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Liberty Enlightening the World
French: La Liberté éclairant le monde)
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*the Statue of Liberty is a ‘colossal neo-classical sculpture’ on ‘Liberty Island’ in ‘New York Harbor’ in ‘New York City’ in the ‘United States’*
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(the copper statue, designed by “Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi”, a French sculptor, was built by “Gustave Eiffel” and dedicated on ’28 october 1886′)
(it was a gift to the ‘United States’ from the people of ‘France’)
(the statue is of a robed female figure representing ‘Libertas’, the ‘Roman goddess’, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the ‘American Declaration of Independence’, 4 july 1776)
(a broken chain lies at her feet)
(the statue is an icon of freedom and of the ‘United States’, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad)
(‘Bartholdi’ was inspired by French law professor and politician ‘Édouard René de Laboulaye’, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples)
(he may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the ‘American Civil War’ and the end of slavery)
(due to the post-war instability in ‘France’, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s)
(in 1875, ‘Laboulaye’ proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal)
(‘Bartholdi’ completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions)
(the torch-bearing arm was displayed at the ‘Centennial Exposition’ in ‘Philadelphia’ in 1876, and in ‘Madison Square Park’ in ‘Manhattan’ from 1876 to 1882)
(fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds)
(publisher ‘Joseph Pulitzer’ of the New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar)
(the statue was constructed in ‘France’, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called ‘Bedloe’s Island’)
(the statue’s completion was marked by New York’s first ‘ticker-tape parade’ and a dedication ceremony presided over by President ‘Grover Cleveland’)
(the statue was administered by the ‘United States Lighthouse Board’ until 1901 and then by the ‘Department of War’; since 1933 it has been maintained by the ‘National Park Service’)
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(‘public access’ to the ‘balcony’ surrounding the ‘torch’ has been barred for ‘safety reasons’ since 1916)
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