Eiffel Tower Inaugurated
“Champ de Mars, Paris, March 31, 1889. Workers raise the tricolor at the top of the new 300-meter tower. Foreground shows top-hatted dignitaries climbing the spiral stairs and Gustave Eiffel addressing a small group on a platform; midground reveals the iron lattice rising in elegant curves; the Trocadéro and Seine spread below under a cool spring sky.”
