Lucy the Elephant is located in Margate, NJ. She was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty, a real estate developer with a gift for promotion. Standing six stories tall, weighing 90 tons, covered with 12, ... joists that spanned between them, while the upper chords supported the howdah. Curved wood framing and sheathing was built onto this trussed structure to form a tin skin, which shaped the elephant's body. Access to the building was through staircases built into the rear legs. The interior was essentially one large room inside the body as well as the head. Originally, closets ... flanked th...

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... details such as the man in the moon, the figure in the clouds are what make the observer take a second look. Dali has made painstaking details such as a scrap of pink cloth hanging from the gnarled trees. Evidence of civilization is etched in the suitably blue mountain over the cliff. Shapes of people seem to worked into the twisted trees. The ... the water, one would assume that the reflection is merely of the swans floating on top. However, with a more thorough glance, one would see that the reflection is really an elephant. It was not at all what it first seemed. In Echers drawing, h...

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