The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from France, conceived by French political thinker Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi with an iron framework engineered by Gustave Eiffel, who later built the Eiffel Tower. The statue was completed in France in 1884, disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic in 214 crates, and reassembled on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. It was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The copper skin of the statue was originally a shiny reddish-brown color and only turned its familiar green after about 20 years of exposure to salt air.

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