File:"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 LCCN2013650768.tif

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English: Title: "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. Dallas, Texas

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Notes: Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2013; (DLC/PP-2002:038-10).; Tex's voice was created by a live human, observing from a nearby trailer. Big Tex began as a Santa Claus -- the world's tallest at the time -- in little Kerens, Texas. But when the novelty wore off in 1951, the town sold the components to the Texas State Fair for $750. The fair hired Dallas artist Jack Bridges to create a giant cowboy out of the material.; Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Date Taken on 14 October 2012, 13:21 (according to Exif data)
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Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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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 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5044454
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