A colossal Athena and a woman beside it
In the studio photo, a woman is tiny beside the draped colossal Athena. The head sits apart from the body, and there is a plank scaffold.
The questionHow was a figure this size made, moved and raised in time?
Investigate · Nashville 1897
Pallas Athena, Miss Yandell's Colossal Statue (Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897)
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Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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