Keywords: The Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas LCCN2014632069.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes 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 ; Designed by architect Elijah E Myers and completed in 1888 as the winning design from a national competition features structural exterior walls of sunset red granite quarried just 50 miles from the site The building is the largest in gross square footage of all state capitols and is second in total size only to the National Capitol in Washington D C Like several other state capitols the 1888 Texas Capitol surpasses the National Capitol in height rising almost 15 feet above its Washington counterpart ; 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/2014632069 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/27800/27869a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 27869 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 27869 30 16 3851 0 N 97 44 4545 0 W alt 157_source exif_heading 243 99 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 |