Boll Weevil Monument,Downtown Enterprise,Alabama,Carol Highsmith,Photographer
Title: Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama
Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Date Created/Published: 2010 April 3.
Notes:
The Boll Weevil Monument is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the citizens of Enterprise in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the boll weevil, for its profoundinfluence on the area's agriculture and economy. Hailing the beetle as a 'herald of prosperity,' it stands as the world's only monument built to honor an agricultural pest.
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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Subjects:
United States--Alabama--Enterprise.
Boll weevil.
Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010.
Bookmark /2010638569/
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