Statue of Liberty
About Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
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The Statue of Liberty was originally designed for Egypt, meant to stand at the mouth of the Suez Canal, and originally wore a headscarf.
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France paid for the Statue of Liberty and America was meant to pay for the pedestal, but America struggled to raise the money.
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A laxative company called Castoria offered to fund the pedestal if the laxative's name could be displayed on top of the Statue of Liberty.
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A book hypothesized that Bartholdi based the Statue of Liberty's face on his brother who had committed suicide, and one conspiracy theory holds that the model was a man.
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The sculptor Bartholdi sold his signature 3,000 times to raise money for the Statue of Liberty, and even tried to copyright her image so he would be paid for every picture of her.
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Coordinates: 40.6892, -74.0444