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| Keywords: The Women's Museum in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition LCCN2014633007.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; The Women's Museum's 70 000-square-foot building was the Hall of Administration for that centennial fair The building predates the expo; it was built in 1910 as Dallas's first coliseum originally designed for horse shows and to hold livestock but also usedfor operas and other musical entertainment The Spirit of the Centennial 15-foot-high statue outside depicts a young woman rising from a saguaro cactus a species native to Arizona not Texas A Texas girl Georgia Carroll was the model The statue was designed by Raoul Josset and executed by Jose Martin 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014633007 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/28800/28807a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 28807 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 28807 32 46 9251 0 N 96 45 9377 0 W alt 116_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||