The Statue of Liberty - Part 1

·        The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, as a symbol of friendship.

·        Lady Liberty was sculpted by artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

·        The statue was originally called Liberty Enlightening the World.

·        Alexandre Gustave Eiffel served as the structural engineer.

·        Construction on the statue began in 1875, in Paris, and was completed in 1884.

·        The statue arrived (disassembled) in New York Harbor in June of 1885

·        The Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886.

·        The height of the statue, from the base of the pedestal foundation to the tip of the torch, is 305 feet, 6 inches.

·        The thickness of the exterior copper covering is 3/32 of an inch (slightly less than the thickness of two pennies).

·        There are seven rays on her crown; they represent the seven continents.

·        It took almost 30 years for the Statue of Liberty to change from copper brown to its now iconic greenish-blue patina.

·        One symbolic feature that people cannot see (due to the height of the pedestal) is the statue’s feet surrounded with broken shackles, it symbolizes Lady Liberty’s freedom from oppression and control.

Here are some amazing photos(divided in three Parts/Posts Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) of The Statue of Liberty :

Also see the Part 2 and Part 3 of the post.