 1939 and dedicated on April 21 1939 is the world's tallest monumental column and is part of the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site By comparison the Washington Monument is 555 5 feet tall The column is an octagonal shaft faced with Texas Cordova shellstone topped with a 34-foot Lone Star the symbol of Texas Visitors can take an elevator to the monument's observation deck for a view of Houston and the battleship USS Texas ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; 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 ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014633453 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/29200/29253a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 29253 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 29253 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||