The Eiffel Tower, the engineering triumph of the 1889 Exposition Universelle, immediately became one of the most recognizable features of the Paris cityscape (to the dismay of some Parisians, who found it aesthetically harsh). Théophile Féau documented the Eiffel Tower’s construction over the course of two years, two months, and five days (late January 1887–late March 1889) in an incremental, “time-lapse” manner, taking photographs from the tower of the Trocadéro at fifteen-day intervals and later gathering twenty prints in a leather-bound, accordion-fold album.